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s contiuued to improve. 23d ult. reduced the rate ol interest down to 5 per cent. ; and the facilities of dis- count of good paper have become greater. This step of the Bank of England has been much commented upon

2 . . | as tending to revive undue speculation by making aes ap; but the Bank, in the present case, exercised

ney che pase no voluntary action in the matter, as their discount bu- ' siness, which, during the excessive high price of money. absorbed nearly the whole requirements of the country by re-discount, now, as the rate of money falls, leaves them, and is again resumed by the private bankers througout the kingdom, who are, in fact at this moment discounting paper at half or one percent. lower than the Bank of England. The bill brokers have also reduced the rate of money, at the call of their depositors, to 4 per cent. The example of the Bank of England is ex- pected to ve followed by the Bank of France, the com- mercial circles in Paris anticipating aspeedy reduction. The weekly Bank accounts continue to exhibit a rapid progress in the increase of bullion, and in the general improvement of the position of the establishment. In the last week’s returns, the increase of bullion was no less than 565,2001, making an aggregate in both the Issue and Banking departments of 11,991,376. The chief importations of gold came from the United States, each packet bringing a considerable amount. Accord- ly, the reserve in the Bank has now risen to no less a sum than 8,233,121/. These circumstances alone jus- tify the Bank in lowering their rate of interest, which, so lona as it is above the rate charged in Lombard-street cannot be said to influence materially the value of money. The Bank has certainly placed itself in a far better position to pay the forthcoming dividends than could have been possibly imagined some few weeks ago. ‘The fluctuations in securities have not been such ‘ as to call for any particular comment. The transactions have benn generally inactive; the range of fluctuations of Consols being from about 84% to about 85) ex-divi- dend during the week preceding Christmas, and during the present they have scarcely varied so much.

Tareatenitnc to Suoot Lorp Geo. BenriInck.— A man named Henry Watson was charged at the West- minster police court, on the 18th ult., with threatening to shoot Lord George Bentinck. A police constable, who had been on duty on the previous evening at the House of Commons, said that the prisoner had offered him half-a-crown to point out Lord George Bentinck, as he wanted to shoot him. Other witnesses also proved that the prisoner, who was imprisoned four years ago, for using threatening language“respecting Sir Robert

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ut to assist in} way in whichthe Tory papers hunt down the Priests ie crowds —no easy task under the cir-|on the false charge of denunciation. Previous to the arrival of the police, the| The Vewry Telegraph is absolutely wild with . turnip field adjoining the light. Inanarticle headed ‘Romish Priests and Irish lves with the raw vege-| Crime,’ he runs on in the following style :—* The cry ig ground. The relieving|Up! Surpliced accessories to the organised aggagg) officer (Mr. Donnolly,) and iis clerk (Mr. O’Connor,) ations, which are casting such hideous pollution on the exerted themselves to admit as many as possible, while/ trish character, are the game. The chase, in which several old persons were discharged, on condition of the initiative was taken by the Radical member fo

receiving out-door relief, in order to make room for the Marylebone, statesmen and journalists have joined jn? This, however, is but a sample culled at ran

most necessitous applicants. It was melancholy to hear| &c. the lamentations of two to three hundred men, women,| We could, if necessary, fill the paper with extracts i and children, when retiring from the workhouse, hav- the same effect.

ing been refused admission for want of room.

The state of Sligo is thus described :—‘ A fearful reign of terror is being established throughout the country. The highest officer in the county—the head| of the magistracy—had to make a hasty and undignified | retreat from his seat, to avoid the deadly blow of el

ITEMS OF COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE. noonday murderer. A Protestant dignitary was also pres

ae vey | Tue Great British American Rartroap,— compelled to leave his house from the same cause, Oe aid ate of the Railroad from Halifax to Quebec, ie

é C f tl ty by: he had to be conducted out of the county by an escort) ont 600 miles through a beautiful and fertile connie,

of police. But this isnot all. Notices of a threatening | b eens Cot nature have been served upon many of our landlords, ounding in valuable resources. The Commissioners

and their subordinates. At Drumcliffe, one of those @ppointed by the Home Government to survey the route, fearful documents was posted, in which a declaration of will remain in St. John during the winter, for

ad-constable Joynt, were called o ‘keeping off tl

workhouse, and helped themse table, which they ate on the

Colonial and American News,

‘ed as objects of attack.’

