... I I ?? T- ? n--- I LECTURE AND MEETING ON' BRITISH ?? Thompson, Esq., the distinguished advocate of the aboltion of negro slavery, delivered a.second lecture on the evenilu of Thursday week, on the condition and claims of British India, in Braddock's Room, Oluham, to an audience of about one thousasid persons. A considerable number of the principal cotton manufacturers of the town and ...

... (Fro-o Mie Nonconfornist.) The opinion of the leading conservative organs, R, that nothing would be lost to the British empire, A were our manufacturing towns completely anmii- hated, is now about to be put to the test of experi- o mient. A tory ?? has become a matter of certainty. Modified in whatever way, to meet the It exigencies of the times, there can be no question as to the main object ...

... PENALTIES ON POOR MEN FOR NOT AT- TENDING CHURCH. The M-anchester Guardian of Wednesday acrompa- nies AIr. Phigou's letter on the above subject, which it copies with tile following observations:- In the Morninlg Chranicle of this day week, the 1st instant, a letter appeared, which we did not in- sert in our publication of Saturday last, because we had not at that time been able to ascertain ...

... If the Batik-of-England screw were applied indiffer- |i ently to the whole community, whatever might be the ti complaints of injustice, nobody could say that it was not impartial injustice. Or even if it were so applied v that those who escaped the pressure did not profit by a the pressure of others, there would be, less than there t. is now, cause for complaint. But as it happens, the a ...

... MANCHESTER TIMES, R~nb l~anrasbirr ano I4r5ijttu E~xamfilter. ] PARLIUMsiNT, it is expected, will be dissolved by the Queen, in person, about the middle of next week. We are glad that the members of the- Coln- mons will not be permitted to present themselves before their constituents without being previously tested on the question of questions. - On Wednesday evening Mr. HINDLEY gave notice ...

... I t90tipt. I LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING. p The Belgian papers announce thatthearrangements at for opening the Bank of Ghsent are at length termi. MO nated, and official notice will be published tn a few pri days, after which it will commence operations. The sh Socielt Generale gives its support to the new esta- man blitshnent. This is the Bank projected here a few th( years ago, immediately ...

... As might have been expected, the suffrage move- ment has been assailed by the Leeds Mercury and the MfancAester Guardian; by the latter, charac- teristically enough, with a sophism and a piece of gratuitous abuse; by the former, contrary to its usual course, with the substitution of an exceedingly bad joke for a plausible, if not a convincing argu. ment. The Mercurtj says:- The charter and ...

... TsH LATE CASE OF MANSLAUGESTER.-PUblio Meetilg Onr the Decision Of the CoroneT's Juty.-In ad- dition to the public meeting held in Waterloo Road, on Thursday evening week, on the above subject, another and more numerous one was held at the same place on the following everilng, when the proceedings of the committee during the day were laid before the meeting. lt was stated that a deputation ...

... ji0alfallratto. Upwards of eight millions of barrels of beer (of which more than four-fifths are strong) are brewed annually in Great Britain. The Duchess of Buckingliam bias forwarded £50 to the fund for the relief of the distressed Paisley weavers. His Excellency Mr. Charles Bagot left town on Friday, to embark on board her Majesty's ship ll us- zrious, for Quebec. Joseph Home, Esq., has ...

... PLENTY-BUT NOT IN ENGLAND. We have given, in anoller column, a series of selections from United Statui .netspapers, not poli- tical, but illustrative of the domestic condition and habits of the people. An Ohio paper states that a few contracts have been made for heavy pork at two dollars per 100 lbs, nett, and adds, as if that were a high rate: we understand they are unwil- lihg to make ...

... (From the Atlieacum.) Dogs are a noble and royal race. Fo say nothing of their Pornipeys and Caasars, witness tile dogs of tile line of Stuart, or breed of King Charles; witness also tihe Prince of Canino, and those dogs of the House of IMontaguee. of irrorn Shakspeare makes honour. SC able mention. T'le Barkers of Berkshire, who have branches in Hunts and Breakneckshirv, claim kin- dred ...

... CHEETHAM TOWN'S mEETING. I DELINQUENCIES OF THOMAS ROBINSON, LATE ASSISTANT OI'ERSEER1. A vestry meeting of the ratepayers of the township of Cheetbam eras held on Thursday afternoon, at the Over- seers' Office, New Bridge-street, to consider and decide upon certain proposals made by the sureties of Thomas Robinson, the late assistant overseer and collector of assessed taxes. 'The meeting was ...