Northern Financial affair — arrival of a British vessel in Hampton Roads.
Norfolk, March 11.
--In New York, on the 9th, the average of specie in the banks was thirty millions of dollars.
Foreign exchange 112½ gold 1½.
The stock market is steady, with a fair demand.
The cotton market was exciton, and higher.
Sales of 2,022 bales of middling uplands are reported.
The British sloop-of-war Rinaldo came up the Roads last night, and reports the Federal frigate Vermont to be lost.