... We give the following extract from a weekly magazine of the year 1775, as a specimen of the mode in which the reporting of speeches was conducted at that period. Dr. Johnson boasted that Lord Chathambs famous speech on the American revolutionary fee war was written by himself in a garret. The date scarcely permits of of our believing that the sabjeined remarks could have been from pe his pen, ...

... CTp t olliegr' trobemolt. 3 A DELEGATE MEETING of the Lancashire Miners Th 1was held at Brekerehaw, near Wigan, on Monday and unc Tuesday, the 26th and 27th of August. There was a large attendance of delegates present. The best feeling nor prevailed, and the business was conducted with the oci rutmost decorum. The amount of monies brought to e the board was £415 2s 101. This is a satisfactory ...

... ?? JosfmtntI. FRANCE. SUSPENSION OF HOSTILITIES WITH MoRocco.- PARIS, AUGUST, 9TH.-The French Government has received a telegraphic 4ispatoh, dated the night of the 2d and 3d of August. The news contained in it was brought to Port Vendries by ?? Govern- ment steamer. At the moment when the Prince de Joinville was about to commence the bombardment of Tangiers, a letter from the Emperor of ...

... DEATH OF 1HE PROPHET JOE SMITH. We annrunced in our paper a week or two ago, I the threatening state of things at Nauvoo and its i neighbourhood. The destruction of the obnoxious 4 Nauvoo Expositor newspaper by Smith and his X followers appears to have excited the most deadly I animosity in the breasts of his opponents, expressed l by their resolution to wage a wrar of extermination I against ...

... t TOHE WORKING CLASSES. MY FRIENDS,-At the close of a very significant if not an important session of Parliament, a duty of a very mixed nature devolves on me. In common with your order 1 feel intense sorrow that that mea- sure pre-eminently caloulated to serve you, the Ten Hours, Bill, was lost; while I derive no small consolation from the facts and sentiments that were elicited on its ...

... 6bart(o 3EtewTfgenre. d OKA UgVR,-ANOTHER DEFEAT OF THEB 0 LEAGUE-On Wednesday night the walle of this town twaa covered with large bills, headed ?? Free Trade 0 -fair play for Induslry and announcing that Ur. s Falvey, of Mlanchester, would deliver two lectures in e the Theatre on Thursday and Feiday evenings. The e Chartists. Who have never yet allowed a Free Trade lecture to be delivered ...

... 4r?r I-riot) IK*bcmrut. - - ?? -- ?? REPEAL ASSOCIATION-M1ONDAY. I The ?? weekly meeting of the AssociatiOn WIs held this day in the Conciliation Hall. .u On the motion of R. D. Br.oNVNr, M.P., the chair L was taken by Sir Valentine Blake, 5I.P. el The CHAIRtmAN returned thanks for the honourS conferred upon him, and then proceeded to address the meeting at some length. On concluding he was ...

... IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT, Bent HOUSE OF ?? anste FRIDAY, Auo1GU'r 9. Lg ROYAL ASSENT. At four o'clock their Lordships assembled, when the Royal Assent La was given by Commission to the following Bills :-The Consolidated able Fund (Appropriation; Bill, the Church Endowment Bill, the Poor said Law Amendment Hill, the Duchy Of Cornwal~l Assessionable Msnor. of as Bill, the Ro'Main Catholic Penal Acts ...

... erto PUBLIC BATHS. sent to at TO THE EDITORS OF TRE LEE3DS MERCURY. It is a). Ney GENTLErml&,~-Will you allow me, through the medium of commis ian. your paper, to call the attention of the public of Leeds, and especially Govern ;er- the manufacturers and merchants, to a subject of considerable im- The Coi ion portance to the health and comfort of a large class of our fellow awaitin not ...

... DREADFUL RIOTS IN PHILADELPHIA. The following account of the origin of these lamentable disturbances is given by the correspon- dent of the Mforning Chronicle:- Alas, that I should so soon have to record another history of tumult, battle, misery, and death. The exasperated state of feeling produced by the riots of May last, in this city, when a small body of Irish Catholics fired on a public ...

... MB. COBDEN MET BY MR. O'CONNOR. t] AT last the desire of COUDEN's heart is to be gra- tified! He is to have the pleasure of meeting in public discussion, before an audience of his own X seeking, the man, whom he has described as the greatest obstacle in the way of the League. He has affeeted for a long time, a great eagerness to meet Mr. O'CoNNor; though whenever proposals a have been made ...

... lesil TO THE EDITOR 0O' THlE TIMES. mot bee, Tc Ssiii,-A letter appeared in your columns, on the 17th Gee~ instant, signed 11Walter Brodie, on the subject of recent gras occurrences In Tahiti, deeply affecting the character of the d agents and friends of the London Missionary Society in that mori island. As the writer Professes to state occurrences of which lalbc he was a ,witness, which ...