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firtprrial parliament. - HOUSE OF LORDS.—MONDAY. The Lord Chancellor took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY inquired of her Ma jesty's government whether the bill now introduced into the House of Commons, for limiting the time of service in the army, has the sanction and approbation of the Com mander-in-chief ? Whether it is the intention of the mi nisters to advise her Majesty to issue her royal warrant, as in October. 1806, for fixing and raising the pensions of non••comniissioned officers and soldiers .Who become en titled to their discharge by reason of expiration of certain periods of service,—viz., to non-commissioned officers to is. 10d. ; to privates is Earl GREY 01 ved that the noble marquis would, of respect to the first question, that open to her Majesty's government was to any answer whatever. With resnect to lion of the noble marquis, he (Earl Grey) orm him that no warrant to the effect course, anticipate, with the only iefuse t had only to mentioned v The Marrs mptation by the government. DONDERRY then felt it his duty to before parliament copies of all had passed between her Majesty's move that t communications which governor officers, the Commander - in -chief, and other general lative to the measure for limited service now in ilso a copy of his Majesty George lll.'s He protested against the measure, but overnment for effecting the change by a ler than by an alteration in the Mutiny the house would have time to consider separate bill that measure fully, and that the opinion of the country and the, army-would be consulted by the government be fore the measure passed'through all its stages. Earl GREY said that the production of the information referred to in the first branch of the motion would be sub versive of all the principles on which the public service was conducted. He therefore called upon their lordships not to agree to that part of the motion. With respect to the cond part, it was liable to no objection. After a few ob-. from the Earl of Cardigan, the Marquis of .thdrew that part of his motion which was nd the other portion was Londonderry obje ted 'to by the government The Markets and Fairs Clauses Bills, the Gas Works Clauses Bill, and the Commissioners Clauses Bill were reported, with amendments. Their lordships then adjourned. • HOUSE OF COMMONS.- -MONDAY On.reading the order of the d,y for the house resolving ;elf into a committee on the Poor Relief (Ireland) Bill, W. S. O'BRIEN complained of the manner in which the labourers had been taken off the public works in Ire land by order of the Board of Works. - _ . _ _ Mr.lasouctiEuE repeated the statement he had al illy made upon the subject; and the matter dropped. Lord G. BENTUcCK again brought under the notice of increasing mortality in Ireland, and asked shether, since he last spoke on the sub . any serious and energetic efforts to ob rative return of the number of deaths in Ire id the hoe; Mr. Labodeher he had m ta4n a COllll Le present year Lord G. Bentinck substantially he had given him" on a former possibility of getting the returns .on fotiwied, and the board then proposed committee; and a variety of re proposed on the Poor Relief Bill : warm _ed ; and the bill eventually passed through d the third reading was fixed for the •12th -TUESDAY vas given by commission to the 1 several private bills. land during the lase A desultory disc amendments we discussions ensi committee ; an( April. HOUSE OF LORDS. Drainage. of Land Bill ant The royal On the motion of the Earl of CLARENDON, the Water Works Clauses Bill, the Gas Works Clauses Bill, and the Markets and Fairs Clauses Bill, were read a third time the las Lord CoLviLLE moved for a copy of the proceedings at " presentative peer for Scotland, to- Df the peers who voted upon that gether with the name occasion. After a s "Earl G versation, the motion was agreed to. moved the adjournment of the house _ the 15th of April, and intimated that their ild then meet in the new building in the pa e appropriated by her Majesty for their reception. until Tt lordship lac HOUSE OF COMMONS •TUESDAY Mr. SPOONER rose to move for leave to bring in a bill Tor the more effectual prevention of trading in seduction, aid for the better protection of females. The hon. gen tleman was proceeding to state his reasons for proposing the measure, when Mr. C. II LEY said that the subject was one to tally unfit for publication, and he therefore called the at tention of the speaker to the fact that there were strangers in the gallery. The house was then cleared of strangers, .ry remained closed during the discussion and the g which followec Lord MORPETH had moved for leave to bring in a bill for the improvement of the health of towns. The noble lord said that the chief provisions of the bill were taken from what was generally known as Lord Lincoln's bill, which made use of the agency of the Secretary of State foi- the Home Department, together with the occasional aid of the Privy Council in carrying its provisions into ex- ecution. instead, however, of leaving such a responsibi lity on the shoulders of the Secretary of State, who hail so-much other important business to attend to, it was intended to constitute a board of superintendence, similar in principle, to the railway board of last ses sion. That Lor.rl should ccnsist of five l ersons, three of, whom should be paid for their services, and the Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forests, for the time being, should be er-officio chairman of the board. It should be designated the Board of Health, and Public Works, and would be empowered to appoint inspectors to go into the to make sure, untry to institute all requisite , and advise as to all other inquiries, matters connected with the sanatory condition of thk people. It was intended in corporate towns, to intrust -sns of the bill to the local of the board, with xecution of the proti respect to those towns in which there were no corpora tions, and in which, nevertheless, the want of drainage was very severely felt. He should leave such towns to apply or not for a charter of incorporation ; but in case they preferred to remain unincorporated he proposed that 'the commissioners should be elected by the ratepayers, and that the crown, on the recommendation of the Cen tral Board of Health, should nominate a certain number one-third of those chosen by popular election. The ope ration of the bill was not to extend to Ireland or Scot land, but it was to extend to London, which he could see no ground for excluding. He proposed that the crown, by an order in council, should have power to extinguish all local bodies which exercised the same powers with those which he now created, in each locality. An in spectln would be appointed to institute preliminary incmiries into the condition of towns. When the local council was constituted he would visit the town, see what works were wanted, and make his report to the central board. This officer would generally be an engineer of towns placed and this he would n - was thought bett nine into the sanatory condition or tne the control of the central board ; but be 'connected with the towns, as it hat he should be independent of all the local council would also be em urveyor, who would superintend local connexion ,owered to a nuisances; wt an inspec were injuriou slam in the bill ventilation of h of water, and s themselves in el the general ben Id have authority to remove such as iblic health. There were also provi the prevention of smoke, the better the furnishing most ample supplies other measures as naturally suggested rig the object in view into effect, for of the public. asked Lord .MoiTeth what his inten tions were respecting the removal of cemeteries from large towns and populous districts ? Lord MORPETII replied. that this bill did not contain MT: Tir KT any