The friends of the late respected Edward Wilbraham Bell had subscribed and secured a cabin passage for his widow and children by the Oliver Lang. On Saturday, when on board, and on the eve of sailing, the unfortunate lady was arrested at the suit of Mr. John Henry Nixon, a creditor of, and administrator to her deceased husband, for the sum of �110 in respect of a debt, contracted not by the defendant, but by her deceased husband. The grounds for the alledged indebtedness, and for the arrest being that she had converted to her own use certain goods to which the plaintiff claimed title as administrator, these goods having been in fact, distrained on, and sold by the landlord for rent, and the widow possessing this complete defence to the action on the merits, had pleaded not guilty, and the cause was at issue. Besides, the plaintiff was long ago apprised of the defendant's intended departure, but delayed her capture to the last. His conduct is not, however, to be regretted since it has at once illustrated himself, and those nobler spirits who thus rescued the widow and the fatherless from a gaol.

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