TnanE.—By accounts from various parts of the country, it would
appear that trade is rapidly improving. Some of these accounts we derive from the local newspapers ; others from mercantile men of extensive dealings, in dif- ferent parts of the country, with whom we have had personal intercourse.
LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY. The Directors of thi magnificent undertaking have published their fourth annual report. The state that the railway will be opened, as was anticipated, in June or July next; and the whole cost will not exceed 820,000/. The concluding remark of the re-) port is of great importance :—" One additional observation the Directors will take the likexty el makiog, thetigh W propriewn repideut ii diverpool ill 1 y seem almost superfluons,—it is, that the trade of this port, and the ge- weal importance both of Liverpool end Manchester, have continued rapidly 0.Increase, thereby justifying the early and confident expectations of the !rectors, that any estimate of the revenue to accrue from this great esta- ffishosent when in full operation, !should be founded, not on what Liverpool ad Manchester were in 1825, when the authority of Parliament was first solicited, and the cost of the undertaking was first calculated, but on what they may be expected to be a few years hence—taking into amount the ighty advances which the two towns and surrounding districts have made, aid are still making, in commerce, wealth, and eirilization."—This does not say much for the universality of the distress so strenuously insisted on. . REDUCTION OF TAXATTON.—At the Huntingdon meeting, held on Tuesday, the Rev. Mr. Maberley said lie would like to see, not the fire, but thefifty, Out of the fifty-five millions of taxes, taken off, and eighty or ninety per cent. of the rents. Mr. Moberly is a sound man. The meeting agreed to a petition for the reduction of the malt-duties.
, MANCHESTER OPERATIvEs.—011 Wednesday eveeing, a meeting of toe operatives of Manchester took place, " for tin purpose of taking into cansidetation the best means to be adopted for obtaining from Parliament a general act for the regulation of the hours of labour of young persons em- ployed in cotton, woollen, silk, lineneand other factories where children and machinery are used. Petitions to both Houses of Parliament were unani- mously agreed to. MoNstonernsnt RE COLLIEIIS.—A spirit of insubordination, which a few weeks sines manifested itself in some parts of the mining district, has ex- tended itself into neighbouring parishes ; and since Saturday last, the whole of the workmen-in the Monmouthshire Collieries have abandoned their work, anti still more sorry are we to add, that most unwarrantable and illegal acts have been perpetrated.—Cambrian.
EMIGRATION.—A vessel mimed the Corsair, sailed the ()thee day from Greenoek for Prince Edward's Island, which carried out passengers thither for the small charge of twenty shillings each, the passengers finding their own provisions. Three other vessels for Montreal and New York have left the Clyde within the last ten days.
As a proof of the rage for emigration at this time, we are assured, from good authority, that at the small village of Westwaeg, near Deiffield, on Tuesday last, seventy-three persons casually met on theit way to leave their native Country.—Hall Advethser.
THE Anmy.—By direction of Sir H. Dom-elle, General in command of the northern district, an inquiry into certain elloged instances of misconduct, on the part of the officers and men of the 50th Regiment, took place at Old- ham on Monday. The inquiry terminittell in the entire exculpation of the military. Much diSsatisfaction has, we understand, been produced in the Medical Department of the Grenadier Guaisls, by the abolition of privileges which that Regiment has enjoyed for centuries. Several resignations have been, or will be, the consequenee.—Daily Papers.
DEPTFORD DocKrAnn.—The establishment of this ancient and cele- brated naval arsenal is nearly broken up. .Most of the artisans and petty officers have been discharged or superannuated, with the exception of about one hundred and fifty who have been drafted into the other Royal Dock-yards.
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