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annum. Mr. Perrin, K.C. has been appointed third Sergeant.

Mr. Gurney, the King's Counsel, has been appointed a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in the room of Mr. Justice Alderson, who is appointed to the Exchequer in the place of Mr. Baron Garrow, who has resigned on account of ill health.

The King has appointed Admiral Lord De

The Rev. W. L. Weddall, B.A. of Catherine Hall, to the Rectory of Chillisford, Suffolk.

The Rev. F. Oakeley, to the Prebend of Dasser Parva, in Lichfield Cathedral, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. T. Broomfield.

The Rev. T. Staniforth, to the Rectory of Bolton, Suffolk.

The Rev. W. Cleminson, B.A. of Queen's College, Oxford, has been licensed to the New Church in Upper Tranmere.

The Rev. T. R. Bromfield, M.A. to the Prebend of Gaia Minor, in Lichfield Cathedral.

The Rev. W. Fraser, Perpetual Curate of Pirbright, Surrey, to the Rectory of North Waltham. The Rev. Evelyn Levett Sutton, M.A. to the Prebend of Westminster, void by the death of Dr. A. Bell.

The Rev. Thomas Jarrett, M.A. Fellow of Catharine Hall, and Professor of Arabic at Cambridge University, to the Rectory of Trunch, Nor

The Lord Chancellor has appointed W. P. Roberts, to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.

The Chamber of Exeter have elected J. T. Coleridge, Esq. Barrister, Recorder of that City, in the room of T. Stevens, Esq. deceased.

The Lord Chamberlain of his Majesty's Household has appointed Dr. H. G. Douglas, M.D. Physician Extraordinary to the King.

The London Gazette of Friday, Feb. 3, contained the appointment of Sir J. C. Hobhouse, Bart. to be his Majesty's Secretary-at-War.

Mr. Sergeant Gould has been appointed to succeed the late Master Ellis, as Master in Chancery for Ireland, with a salary reduced to 2000l. per

vacant by the decease of Admiral Sir Richard Bickerton, Bart.

The King has granted the office of Clerk of the Ordnance to Thomas Francis Kennedy, Esq.

The King has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, constituting and appointing the Right Hon. John Wm. Ponsonby, commonly called Viscount Duncannon; Wm. Dacres Adams, Esq.; and Major-General Sir Benjamin Charles Stephenson, Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, to be Commissioners of his Majesty's Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings.

Married.]-At the British Palace, Therapia, Constantinople, by the Rev. Dr. Walsh, Chaplain to the British Embassy, Charles Blunt, Esq. of Adrianople, to Carolina, daughter of M. M. Antonio Vitalis, H. B. M. Consul at Tino.

At Oswestry, Sir Baldwin Leighton, Bart. of Loton-park, Shropshire, to Mary, eldest daughter of Thomas Netherton Parker, Esq. of Sweeneyhall, near Oswestry.

At Northenden, Henry Mainwaring, Esq. eldest son of Sir H. M. Mainwaring, Bart. of Over Peover, to Emma, eldest daughter of the late W. Tatton, Esq. of Withenshaw, Cheshire.

At St. George's Church, Hanover-square, Lord Viscount Marsham, son of Earl Romney, to Lady Margaret Scott, sister of the Duke of Buccleugh.

G. C. Antrobus, Esq. M.P. to Charlotte, sister of Lord Crofton.

At St. Pancras Church, K. Dixon, Esq. of Tavistock Square, eldest son of the late K. Dixon, of Finsbury Square, to Juliet, second daughter of Sir E. Sugden, M.P. of Guildford Street, Russel Square.

By special licence, the Hon. C. Ashburnham, third son of the late Earl of Ashburnham, and attaché to the British Embassy in Paris, to Sarah Johanna, second daughter of W. Murray, Esq. of Grosvenor-street.

George, only son of G. Donne, Esq. of the Privy Seal Office, to Miss Knott, granddaughter of Major Knott, of Lyme.

At Dorchester, John Cox, Esq. banker, to Miss Sayers, eldest daughter of the late Colonel Sayers, of Bath.

At Awliscombe, Major Prideaux, second son of the late Sir J. W. Prideaux, Bart. to Frances Mary Ann, third daughter of the Rev. W. E. Fitzthomas, of Awliscombe.

At Marylebone church, the Viscount Turnour, eldest son of the Earl of Winterton, to Maria, third daughter of Sir Peter Pole, Bart.

T. E. Swettenham, Esq. only son of the Rev. T. E. Swettenham, Rector of Swettenham, to Wilhelmina, second daughter of Sir Peter Pole, Bart.

At Horsley, the Rev. S. Lloyd, A.M. Vicar of

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form of the earth, having afforded more correct data than were previously attainable.

SUFFOLK.

