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LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1850.

The much bruited question, in relation to the abo
lition of the Viceroyalty of Ireland, has at length
been set at rest, through the indefatigable exertions
of the LORD MAYOR of Dublin. For some time past
there bad been many rumours in circulation that
such a change was in contemplation, and it was right
and proper that the respected Chief Magistrate and
chosen representative of the Irish metropolis, whose
constituents are the parties chiefly interested in the
subject, should desire authentic information as to
the real intention of the Cabinet on the point. The
answer returned by the First Lord of the Treasury
to the question of Mr. REYNOLDS was highly satis-
factory. It stated that "it had been for some time in
contemplation, by her MAJESTY'S Government, to in-
troduce a measure for the abolition of the office of
Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, and that he himself had
been in communication with Lord CLARENDON on the
subject." His Lordship also declared " that there
were some arrangements to be made, and difficulties
to be met, and that due notice should be given before
the introduction of any such Bill, so that it might
receive the full consideration of the House." It was
also announced that the measure would be brought
forward by the Government, and that Ministers
would not support any Bill for the purpose brought
forward by a private Member.
We trust that the difficulties alluded to by the
Noble Lord may be speedily surmounted, and that
the present session may not be suffered to pass away
before the necessary arrangements shall have received
the legislative sanction. It is a subject of the deepest
and most vital importance to the future welfare and
prosperity of the sister kingdom, which can never be-
come thoroughly amalgamated with England, and an
integral portion of the British empire, while a
pseudo nationality and the parade and tinsel of a
mock Court is preserved. It occasions a series of
petty intrigues, and keeps alive a species of " back •
stairs" influence that is destructive of the in•
dependence of the national character. It
also indicates that Ireland is but a pro-
vince, not entitled to, the rights and privi •
leges of the parent state, and can only be regarded
as a badge of national degradation. So far as prac-
ticable, we would render Ireland, to all intents and
purposes, part and parcel of the United Kingdom.
We would keep alive no paltry distinctions to dis-
turb the popular mind, and render it prone to be
worked upon by phantasms that could never be rea
lised, and which, if attempted to be carried into effect,
would be injurious to both countries, but infinitely
more so to Ireland than to England. So long
as a separate Court is maintained in Dublin,
the question of repeal will continue to be agitated. It
may fairly be asked why a distinct and independent
Parliament should not be required, while a separate
executive was considered essential ? It in fact con-

stituted a strong incentive to continued discussion•
This inducement to agitation will now be withdrawn,
and if it be followed by a perfect amalgamation of the
legal and other establishments, and the removal of all

minor differences, the bonds by which the countries
are happily united will be cemented and rendered in-
dissoluble, and no mortifying distinctions will be
kept up between the Celtic and the Anglo-Saxon
races.

Never, perhaps, was there a more fitting or oppor.

tune time for the experiment. With a viceroy of
ordinary capacity and moderate abilities it might be
considered that some slight, or disrespect was cast
upon the last occupant. But the distinguished noble.
man who has so ably filled the situation for the last
three years has proved himself above the possibility

