... - TTIlE BUDGEV. DEPUTATIONS TO.TAE' cHANOELLOR .F THE EXCHEQUER. A|m-i O RIGN SPIRSIT AT A' waO BEb5UCED DUT'r. n ,.A deputation fre cthe Irishastd Seftoh distillers talsj |waited on ?? Ron. the ChanctUot of the E*- M oheciqser, to'draw his attention to the ejft which tied j proposed reductiori of duty en foreign spirfts ad- la 4nitted, into this country-for censumsltiolu would hove gi upon ...

... SHIPPING 4INLE.L MENLGCJ.A. MONDAY *TA Y 1G. ' ind WV.; at Etvlyhend, W, fine breeze. t A=Iuuvn-Ye'.terday: ,ilnneeot&, Drion, from Goarvesa, C ton-Ottawa. Oat, a, Monto Video-Havelook, Snow ; Horizon, i Reed; and Volant, Bray, from New Orleaus-Mary Lord, S Patterson, and Empress, Lucon, Mobile'itate'emhnd Emery, Savalnnab-Gencral Parkbill, Pike, Charlesthn-Uonqluest, Johnson, St. John N B H ...

... LoNDON, TUESDAY Ar'ranNooN. Consols for money opened at 93a to ij and for the account at 936 to A, but they are not very firmly maintained. The weather, without being very un- favourable, is changeable, with occasional showers, and the corn crops do not make much progress, They do make some progressj for there is a percepti- ble change in the grain crops around London during the last week, but ...

... COMMERaC i _ I , LoxOm, MONDAY'AiTXRnOON. Cotisols opened this morning 'at931 to J, which iS awfall on tho prices of Vriday. An excessively, wet morhnig *as probably the cause of the depression, which ?? during the day, and even inoreased, prices being ?? two o,'lockA to J For. tunately kho rai, only'lated a kv hours,, 'and as Saturday and Sanday woroe ne;rowtig-.jysmwe may hope that it w.ll ...

... ST. RELaN'S CAIAL AND 4AIL- -. - - WAY COMPANY. The half-arly general meeting of the share- holders in is company was held yesterday at the station, St. Helenes, for'the purpose of receiving the t report of the direotoras Jc, and tansotinj the ordinary business of thepropr tary. Gilbert reess- all BEq M.P., presided, and amongst the other I ?? present were Messrs. E. Greenall, A. i -W. Uir, a. ...

... SHIPPING INTELLIG6ENCE I.a ?? THIUiR(SDAY MAN.Y 3. Wcindl 1f.; as diolyhoad,3 12. 3 Ainsrn-mYedierdfy: rTuvinciblo, Klnosman, and Bsloteo sex). oiottlo from ?? Steel; Junets, Csleuotta- a 1g3se Byd Ioiy-skt Wls~iel. Bacung~ Ayrm- Edlith, J.im.e, Nantef. Tolay BrlliLis Queen Heel, liari- son, froim Ifavre-Augo-Sraxon lr.ro.m.n., bIllautyne, from iPotwludl; 6aiiot 21it April-Pole ltar, Crowe, ...

... I THE HIGH PRIOE OF ' - BE0FBIOIAL TO 9THRE CQUY. l . Ho'w.the Persons' Who abstai =6n 1d.benbdufltedn by so 'doingis not very clear. ' If thoy succeed in' rgducinv 'tho.,p'9ic of aninial food by not eating -it, t~y *iUi 'onlyreduco' it so'long'as tey.do'not eat it.' Tho momenit they. begin to conisume as usiod, the PliOO will' rise. The remedy whioh ?? apply is ;tne temporary;,h momeont ...

... COMMVERIAL LoNDOrT, THeRsDAY Arimmse. Consols opened to-day at.94i to j for wnay, and Stj to a for ?? acuount. These are the prices of yeaterday, and there is nothing to produce auy oon-_ siderable change. Funds emainedunaltereddaring the morning. There are no arrivals bo-day Fborn the continent owing to the excessive roughbnes of the weather, which readers the passage of the channel nearly ...

... It seems am if extravagance and absurdity do were inseparable from ths discussion of the Pa French commercial treaty. We certainly do do not remember any reeont pulic topio on Pr which a larger proportion of ponsense has ml been apoken and written. We seak quite BoI impartially, for there is really not ?? to no choose between one side and the otber. - Both do the supporters and the opponents ...

... THE LEEDS CaHXBER OF COARD:E AND THE NEW FRENOH TREtATY. Yestedday, at a special meeting of the counoil of- the Lceda hamber of Commerce,-the subject of the i new commercial treaty with France came ois for 1 discusdion. Mr. Darnton Lupton presided, and there ' wasta full attendance of the counoil.-Mr. Empson. sail that the treaty, as far as regarded flax, Would A only be an advantage to France ...

... A huge salmon, weighing 50 pounds, was lately discovered on tno bank of the Blaok water. Last week, Mr. William Singleton, retired tradesman, residing at Morpeth, committed suicide by cutting his throat from ear to ear. At Glasgow, Patriok Sunney has been sentenced to death for the murder of a man named Cassidy, at Alexandria, on the of November last. On Saturday, her Majesty forwarded a ...

... The ftllowing * of Lord Palmeraton'g reply . to the memorial Fubmitted to by a portion (he Liberal members Parliament respecting the ' national expenditure 94, Piooadilly, Jan. 30,1861. IMy dear Mr. Crawford,—l have to acknowle the receipt of the letter signed bj yourself, Mr. Baines, and Mr. Buxton, which .transmitted me ' the memorial addreattd to bj some members of l the Liberal party ...