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eently ';ed at the Cape Verde Islods. tThe
Waterwitch ordered round to Chatham to pay off,
yesterday evening. '
SAILORS' HOME AT PORTSMOUTH.—TtIe ' ftitida f); ,
•
s' Home at Portsmouth contirittp Uriteggase:
lost satisfactorily. The Inconstant, ‘3O, C44in r
'Shepherd, on paying off at Plymouth ppr.
the remains of the ship's fund to the Saila'ltrr: .t
amounting to 201. 125., and the warden andfellaiyib,ef".
Winchester College have presented a donation of 251.
Measures are now being taken to bring the Home
into operation.
There are no orders down at Portsmouth, respect-
ing the Hogue, 60, screw-ship, Captain Macdougall,
she still remains in harbour with her sails bent.
The Hercules store-ship, Master-Commander Ful-
ton, was towed outside the Nab Light vessel by the
Bloodhound, and proceeded under sail for Greenhithe
with condemned and unserviceable stores.
The Monkey and the Jasper steam-tug left
Woolwich for the Downs, to tow the Hercules up
the river.

The Advice steamer left Woolwich yesterday
morning for Cork, and the Manceuvrer for Portsmouth
and Plymouth.

Phaeton, 50, Captain Elliot, has bent sails ; she is
to go to Spitbead to-day. She will probably sail for
Lisbon, to rejoin Commodore Martin's squadron, on
Saturday next.

Sprightly steam-tender, Master-Commander Allen,
left Portsmouth on Tuesday afternoon for Plymouth,
with supernumeraries for the Albion.
The Danish man-of-war steamer, in the River, has
dropped down from Blackwall to the Arsenal, to take
on board her gunnery stores.
Mr. Lang, master shipwright of Woolwich dock-
yard, has Leen granted fourteen days' further leave of
absence.

A party of engine fitters has been sent to Sheerness
for the factory at Woolwich, to complete the works in
the engineer department in that yard by the 21st of
March next.

PLYMOUTH, WEDNESDAY.— Her Majesty's ship
Albion, 90, Captain W. H. J. John3tone, now in the
Sound, is ordered to be got ready for sea with all pos-
sible dispatch.

The Officers and crew of her Majesty's brig Harle-
quin, 12, Commander A. P. E. Wilmot, were paid
advance of wages yesterday, and she will sail to-day
with the mails for the Coast of Africa, touching at
Madeira.
Her Majesty's brig Waterwieb, 8, Commander B.
R. Quin, from the Coast of Africa, was off this port
on Saturday, and obtained a supply of fish from a
trawling sloop. Having signalised with the Albion
she proceeded up Channel for her destination, Ports-
mouth.

Five shipwrights with the leading man and eight
caulkers will sail in one of the lighters to-day for
Falmouth, to caulk and temporarily repair the Astra&
receiving depot for the packets, which is to be brought
here and laid up in ordinary.
The Penguin packet was commissioned yesterday
by Commander Thomas Etheridge.
The Express packet, Lieutenant W. Lory, will be
paid off to-morrow.
The treasurer of the Devon and Cornwall Female
Orphan Asylum desires us to acknowledge the receipt
of 101.165. from the ship's private fund of her Majesty's
frigate Inconstant, 36, Captain J. Sheppard, paid off
on Saturday by Mr. Henderson, Master-Attendant,
in the absence of Lord J. Hay. Besides this sum the
officers of the Inconstant gave 201. 12s. 6d. to the
Sailors' Home, Portsmouth, 101. 6s. to the Seamen's
Orphan School, Portsmouth, 201. 12s. 6d. to the
Dreadnought Hospital Ship, 10/. 6s. to the Ship-
wrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Society, 10/. 6s.
to the Devonport Naval and Military Free School, 51.
3s. to the Royal British Female Orphan Asylum,
Stoke, and Si. 3s. to the Plymouth Eye Infirmary.
In consequence of the first contract-day, the 15th
inst., falling on Sunday, the Postmaster-General, Lord
Clanricarde, has sent orders for the shipment of the
Cape mail on the day following, Monday, the
16th, when the screw steamer Bosphorus, Captain
Hall, will start from Plymouth for the Cape of Good
Hope.

IRELAND.
ACTION FOR LIBEL.
DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY.—For five whole days " the
lawyers" have been talking away in the Court of Ex-
chequer upon an apparently simple case of alleged libel.
in which Captain Edward Wynne, an inspecting officer
under the Poor-law Commissioners, was the plaintiff,
and the Marquis of Westmeath defendant. The libel
complained of consisted of a petition to Parliament,
drawn up by the Noble Lord, and by him circulated
through a publication of it in several newspapers, to
which he furnished copies of the document, 500 of which
he caused to be printed for distribution. The petition,
after a general statement in reference to the condition of
the notorious union of Carsick-on-Shannon, attributed
to the plaintiff conduct of a grossly immoral nature in
his official capacity of poor-law inspector. The passage
was as follows:

" That the appointment of any individual to be in-
spector, and to act arbitrarily over us (the poor-law
guardians), will appear to be equally reprehensible, he
having, previously to his removal, compelled one of the
relieving-officers to place on the list a woman of bad
character with whom he was cohabiting, and on the re-
having-officer refusing to do so, and informing him that
she held ground, and was not in need of out-door relief
he persisted in bringing the case before the guardians,
who refused her relief; and this was done on three
several occasions. That an investigation was demanded
of the Commissioners upon this immorality, and evaded
by them."

