... The London correspondent of the Cork Examiner tells the following story, connected with the Digby Seymour inquiry before the benchers There is a story going the round of Westminster Hall as illustrative of the character of the inquiry and the law administered by the Benchers' Parliament, which is woruh preserving. Some of the delinquencies alleged against the accused gentleman had their origin ...

... POBEIGN INTELLIGENCE. COHFEPERflTE IflVflL VICTORY. NEW YORK, March 11, Evening. The Confederate iron-clad steamship Merrimac and the Confederate sfcearaers Yorktown and Jamestown left Norfolk on the morning of the 8th iust., and attacked the Federal sailing frigates Cumberland and Congress at the month of James River. The Merrimac received the broadsides of the Cumberland and Congress at 100 ...

... The following extracts from a private letter from Shanghai have been communicated for publication :— At Hangow, Nganking, Kewkeang, and other places above Nanking, the people are returning to the cities. Houses are being built and trade is returning. The Taepings leave a place, and immediately Mandarin rule springs up again and confidence is restored; the Taepings take a place—the people fly, ...

... Va. Cfwiprmnitatiom can be inserted uniSss âmticateti by the name and address of the wHiir- ...

... HOMICIDE IN IRELAND. At the Ennis Assizes Donatus O'Callaghan has been found guilty of homicide, committed under the following circum- stances It appeared in evidence that there had been rnmo potato stealing going on in the neighbourhood. Wil- liam Holmes (the deceased) was a caretaker in the employment of Captain O'Callaghan, brother of the prisoner. The prisoner on the night in question, ...

... Y CANWR CYNULLEIDFAOIi|YN PWDI. ? Blentyn Bach. 'Rwyf wedi pwdi, gwelwch ft,-oll yn aWJ, oil yn awr, Ni all y canu fod yn gu-ddim yr awr; Daogosaf ynt fy mod yn fawr, Am hyny af, o'm lIe yn awr, I gornel seat, pendraw y Uawr !—Af yn awr, &c. Dangosaf yno wyneb du,—Gwnaf bob awr, U A phrofaf fawredd fenw i,-gwnaf bob awr.; Nid oes un enw'n uwch na mi, Na chawwr gwell erioed ni fu, Na byth ni ...

... CITY, MARCH 11.—The funds to-day have experienced I e- lapse of i per cent., the demand having slackened. In nearly all the other markets there ia an entire absence of animation. Foreign stocks and English railway shares are dull. Consols are officially marked 93 £ i, and iff for money, and 93 1., f, and for the account. The present quotations are 93jf and i for money, and 934 to j for the ...

... The monthly meeting was held yesterday, when the proceedings were lengthy. ...

... yaml JttMltgence. THE SHREWSBURY AND HEREFORD LEASE TO THE LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN. — On Monday last the Corporation of Cardiff held a special meeting, for the purpose of considering the propriety of peti- tioning in favour of the bill now before Parliament for leasing the Shrewsbury and Hereford line to the London and North-Western. A form of petition was presented, and a resolution passed ...

... The Civil Service—Vacancies, Anoint- ments, and Promotions.-Foreign Office: The vice consulship at Bremen has become vacant by the death of Mr. B. Pearkes. Salary, £150. Mr. William Raymond Gingell consul at Amoy, has been appointed consul at Hankow. Mr. James Morgan has been ao- pointed consul at Tien-tsin. Mr. Charles Dalbertanson has been appointed an assistant doorkeeper. Colonial Office: ...

... OUTLINES OF THE WEEK. THE subject of spirit rappng, that we commented on in our last publication has since been the topic of every newspaper in the metropolis. A letter has ap- peared in a contemporary, written by a correspondent who takes a very sensible view of popular imposture, and exposes the successive humbugs of the day, mes- merism, clairvoyance, electro-biology, table-turning, and ...

... DEATH FROM BURNING.—On Saturday, the 22nd ult., Mrs Bighara, wife of Mr. William Bigham, of this place, lett her house for a few minutes, about 7 o'clock in the evening, to call upon a neighbour, when, upon her return, she was horrified at finding her son George, a child of 18 months, in flames; she used her utmost endeavours to extinguish the flames, and with the assistance of some of her ...