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London, England, 1850-03-21 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

Adjutant• General's Office, Dublin, March 1, 1850.

GENERAL ORDER.
The Lieutenant-General Commanding directs it to
be notified to the army in this command that, it
having been deemed expedient to divide Ireland into
five military districts, from the Ist of April next, the
extent and boundaries of each district are defined in
the accompanying memorandum, which has been pre-
pared by the Deputy-Quartermaster-General ; and
the following are the names of the general and staff
officers to be attached thereto.

CORK DISTRICT.—Head. quarters, Cork—Major-
General Charles Turner, commanding. Colonel
Marcus Beresford, assistant adjutant-general ;
Colonel J. L. Pennefather, C. 8., acting assistant
quartermaster- general.
LIMERICK DISTRICT.—Head-quarters, Limerick
—Major-General Thomas E. Napier, C.B.,com-
manding. Lieutenant-Colonel Charles astings
Doyle, assistant adjutant-general. Colonel William
Cox, K.EI., acting assistant quartermaster-general.
KILKENN r DISTRICT.—Head-quarters, Kilkenny.
—Major-General John M'Donald, C. 13., command-
ing. Lieutenant-Colonel Wm. P. Williams,
K.H., assistant adjutant-general. Lieutenant-Colonel
Charles C. Johnson, acting assistant quartermaster-
general.

DUBLIN DISTRICT. Head-quarters, Dublin
Major-General his Royal Highness Prince George of
Cambridge, K.G., commanding. Lieutenant-Colonel
William F. Forster, K.l-1., assistant adjutant-general.
Lieutenant-Colonel Charles R. Scott, assistant quar-
termaster-general. Major George Mylius, town
major. _ _ _ _

ELFAST DISTRICT. - Head-quarters, Belfast—
Major-General Philip Bainbrigge, C. 8., commanding.
Lieutenant-Colonel Redmond W. Brough, assistant
adjutant-general.
By command of the Lieutenant-General com-
manding,

W. COCHRANE, Deputy Adjutant-General.
MEMORANDUM
SHOWING THE DIVISON OF IRELAND INTO FIVE MILI-

TART DISTRICTS,
Referred to in the General Order dated March 1,
850.

CORR, DISTRICT.—In this district will be comprised

the counties of Cork and Kerry, with the exception
of that small portion of the latter which is to the north-
east of the River Feale. This river, from Abbeyfeale
by Listowel, as far as the point where, after receiving
the Galley river, it falls into the Shannon, under the
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account of the facility of communication with that
city by steam conveyance.
LIMERICK DISTRICT.—In this district will be con-
tained-1. The entire of the counties Limerick, Clare,
and Galway. 2. That small portion of the county of
Kerry which lies to the N.E. of the River Feale, as
detailed under the head of Cork district. 3. The
whole of the north of Tipperary, and the
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allotted to Out of Kilkenny. 4. The south- wesiern
portion of King's County, the boundary being formed
as follows, viz :—By the river which, entering the
county under the name of the Ballynaearrig, passes
by Frankford, and bearing the several names of the
Bamghal, Shyer, and Milibrook, empties itself into
the Brosna, and thence by the Brosna a'. far as its
confluence with the River Shannon. POilipstown
and Tullamore thus remaining, as at present, in the
Dublin district; Frankford, Shannon harbour, and
Shannon-bridge, being allotted to Limerick.
KILKENNY Dt,TRICT.—This district is to contain :
1. The entire counties of Kilkenny, Waterford, Wex-
ford, Queen's, and Carlow. 2. Tnat part of Wicklow
which lies south of the parallel of latitude of the town
of Arklow, including that town as at present. 3 The
eastern part of the county of Tipperary, bounded by
the River Suir, from Newcastle, near to Roscrea, with
Clogheen, Cashel, Golden, Holy cross, Thurles, and
Templemore, as detailed under the head of Limerick
district, and also Carrick-on-Suir and Clonmel.
DUBLIN DISTRICT.—Tnis district to contain :-1.
The entire counties of Dublin, Kildare, Meath,
Westmeath, Longford, Roscommon, and M yo, tog
ther with the towns of Drogheda. and Carrick-on-
Shannon. 2. The northern and eastern portion of
King's County, bounded by the river B'sllvnacarrig,
Broughal, Silver, or Milibrook, and the Brons, as
detailed under the head of " Limerick District."
Thus including Philipstown and Tullamore, as at
present in the Dublin district. 3. That portion of
the county Wicklow which lies north of the parallel
latitude of the town of Arklow, that town remaining
in the Kilkenny district.