provision on that subject. Intermural interment was now. under the consideration of the goverment, and was of sufficient importance to be introduced in a separate bill. After a few words from Colonel WOOD, jun., The Earl of LINeOLN thought the bill could scarcely be said fo be more comprehensive than the one he had nd in that bill. lie should not, how ever, enter upon the discussion, as it would be more con venient to do so when the bill should have been in the io, for nearly all its chief provi7 sions were to bi present measure went so far in its details as to intermed dle with local authorities and interests, from whom much apposition might be anticipated. He looked also with great jealousy to the appointment of three paid commis sioners, and thought modern legislation tended far too much towards the creation of such appointments. The noble lord stated other objections to some of the provi- Morpeth in attempting to extend the operation of the bill to the metropolis—an attempt which must lead to a signal failure. He assured the noble lord that he would be ready to give him every aid - in his power in endeavour ing to render a measure of such importance as perfect as p9ssible, though he felt it incumbent upon hini to state his objections to those provisions which might endanger its becoming law. After some oba- tions from Mr. AGLIONBT 'Mr. GREENE said there were twenty private bills before the house for the improvement of the health, &c., of as al he therefore suggested that all those nded until the present measure should many towns ; an bills should be su, be disposed of Sir W. Ciao,- doubted the ( etropolis inthis bill, and h be given_ tc diency of including the . that ample time would guru uFbeb ainicuities he had not calculated upon in extending the bill to London. After a short conversation, in which Mr. Hume, Mr. P. Howard, and Mr. Brotherton took part, leave was given to bring in the bill. On the mo wittee on t vfor the house resolving itself into com rmy Service Bill, Sir 11. DOUGLAS moved tt at the bill be committed that The bill, he contended, in no way tended to the interests of the soldiers, or of the classes from amongst whom they were drawn. The pensions to them under this bill were a mere mockery. After ten • • they were to he paraded twelve d then if they of. age, but not otherwise, they iiays in the year Ten year Lc magnificent allowance of sixpence woutu we-einiuzu a day. There ought, in his opinion, to be no period of service without a corresponding pension. but a service of twenty-one years ought certainly to be entitled to a pen sion of at least ls. per dfern, Major LAYARD opposed the amendment, contending that the bill would effect an immense improvement in the present system. Mr. S. HERBERT said the time at which soldiers usually left the army was about fifteen years' service, and if the right ton. gentleman (Mr. Fox Maule) had adopted that time in his bill, or fourteen, instead of ten years, he would have removed many of the difficulties in the way of carrying out his object. The right hon. gentleman also suggested several other alterations, which he .thought would be great improvements to the bill. r- F. MAULE replied to the objections urged lert, adhering to the provisions of the bill he assured the right hon. gentleman without very mature consideratfon. Colonel Woon would support the motion for going into committee, though he did not altogether aprrove of the provisions of the bill. _ _ had not After some farther discussion, the bill went through committee pro forma, and the chairman reported progress, and obtained 1, ve to sit again The Marine Mutiny Bill iv' as read a third time and pl The house went into committee on the Fever (Ireland) Bill. , Lord MoarrTn brought in his bill for the improvement of the health of towns, which was read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on the 23d of April. Mr. SPOONER brought in his bill for the more effectual suppression of trading in seduction and prostitution, ane for the better protection of fer first time, and ordered to be ix of April ;econd time on the 14th HOUSE OF COMMONS On the motion for bringing up the report on the Poor Relief (Ireland) Bill, Mr. G. A. HAMILTON made a statement excl.] Lon ;field, now a resident in the neighbour} Mallow, and formerly a member of that house, fr charges made against bis conduct, as an,lrish.la . on a former evening by Sir B. Hall. Sir B. HALL held in his hand two letters gentlemen connected with that part of Irelar him that every word he had formerly said on th read a WEDNESDAY was perfectly correct subject Mr. LEFRO It' hoped that the statement of Mr. Hamil ton would teach Sir B. Hall and other hon. members not to make statements affecting the character of Irish land lords without due inquiry. Mr. YouNG had received many letters from Ireland complaining of the terms in which the order obtained by Sir B. Hall, on the 4th of February last, was drawn up, and contended that it ought to be expunged from the order-book of the house. Lord H. VANE thought t 'lie form of this return after the recess, that 'it should not be made, he would Sir G. GREY was quite aware that the discharg duties by an Irish proprietor was not shown by the amount of his subscription, but by his employment of the poor on his estate, and by his residence upon it. His attention had not been turned to this return ; but, as the grants from the Treasury were in _ proportion to the amount of scriptions raised in each locality, it was conformable irecedent to call for a return of the subscriptions in each particular case. He considered it, however. to be objectionable to give the name of each subscriber against each sum subscribed, and promised to ascertain whether the return could not be made without that objectionable portion of it. were modified in the way now proposed by Sir G. Grey, but he must protest against its being taken-even then as representing the amount of private charity in Ireland. After a remark from Sir W. SOMERVILLE, Mr. P. SCROPE contended that the Irish landlords had neglected their duties, and that great distress had been the consequence. Mr. STAFFORD O'BRIEN thought that there was great injustice in the remarks of the last speaker, and great manliness and fairness in th ose o f L or d H. Vane on the conduct of the Irish landlords. He hoped Mr. Young would not object to the production of the return in ques tion, as it was desirable to know the amount of these subscriptions. He tendered his thanks to the Govern ment for the kindness, the patience, the good feeling, and well-wishing for Ireland, with which they had carried through this measure, and would endeavour to the utn of his power to put it into execution in the sant( Mr. V. SMITH suggested that the proper cour, YoUng to take, if he did not wish the particulars of this return to go further,- would be to move, when it v rented, that it should not be printed Mr. GOULBURN asked the Government for an assurance that the return of the amount subscribed by individuals resident in each district should not be prod Young bad an opportunity of moving its terms Mr. LABOUCHERE had no hesitation in givi assurance. Iteration in after a few words from Mr. TRELAWNY, the report was received The Customs Duties Bill was then reac and passed. third tim thi_the motion of Mr. Fox MAULE D the house then On the first clause being proposed, Sir H. DOUGLAS moved that the word "ten" be omit ted, and the word " fourteen" inserted in its stead. This amendment was supported by Colonel Lindsay Colonel F. Wood, and Colonel Sibthorpe ; and opposes Major Liyai.d, and I.