News in Brief
In consequence, it is said, of His Majesty having expe- rienced a slight return of gout, the Drawi)g RooID, which was to have been held on Thursday next, is postponed till the 13th of next month. Yesterday afternoon, soon after four o'clock, the Duke of York held a Levee at his office in the Horse Guards, as Colnmander-in-Chief. AMr. Canning transacted business at the Foreign-office yesterday. A letter from Marseilles, written bv the Agent to Lloyd's, and dated the 16th instant, was received yesterdav, whicI states that the ports of Algiers and Bona remnained strictly blockaded, and that all attempts at negotiation with the Algerine Government had failed. His Majesty's ship Revenge, Admiral Sir HI. Neale, anchore(d at Marseilles on the 14th, and was to sail in a day or two fbr lUalta. LIveRpooL, April 26.-The Laurel, Barber, arrived here last night fromn Para, with a returned cargo, in conse- quence of the threatening aspect of affairs in that place. She does not, it is understood, bring any later intelligence than that received by the Hebe. General San Martin has arrived at Havre, from Buenos Ayres. A letter from Jamaica, received by the last mail, states that Bolivar, the President of Colombia, has a large party in Cuba, and that his future views, after settling the affairs or Peru, point to the acquisition of that island. A Demerara paper of the 1st ult. states, that a vessel had been despatched to. Antigus, for Sir B. D'Urban, the ap- pointed successor of. Sir John Murray, in the Government of Demarara, and that he was expected to arrive in about three weeks. Extract from the Demnerara Gazette of the 27th of Fe- bruary:-" Dominica is in confusion and uproar. Thc Earl of Huntingdon, who dissolved the House of Assembly a short time ago, has refused to issue aniynew writs for the re-election of mem- bers until his ,Ahjesty's pleasure be known regarding the issue between thew." Extract of a letter from AMessrs. Searle and Co., agents to Lloyd's at Fayal, dated the 9th of Aprii:_-'Ar We bave erected a sig- nal-post, ane are prepared to communicate with such vessels in the offing, as are furnished jith the codeofsignals.(Captain Aasryat's), when otherwise it would be impossible to lave any correspondence with theslwre."