of such degrading suspicions. The Earl of
CLARENDON has thrown a temporary halo around
the office. If ever it could hare been advan-
tageous to either country it would have
been so under his administration. He has presided
during a period of unparalleled difficulty, and he has
proved himself more than equal to the emergency.
He found a destitute and starving people, an im-
poverished and embarrassed gentry. Pestilence and
famine stalked throughout the country with giant
strides—the nation was reduced to despair, and the
people were easily induced to believe that the un-
questionable sufferings occasioned by the mysterious
visitations of PROTIDENCE, were owing to
misgovernment and mal-administration a
spirit ,of insubordination prevailed throughout
the length and breadth of the land,
which was fostered and strengthened by the extraor-
dinary changes of government on the continent of
Europe, and the overthrow of many existing dynasties.
Lord CLARENDON, however, succeeded in passing
unscathed through the arduous ordeal to which he
was exposed. The destitute poor were sustained and
supported through the crisis at an enormous expense
to the Imperial Exchequer. Insurrection was sup-
pressed, and large and comprehensive measures were
adopted, which will gradually but certainly
restore prosperity to the country, and lead
to the full development of the internal re-
sources of Ireland. Never was a represen-
tative of the Monarch involved in more trying
circumstances, and never did a Lord-Lieute-
nant achieve more signal and unquestionable
triumphs. Lord CLARENDON has earned for himself
the cordial thanks and heartfelt gratitude of the en-
tire community, and he will retire from office with
the consoling reflection that he has obtained the ap-
plause of all good men, and that although the last,
he has shown himself to be incomparably the most
efficient Viceroy of Ireland.
We shall wait with much impatience the introduc-
tion •f the promised measure. When a subject of such
magnitude and importance has been decided on every
delay must be injurious. We admit, with Lord JOHN
RUSSELL, that the subject is surrounded with "in-
tricacies and difficulties," but no announcement should
have been made in Parliament on the subject unless
it was fully understood that these " intricacies and
difficulties" could be evaded or surmounted, and that
the provisions of the contemplated measure had been
maturely and attentively considered. Procrastina-

tion on such a subject is now worse than useless, it is
positively mischievous, and the more speedily the Bill

can be introduced the better.

" If 'twere done, 'twere well 'twere done quickly."
Whatever may now be done on the subject, all
must agree in the opinion that the citizens of Dublin,
in common with the entire community, owe a deep
debt of gratitude to their talented and efficient
LORD MAYOR and representative, for bringing the
matter before the House and country, and thus re-
moving all doulßt and uncertainty upon the subject.

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the
Government
great l
a bo hasur o f
financial retrenchment, at the very time
when they
appear to act on the defensive in reference to the
maintenance of our present enormous national ex-
penditure. Yielding, it may be reluctantly, but
whether reluctantly or spontaneously, still yielding
—the Administration assumes an attitude expressive
of an intention to repel the advance of further
innovation. In their several departments the states-
men of the Russell Cabinet are industriously
striving to curtail the amount of our
annual disbursments, while, in Parliament,
from the benches of the Treasury they stand
boldly forward as the advocates of prodigality and the
vindicators of extravagance. The anomaly of their
proceedings is attributable, of course, to the pecu-
liarity of their position, solicitous as they must be,
from the known patriotism of their sentiments, to
meet a period of extraordinary emergency, and yet
profoundly desirous as they are at the same time to
withstand the encroachments of a party whose
leaders they appear to regard only in the light of so
many political enthusiasts. Under the direc-

