INTERCOLONIAL.
The mnil stenmer Z:ahan»lia lias horn released from quarantine. The passengers before leaving •li - ship prose 'ted a compli m ntnry address to Captain Oheva’ier.
Tun stewards on the steamship Miiziporo have been attacked with small-pox, and two further ea-'cs arc believe 1 to be developing. A destructive cyclone has been experi enced at Cardwell. An hotel and three houses weie ciniiplctly destroyed, and the jetty and a number of boats have been severely damaged.
Another case i f sma’l pox occurred among the Miizspore’s passutgers, on February 0, and their release have now been postponed detinile’y. In is piling tn a do|'ula!ion which waited upon Him. Sir Bryan O’Lniiglilin promised fo introduce a B I next session tu provide for tlie Hugging of larrikins. The Bank of Victoria pays a dividend for the past half year of 44 per cent.
BRITISH AND FOREIGN

The police have arrested 40 persons for interfering will and attacking hunting par ting in C.aro and Limerick, Ireland.
All the shares have been allotted in the Hawkins Hill Gold Mining Company, New South Wales, which was recently started in

London with a capital of 11100,000. Great success has attended the floating of the New Zealand Grain Agency Company, with a capital of £I,OOO 000 Applications for shaies I'avo been received in excess of the capital to be subscribed. A large private dynamite store in Lime rick bas been entered and plundered of its contents.