BELFAST DISTRICT.—To remain as at present, with
the addition of the counties of Sligo anll Leitrim ;
Carrick-on-Shannon, as already stated, to be in tho,
Dublin district.

By order,
(Signed) R. C. MANSELL,
Deputy Quartermaster General.
PLYMOUTH, Mancu 16.—The allowance to gene-
ral, staff, and field officers, in lieu of forage for the
five months ending the Ist March, 1850, is ls. Sd.
per diem for Devon and Cornwall, agreeable to an
order just promulgated. The major-general has
issued an order that officers who may attend en Go-
vernment parade during the parade of the troops are
to appear in full dress. " Trooping the guard" on
Mount Wise, before General Murray and his staff,
was commenced on Thursday morning last, and will
be continued generally through the summer months
on Mondays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, Wednesdays
being reserved for the General to see one or all the
corps in garrison. _ _

OsnlviNcE.—The hired mechanics and labourers
employed in her Majesty's gun wharf have received
notice that their services will not be required after
the Zllst inst.

NEW PRINTING MACHINE.
(From Galignani's Messenger.)
Several gentlemen connected with the press in
Psris, and the head of a large printing establishment
in Scotland, assembled on Saturday at the manufac-
tory of ill. de Coster to witness the performance of a
new printing machine, invented by M. Worms.
Tnis machine, from its simplicity and the mode
of execution, promises to cause a total revolution in
printing. It occupies a much smaller space than the
machines which are now in use at some of the great
printing establishments in Paris and London, costs
less than half the price at which one of those
can be had, and is free from the tapes and other
guiders, which frequently get out of order, and oc-
casion considerable delay. It requires only the labour
of three men to feed it, and receives the work as it is
thrown off, whereas from twelve to sixteen are
required with each of the machines that it is
expected to replace. From its simplicity and
comparative compactness, the power of steam, as a
moving power, may also in soma cases be dispensed
with, as it can be worked by hand. This new ma-
chine, which is called rotative, does not print from
the types, but from stereotype, and this is the
most extraordinary part of the process. In the ordi-
nary process of stereotyping several hours are re-
quired, for the material used for receiving the im-
pression of the type, and which serves as a mould in
which the stereotype is cast, must be carefully and
slowly dried. The mould for the stereotype by this
new process is made of a few sheets of tissue piper,
with a couple of sheets of common paper at the back
to give a certain degree of strength. The paper is wet-
ted to the properdegree, and then pressed upon the type.
The impression is perfect. The mould is then dried,which
is the work only of a few minutes, and placed on a
cylinder, with a sufficient space between it and an
outer case to receive the metal. This metal, which is
very liquid, and which is prepared in a peculiar way,
flows rapidly and evenly over every part of the mould,
and by the application of a cold wet sponge to the
exterior, it becomes almost instantly solid. The
mould is then removed and transferred to the cylinder
of the machine ready for printing. One part of the plate ,
fits in exactly to a groove made to receive it, and the
other part is held by screws. The whole of the stereo-
typing process does not occupy more than from 15 to
25 minutes. The action of the machine differs entirely
from anything hitherto invented. There is no laying on
of the sheets to be printed. A continuous sheet of paper
equal to 2.000 or more sheets of a newspaper is rolled
On a cylinder, and as the machine turns, the plate
on the printing cylinder is fed, and by the
action of the machine itself the paper is divided at
the proper place into sheets of the desired size,
and each sheet is folded at the same time, The
piper which receives the impression is not wetted, as in
other printing processes ; it is placed on the cylinder
as it comes from the paper maker, but so certain and
regular is the pressure that the impression on this dry
paper is equal, if not superior, to that obtained upon
damped paper in the ordinary way. There is an index
affixed to the machine, to indicate the rate at which
it goes, by the number of sheets thrown off. When
the continuous sheet, equal to 2,000 copies of a
journal, is exhausted, the cylinder is replaced by
another, and so on. It is said that as many as
15,000 copies of a journal can be printed in an
hour by this machine. The gentlemen who witnessed
the process on Saturday expressed their admira-
tion of it, and could see no defects which a very little
practice will not remove. Tae great advantages of
this new invention are, economy in the outlay for the
machine, the cost of which is only 25,000 f, whilst
the,machine of the Pattie, which has excited so much
notice, cost 60,000 E ; the immense saving in type, for
the type itself, being used only for the stereotyping
process, undergoes scarcely any wear, and, instead of
renewing a fount every year, twenty years' service by
this process could scarcely reduce the sharpness of the
letters; economy in labour, and rapidity of execution,
almost without the possibility of delay from any de-
rangement in the machine.