`, by. Mr. Hume, Mr. Una division it was negatived by a majority of 62 over 27 voices Two other amendments on the bill were also moved, but negatived without a division. &fter the bill had been gone through Major LAYARD proposed to add to the bill a clause, enacting, that at the expiration of three years from the passing of the act, any person, who should have served 10 years in the infantry and 12 years in the cavalry, artil lery, or ordnance, should be entitled to its benefit. he clause, on the le Sovereign had the pow le the service of the men at any time. After this staters, Major LAYARi withdrew hi The house then resumed ; and the report was brought up, and ordered to be taken into consideration after the The other orders c the house adjourned S the day were then disposed of, and FOREIGN (5- COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE INDIA EXPRESS FROM MARSEILLES, The semi-monthly despatches, in anticipation of the lligence—happily now usual—of the .11ity in our Indian provinces ; yet ,)revatenG of tranqw out in various district rhere is evidently much dissatisfaction prevalent in The Queen-Mother and others are busy in in- A conspiracy has been discovered, which had ect the murder of Tej Singh, who is looked upon Lahore. for its ob as the friend of the British. The queen -Mother andher son Dhuleep were about to proceed upon a pilgrimage, but prevented by the interference of the British Resident, affected The exactions of , some of the native princes are pro ducing great dissatisfaction, and render probable afurther incree - of our Indian Empire. Cashmere and Monßan, as well as Lahore, are likely ere long to belong to the under the yoke of their native Rajahs and Naz There is said to be a great scarcity of money at Cabin Dost Mahomed remained there in quiet, while hi and son, the notorious Akhbar, was restless, and hurryi from one place to another, as if agitated by some power ful motive north-west provinces on a tour of inspection. The-Com mander-in-Chief was at Saharampoor, whither it was thought the Governor-General would proceed, on his _ _ route to the hlk, before the commen, ment of t season. His rep months more. From Scinde there is nothing new. Sir Charles Napier was at Hyderabad, and Scinde was as tranquil as any pro vinc,e of India, notwithstanding the withdrawal of the great portion of the Bombay regiments which had been stationed there. The reduction of the army was going forward. Two hundred Sepoys and 25 native officers were to be struck off the rolls of each native regiment of infantry. The ca valry and irregulars will be also reduced ; so that the nu- merical strength will be lessened by about 10 , 000 men. Her Majesty's 9th, 17th, 39th, and 63d Regiments are also returning to Europe. The 'Five per Cent. Loan still continued open, although it was said that upwards of £3,000,000 sterling had been subscribed. It is thought that when the Treasury has abundant cash a plan of reducing the debt and interest will be adopted. By order of the Governor-General the cessation of all kinds of official labour on Sunday has been effected. Even the native durbars have been laid aside on that day in various places The Niz'am's dominions are still in confusion the rural, vailed. istricts 'estern and in ndia great misery pre- The commercial news is rather more encouraging to th British manufacturer than that brought by previous mails [emarici s ing two to six annas increasE prices, ran( fancy goods do not as yet participate in the rise. English iron is in good demand, at better rates. Freights for Li verpool have been taken at £7, and Xti 15s. for London. Exchange has not varied much, and transactions have been done to a large extent for the mail at 2s. 01 China, and at Zs. via. tor local lulls, Sl: On Calcutta rs. 991 to 99 6-16 for GO day ment's draft. I. for bills for A Calcutta circular says ight Govern- rate 10 months' date paper having been let off to some ex tent at 2s. id., and the further upward tendency is appa rently only checked by advances against shipments being still obtainable from Government at 25., which has been take amount zaken advantage of to some extent lately; the drawn from this source from the opening of th house in October, up to date, being about 2,400,000 Com pany's rupees, upwards of 2,000,000 of which have taken within the past month. " The money market continues tight, both P' European and native - e wire pect of improvement ; and Government Securities and Bank Stock have, in 'consequence, declined in value, although quoted nominally as before, there having been but little doing in them. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, " In freights a very material advance has been esta blished, and although many parties have as yet refraine from operating at the rates current, we must say, that taking all circumstances into consideration, we think there is every prospect of their continuing to rule high for some time to come, except in the event .of accounts being re ceived of a very considerable reaction in the home mar kets, which does net seem probable." There was a disposition to a rise in the market for cot ton piece goods. In metals less was doing. The-follow ing were the latest rates of freight : To London anal Liverpool. Saltpetre :. £6 6 oto £6 10 0 per ton of 20 cwt. Sugar . Rice Hides Rum Molasses 7lO oto 0 0 0 Oilseeds, kites, and lace Nominal. Indigo, silk piece goods, and silk, £6 15s. to £7 for London, and £6 103. to £6 15s. for Liverpool. IRE LAND, The new Provincia', College of Belfast has bean con tracted for at a cost r i f £34,000. A number of veAsels, among which is the fine ship Dromahair, belonging to Messrs. Kernahagan, are to sail next week with'emigrants.—Sligo Journal. The British Association's repart states that £240,090 has been reerzived for the relief of Irish distress, including 1,59,000, pest of the proceeds' resulting from the Queen's letter. The Castlebar Telegraph states that Lord Kilmaine has ordered to be supplied to his tenantry sufficient potato and white Holland oats and barley to crop all the lands capable of tillage on his extensive property. - LIBERALITY OF THE MARCHIONESS OF WATERFORD. —We have been informed that the above lady is making the most strenuous exertions to mitigate the condition of the distressed in her neighbourhood.—Waterford Free man. . . - - The assizes have just clo3ed at Nenagh, and have re sulted in 52 sentences of transportation passed on different convicts. There were 26 such sentences passed at the late sessions in the same place, making in all 78 transports in the northern division of that county within a few months. EMIGRATION.—The quays are crowded every day with the peasantry from all quarters of the country, who are emigrating to Amerioa, both direct from this port; "Cross channel" to Liverpool, as the agents here cannot procure enough of ships to convey the people fiom this unhappy country. SPItiNG WORK.-Mr. Bradley's report to the Board of Works for the week ending the 27th of March, states that the farmers were generally very busy, and much of that apathy which heretofore existed was removed, and that potatoes were in many instances planted, and that fond of all kinds had fallen in price fully 20 per cent. This is cheering news indeed,—Kilkenny Moderator. _ _ The weather in Ireland continues extremely ungenial ; indeed, the first two days of April more resembled De cember or January than the opening of the last month of spring. The ground yesterday and to-day was in some places covered with snow to the depth of two or three inches, with a bitter wind blowing from the north-east. Vegetation all about the city is completely checked, and spring work materially retarded by the inclemency of the late change.—Times' Correspondent. The returns of the Irish relief fund collected in the United States are as follows :—New York, 78,414 dollars; New Jersey, 5,222 ; Rhode Island, 7,550; Virginia, 8,267; I. North Car, 1,350; Alabama, 750, District of Col, 500; Maine, 429; Pennsylvania, 29,483; Massachusetts, 31,574; Maryland; 7,500; Ohio, 12,000 ; Georgia, 2,400 ' • Mis souri, 1,750; Louisiana, 13,000; Connecticut, 1,050. In. all about 196,239 clollai war have been appointed by act of Congress to convey the provisions purchased by the fund. Two Ul OUTRAGES IN THE COUNTY OF LIMERICK.