News in Brief
It appears by letters received yesterday from I-lavre, that the Frenchl Govcrnment aTe de58irous of throwing obstacles in thc way of corninunicatiol nith St. Domingo, as a vessel bound for Port-au-Prince had bceni refusedl clearances for that place, and the owvners had, in conisequenice, been com- pellet to clear out ior St. Tlhomyjas's. Mr. Greig, the edlitor of the Soulh Af,ricanr Advertixer, has arrived at 5t;.Helena, oni hi way to hngland, for the p ur- pose of seeking redress of the Governmcnt, or by law, of Lord Chlarles Sornerset, for the late surppression of that journal at the Cape of Good lHope. Extract of a letter frotu the A2ents to Lloyd's at Rio Janeiro, dated the 7th of August :-" [he Pedro Primeiro, of 74 guns, Admuiral Lord Cochrane, Captin Crosbic; Carioca corvette Mforankamn brig of war, Ikrmogic and Caridad transports, sailed fromn hence the 2d inst.,. and, after landing detachments of troops bout2,000 men' to reinforce the Iteperialista in the province of ernambuco, wii p-oceed to blockade the port. The following British men-of-war have arrived hete, viz.-July 19, His Majesty's ship Tweed, from Cork; July 23, His AMajesty's ship DoHri, from Bania, and August 2, HislMajesty"s ship Sparrowhawk, from