As some labourers on the estate of Mrs. Sheppard, of Campsey Ash, were felling an old pollard oak, they discovered two parcels of ancient coins, enclosed in thin lead cases; one of them was quite embedded in the solid part of the root. They are chiefly pennies, of Edward the Confessor and Harold the Second, and amounted altogether to nearly 600 pieces. What appears most singular is, that many of them are divided into halves and quarters, which evidently show that at that remote period these divided parts were circulated as halfpence and farthings.

SUSSEX.

At the last Quarter Sessions held at Lewes, the Magistrates came to a decision relative to awarding costs in cases of Appeal, which cannot fail to diminish the trials of what are called " Experimental Appeals." The following is the declaration alluded to: "This Court being of opinion that the present practice of leaving the parties in almost all cases of Appeal to the Sessions to pay their own costs, leads on the one hand to the bringing forward many unnecessary, and what

may be very properly called Experimental Ap

peals, and on the other hand to a negligent mode

of inquiry by parishes removing; and believing

that a more frequent payment of costs by the unsuccessful party would tend very materially to diminish litigation on this subject-doth declare, that in future, on the trial of every Appeal, the whole circumstances of the case will be atten

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ings (baize), which used to keep a great number of the operatives in employment, are now little in demand, owing to the unsettled state of the markets in South America, to which the manufacturers do not choose to venture their goods except upon order. The price of wool, both of home and foreign growth, continues pretty steady and is considered fairly remunerating to the grower. The flax spinning trade, in the West. riding of Yorkshire, is also dull, and the accnmulation of stocks has compelled many of the manufacturers to reduce the hours of labour, to the great regret of the work people. From the cotton districts our accounts are more favourable. The demand for yarn has improved within the last month, and the weavers, both by power and hand, are fully employed, though the latter at starvation prices.-Leeds Mercury.

IRELAND.

The intelligence from Ireland is of the most gloomy and heart-rending description. Party spirit and sectarian hatred, miscalled religious zeal, rage as hotly as they ever did in the worst of times, aud in many parts of this unfortunate country society seems to be completely disorganized. In the county of Donegal the peasantry have as. sembled in great numbers for the purposes of re

sisting the collection of tithes and requiring their

total abolition; and it is said that one body of them, amounting to several thousands, gave notice to their landlords that in future they would only pay a tithe of their rents. A large military force, under the command of a field-officer, has been despatched to the scene of the disturbances, and stipendiary magistrates have been appointed. In

STAFFORDSHIRE.

The Iron trade, which has been long depressed, is now reviving; orders have been refused by some masters at the old prices; iron is quoted at an advance of 20s. per ton, and it is considered certain 128. per ton advance will be realized on all future orders.

YORKSHIRE.

The woollen cloth trade, which generally begins to improve in February, is still very flat in Yorkshire, and many of the manufacturers are working short time, and diminishing the number of their work people. The home trade is dull, and the foreign orders scanty. Well-informed people, however, are of opinion, that the restoration of public confidence, which would certainly arise from the passing of the Reform Bill, could not fail to secure the revival of trade, if the manufacturing districts remain free from the cholera. The blanket trade was scarcely ever so dull as at the present. This may be partly owing to the mildness of the winter-the season having always a considerable influence upon the demand for that article. In the stuff trade there is not much cause for complaint; a great deal is doing, but the prices are scarcely remunerating. A late failure of some consequence in Bradford has had a depressing influence on that market. Flannels are very little in demand; the American tariff has cut up the trade dreadfully, and the effect continues to be seriously felt in Rochdale, and the whole of that manufacturing district. Bock

Several of the Catholic clergy have been threatened with death by the wretched and misguided peasantry, if they do not cease preaching against the Terry Alt system. On the 18th, a notice of this kind was served at the convent near Portumnna, by two armed ruffians, one of whom discharged his pistol, fortunately without effect, at one of the friars. Four men, who were sworn to murder the Rev. Mr. Shiel, P.P. of Trina, have been apprehended at Portumna. On the 20th January, two Terry Alts were shot dead by the police in the same neighbourhood. On Tuesday, the 24th the Rev. Mr. Whitty, Rector of Golden, in Tipperary, was barbarously murdered whilst returning home after visiting a sick parishioner. The

horrid deed is supposed to have originated in some dispute about tithes, as a numerous assemblage of hurlers took place a short time ago to compel the unfortunate gentleman to make some reductions, and forty of them, who refused to disperse when the riot act was read by the magistrate, were committed to prison.

SCOTLAND.

The Cholera is now rapidly subsiding in Tranent, Musselburgh, Prestonpans, and Haddington, and will, we may reasonably hope, soon disappear from all these places. In Edinburgh, it still continues remarkably light: in Glasgow and Paisley, it is rather more severe; but even in these towns the proportional mortality is still trifling when compared with what it was at its first appearance in Sunderland, Newcastle, Musselburgh, and some other places.