STATE OF TRADE.
(From the Manchester Guardian.)
MANCHESTER, TUESDAY.—The slight promise of
improvement observable at the latter end of last week
has not, as yet, been realised. Tnere were then indica..
tions that some degree of firmness was about to succeed
to the decline which had taken place. We have still, how-
ever, to report a general weakness in yarns. The sellers
have shown a greater willingness to-day to meet the
buyers, as to terms, than they did last week ; and,
consequently, the realised prices have been, for the
most part, somewhat lower. But this has certainly
led to the execution of orders which would other wise
have been still held back. The Germans have not
ventured upon transactions of any magnitude ;
but they have increased their purchases; and we
have heard of offers that had a smack of speculation
about them, and yet were but little below the current
rates. From the same cause, there has been rather
more done in warps and cops for home manufacture,
though still with much caution, and to a very limited
extent. With little change in the quotations, it
is found that many d6criptions of goods may be
bought on slightly reduced terms ; and there
has perhaps ensued upon this a partied,
certainly not a general Increase of business. In
40-inch shirtings, of 64 reed and upwards, for the
ea3tern markets, there is, however, no necessity, and
therefore no disposition, to make any further conces-
sion in price.
In both yarns and goods great irregularity has pre-
vailed, and it is evident that the flatness of the Liver-
pool market, after the receipt of advices from the
United States, has had a somewhat depressing effect
on our exchange.
ROCHDALE, MONDAY.—We have had less doing in
the market to-day, both in flannels and kerseys, than
we had on the preceding Monday, but prices have
been much the same. The wool market has been
slack, and prices tending downwards.
A.fACCLESFIELD, TUESDAY.—We have no change of
moment to observe in the silk trade since our last re-
port. The throwing mills continue on full time, and
the weavers are fairly employed for the present. 'There
have been several buyers in the town during the
lait week, and sales of manufactured goods are
to a moderate extent. A larger business would un-
dJubtedly have ben done, but manufacturers are
holding firmly for price. The raw silk market gene-
rally remains without alteration. Some transactions
are reported in China, at full prices. The consump-
tion of this silk is very large just now.
HUDDERSFIELD, TUESDAY.—Our market has been
very poorly attended to-day. Business has been very
dull, owing, probably, to the coldness of the weather,
and the rise in the price of wool.
HALIFAX, SATURDAY.—We cannot report any im-
provement in the state of the worsted trade. Must
of the manufacturers are still fully employed to order;
but the merchants are very cautious in their purchases,
and will only give out new orders at such reduced
rates as the cost of the yarns prevents the rnanufac-
turers from accepting. The yarn market is also in a
somewhat torpid condition. The spinners are still
running all their machinery on uncompleted con-
tracts, and fresh orders are only given out at some-