... MANCHEFSTER rT 'IM ES, | alicadbire anti ?? Exarufiler. . M1NrstniRs have not yet given any indications of their intended course as to the corn law, the statements that have appeared in several papers being nothing more than the guesses, and some of them the very absurd guesses, of the editors. The twenty-second of January will soon be here, and then we shall probably know something about it ...

... THE EXAMINER. MANC HSTE, I SATURDAY, JANUARY 81, 1846. IS The intentions of the government with respect to be e the corn-law and the tariff were explained to the am of House of Commons on Tuesday last by Sir ROBEIT fac of e- PEL, in a speech of more than three hours duration. owl The plan which was then developed, however imper- 1i s e. feet in some respects, may justly he styled a Comrmer- ...

... STATE OF TRADE.-The market generally has not been so bj a-animated as it was last week; all kinds of cloth have been V sd a little flatter, and in printing cloths especially a disposition to effect saleslias been manifested. Yarns are firm inpjrice 13 ill a fair business is doin. Fiihd goods are quiet. al The house of C. Goldsmith & C.of London, general buyers n 5.liabilities in Manchester are ...

... _ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ I 'THE COURT HoUsE.-The alteration contemplated in the Court House, as alluded to in our last, will consist in the removal of the bench from its present position to that which it occupied on the opposite side prior to the last alteration. The alteration is now progressing. The bench will be semi-circular in form, aud altogether there can be no doubt but that the alteration will be ...

... BRIEF CHRONICLER F THE TIMES.I _ ?? I At Bradford, the requisition to Mr. Busfield and ,Col. Thompson has already received about 600 signatures. The election for the county of Hertford is fixed for Thursday, January 8th.. It is rumoured tfiat Sir Hlenry Pottinger will be sent out as Governor-General of Canada. The number of joor at St. Omer is estimated at 5,000, out of a population of 20 ...

... ATHENEUIM.-SOIREE OF THE ESSAY AND DISCUSSION SOCIETY. I, , . . . I A is On Monday evening, the annual soiree of the Essay and ilv Discussion Society connected with the Athenuenim, was held ft in the usual manner. The proceedings of the evening corm- of menced in the lecture theatre, at eight o'clock, when the hi chair was taken by W. B. Watkins, Esq. thein aor, Amongst re other gentlemen ...

... r _ _ __ _ P O _ S Ad It P O R rU - Soroug Xo0 W nd last, at the Borough Police ou Ir B..Sswrss, manufac- ?? soe byoeo Ils weavers, nalmed Samuel iih, for , a Weeks$ wages, alleged to be duo and owilg to laim eh cmlannthd bee peremptorily discharged thep s Molday afternoon, hour after startiolidayafteroo n, eols h a ind consequence of ?? a very unbecorn- nog mantieand abusi the racks, because ...

... COTTON,-The transactions in this staple since our last hone ileen very limited, and principally for exportation to l' ( hina; prices, though somewhat redlined, being still too ldgrh, in tote present state of the money market, to induce P Sh ipL ents, to any extent to great Britain. No very material decline can be expected h. tile present rates, inasmuch as it al is known that the next crop ...

... MR. HUME ON THE MINISTERIAL CHANGES I ; ?? - -a. y The following letter appears in the Edinburg Chronicle :1 It is addressed to Mr. Tait, of Edinburgh:- Bryanston Square, Jan. 1846. D Sir,-I do not wonder that, at a distance, you should en - at a loss to understand the causes of the late changes l ministers, and of their movements, when we here caunot-see tany ratienal grounds for the ...

... STATIO INE-ITISH ARMY, On the Ist of Janaey, 184G. (From the United Service Journatt.) [Where two places are mentioned, the lastnamed is thatat which the dep6t of the regimen tisstationed.] Ist Life G tards, Hyde Park 37th Foot,Newvport(ScuithWales) 2nd Do., Windsor [P'ark 38tb Jamttaisa, Londosderry Royal Horse Guards. Regent's 39th Bengol, Ch~atham Ist D)ragoon Guards, Exeter 40th 3tengal, ...

... Tire SHARE MARKET. - Clhester and Birlkeuihead, i r58-f; ditto, £220 shares, 24 4 prem ; Grand Junction, 247; 1], New Quarter Shar-es, 73 plein. ; London and Birmiirg- I 'n ham Fifth Shares, 204'j prem.; Manchester an d Leeds Fiflth I I Shares, 12 prem. ; Ditto Exteusion Shares, 44 pre. ; Man- ( dl chester and Birmingham Quarter Shares, 74 prelil.* Midhuid, ...

... A. meeting of the committee was held at the Town Hall, v on Wednescay last, Alexalller Kay, Esq. in the chair. The kt 3 following report was submitted and adopted- tC Bteport of the Progress of thle varions works at tile Public Park#, b f fauchester. a: CONTRA(CTORS WORK AT HENODAlC -The whole of the tile a draining, amounting to above fifteen hundred rooaB statute mea- n sure, is completed. ...