tion, indeed, of the ruling administrators, the English
Cabinet is, unhappily, upon many subjects, driven
into a posture of supineness by the conflicting and
neutralizing tendency of their liberal wishes and
their aristocratic predilections. Dragged in one di-
rection by their anxiety to maintain their aggregate
reputation as reformers, and dragged simultaneously
exactly in the opposite direction by their individual
belief in the necessity of conservation, the Govern-
ment, on most subjects, is reduced to the adoption •f
that medium course which is nothing better
than stagnation. 'Upon most matters, in
truth, these counteracting influences evolve
a policy such as must be designated at
the very least by the opprobrious epithet of
Finality, if it be not branded with the epithet of Re-
trogression. Fortunately, however, we repeat it, for
the country, the present Ministerial advisers of the
SOVEREIGN have been so impelled by circumstances
to the recognition of the necessity of a great and sys-
tematic financial retrenchment, that, while battling
fiercely against the demands of the Honourable Gen-
tlemen the Members for Montrose and the West
Riding of Yorkshire, they have actually taken the
initiative in the way of a wholesale and compre-
hensive reduction of the national expenditure. Hence
it comes to puss, that on reviewing the estimates
of the last two years we are rejoiced with the disco-
very of a diminution of nearly three millions and a
half from the gross total of the disbursements, or, in
other words, with a reduction of the national expen-
diture to the amount of no less than 3,344,0001.
Beyond which, moreover, we have the emphatic
promises of the (Cabinet of a still further reduction
during the ensuing twelve months of another million,
thus, within three years, exhibiting to the empire a de-
crease in its expenses of 4,344,000/. When the present
year shall, by its expiration, have realised the assurances
of this reduction, we shall find even then, supposing no
further diminution to be attempted, that the excess
in 1851 over the estimate of 1835 will have been de-
creased to 5,453,0001. No small advantage that to
the nation 1 seeing that only a comparatively few
months previously that excess reached the prepos-
terous sum of 9,797,0001. Bearing these things in re-
collection, it strikes us as rather frivolous on the part of
the Right Hon. Gentleman the President of the Board
of Trade, his quarrelling with Mr. COBDEN, fur inas-
much as he has lowered his demands for retrenchment
from 10,000,0001, as it was last year, to 6,000,0001.,
as it is this. Such a diminution in his requirements,
as the powerful leader of the Financial Reform move-
ment, is of course sufficiently comprehensible from
the mere circumstance of the gross aggregate dimi-
nution of 4,344,000/., namely, the actual reduction of
3,344,000/., already secured, and the still further re-
duction of 1,000,0001., promised in the name of the
Chancellor of the Exchequer. This lowering of his
demand upon the Government, in short, must be
apparent to every rational man, as being compatible
with a perfect consistency of conduct—the 10,000,0001.
by way of reduction being not more than sufficient to
cover in 1849 the 9,797,000/. excess over 1835, than
the 6,000,000/. now required by way of reduction
will be capable of covering in 1851 the prospective
excess over the estimate of 1835, of 6,453,0001.
With all respect for the judgment of Mr. LABOU^
CHERE therefore, there appears to us, only a perfect
consistency and an admirable moderation in
the decreased demand of Mr. COBDEN, a demand
the very reasonableness of which testifies his acknow-
ledgment of the past and prospective retrenchments
of the Government. By acting thus RICHARD
COBDEN is only acting in strict accordance with the
principles carried out by the great DANIEL O'CoN-
NELL. He is accepting the small instalments of re-
form, and insisting in the same breath upon a yet
further improvement. Certain it is that but for the
beneficent agitation of this all-important subject by
distinguished Reformers, such as the representatives of
Montrose and the West iding of Yorkshire,
little enough, if anything, would have been done by
the Administration in the way of diminishing the
monstrous total of our present extravagant expendi-
ture. Certain enough, also, the disposition already
evinced by the Government to meet the urgency of
the existing difficulty, by reduction after reduction,
would very speedily evaporate but for the continual
efforts of valiant—and call them if you will enthu-
siastic—Reformers like Mr. Hums and Mr.
COBDEN. Stimulated by the exertions of
such innovators, th 6 Cabinet is forced from its
habitual apathy; and while we are yet listening in
imagination to the petulant opposition of the Right
Hon. the Representative of Taunton, we are still,

nevertheless, alive to the good intentions of himself
and his Ministerial colleagues, in reference to the pa-
ramount necessity of yet further and more compre-
hensive attempts in the way of financial retrenchment
—good intentions betrayed not only by the stipu-
lated reduction of another million from the pre-
sent year's expenditure, but also by the prospect
opened to us last evening by the Prime Minister of
the yet more remarkable diminution consequent on
the abolition of the Viceregal Court in Ireland. Then,
at length, we are sanguine that the annual disburse-
ments may be brought within somewhat more rea-
sonable limits, amounting, as in 1835, to very little
more than 44,000,0001. Towards the facilitation of
this vast labour of amelioration the earnest and ad-
mirable speech delivered last evening in the House of
Commons by Mr. COBDEN must prove, we are satis-
fied, fraught with many advantages, and from one, or
other, if not all, of the seven branches of civil ser-
vice enumerated by him as affording opportunities for
reduction—from all of these seven branches, except-
ing the Civil List, we will unhesitatingly say, with
Mr. COBDEN, that there may be detected ample ma-
terials from which to prune away this excess of
5,000,0001. or 6,000,0001. still remaining. The
annuities and pensions, the salaries and allowances,
the diplomatic services, the courts of justice, and the
miscellaneous charges, all exhibit to view those re-
dundant sums in the national expenditure which may
be removed without any detriment whatever to the
State—without jeopardiaing:either the energies of the
Government or the stability of the Constitution. For
this propitious aspect of the future we are indebted to
the wise precautions of the Cabinet and the patriotic
agitation of RICHARD COBDEN.

CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.)
The Lord Chancellor sat in his Court in the Old
Hall, Lincoln's Inn, and heard appeal motions to-day.
The case of "Evans v. Protheroe" occupied his Lord-
ship the whole morning.

VICE-CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.)
(Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND.)
THE SHREWSBURY AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY V. TIE
LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.
The further arguments in this part-heard motion
occupied the Court the whole day.
Nothing of the least interest occurred in the Courts of
the Vice-Chancellors, Knight Bruce and Wigram.

ROLLS' COURT.—(THIS DAY.)
(Before the MASTER of the ROLLS.)
GREY V. FOLDS.

Mr. METCALFE said this was the petition of Ann
Heath, lately an infant, but who had now attained the
age of 21, praying that her legacy under a will might
be paid to her. The title to the fund in question was
derived under the will of one Thomas Heath, who gave
his personal estates to trustees, with directions that the
funds arising from the sale of his personal estate should
be paid over to the plaintiffs when they should attain
the age of 21 years ; but in the event of any of them
dying without issue the shares of the persons so dying
were to be divided among certain of the testator's ne-
phews and nieces, share and share alike. Matilda Gray,
one of the parties entitled under the will, died, and in
March, 1847, a reference was made to the Master to
inquire whether she died without issue living at her
heath, and if so, who were the nephews and nieces of the
testator entitled to her share, if any. The Master
found that she died without any issue living at her
death, and that the nephews and nieces a the testator
were nine in number, one of whom was Ann Heath,
the petitioner. The fund was then divided into nine
shares, and such of the claimants as had attained
twenty-one received their respective proportions, whilst
one of the shares was directed to be retained for the
benefit of Ann Heath, who was then an infant. Ann
Heath had now attained the age of twenty-one years,
and she now prayed that her share in the fund might be
paid over to her.
The MASTER of the Roux, having satisfied himself
that the petitioner had attained twenty-one, granted the
prayer of the petition.

CRIMINAL COURT.—(THIS DAY.)
OLD COURT.
(l furs the RECORDER.)
William Nairhe, a stockbroker, who was found guilty
two sessions ago of defrauding a publican named Shelton
of 1,7001., which be had promised to invest in some pro-
fitable security, bat instead of doing so appropriated it
to his own use, was brought up this morning and son-
tenct-d to twelve months' imprisonment without hard

labour.
Gcorge 111iIlner, a gentlemanly-leokisg young man,
who was an assistant to a chemist i❑ Abbey-road, St.
John's-wood, receiving a salary of 101. a year, with