—A mon strously audicious attempt was made to assassinate Darby O'Grady, Esq., D.L., on Monday last, in the town of Rathkeale, shortly after the assistant barrister had opened his court, and while the streets were full of people. Pro videntially the weapon missed fire. The ruffian immedi ately withdrew, and thus escaped detection. His object , . eviiently was to murder the above gentleman, because he tired to seek by legal process for the recovery of rents cn the Guillamore estate.—On Saturday last, while in the execution of his duty, serving civil bills on tenants at, Kilderrue, near Fedamere, for non-payment of rent, Wm. Heederman, process-server was attacked by an armed party of men, who discharged four shots at him, but for- nitely without effect Limerick Chronicle, ANOTHER SAVAGE MURDER IN IRELAND.—Another horrible murder has been committed near Shanagolden, in the county of Limerick. The victim was a farmer, in respectable circumstances, named O'Donovan ; a man farming between 400 and 500 acres of land, and working two flour-mills ; the produce of which he sold, the local journal states, " under the market prices, in the smallest quantities, and upon credit." Mr. O'Donovan was at tacked, as he was returning from the Roman Catholic ch'apel at Shanagolden to his own house, by four men, who• dragged him off his horse, and having placed him on his knees, pointed more than one firearm against him. These having missed fire, they beat him on the head.with their guns, beating in his skull. He lingered until Mon day, whe.'i he died. The murderers have escaped. SYMPAT.gir OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE TOWARDS SUF FERING IR.NLAND. — The Cork Constitution states, in proof of the sympathy felt by the English towards their suffering Irish brethren, that he is at liberty to publish the following pauliculars :—" A lady in Cheshire and her two daughters—w,c; trust they will pardon our giving their names—Mrs. Robert Cook, of Liscard, and the Misses Sarah Anne and Jan.' Cook, having accidentally heard of the destitute state of the poor in the neighbourhood of Moate, and especially o'f their miserable condition on the estates of Ballinahown and Kilgarvin, resolved to try what they could do for th:tt locality by soliciting contri butions from a small circle of their own immediate neigh bours. They had at first lit tle expectation of obtaining any considerable sum, as the -ore wealthy individuals had already subscribed m largely t'o the general fund for the relief of Irish distress. t, to their surprise and gratifi cation, they found that so universe I was the knowledge of ,t I the calamitous state of the poor of i'yeland, and so general was the sympathy evinced for their' sufferings, that not even the poorest cottager refused their mite, and in very many instances 'the amount of the dokiation was much greater than the external appearance of the mansion or -f its .ne circumstances o. inmates could have led those kind-hearted ladies to anticipate. The result was a col lection, in two or three days, of £2O, one half of which was laid out in the purchase of Guernsey frocks for the laboUrers on the public works in the barony of Clonlonan, and the remaining £lO were handed over to the relief committee for gratuitous distribution, in wholesome food, to the famishing wretches at Ballinahown." RETURN OF PLFNTI The accounts, both domestic and foreign, which we are enabled to lay before our readers this day, in re lation to_the grain markets, are cheering in the extreme, we Geld out in our last amber. The arrivals of bread stuffs of all kinds from America continue to be.most extensive; promising supplies in even iintouched.the resources of a harvest, perhaps the most plenteous with which Providence has ever blessed our transatlantic neighbours, being adequate, in the.wordsof the President, to supply tile wants of tne wnoie worm. And while materials of plenty are thus provided by the gracious Disposer of all thißgs, we rejoice to learn, on high authority, that no difficulty or obstruction is likely to arise in the of transpoiting the food to our own shores and homesteads. In a word, we feel, now that the game ger is at an end haps, even a fearful recoil preparing for them. We shall now allude briefly to the facts which justify us in our foregoing observations. In our Own Corn Exchange, yesterday, the prices were decidedly lower. w neat ren about ls. per 2821b5., and the highest quotation of Indian corn was 525., being 4s less than was obtained on the pre ceding market day. In Newry, the price of Indian meal has fallen within the last few weeks fully £6 per ton, and is now quoted at £l2 per ton, while prompt payment in cash will procure the article,cnnsiderablY under that sum. • A similar decline Im taken place in Londonderry and Galway. _ same happy anticipations. The alarm created by the Debals, on the food question, has subsided, and given place to more agreeable anticipations ; and a depression in the prices of foOd has followed, and still continues. With all these facts staring them in the face, the bakers in Dublin have the unblushing dishonesty to hold up the starvation price of the loaf, though then* Lennon oretoreu are, with a better feeling, giving way in proportion to the fall of the raw material.--Dublin Evening Mail. --....4.--. FALL IN THE POTATO MARKET. The Dublin Evening Mail says that a new and agreeable addition to the bill of fare is daily presenting itself with more and more abundance, and, we must add, unblush • , ing effrontery—the mealy potato : inc J Market, which has been formally closed f months, is re-opened, and presents every ch sunnlies of natives, sound and well-Jim-cm st two _ a reduction of from- six pence to eight pence per stone. The Inverness Journal sates that, on Tuesday week, a good supply of potatoes appeared in the market :—" There was considerable de mand for them for the table, at ten pence per stone ; and all, or nearly all, were sold. On Friday there was about the same number of carts, but the potatoes did not sell so readily, The people are generally. impressed v idea that there are considerably greater quantities ot po tatoes saved than the farmers admit, and they, therefore, ! anticipate a considerable fall in price, and a fair supply, ith the . , as soon as the seed season is over." The Kerry Evening Post says, " We had a very• large market of potatoes in Tralee this day, (Saturday,) with a. brisk buying for the purposes of 'seed. Lumpers were sold at from seven . . pence p to nine pence p( ably higher. .We cal is much more general than was anticipated minions proportion ., .1..44.n of vsll+Sl+ll.l A - corres- pondent informs us that there were upwards of one nun dred loads of potatoes at Kilkenny market yesteirday which were offering at six pence per stone ; and at Bag nalstowu, county of Carlow, on Saturday, there wo.s - a, good supply of potatoes ; the price asked was thirteen sbillings per barrel. The Carlow Sentinel says, that the Market was filled on Thursday last with antic' po tatoes, a large quantity fit for table and the. remainder for seed. Bless their " patriotic faces !" we thought they on the glittering gold, n so are thole who held over their stock to realize famine prices now opening their treasures, and with the prospect of a falling market before them, we have little doubt potatoes will continue to pour in more abundantly. From 30s. a barrel they fell, on Thursday, to 245., and even to 225. The Drogheda Argus says, there were upwards of one huudredbarrels of excelh;nt potatoes at our market this day, (Saturday,) which sold barrel. We are happy to state that the farmers in Louth and Meath are planting a great breath of potatoes. The recent fall in the Liverpool corn market has struck • con sternation into the hearts of the holders of corn here, oat having, at this day's market, receded fully one - ings per barrel in value." It appears II _in has taken place in the price of potatoes ford.. 