The commercial part of the community has been violently agitated in the course of the month just ended, by two occurrences, which threaten seri. ous damage to their interests. Though, from the first moment of the Cholera's appearance in Eng. land, it was evident that its spreading throughout the country would, soon or late, become unavoidable, not any of the persons engaged in commerce appear to have contemplated the risk of the restrictions to which such an occurrence could hardly fail to expose them. Their operations were in no manner regulated by any reference to such a prospect; and the consequence has been, that the moment the Asiatic Cholera was declared to be in London, and clean bills of health refused, a great number of shipments had to be suspended, and considerable orders for British goods have since been countermanded. The quarantine regulations which will be necessarily enforced against all vessels coming from London, so completely alter the prospect of a favourable market after the goods have undergone that formality at the places of their destination, that the risk of shipping, under those circunstances, became greater than the danger of losses to be incurred by a suspension of shipments, or a countermanding of not yet completed orders. A great deal of angry feeling appears to be entertained by most of those who are thus likely to suffer from the visitation, against those who have authoritatively announced its presence; and between the party who are interested in its being believed that no Asiatic Cholera exists among us, and those who are accused of having an equal interest in a belief of its existence, it would be difficult to decide on the real state of the matter. The quarantine imposed on goods coming from London will not be shorter than three weeks in any of the continental ports; but in many, it is to be as long as forty days. In some of the distant transatlantic ports, vessels arriving from England with foul bills of health, are not to be admitted at all.

The other occurrence by which the mercantile interests of the country are partially threatened, relates to the insurrection of the negroes in Jamaica, and a similar one which is expected to take place in some others of our West India possessions. This is not the place to inquire into the justice or injustice of a violent attempt of any set of men to gain and maintain that liberty which is the undoubted right of every human being. But so great a portion of our colonial trade having been long since regulated by the system of slave labour, it is impossible not to lament the ruin which appears to await a great number of our countrymen, by the convulsions which a forcible overthow of that system must give rise to. Already the Colonial Markets in the metropolis are so affected by the news, that all business there seems to be at a stand still. The order in Council regulating slave labour, has thrown confusion into many of the Leeward Islands; and if the plantations do not suffer from any violence on the part of the slaves, they may from a justifiable determination of the latter to abide by the spirit of the order in question.

In the early part of the month, business was brisk in the Coffee and Sugar Markets, and in those of many of the leading commodities; but

the quarantine regulations about to be established, and the West India news, have completely altered the face of things there, and hardly any thing has been since done.

The transactions in the Cotton Market at Liverpool have lost nothing of their previous importauce. During the four weeks ending the 21st of February, the total sales have amounted to 80,580 bales, averaging at 20,145 bales per week. The prices obtained were generally the same as at the previous corresponding period.

The transactions in the Indigo Market have, for some time past, been unimportant, dealers having thought it prudent to wait for an authentic account of the last season's crop in Bengal, before they ventured on any operations. That account only arrived on the 23rd of February. The general crop is rated at 110,000 maunds, a smaller aggregate, perhaps, than most of the European dealers have been anticipating. Some of the leading brokers in London had, however, been fixing the next July average price of finest Bengal Indigo, at 7s. 6d., on the supposition that the crop would be between 110,000 and 120,000 maunds; but they did not take into account the possibility that shipments might be chiefly di rected elsewhere. This is now likely to happen, as the French markets are much more in want of supplies than the English, and the shippers at Bengal were, according to last advices, rather disposed to direct their shipments to France.

It has not frequently happened to us to have so little to say of the importance of transactions in the funds, as on the present occasion. Speculations at the Stock Exchange have been completely out of the question for some weeks past, and hardly any investments at all have taken place. The funds have, therefore, experienced no variations in price of the smallest consequence. Since the 26th of January, the quotation of Cousols has ranged from 82 one-eighth to 82 fiveeighths, but undergoing such slow aad gradual variation as to make it of still less consequence even to that extent. The premium on Exchequer Bills has been from 8s. to 12s. during the same space, and as little demand for that species of public securities has existed as for Consols. The other domestic stocks have been equally without important variation or demand.

In the Foreign Stock Exchange, the only features have been a rise of 4 per cent. in Greek Stock, which suddenly took place on the news that a Sovereign was at length found for that country; and a decline of 2 per cent., equally sudden, in Mexican Stock, on the arrival of the news that an insurrection had broken out in the State of Vera Cruz, and that General Santa Ana had possessed himself of a sum in dollars, which he intended for the farther payment of the English dividends. The former has since maintained the price to which it rose, and the latter has not recovered the depression which befell it. But in these, as well as in other descriptions of foreign Stock, business has been extremely limited.

Money has been rather more scarce in the City, the threatened effects of the Cholera panic having induced holders to keep it by, for the emergencies which might arise therefrom. For the best bills the rate of discount has been at 4 half per cent.,