board and lodging, and who was convicted this sessions
of the charge of stealing a post-office letter containing
a half-sovereign and a florin, which had been placed in
the receiving-box kept by his employer, was sentenced
to eighteen months' imprisonment with hard labour.
MANSLAUGHTER.—Stephen Boxall, the elder, aged 53,
and Stephen Boxall, the younger, aged 21, both de-
scribed as shoemakers, were indicted with feloniously
killing and slaying Benjamin Prestage.
Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Clerk, prosecuted; and Mr. Ripton
defended the elder prisoner.
The younger prisoner pleaded Guilty.
It appeared that on the 22d of February, at night,
the prisoners and several other men were drinking, in
a beer-shop, in Mill-pond-court, Bermondsey, and while
doing so, the deceased's wife came in to induce her hus-
band to go home, and upbraided the younger prisoner
with detaining him in the beer-shop. Upon this,
the younger prisoner used some offensive language, and
the deceased told him not to do so. The younger pri-
soner took offence at the observation, and ran at the
deceased, butting his head with great violence against
his lower extremities, which had the effect of knock-
ing him down, and the younger prisoner fell upon
him. When the deceased got up, the prisoner repeated
the blow exactly in the same place, and again knocked
him down, but this time the deceased was unable to rise,
being in an insensible state. Some parties who were
present conveyed the deceased to St. Thomas's Hospital,
where he died on the 25th, his bladder having burst in
consequence of the blows which were inflicted upon
him. The elder prisoner, between the first and second
blows, wrenched off the legs of the table, and struck the
deceased, and otherwise aided and abetted his son.

The RECORDER having summed up, the jury fuund a
verdict of Guilty against the elder prisoner of aiding and
abetting the younger prisoner.
The RECORDER sentenced the father to two years'
imprisonment with hard labour, and the son to transpor-
tation fur life.

NEW COURT.
(Before Mr. BuLLocx.)
The cases which came thlure this Court this morning
were of no intereits.

BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
A very respectably-dressed female, whose name did
not transpire, was charged with stealing several books of
trifling valtm

Mr. Thomas Arthur, a bookseller, carrying on business
at 496,New Oxford-street, stated that every night for some
time passed, he had missed books from his stall, which
had induced him to place an additional boy to watch
over it, and yesterday evening the prisoner was observed
to approach the stall and examine some of the books;
fancying, no doubt, that no one was watching her pro-
ceedings, she took up two or:three books, and placing
them under her shawl, was about to walk off, when be
stopped her, and demanded to know what she intended
to do with the volumes she had under her arm ? She
replied with every manifestation of surprise and agita-
tion, " For God's sake, don't say anything, I will give
you anything not to take any further notice of this." He
had, however, been so great a sufferer from these de-
predations. that he could not consent to her proposal,
and rending for a policeman, he gave her into
custody.
The prisoner, who was in tears during the whole of
the examination, said she went to the stall with the
intention of purchasing some cheap books, and having
selected the five in question, she placed them under her
arm and was searching for the money to pay for them,
when the prosecutor seized her and taxed her with being
a thief.

The prosecutor observed that only 4id. was found upon
her, while the price cf the books was Is. 4d.
The prisoner said that was so. She had just made the
discovery that she had not money enough, and was about
to enter the shop to have the books put aside for her
whoa she was laid hold of.

Mr. HENRY asked her what she was ? The prisoner
replied that she was the widow of a revenue officer,
and was in the receipt of a permanent annuity, which
placed her in easy circumstances.
Mr. HENRY said the case was somewhat strange, and
ho should rcmand the case for inquiry into the prisoner's
character.

The prosecutor said he was not the only person who
had been robbed in this way, and all the booksellers of
the neighbourhood suspected the prisoner, who had fre-
quently been aeon loitering about their shops.
The prisoner, in a loud imperious •oice, exclaimed,
" Remember, sir, not to perjure yourself !"
She was then removed in custody.