'On Saturday week the dealers asked, in the morn- hilling to at a great at — Ox- the market was gosed they were glad to Sell them for eleven shillings per sack. A similar reduction has taken place at Whitney, Abingdon, and several other places in the neighbourhood, and it is quite expected that another reduction will immediately follow. The contract for meat for the Oxford workhouse (commencing on the lit April,) is 3d, per 11), less than the preceding quarter. SPAIN Our accounts from Madrid are of the 27th ultimo. It was again reported•that M. Salamanca would take a pro minent part in the formation of the new cabinet which M. Pacheco and M. Pastor Diaz would most probably The other persons spoken of were the Marquis de .iranores, M. Arrazola, M. Pena y Aguayo, 'M. ltos de lano, and Llorente. There was, however, as yet no ling decided. The Heraldo denies that the Portuguese Kovernment had demanded the armed intervention of PORTUGAL The Sun of SaturdW, gives the fol lowing particulars, received by express from Portsmouth : " Orders arrived this morning (Saturday) at Portsmouth and Woolwich for the immediate embarkation of a batta lion of marines for Lisbon, and we believe the same order has been forwarded to Plymouth, and Chatham. The Woolwich and Portsmouth detachments embarked this afternoon in the Sidon steam frigate, and left instanter for their destination. The Sidon is ordered to return to Englandl immediately after the disembarkation of the troops. From the above orders and movement, it is plainly stated that English interference has been solicited by the Queen of Portugal to bring to a speedy close the long pending and dan g erous differences which have torn her kingdom." The Observer of Sunday clears up the matter as follows :—" The Sun of last night_ sends forth an alarming third ;.!dition, announcing the sudden em barkation of a battalion of marines from Portsniiiiith and Woolwich, on board the steam frigate Sidon, yesterday, at Spithead, for convey:ince to Lisbon, and revives thereon foundatiOn whatever, The Sidon has been destined ation, alnd unc er orders to embar soon as she had completed he.; trial course round the Isle of Wight, from which she retur.ned to Spithead on Friday evening." GREECE There is no account at Athens of how the late proposal e Greek cabinet have been received at Constantinople it, nowever, private letters winch !lace come to nano are to be relied on, the Porte rejects all kind of arrangement and insists on the return of M. Musson:3 to Athns, to receive personal and public satisfaction. Well aware, however, that Greece cannot accept this santion. the Di van was preparing a memorandum to be subrilitted to the Eutopean courts. The interior of the country' continues The trade of Rouen is now in a very distressed state, and the manufactories are only worked three days a week. The Pope has ordered general gas works to be con structed beyond the walls of Rome, in order to light ,gle streets and supply private consumers. - The Swabian Mercury states, that the. Austrian. go vernment has doubled the export duty on corn from the frontiers of Silesia and Moldavia. The Sultan has promised to build a Protestant chapel for the English workmen employed in some iron works near Cor Marshal Soult entered his eighty-third year on Monday last. He was made a Marshal of France in 1804, and consequently has held that high rank forty-three years. A letter from St. Petersburgh says that the Emperor has just'issued a ukase, declaring that Jews in the army shall be allowed to be promoted to the rank of lieutenant. At the late opening of the Paris and Havre railroad, the clergy of Havre, Ingouville, and Graville, perforined the ceremony of the benediction of the road. Some tea which has lately been grown in the Indian district of Kunsoor is said to be fully equal in quality to the finest Chinese teas ; and its cultivation is expected to prove profitable. _ _ y of war has issued an order, for bidding officers and soldiers serving in Mexico to write letters to their friends respecting the movements of the n American secr the Belgian Chamber of Deputies, at its sitting on week, adopted, by a majority of 59 to 20, the law proposed by the government for punishing libels by the press upon the King or any of the members of the royal family. Saturd Rome, near the vault of the Scipios, contains inscriptions relating to the deposit of the bodies of freedmen of Paulus Emilius, and Julius Caesar, and of the tiring woman of the famous Messalina rem Bremen states t tat from 17th March, 3804 emigrants from Germany embarked for America. Of this number, 1425 were going to New York, and the remainder to Baltimore. It was thought that no less than 40(0 would embark between the 17th Mt rah and the Ist April. During the representation, a few days since, of " Don Casar de Bazan," at the theatre of Copenhagen, an im mense lustre, which weighs more than three hundred pounds, fell, with a tremendous et nd seriously Rounded ten or twelve persons, who here carried out The politicians of Rome have been startled by an official act, which scarcely looks consistent with the gene rous policy that Pius the Ninth has thus far pursued —an edict establishing a heavy tax on newspapers and a strin gent censorship. The backsliding is presumed to be ,a concession to Austria, whose ambassador has threatened to leave Rome with very hostile abruptness. The Spettatore Egizianno states that two days before the festival of the gossa, in commemoration of the anni versary of the birth of Mahomet, 200 Egyptian fellahs the sheik, which is said to be a des: en lant of the prophet's famous steed, Aboubekir, and suffered themselves to be trampled upon by the animal. The Prince Jules de Polignac, (a near relative of the Countess of Tankerville,) the Prime Minister of Charles X., and whose administration produced the revolution of 1830, died of gout at St. Germains, near Paris, on the night of the 29th. He had lived at St. Germains for several years past in complete retirement : The Prince's ' TuE NATIONAL FAST.--A French Protestant Journal, in mentioning this circumstance, says :—" We think it right to indicate the precise day of this Christian fast, as we do not doubt that many members of the Reformed Church of France will be disposed to join in this so lemnity, so becoming to a Protestant nation."—We un stand the hint conveyed in the above announcement was ILLNESS OF THE KING OF HOLLAND. — The Stoats Courant of the 28th ult. reports that His Majesty the King of the Netherlands was seized on the 27th with op pression about the region of the heart, accompanied by violent palpitations. Complete repose not having brought ing hard and rapid, recourse was had to copiims bleeding, which was soon followed by an improvement. After a tolerably good night the oppression and palpitation re turned, but were again checked, and by the last bulletin His Majesty was much better. The King of Denmark brs determined to grant a con stitution to his subjects. His MOety, instaad of pro- ~ commission of twenty-eight members, elected by the State Assemblies. Those assemblies, four in number, were to meet during three days, in order to choose each Seven commissioners. If, after deliberating in common, the a constitution, the King would promulgate it in the term they recommended. It was added that the government would shoitly propose to the state to declare the Crown of Denmark hereditary in the male line. SLAVE TRADE.—The following has just been received y intelligent naval officer at Ascension. The detail is one of the most appalling proofs of the calamities which the slave trade leads to, and we trust the efficiency of the blockade may put an end to its being continued, in that part of Africa at least, for some time to come.