Sir George Grey took his departure from Balmoral on Wednesday
morning, and Lord John Russell was expected to arrive there that after- noon.
Three officers attached to the staff of General Sir Charles Napier have returned to England, the East India Company Directors declining to sanc- tion their appointment.— Limerick Chronicle.
The Liverpool Journal has " good reason to believe that it is the intention of the Government, in deference to her Majesty's wishes, to pardon all the Irish State prisoners, at home and abroad."
The following notification appeared in the Dublin Gazette of last night—
"Her Majesty having been pleased, under the provisions of the act 12th and 13th Victoria, cap. 77, to appoint the Right Honourable John Richards, one of the Barons of her Majesty's Court of Exchequer in Ireland, Moan tifort Longfield, LL.D., and Charles James Hargreave, Esq., to be Commissioners for the Sale of Encum- bered Estates in Ireland ; Baron Richards and Mountifort Longfield, Esq., took the oath of office on the 17th instant, before the Right Honourable David Pigot, the Lord Chief Baron of the said Court."
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