The damage was laid at 5,000 L A strong bar TM
arrayed on each side, and the wordy warfare was sus-
tained with a tenacity worthy of an Irish Court of Nisi
Prins in its most palmy days. For the defence, pleas of
justification were put in, the evidence to support which is
quite unfit for publication. The Chief Baron commenced
his charge on Monday, and did net finish until the
afternoon of yesterday, when the jury retired; and, after
long deliberation, were discharged at 20 minutes past
5 o'clock, there not being the most remote possibility of
their agreeing to a verdict.

STATE OF TRADE.
(From the Manchester Guardian of yesterday.)
MANCHESTER.—The home consumers of yarn, who
have long kept themselves as barely supplied as their
requirements would allow, are venturing to purchase
rather more freely than of late; and, although the spin-
ners have not raised their quotations, they maintain
them with a marked increase of firmness. There is also
a moderate business in spinnings adapted for the Medi-
terranean. India counts and qualities are well engaged,
and steady. From the German merchants there is a little
more inquiry; but their purchases continue small. They
are now expecting to hear that the Elbe is frozen. Al-
together, there is a somewhat improved tone in this de-
partment. As regards goods, no general activity is ob-
servable; but some of the wider and better printing
cloths are in good request; and long cloths, as well
as the light and medium qualities of domestics,
are going of fairly. The India merchants are not
active operators, but previous transactions by them
and others have made the market bare of 40-inch
shirtings. A general firmness prevails amongst manu-
facturers; and both they and the spinners are looking
for some improvement in prices with the turn of the
year.

ROCHDALE.—There has been a dull market to-day,
as is generally the case at this season of the year. The
manufacturers are working up their former orders, and
have received a few new ones of late. There is little
change to report in the wool market. The business is
of a limited kind, and prices firm.
MACCLESFIELD.—There is little alteration to report in
the manufacturing trade here. The manufacturers ap-
pear to be preparing for the spring trade by giving out
more silk to the dyers, who are accounted tolerably busy.
There has been little inquiry for thrown silks, but prices
are much complained of. The raw silk market is
quieter, but prices are firm.
EfIIDDERSFIELD.—We have had, if anything, an im-
provement upon last week's market to-day. A fair
amount of business has been done in tweeds, checks,
and doeskins ; whilst plaids and stripes have been
freely inquired for, and sales generally effected at
pretty fair prices. There is not much doing in
yarns. !, The fancy trade is flat, with the exception
of one or two houses, who have not been so busy at this
time of the year for some time as they are at present.
The wool trade is quiet, and the advance of prices at
the recent London sales will deter manufacturers from
buying except to work out orders they may have in hand.
HALlFAx.—There has been a little better demand to-
day for mixed
,fabrics, but not for other descriptions of
worsted goods. Owing to the aspect of affairs on the
Continent, the yarn trade continues paralysed, and
prices are little more than nominal. There is a growing
disposition amongst the spinners to restrict production.
In wools, there has been a little more doing, without any
change in the quotations.
LEEDS.—There is no change to notice in the cloth
trade since our last report, The market has been dull,
and there is not much doing the warehouses, but
prices are firm.

NEW SOUTH WALEs.--Letter; have come to
hand from Sydney, dated the 20th Augukt last. The stocks
of all kinds of goods were still very heavy, and trade con-
tinued depressed, but some little improvement was notice-
able during the last week. The price of wool had ad-
vanced, and the market would of course become firmer on the
receipt of the news from England, regarding the rise in the
London =met for-the staple. Good fair quality had ad-
vanced to Is. 24d. to Is. 4d. per lb. Of superior clip none
had come down from the interior, and no quotation is given.
The price of beef tallow was 27t. 155., and mutton lallow 28/.
The Legislative Assembly was debating upon the estimates.
The town of Ipswich, at Moreton Bay, is described as ra-
pidly advancing in importance. A Government sale of
lands had been held, and the greatest animation prevailed ;
all the lots put up found ready buyers, and the total sale
realised 713/. is. Gd.
OPENING OF THE WEST INDIA DOCK RAILWAY TO
CAMDF TowN.—Another portion of this railway, which is
intended to connect the London and North-Western Railway
with the East and West India Docks at Blackwell, was
opened for public traffic on Monday. For some months
trains have been running on it from Highbury to Fenchurch-
street terminus, and the extension recently opened is to Cam-
den Town, the station being near the Eagle. Considering
the distance, the fares are more than ordinarily low, and
will, no doubt, seriously affect the omnibuses. Between
Bow and the docks the works are in a very forward
state, an immense area of ground at the eastern end of
the West India Docks being occupied for warehouses,
sidings, &c.