- " Ascension, January 1, 1847.—We have just receive most horrible massacre on the coast. A slave depOt called Gallinas, known to have 2,000 slaves ready for shipping, was so closely blockaded by our cruizers that the slave _ owners finding it impossible to embark the news of slaves, and not wishing to incur the expense of feeding them, actually in cold blood beheaded the whole number, placing their heads on poles stuck in the beach, saying, if you will not allow us to make profit of prisoners' we take in war, we will kill all."--Cork Constitution. TIIE ORTON STEAM-SHIP - --.ixt Liverpool and Glasgow have justly been celebrated ; not only as the finest and swiftest, but most comfortable packets in Great Britain. They are, in fact, the great standard of what steam-vessels should be, and,-as such, have become patterns not only to Great Britain but to the other countries: The splendid steamers plying betwixt this ape un a larger scale) of the Liverpool and ind we have no doubt whatever that their no mean compliment to them. connected with this fleet must be in .vm..v.s,- and, with that view, we have,much mniunicating that, in the course of a few weeks owners consider fill Ever/thin therefor ;(In — itm — elliat has ieen earned m figure-head to . !alyrail, 49 feet within the paddic - (11 by 61 feet Ftroke, power, baying tubular boilers of the most approved description, and paddles 30 feet diameter. The main saloon is 140 feet long by 17 feet broad, and will contain two rows of tables, suitable for dining 80 people. It will be - litted an in rosewnnd and ntbpr sittinos of the usual splendour. The thOse, that either for ladies or gentle_ The fore qthin contains 48 lighted and ye whole work, both has been done by Messrs. re need scarcely say, is of • property of Messrs. George and James ...asgow, and, what every person will he glad to to be commanded by captain Hugh Main, so long and favouraW known in the trade of these now united ports. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS. PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.—The Rev. C. Anson, &[.A., to the rectory of Potter Hanworth, Lin colnshire.—The Rey. Eardley Wilmot Mitchell, 8.C.L., has been appointed to the'vicarage of Shirley with Yeave ley, in the county of Derby.—The Rev. John Longueville. to the rectory of St. Mary-on-the-Hill; Chester.—The Rev. Richard Rawle, M.A., to be principal of Codrington College, Barbadoes:—Tne Rev. J. Wilkinson, to the per petual curacy of Martindale, Westmoreland.—The Rev. C. Blackwell, to be chaplain to the Manchester Workhouse union.—The Rev. John Alexander Blackett, vicar of Heddon-on-the-Wall, and chaplain to the Duke of North umberland, to the rectory of Wolsingham, Durham.—The Hon. and Rev. L. W. Denman, M. A., sub-curate of Bishop Auckland, to the- vicarage of Heddon-on-the- Wall, Northumberland.—The Rev. J. H. Gooch, M.A., to the head mastership of the Diocesan, Commercial, and Agricultural School, East Dereham, Norfidk.—The Rev. William Henry Elliot, M.A., to the vicarage of Sockburn, near Darlington,—The Rev. John S. B. Mansell, to the chancellorship of Connor, and rectory of Rarnoan, vacant by the translation of theitev. J. R. Phillott, to the rectory of Ballymoney.—The Rev. Dr. Oliver, incumbent or the Collegiate Church, Wolverhampton, to the incumbency of St. Benedict, Lincoln.—The Rev. Henry Davenay to be domestic chaplain to the Earl of Bantry. The Rev. W. B. Hornby, A.M., of University College, Durham, has been appoi n t e d cura t e o f a ll S a i nts , North street, York. A bill is now in the House of Commons to divide the large rectory of Doddington, in the Isle of Ely, worth £9900. The vicarage of Stockton-on-Tees is placed at the dis posal of the Bishop of Durham by the appointment of the Rev. Robert Gray, M.A., to the Bishopric of the Cape of Good Hope. The death of the Rev. Dr. Blomberg, which took place on Tuesday week, causes a vacancy in the number of canons residentiary in St. Paul's, as well as in the vicarage of St. Giles's Cripplegate. The rev. doctor was nearly 90 years of age. _ APPROPRIATION OF PEWS BY CLERGYMEN.—A ques tion of some importance in reference to the appropriation of I ew, by clergymen has lately arisen in the Conistors' Court in this city (Carlisle), The Rev. G. Bell. incum te it of Kirklinton, was cited by the churchwardens of that pta-'sli, " for having taken upon himself, of his own mere authority, capriciously and improperly to allot and appropriate the pews in the c h urc h. The Court decreed on Wednesday last, that the appropriation was null'and void, and imposed upon the defendant the costs of the suit.—Carlisle Journal. The Rev: William Seaton, junior, on quitting the cu racrif SK Thomas, Bristol, which for many years past he has filled with much credit to himself and benefit to his flock, has been presented with two memorials, strongly marking the estimation in which his character and ser vices as a minister of Christ were held. The one' a gold watch of high value, together with a purse contain ing a considerable overplus of contributions from parish ioners arid members of his congregation; the other a bible and prayer-book, with an inscription in gold, beau tHully lettered, from the Sunday-school children under his superintendence. CHURCH EDUCATlON. — Arrangements have been made for materially increasing the number of young men to be received into the Church Training School at Battersea, under the superintendence of the Rev. Thomas Jackson, the principal. The young men so trained will be entitled, after one year's residence, to receive the certificates of the Privy Council, and will be then employed by the govern nient in organising and instructing schools in different parts of the country. The number of applications for teachers received weekly, both at the Training School, Battersea, and St. Mark's College, Chelsea, rapidly in creases, and it has been found utterly impossible to comply with the requests of the numerous applicants. This diffi culty will, however, be remedied by the more favourable terms on which young men will henceforth be received into the respective institutions.—Globe. _ _ DISCOVERIES IN DURHAM CATHEDRAL.— course of some alterations in progress in Durham cathe dral, a discovery has been made which is of interest, namely, Bishop Skirlaw's body. He was an individual of some importance. He became Bishop of Lichfield in 1385—0 f Bath and Wells in 1386—and of Durham in 1388. His benefactions in this see were munificent and numerous—too numerous indeed to be specified in this place. He built the greater part of the magnificent central tower of York minster ; and he began the erection of the dormitory and cloisters of Durham cathedral—but dying before the completion of these works, he left a liberal sum for that purpose. He died in 1406. The coffin was of lead. Its construction wa- - Thilike coffins, it was fitted closely body inclosed within it. In the p ecu liar, COURT AND FASHION. The Queen, Prince Albert, and the royal children re moved from Buckingham Palace to Windsor Castle on Wednesday last. Lord Stanley attained his 48th year on Monday. Lord and Lady John Russell, it is understood, will re main in town during the holidays. Her Ladyship, though considerably improved, is not yet completely restored to FASHIONS FOR APRIL. (From the " London and Paris Ladies' Fashion." Magazine of The new raffetos and silks intended for redingotes are very elegant, foulards; yekins, and silks of every variety, striped, checked, jaspees ?noires, or in Arabic designs, with bareges toiles de Chide tarlatanes, nankin de soie, and organdy, with coloured patterns on a black ground, are all fashionable. Black continues as much in favour as ever, but at this season the material is of course of slighter texture. In the make of dresses there will be but