Treasury on 'Monday. The object of the interview was to
procure the revival of an old mode of paying the Landing Waiters of the Customs at the port of Liver- pool. His Grace promised that the matter should he taken into consideration. There was a general meeting of the cotton-spinners and manufacturers of Manchester on Tuesday ; for the purpose of co-operating' to protect themselves against the effects of any injurious advance in the price of cotton wool." Some statements in the Manchester Guardian had had the effect of raising the price of cotton in the Liverpool market. These statements were unfounded; and should the rise in the price of cotton continue, a farther reduction of wages would become inevitable. This the nfeeting was anxious to prevent. In order to guard against over-production' it was resolved that the manufactories should be kept at work only during the day. There was a meeting last week of the most respectable merchants and manu- facturers in Manchester to discuss the question of the trade to India. Many able speeches were made, and resolutions condemnatory of the present monopoly unanimously passed.
The demand in the woollen Markets of Yorkshire is very brisk. The Limerick election commenced on Monday, and the town has since been in a state of uproar. Many outrages are said to have been committed. Colonel O'Grady and Mr. Massy Dawson are the candidates.
The Irish Attorney-General has filed three ex °Ski° informations against the proprietor and printer of the Freeman's Journal. Although the Bishop of Ferns has been quieted by Lord Mountcasheli his son, it would seem, is bent upon renewing the controversy. This person, a clergyman too, has addressed a letter to Lord Mountcashel on the subject of church reform.
Mr. O'Connell has gone to Waterford, and commenced a canvass for Mr. John Barron:
The Brighton Gazette, in answer to our remarks last week about the corre- spondents of Country papers, states, that it has no correspondent connected with the London press. We did not allude particularly to the Brighton Gazette, when we objected to the value of the "exclusive intelligence" about Cabinet matters which some country papers are prone to affect, or which their friends in London claim for them. We believe, on the contrary, the Brighton Gazette to he really; in many instances, well-informed on such points. The remark was meant to be as general as possible, and the special application was to a paper in Scotland.
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