A commission has been issued from the Lords of the
Treasury to Lord Seymour, Sir William Cubitt, and Dr. Lindley, to inquire and report on the cost of maintaining the Great Exhibition building on its present site ; of its removal elsewhere, either wholly or in part ; and the purposes to which it may be advantageously applied.—Builder.
The London Dock Company had its half-yearly meeting yesterday. By the accounts it appeared that the cost of defending the Government prosecutions was 11,1861. The undiminished confidence of the public in the Company was shown by an increase of 9252 tons of shipping, and nearly 50001. of revenue. The shareholders expressed their warm ap- proval of the conduct of the direction in a difficult year ; and the usual half-yearly dividend, 21 per cent, was declared. Tho Chairman stated, that about twelve new regulations have been proposed by the Govern- ment authorities : five or six are unobjectionable, and are now in prac- tice ; the others are impracticable.
The master engineers of Manchester, in a meeting held last night, re- solved to give notice this day, of closing their workshops on Saturday the 10th instant, unless in the mean time the demands of the men be with- drawn.
The Thurles decrees are now spiritually "in force" throughout Ire- land. Archbishop M'Hale has promulgated them with a missive, espe- cially calling for the enforcement of the clauses relating to the Queen's Colleges and National Schools, and signed in the usual defiance of the Ecclesiastical Titles Act.
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