MARKET NEWS.--(THIS DAY.)
COVENT-GILEMnn
Large supplies of vegetables were on sale tc-day.
The demand for them ruled heavy, at barely late
rates. In fruit, very little business was transacted.
English Fruits—Pine Apples, 6s to 8s; Hot-house
Grapes, 12s to 15s per lb; Pears, 20s to 30a; Eating
Apples. 2s 6d to 3s 6d per half-sieve; Apples for cooking,
2s to 4s Gd per bushel; Filberts, 70s to 75s per 1001bs.
Foreign Fruits—Black Hamburgh Grapes, Qd to Is;
Portugal ditto, 8d to is per lb; Spanish Nuts, 4s to
55; Brazil ditto, 3s to 4s ; Barcelona ditto, 5s to Gs;
Almonds, 5s to Gs; and Spanish Cheenuts, 3s to 6s
per peck; Lemons, Ss to lOs ; and Oranges, 3s to 103
per 100 ; Spanish Onions, 14s to 20s Od per box.
Vegetables—Cape Brocoli, 6s to Its per dozen bundles;
Turnips, Is 3d to is 6d; Carrots, 2s 6d to 4s; Greens, is
to is 6d; Leeks, 10d to is 4d; Parsley, 2s Od to 3s Od;
and Sage, 2s 3d to 3s per dozen bunches ; Horse radish,
is 6d to 3s per bundle; Onions, 2s Od to 3s Od per
bushel ; Savoy Cabbages, Id to 8d; and Red ditto,
2s Od to 3s Od ; Red Beet, Is to is 6d; and Parsnips,
4d to 6d per dozen ; Endive, is 3d to is Gd per score;
Mushrooms, Os 9d to is Od per pottle; Brussels Sprouts,
Is Od to is 6d; Spinach, is Od to 15 6d; Jerusalem
Artichokes, is to is 6d; and Common Salad, is 3d
to Is 6d per half-sieve ; Small Salad, 2s Od to 23 6d
per dozen punnets; Shallots, 3d to 4d per lb; Potatoes,
80s to 110 s per ton; ditto, 3s 6d to 4s 3d per bushel;
Sea Dail, Is Od to is 6d per punnet; Asparagus, 33 6d
to 5s per 100; Rhubarb, Ss to 6s per dozen bundles;
Cornwall Whits Brocoli, 9d to is 3d per dozen heads;
Celery, 9d to Is per bundle ; Cucumbers, 6s to :10s
per brace; Turnip Greens, 3d to 6d per bushel; French
Beans, 3s 6d per 100; Radishes, is per punnet.

XIXLMINGSGILTB.
Turbots, 3s to 9s ; Brills, 3s to 63 ; Cod Fish,
2s 6d to 6s; Whitings, 4d to;8d; Lobsters, 10d to2s each;
Soles, 6d to 2s per pair ; Eels, 4d to is per lb.;
Haddocks, 4d to 9d ; Herrings, 10d to is 4d per
dozen; Oysters, 108 to 453 per bushel ; Flounders, 8d
Mackerel, 6d to 9d each; and Salmon, is
to Is; Smelts, is to 1s 6d; and Bloaters, is to is 4d
2pdertdools 9den;
per lb.

NEVTGATZ AND IMILDENNALL.
Turkeys, 4s 6d to 8s 6d ; Geese, 4s Od to 6s
Od; Ducks, 2s to 2s 9d ; Tame Rabbits, is 2d to
is 10d ; Wild ditto, 8d to Is Id; Pigeons, 6d to 8d;
4s 3d to 78 Od each ; Surrey Fowls,
ditto Chickens, 4s Od to 6s Od ;
boasting7s od
to P9i
9s Od
d ;
Barndoor Fowls, 3s 6d to 6s Od per couple ; Fresh
Butter, 9d to is 2d per lb ; English Eggs, 7s Od to
8s 3d ; French ditto, 6s Od to Ts 6d per 100 ;
Hares, 2s to 3s each ; Wild Ducks, is 6d to 2s 3d per
couple.

NEWPORT.
Beef, from 2s 6d to 3s 4d ; Mutton, 2s 10i to 3s 6d;
Veal, 3s 2d to 31 10d; and Pork, 3s to 4s per 81bs.
WIEXTECIIELPEL.
Beef, from 2s 8d to 3s 2d; Mutton, 2s idd to 3s 6d;
Veal, 3s to 3s 10d; Pork, 35 to 48 per 81bs.
The prices of Wheaten Bread in the Metropolis are
from 6d to 7d; of household ditto, 4d to sid per 4lb
loaf.