little change; many redingotes will be worn, and many dresses with tight bodies and sleeves; also veio- white muslin, richly embroidered. Brack lace still forms the richest trimming, either for redingotes or pelerines, also for flounces for three or four rows, or narrow lace put on spirally, or en echellle gimps, fringes, and soutache will be used on the spring dresses, particularly a new kind, with pearl edge. Some dresses of poult de sole are made with revers, embroidered in shaded colours. Fancy straw bonnets, intermixed with lace, are very fashionable ; and crape, mixed with straw, form pretty capotes ; some crape bonnets are covered with lace, which sometimes form a demi-voilette ; on the edge roses or jardenieres wreaths are placed under these laces, and give much elegence to the bonnet. Bonnets made -of baptiste de Chine of its natural colour, lined with pink, blue, or lilac crape, or gauze, form a pretty novelty ; the material is very fine and light. Flo ivers will be very much worn to ornament the interior as well as well as the exterior of bonnets this spring. Foliage of light colour, as the acacia, or dark, as the chesnut, will be used on straw bonnets ; exotics, with large petals, will ornament crape bonnets; whilst the more simple flowers of our gar dens will be required for pailles de riz. The Noemie bonnets are of crape, covered with tulle a la niege and filet; and the flowers that ornament them are of the most delicate description, or marabouts. The pompa dour is of paille de riz, with wreath of pompadour rib . bon. For the public dejeuners a new stile will be intro duced, the petit bord bonzais, made of white straw, or namented with field flowers, or a wreath of roses or single feather.. Very small manteaux have been worn of green or violet velvet, trimmed with two rows of broad black lace, one at the edge, and the other above it, and a third row at the throat ; this style will be adopted in taffetas of every colour. Mantelines are a mixture of the visite and mantelet, made of Bros de Naples, trimmed with lace or fringe to match, with open heading, and surmounted by a roseaux of application. RAILWAY AFFAIRS, The Tynemouth Extension of the North Shields Branch Railway was opened for public traffic on Wednesday last. EASTERN UNlON. — March 31.—The Hythe Extension was opened. At present it has only a single line of rails. We understand that on tho 15th of main Jim, of the Great Southern and Western Railway will open to Kilbricken, near Mountrath. —Dublin, Evening Packet. NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY.—The works for the lave commenced in the neigh- bourhood of Lancaster The first bar of American railroad iron was made in 1844, and an American paper now states that there are at present sixteen or eighteen mills, at which it is made at the rate of about 120,000 tons per annum. The ceremony of laying the first stone of the Railway Bridge over ther rivet Nidd, - at - Knaresborough, by Jo seph Dent, Esq., High Sheriff of Yorkshire, took place at ono o'ciszwir. • At a meeting of the Bishop Auckland and Weardale Railway Company, a iTsol4ion_approripg of the bill for the purchase Of the line by the Wear Valley Company was agreed to unanimously, Great Britain and Ireland have been - traversed by 10,323 miles of _railway, British colonies by 1000 more : East India by 500 more ; America, by 3 . ,800 ; France by 2.2011 fitrm , ran 1 . n 1 ak onn . 115; De !riinark, 1O( A portion of the Newcastle and Berwick Railway, from Tweedmouth to Chathill, a distance of upwards of 20 miles, was opened on Monday. Omnibuses in conjunc tion with the trains to carry passengers to and from their station to Morpeth, and vice versa. The remaining por tion of the line is expected to be opened in May. MALDON, WITIIAM, AND BRAINTRED.—The contracts are let to Mr. Jackson, who has been for some time past extensively engaged in works in connexion with the Ens made for corn continues at all ted 'reparat le weather favourable, the wn( and opened by next October. MIDLAND GREAT WESTERN (IRELAND). - Mr. Malone, the contractor for the portion from Athlone to Ballymore, has been making his preparatory arrangements. 'Many of the poorer classes being now discharged timely or ben eficial than this step, by which they will be enabled to tail(a livelyhood. - • Mr. Malone expects to commence the works on all parts on Monday. - parliament- have been held by the Eastern Counties ; Southampton and Dorchester ; Colchester, Stour Valley and nalstead ; Wear Valley, Bishop Auckland and Wear dale ; Airdrie and_ Bathgat ; General Terminus and Glasgow Harbour ; Edtnburgh and Bathgate—at the same time repelling accounts and progress : and assent was RAILW AY Tft 4.FFIC.—Frorn our official ret iount of traffic wards of 2,730 miles of railway, was £122,333, thus ac counted for :—X57,486 for the conveyance of passengers only, £37,849 for the carriage of goods, and a remainder ,988 for passengers an ively apportioned; being an increase of £5,233 over the corresponding week of last year, when the mileage way about I,92o:—Railway Chronicle. April (;) 1841. CORRESPONDENCE. THE MERCURY AND THE RATEPAYERS, TO THE EDITOR OF TILE LIVERPOOL STANDARD* SIR,—It was on ce wr itt en t h at " the grand secret of all government was to rul e w ith ou t being felt ;" but it will be marvellously strange, if, after recent events and coming changes, the " Liverpool Mercury" is able to maintain its rule over that class of ratepayers who have been easily moved, hitherto, into voting action at Easter, by the de clamatory powers of certain potentates in that local planet. After maintaining a higher price for advertise ment columns, salved over by a supplementary readers' sheet, I find that now its hebdomadal appearance is to merge into two publications per week. How far this ar rangement may assist in preserving its usual quantity of readers, I will not pretend to augur at this stage of the effort ; but I do think that it must, finally, have the effect of impairing its advertising influence. Be that as it may, I sincerely trust that the Conservative press of the town will hot relax in their efforts to serve the public faithfully and, still more, that they will also keep a more watchful eye over the " sayings and doings" of that mendacious print than has of late been their wont. I speak not in vidiously; yet it were no unfair procedure to ask the ratepayers who have hitherto followed in the wake of their mercurial pilot at every Easter vestry meeting, how they mean to act next week? Will they still place implicit reliance upon their vestry leader, in opposing useful and necessary rates, after witnessing his strenuous support of, and condolement with, the parties who have so long blinded and misled the Irish people, until they have be come a burden of extra rates to Liverpool, and a Mud sounding cry for charity to the whole nation ? Will they still listen to petulent objections to this vestryman or that, from political spleen ; nay, against even those who foresaw the fallacies of all this sham political economy; when an accumulation- of rates is to be imposed upon them, to relieve those whom a certain leader has, for many years past, led to- believe were right, and every British ministry wrong ? I ask these questions plumply, for the question at issue must be no longer misunderstood. It may be a-very easy matter for the Mercury to conti nually rail at the Rev. H. M`Neile, and impugn his righteous motives ; and quite easy for that- print, which' has so often fulsomely lauded our gracious Queen and her consort, to throw a blasphemous slur at the illustrious pair,. concerning the recent fast-day; but most surely the e e o y n e s s i o s t f e o t h e e public d o w e a i I t l i o h n e m a a t y l a b s t e o p p r e o n m e p d t e t o d all by these e n i merit, or by private benevolence; but whenever the press. abuses its power