The Pacific Bank will resume business tomorrow.

Queen Victoria and the Princess Beatrice are at Mentone.

There is a tendency to a sharp reaction in the New York stock market.

A Gloucester fishing schooner with a crew of fourteen men has been given up as lost.

It is charged that the Jeannette was unseaworthy and wholly unfit for an Arctic voyage.

An earthquake has occurred in Costa Rica, and many buildings have been demolished by the shock.

During a session of the common council at Troy, N. Y., last evening, pistols were drawn and general confusion occurred.

At the Republican State convention, held at Providence yesterday, the present State officers were renominated by acclamation.

There has been a further rise in the Mississippi at New Orleans. Steamers laden with supplies are being sent out for the relief of the destitute and to secure refugees.

The Senate has voted in favor of the franking privilege. The post-office bill was considered yesterday. It is thought there will be no reduction of whiskey and tobacco taxes during this session of Congress.

THE WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., March 17, 1882 - 1 A. M. For New England, slightly colder, fair weather, north-east to south-east winds, rising, followed by falling barometer.