BIDE IttLEUZ/CET.
Market hides, 561 b to 641 b, lid to lid; ditto, 641 b to
721 b, lid to lid; ditto, 721 b to 801 b, 2d to 2id; ditto;
801 b to 881 b, 20 to 21d; ditto, 881 b to 961 b, 3d to 3id,
ditto, 961 b to 1041 b, 3. id to 3id; ditto, 1041 b to 1121 b,
aid to 4d. Calf Skins, light 2s 3d to 3s Od; ditto lull
55 Od to 5s 6d; Horn Hides, 6s 6d to Os; Polled Sheep,
5s 7d to 7s 2d ; Kents and. Half-breds, 4s 4d to 5s 2d;
Downs, 4s 3d to 4s 10d; Shearlings, 6d to 7d.
NAY DIAILIVETS.
SMITHFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 21 8s to 31103; Clover
ditto, 3l Os to 4/ 108 ; and Straw, 1/ Is to 1/ Ss per
load. A full average supply, and a heavy trade.
41 65; and Straw, 11 2s to 11 9s per
CIIMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 21 lOs to 31113; Clover
ditto, 31 Os to
load. Trade dull.
WHITEcHAYEL. Meadow Hay, 21 8s to 3l 103 ;
Clover ditto, 3/ Os to 4/ lOs; and Straw, 1/ 13 to 118 s per
load. Supply good, and trade dull.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, MARCH 9.--Wind this day at noon, E.N.E.
light airs and foggy.
DEAL, MARCIL B.—Wind N. to N.W., foggy.
COWES, MARCH B.—Arrd. Hermann steamer, New
York, for Bremen.
PLYMOUTH, Mancil B,—Wind E.—Sld. Stag, Ade-
laide, South Australia; Sir Robert Sale, Port Philip;
Havannah, St. John's, New Brunswick.
MILPORD, MARCH 7.—Wind variable and light.--
Sld. James Porter, New Orleans; Yrurachal, Manilla.
LIVERPOOL, MARCH B.—Wind N.W.—Sld. Fanny
Chapman, Shanghae; Charles Brownell, Valparaiso.
Salem, Mobile; Townsend, Boston. A fire was disco-
vered to-day on board the Maid (not the Maids, as re-
ported
of loadingrtedyegsoteorddsaya)ppoaroto be injured, and that but
for Arica. Only ono pack-
aslightly.
APPLEDORE, MARCH 7.—The Waterwitch steamer,
from Bristol, is on the Ware Rocks, apparently much
damaged, and makes a great deal of water. Cargo dill-
charging, and is expected off next tide.
TEIGNBIOUTII, MARCH 7.—The Erin, which was
aground on the bar sth instant, got off, the following
tide without apparent damage, and perfectly tight, and
proceeded yesterday.
BELIAST, MARCH 7. —Wind N.W.—Arrd. emulous,
Rowley, Barbadces.

_ - -
The death of Mr. Thomas Hallifax, of the banking-
house of Glyn, Hallifax, Mills, and Co., was announced
in the City yesterday. Mr. Hallifax was 77 years of
age, and had been a partner in the firm more than half
a century.
Tits Aincr.—The depot of the 7th Royal Fusiliers
arrived at Portstnouth yesterday, under command of
Major Yea, in the Irish packet steamer Royal William,
from Cork. They landed at the dockyard, and, pre-
ceded by the band of the 77th Regiment, marched to
Winchester, where for the present the depot will be
stationed.

BRITISH ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY.— Seve-
ral petitions in favour of this company's Bill were pre-
sented to the House of Commons last evening. Amongst
them was one from the Stock Exchange of Liverpool.
The Bishop of London has licensed the Rev. A.
G. Edourt, 8.A., Perpetual Curate of St. Paul's, Black-
burn, to the incumbency of St. Michael's Church,
Burleigh-street, Strand, the reverend gentleman
having exchanged appointments with the Rev. H. W.
Marychurch, M.A., late incumbent of St. Michael's.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.