in the way that I hint at, more incalcu lable mischief is done amongst the labouring classes, 'who are not practical men of the world, or possessed of thinking common sense,) than any man can calculate. - I' went, on Wednesday last, to view the lamentable fall of the viaduct on the North Shore; and, whilst viewing it,' was hurt and disgusted, beyond expression, at the heart less buffoonery, blasphemous wit, and devilish rejoicing, of a class of labouring men, at this misfortune, who were, professedly at the time, readers and admirers of the Li verpool Mercury, —and who, when checked for their dis honest ribaldry, proudly quoted that journal in support of their heartless assertions. I could narrate much more, but I forbear. Requesting your insertion of this in your paper of the 30th instant, I am, Sir Your constant reader and admirer, March 27th, 1847. JOHN BULL, POVERTY IN IRELAND Dear Brother,—ln regard to the state of the destitute poor, I scarce know where to begin. Famine and pesti lence never made their baneful appearance so much as just now ; fever and dysentery present an appearance most appalling, in the small villages round 'about, scarce an hour passes but corpse are being carried by one or two women on their shoulders, or wheeling in a barrow, or by a man struggling under a heavy coffin on his back, whilst friends and neighbours keep at the utmost distance from the contagion. It is most tryine to see etrarts of my starving neigh _ bours, to procure what may preserve life a little longer; the children are over the fields to see if they can get some small potatoes, which the needy farmers do not think worth lifting ; they are also beginning to search old ditches, where nettles grow, but in vain, for nature has yet refused to give them this desirable repast ; fre quen tly families are found over th e corn fields in search of sheep briskin, a white root which grows in poor land, which is indeed not food for pigs, much less for human beings. Surely.we have provoked the all-merciful God to a great I Know a man of the name of Watson ; he has a wife and three children, one of them is just dying; his wife is subject to fits, and he is scarcely able to work a day, and when he does work he gets about Sd. ; on this, he, and his sickly wife and child, and two other children have to preserve life. In the same house is John Glen and wife ; he is ill of fever, without a penny to subsist upon but what I give them, and from the bounty of yourself and friends in Liverpool. John Liveston, has seven or eigh t in family, whose only support is about Is. Bd. per week. I know many men who have to support a wife and six children, on 30. or 4d. per day, which he receives for his work, in addition to his food. The poorhouses are ordered to have their number reduced to what they were built to contain ; Clogher is a half union, and for 600, but con tains near 900. Omagh, a three-quarters union, and for S 900, it contains near 1:300; so you may guess w h a t w i t e i: be the result, when no more w ill b e admitted, and t ,Wlllredundant turned out ; and I believe out-door reli ef( - v not be given before May. " The money you se nt \V 1 L soon be done ; may God di spose the hearts of benevolent and Christian friends, to call u pon y o u with donations towards the relief of my starving neighbours."—Ever"—Ever yours. JAMES JONES. To Alexander A.PC?y, Town Missionary, LIVERPOOL THE PRINCIPAL PORT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. From a return moved for by Mr. Cardwell and published on Wednesday, exhibiting the amount of tonnage, British and foreign, inwards and outwards, at 12 of the principal ports of the United Kingdom in each successive year since the general peace, up to th e c l ose o f 1815, we derive the gratifying information that the port of Liverpool has at length reached the point of supremacy over all her ri vals, not excepting the port of London itself. In 1816;• the total tonnage of London, inwards and outwards, was 1,247,873 tons, and in 1845 2,688,897 tons, showing an in crease of 1,441,024 tons. In 1816, the tonnage of Liver pool was 642,063 tons ; and in 1845, 2,819,014 tons, show ing an increase of 2,176,951 tons, the business of this port having thus more than quadrupled itself, whilst that of London has only a little more than doubled itself. Liver pool in-1845 was 130,117 tons above London; and the re suit of last year has probably improved our relative posi tion. The nett increase of Newcastle is 1,158,816 tons; 844 3 o6nlsi34Lei tons;th, 5 and B,B Cork 9 of Hull, 506,773 t ons ; S ou th ampton, 263 , 66 5 tons ; Gree nock, 116,330 t ons; . Gl asgow, 197 ,451 tons; Br i sto l, 0, 88tn , s 2; pro portion of th e total increase of tonnage h as b ee n an in crease of B r i t i sh as compared with fore i gn s hi pp i ng; f or example, out o f the to'cal increase in London and Liver pool,Dublin,tons. Itßelfast, viz., 1,441,024 tons at the former, and 2,176,951 at the latter port, the proportions of 932,443 and of 1,414,659 respectively have arisen from • the increase of British shipping. tiN uu6TRIAL COMIVIITTEE FOR THE RELIEF OF THE POOR OF IRELAND AND SCOTLAND. A meeting of ladies was held in the Lyceum, Bold street, on Monday the 22d March, at which the Rev. Mr. Pollock presided, when it was resolved— _ _ That a committee be formed, to be entitled The Ladies Industrial Committee for the relief of the existing destitution in Ireland and Scotland,, through the encou- That to promote this object a sale be . opened at the Lyceum, in which building a room has been most kindly granted for that purpo?e: That the sale he carried on during.two days in ea.& week (Tuesdays and Fridays), from eleven till four o'clock, conducted under the superintendence of the ladies of the committee, and to commence on Tuesday next, the 6tb April. That the stock for sale shall be strictly confined to those articles which are the work of the suffering poor, and that eertifickes to this effect be required in each instance,: from the ministers, or public authorities, of tne district. That a subscription be entered into, for the purpose of carrying into effect the objects of the meeting. That fifty ladies be appointed a committee, with power to add to their number, fourteen of whom shall act as a sub-committee, for the transaction of business. Lady Patroness—Mrs. George Hall Lawrence surer—Mrs. r harles - Lrs. NV Secretaries 5, ~count Vernon-ra .d, Rake-lane, Edge-hi Miss Oulton, 15, Moi Miss Cropper, Dingle Bank ; Vernon-road ; Mrs. Priestley, Parkfield Catag That the best thanks of the meeting be pre__ _ the gentlemen who have so liberally, granted the use of the room in the Lyceum, for the proposed sale. rated to . • WILLIAAF6LLOCK, Chairman. • It was the united- desire of the ladies to express their best thanks to the Rev. Mr. Pollock, for his great kind ness in presiding on the occasion. BANK OF E dLAN . D.—The drain of mon e y f or I fed }1V ;„ +l,„ is sufficiently Indic Ley dens IC of England, which was last N This, in turn wit i in the Bani exports of specie to the the stock - of precious £217,831, or to 11,231 £9,416, and the bank steadily advancing amount of securities, being £l7 The other deposits wcr_c mtinent, has had an effect upon ietals, which was diminish( 30. The Rest h ricrea.sed bl se its profits with according to the pro added to by £426,29! The active circa 010, viz., to £19,069,190, the r cd by £135,395.—G10be. serve of notes king red We call the attention of families and servants to A Evans's institution for servants, 18, I a-street George-street, as one of the most resptetably of the kind in Liverpool.—See advt. perceived, from the act- DECORATIVE ART.—It will bc rtisemnnt. ti forth the admiration of all who have 1 Mr. Abbott, Clarendon-rooms, as hi tlemen of taste abo ngram _ throng] Ihis work is con expense of painting. to renovate their mansi it, and, when th 6 duv3►