‘war was made against some of the highest men in the Convenience of communicating with England, and will ‘county, as well as others of influence, rank, and station. be occupied for the present with the office work con. With an infatuation which we cannot account for, those|"ected with the project. They have traced a good

‘who did most good during the famine have been select-/2nd practical aed fand fo jag ey arpa 0 is, rom is a dead ley

uiay be found nearly to Point Levy.) There are only | Mr. Copeman, jun., sen of Mr. Copeman, farmer of upon the whole line between Halifax and the St. Law- | Blyborough, was found on Sunday, December 19, about rence, from 20 to 30 miles presenting any difficulties, ‘nine o'clock, on the road leading from Kirton at Bly-| and these are all of a nature to be readily overcome, borough, quite dead. His throat was cut, and the body The general course is from Halifax to Truro—thence was otherwise dreadfully mangled. ‘Ihe young man to the eastward of the Cobiquid Mountains, and by the had a dog with him, which had also been very much cut road of Bay Verte to Shediac—thence by the north- and bruised, but it was not quite killed. eastern coast of New Brunswick to the Restigouche— Tipperary.—There are at this moment three hun- thence by the Metis road to Metis. This route givesa dred and fifty-three prisoners in Clonmel gaol, and “ide berth to the American Territoria! Line besides out of this vast number there is but one in the hospital. | Securing to the fishing coast of New Brunswick the ad- On Monday week, no less than twenty-seven persons) V@tage of a road to market. were committed, charged with various crimes, from murder down to petty larceny. Our approaching) Canapian Poxrrics.—The greatest’ excitement pre- assizes promise to be the heaviest on record, as there vails in Canada in regard to the elections. Free trade are already nineteen murder cases for trial.— Tipperary and the church questions, are the most exciting topics in paper. ‘the canvass, and such is the warmth of feeling, that Mayo.—Amid all the destitution and suffering of business men leave their daily avocations for the purpose Mayo, murder has not been among its crimes. The/f engaging in the contest for one or the other of the peasantry are now passing through the tortures of Candidates. The ministry are likely to lose four votes clearances and hunger, but much to their credit, the i Lower Canada, and as there seems no probability of itrial is patiently borne. That ‘at no period within|®2Y propoltionate gain in Canada West, this loss will ‘recollection has been the process of wholesale ejection probably throw them into a minority, as their majorities \of tenantry carried on with more ruthless avidity,’ Were Seldom more than one or two.

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Bentinck ; the magistrate committed him to prison, with instructions that the gaoler should be informed of the magistrate’s impression that the man was insane.

Murver.—A mother at Bath last week ‘murdered her four children by cutting their throats, and afterwards destroyed herself.

_ A Year or Ruiy.—The losses during 1847 to the imperial treasury is stated to equal almost the amount of the National Debt.

STATE OF [RELAND.

The Government, armed with the new Coercion Bill, have resolved to act with the utmost rigour in repressing the crime and outrage which prevails. Accordingly, a meeting of the Privy Council was held at Dublin Castle on the 24th ult., when a proclamation was issued, declaring the act to be in force from and after the 29th December, in the following districts:—The county of Limerick; the county of Tipperary; the baronies of Bunratty, Tulla, Islands, Inchiquin, and Clonderlaw, in county Clare ; the baronies of Glenahiry and Upperthird, in the county Waterford ; the baronies of Clonlish, Ballybrit, Eglish, aud Garrycastle, in King’s County ; the baronies of Athlone, Ballintobbir, Roscom- mon, Ballymoe, Boyle, and the parishes of Crieve, Kil- camsey, Kilnemanogh, and Kilcola, in the barony of Frenchpark, county Roscommon ; the baronies of Leit- rim, Mohill, and Carrigallen, county Leitrim ; the bar- onies of Clonmahon, Tullybunes, and Upper Loughtee, county Cavan; and the baronies of Longford, Granard, and Ardagh, county Longford. The principal effect of this measure will be, to prevent persons in those districts carrying arms without licence, after the 29th December. We have no doubt that in those districts where the pos- session of arms indiscriminately, even in dwellings, is considered dangerous to the public peace, the powers of the act for calling in arms will be made use of—and then no person willbe allowed to have arms, even in his dwelling house, without licence. The stipendiary ma- gistrates will be the parties empowered to give licences.

