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ent as yet to speak more definitely but we may be allowed to say that both London, Southampton and Liverpool interests are now represented on the Directory. A correspondent of Sounders' News Letter of Dublin says, that for many months the extensive dockyards in Cork harbor were, comparatively speaking, idle, and the large number of shipwrights and other artisans deprived of employment caused unavoidable poverty and distress. Since Christmas letters were received encouraging carpenters to emigrates to North America, the terms being most encouraging in the government dockyards, where it was said a large number of gunboats were on the stocks. This induced many workmen to leave their homes, and several others were preparing to depart, but the recent terms sent so many wrecked craft into the port of Cork that skilled labor has become excessively scarce. The docks are now crowded with large ships under repairs, while many remain outside the docks' gates awaiting their turn.