The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were
moderate, and the market closed heavily. The week's
sales are 25,620 bales.—ln Railway Shares a fair
business was done, at a slight decline in prices.
The Bank of England statement to the 2d inst. shows
at last some increase in the circulation, and an extension
of the loans and discounts as usual about the period
when the transfer books close. The amount of the pre-
cious metals continues much the same, but next week we
shall look for an addition arising from the imports per
Severn steamer. The public deposit account was again
rather higher, and will go on increasing until the quar-
terly payments commence. Compared with the previous
week the results are as follow:
Notes Issued
Increase
Rest

324,789
7,838,208
199,177
9,881,899
132,864
1,01:6,306
15,352
14,419,732
••• 20,364
•• 10,425,030
••• 737,195
11,367,885
Decrease 69,715
Bullion ... ... 17,125,860
Increase ... 3,639
Active Circulation 19,008,275
Increase . . ••• 119,720
Scarcely any change occurred yesterday afternoon in
the rates at which Bills cf Exchange, dated 90 days,
were yesterday negotiated upon the principal conti-
nental cities. as follows:,—Paris, 25.671 to 70; Hum-
burgh, 13.14 to 134; Amsterdam, 12.2 to 2i; and
Trieste, 11.45 to 48.

... 30,376,160
... 50,005
... 3,592,934

Increase
Public Deposits

Increase ... ...
Other Deposits ... ...
Increase ... ...
Seven Day and other Billa

DE crease ...
Government securities

Increat a

Other Securities
Increuse

Notes

The exports of the precious metals from London
during the week, ending Thursday last, were 55,296
ounces of silver, and 450 of golc►.
The business done this week in the manufacturing
districts has again been somewhat restricted, but the
woollen departments are more active than those for
Cotton.
The Amsterdam Stock Market was rather brisk on
the 7th inst., and Duch Stock was higher, the Two-and•
a-Half per Cents being 551 to 11-16. At Frankfort,
on the 6th inst., Austrian Metallics were The
law establishing a National Bank in Belgium has been
passed by the legislature of that country.
Hamburgh advices of Tuesday quote thei exchange
on London at 13 10.

In the English Stock Market the transactions have
been limited, and prices have been slightly depressed by
the exaggerated statements upon foreign affairs given
thii morning in a leading paper. It is certainly be-
coming the general subject of remark on the
Stock Exchange, that favourable or unfavourable
`• leaderb" appear very opportunely in that jourL al
about account day, but this may be only
an accidental circumstance after all. Consols have
realised 96 to 96k for Transfer, and 96 to i for Ac-
count. The New Three-and-a Quarter per Cents. have
been 984 to 99. Bank Stock has been 2061. Ex-
chequer-bills have been 575. to 535. premium, being
fuller rates.

The Foreign Market is steady, hut Peruvian are
still drooping. The Four per Cents. have been
marked 724 to 73, and the Deferred 30 to 31. Mexican
are 29 Dutch Twc-and-a-Ilelf per Cents. bring
5:4 to 56.
Railway Shares are all rather cheaper, with moderate
dealings.

ONE et.o,-,2,G
I'.Sl.,.:iss or I,RITISLI raNDPJ O'CLOCK. FIIIOES.
:lank Stock
3 per Cont. Reduced AnDB ...... , 96%3A lii 961,E
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 96 96% 95%
New 3li per Cent. Anna.- ... ......
Long Alms. to expire Jan.1860
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 B% 8%
India Bonds, 1,0004 B4 p 84 p
Consols for Account 96 961,4 96 953 k
exchequer Bills. I%d. & 2Q
1,000/. June 57 58 p
Small, June 5B p
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. oNE