The Galway Vindicator thus describes the distress which prevails in Limerick. From four to five hundred wretched creatures, principally women with children at the breast, and whose appearance bespoke misery, be- seiged the workhouse gates on the 16th ultimo, and sought admission to the interior, which is at present

overcrowded with paupers. Such was the apprehension of the master, that a strong party of the city police, un-|

ened walls of roofless cottages, from which the wretched | inhabitants are cast out even in this inclement season.’| —Freeman’s Journal. |

Grattan and Browne, by voting fora Coercion Bill,|

have irretrievably damned themselves in the estima-|

tion of every honest Irishman, and we hope that their! constituents will shortly make them feel it. From men

‘roar, and swagger, and register oaths in Heaven

expect nothing better. Your Captain Bobadils are ever ‘found wanting when the fight comes. | Browne, we are sorry. He isa man ofa high order of

‘intellect, a powerful speaker,

occasion, can be accounted for on] geta place from the Whigs, like the poor “Ipothecary, “ His poverty, not his will, consented,”

But while Ireland is obliged to denounce such men a glorious reflection to find the sons of the mighty | O'Connell inspired, as it were, with the lofty spirit of | their immortal father, standing in the breach for Ireland,

and doing battle where her foes are thickest.— W Guardian. wee

STaTE oF THE Country.—Although no new ’ ders are recorded, the accounts * eh oth omatal ves] hibited a lamentable extent of crime, and continued in- security of life and property in the disturbed districts The system of illegal conspiracy and agrarian outrage is extending to districts heretofore comparativel tranquil—to Sligo county in the west, and to Ker a the south.—Correspondent of the Morning Chronicle

Exaccerations or Crime.—The s5

pondent, speaking of the reports of dirhams says ar The most gross exaggerations are propagated every da and the Tory journals and their correspondents a doing great mischief by attempts to give a sbbesing complexion to the system of agrarian crime. Nothin could be more unwarrantable, or indeed more fals than the assertion that religious animosity has had “si influence amongst the wretches engaged in the co : mission of those crimes. All experience and all the evidences before parliamentary committees ‘prove co : clusively that such outrages have been totally sem. ene with religious considerations, and that Roman _ ancien, as well as Protestants, have been selected as Maser by the miscreants engaged in the successive grarlan Conspiracies in this country.

like Mr. Grattan, who boast and bluster, and bully, and,

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tleman. But we believe his betrayal of Ireland, on this’ y by his wishing to.

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The Belfast Vindicator gives some specimens of the,

_ ARRowrk00T.—From a statistical table recently pub-

lished of the productions of Bermuda, the value of Ar- rowroot is stated at not less than $20,000 annually, More than two-thirds are used in Great Britain. Yet from the prejudice of some and the cupidity of others, it would appear that more than five times the whole pro- duction of Bermuda is consumed in the United States.

Successor to Sir Francis Ausren.—Vice-Ad- miral Sir Thomas Briggs, G. C. M. G. is, it is said, to fill the command in chief on the West India and North American station, vice Sir Francis Austen, K.C. B,, whose term of service expired on the 27th December. This command was offered to Vice-Admiral the Hon. D. P. Bouverie, who declined it on account, we believe, of domestic affliction.

Dr. Fargues, lately deceased, has bequeathed £6,000 for the establishment of a Poor House in Quebec, to be called Fargues’ Asylum.

NEWFOUNDLAND. —— Barsarous Outrage. —On Tuesday morning last, about six o’clock, there was a disturbance coming under the well-known character of a row, amongst some six or seven persons in Duckworth street, at the head of the Custom House lane. A man named Thomas Drewhan,who was employed as a watch- man by Messrs. Parker & Gleeson, being at the time on his rounds, heard the confusion, and was proceeding to the scene to enquire into the matter, when a stone was hurled at him by one of the party, which striking him in the side of the head, felled the unfortunate man to the ground ; the scoundrels from amorgst whom the missile had come immediately took their flight. The sufferer remained motionless about ten minutes, when he was taken on a cart to some neighbouring house by a lad who happened to be passing by. He lost his con- sciousness in a very short time after. Last evening’ Drewhen was still alive, but there was little hope of his

£ | recovery.—.Vewfoundlander.

UNITED STATES.

THe Terrisie Steamgoat Expiosion oN THE Oxn1o.—The Cincinnati papers of the 3st ult. contain accounts of the awful disaster to the steamer A. N. Johnson, a brief account of which we publish below. The steamer was a new one, and was making {her first trip from Cincinnati to Wheeling.

The explosion occurred about 2 o’clock on Wednes-