... % DESTRUCTION OP PORTMAN-MAREKET BY FIRE. Shortly After midnicht o(in Sstnrday lo9t a fire weg discovered at No. 2A, New COurob-streot, Lddgware-road, oceupied by Mr. 1;. Johnson, bootmaker. T[bi shop forms one of a nliurbeu iu-mediately contiguous to Port- msn-marhet, and the Dier ?? with such rapidity as eventually to destroy the mnorket building and twenty shops. Peortnmsumauret embrwed a ? ...

... OITY and XONqE:TARY INTELLIeENOE;. FRIDAY EVENINzG. The English Funds opened strong in the early part of the week, but a warlike interpretatioil having been put on a speech of the King of Prussia at Kiel, prices declined, a heavy fall having taken place on the Paris Bourse. Prices, however, have since recovered, butthe first three days of the week having been occupied with the settle- ment is ...

... LONDON GAZETTE.& Tuesday, February 25. BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.-W. CROWTHER, GolcarYorkslire, wollen tmanufacturer. BANKIUPTS.-(To surrender at thc Bankrupts' Court, London,.)-L. COHEN, Sandy's-row, City, cap manufacturer-G. AYERS, Hand-court Holborn. watchmaker-J. ARBIB, Air-street, Regent-street, tobacconist -F. ANDREW, Southanipton-buildings, Holborn, attorcey-H. R. FEATHERSTONHAUGH, Drury ...

... SHARE LIST-THIS DA Y ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Closing Business done ?? RAILWAVA5'. 'Prices, to-day ?? Saturday. to I p.m. te Ic riitol and Exeter . 8 87 - Co talcdoian . . . 75 76X4 334 St Iee Cot'lrin . .20 30 o a11 (rlnoall .. 3 4 co Lublin and Belfast Junction 74% 75% S too lDundee, Perth, & Abd.Junc. 70 72 - 2 6 East London , . . t0e all Ditto Scrip rt oCe! Glasgow and South Western 97 ...

... Wednesday, H2alf-pasl One. The Government Funds opened fractionally weaker than the closing figures of yesterday, the price first marked for Consols for delivery being S3 to 93%, and for the 2nd of April 93 i-l6ths to 93 3-i6ths, subsequently moving to 93 ...

... SHARE LIST-THIS DA Y. ORDINARY SHARES AND StOCKS. RAILWAYS. Closing Business done Prices, to-day 0 4 Saturday. to I p.m. St 2oo Bristol and Exeter ?? .. ' 83 II St noo Caledonian . 72% 72 .7424% 34 I 4 3 St to Cambrian ?? .- 20 30 20 all Cornwall 3 4 St too Dublin and Belfast Junction 75 77 St noo Dundee, Perth, &Abd.Jurc. 70 72 0a all East~odon .. _. _ _ 220 25 Ditto Scrip St croo Glasgow and ...

... qIAE LIS T- THIS DA Y. CRDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Closing Business done Prices, to-day RAILWAYS. Monday. to I P.M. 0 ?? 3 S: ?? Exeer*, - 7t 8 St : junction 77 79 ma e, crt, ad Aber- Si 210 dccli Jon~tIOS . 70 72 -- .1 East Lirldan ,. -_ 7 9 . O;, D~ittoN Scripsout Western r9 92 ' Eastern - - - -. l 435 s 44% 443/8 4 5t Eastern East Agla7n 8% 8Y ~ n~r S~ot~and - 5 i6 5 cCO Greag Norihernt - ? ...

... Tuesday, Haf-Pas One The English Funds opened steady this morning at yesterday's quotations, Consols for money being 94%4 to 948, and for the account 94 5-'6 to 94 7-16. New Three per Cents. and Reduced are quoted at 94% to 94)6. In the Foreign Stock Market there is an additional advance of 4 per cent. in the tvio Viceroy of Egypt's Loans, and of K per cent. in Peruvian. Egyptian and Sw edish ...

... IN a recent Blue-book the estimated local taxation of Ireland is put down at /2,565,o83 for the year i865. These figures, however, must be accepted with some reserve, for the compiler's notion as to what constitutes local taxation is, in one or two respects, peculiar. The taxation is distributed under several heads, thus:-I. Sums received by eleven town councils, in the shape of rates, ...

... Tuesday, HaJl/past One. A generally encouraging tone is manifested at the reopening of the markets this imorning, and the quotations in all cases are well maintained, without, how- ever, any variation, except in the case of American Securities, where a response to the improvement on the other side is followed by a further rise of 5 ...

... Wednesday, HiaLfast Oat. The Government Funds remain dull at the depressed figures which were reached in the latter part of yesterday. The only variation in Foreign Stocks is a decline of Ys in Turkish Fives of 1865, and in Railways a fall of X4 in Midland. At the Bank of England business at the discount department is very quiet. In the open market in some quarters there is slightly more doing ...

... Mriday, HaJfPast One. The Government Funds opened at the same figures as were marked yesterday, and there is very little doing either in this department or the Foreign. The Railway Market is generally dull, and several of the lines stand at a decline of 34. Bank of Egypt has risen 34 per cent. There is no improvement in discount business either at the Bank of England or in the open market, and ...