... M ISCELLANTEOUS EXTRACTS. DINNERt SERVICES IN TILE 0IL-Ci Ti.ME-Dinnier services ,hatve greatly altered Since thce days when. ,neais and his ell banld of Wandering Trojans wvere perplexed by the oracular ucr lpredlimcti, that ttbt ev ?? tleir tables,' hoit folund.that tic fact,~ gave thle mcectaciig prophiecy it very innocent interpre- fo tiaition their tables were hunge rakes. Our Saxon ...

... VA R IET I ES. a. R- TheI, personal estate of the late Bishop of St. Asaph has ~ybeen estimated for duty at £-10,001). S. Mr. N. P. Willis, the well-mowen writer, is about to become La tile literary editor of the New York T1ribtune. S- The Queen of Spain has conferred the cross of the order a- of Charles III, onl AL Alexandre Datnas. , Thle D urhamn coal-owniers have advanced the price of ...

... MANCHELSTER. M The annual election of town councillors foir the different wards took place on1 Monday last, and for the first time since J the borough was incorporated in 1SSS, excited somtetiiig jw like a general interest amIOUg' tbe burgesses. This has ieen S owing chielly to the formation of the Ratepayers' Assochation consequent oin the .s. rate, that body, hiliig deturmfille' to ri oppose ...

... I-- No statute of modern. timies has better- clainms upon public attention than tihe act ,which was passed last session, for the mrute easy- recovery of small debts And demands in Eng- ln. tsobject is to establish courts oflaw throughout the country y in which justice hall be aiministeredl cabuply, - uniformly; andcxelii1sy by judges ?? qualified f yr their office by a professionsal ...

... PICKINGS FROM OLD MANCHESTER NEWSPAPER-.No. X. e A SA1FORD 1'lnannu.-Maneiester, April, 3 (1709). It is reported from Salford, that atl attempt hath been made d to take away the botly of the late John Grindred, executed at !X- Lancaster, and hung in chains at Sallord, aforesaid, for li murder, pursuant to his sentence last assizes. All well- )st disposed persons are shocked at this account, ...

... X , ALTRINCHAM. CHARITY SRrO0oNs.A n Sunday a collection was made in the AltrinchanxChurcWor the sufferers from the fire at St. Johns in Newfouiindnd. '4As one of the officials was going roi1jd vwith the bdo he cagse to the seat of one of the Altrincr publicanri o it apeared, from the search he was making in all zocket s the collector approached himl, had evidently lost his iney; he, how- ever ...

... THE CYCLOPS FRIGATE -AND tTHE STEAM- SHIP POTTINGER ONxSHORE. : I SOUTHArPTONeSunday Night. I regret to communicate the above disasters during the fog this morning off Cowes. As yet-veraimperfect intelligence has reached me respecting the Cyclops., I have, however, seen one of the passengers 'by the'Pot- tinger, who has very kindly furnished me with inferma- tion'as to the grounding of that ...

... .. BLACKBUTE.N DATRWEN MECHANICS' INSTITUTION.-On Monday I evening the second annual soiree of the above institution came off with great 'clat in the William-street school- room. Service of the refreshments commenced in the under school-room, at half-past six o'clock, their distri- bution to the several relays of guests occupying nearly two hours. At half-past eight o'clock the chair was taken ...

... LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY EVENTNG. NEW COssPANiEs.-The spirit of joint-stock speculation, which for some time has been alhost, if not entirely, dor- imati, has to some extent revived in this town. In railways one or two projected schemes along the coast to Southport have reappeared; and this week prospectuses have been issued of an omnibus company, for the transit of the , million here and at ...

... WARiRINGTON.. BIRnKNHEAD, LANCAsHIRE, AND 'CESienIE, JUNC- TION RAILWAY..-,This line of raiji'ty, according to the act of parliament just obtained, was to pass over the lower end of Bridge-street, wl e a station was to have been erected. It is now, hoi'fer likely that this route !will be abandoned, and the line'ftaken acrhbs the north end of the town, near the Blue Coit,School, if MI feces- ...

... MANCHESTELR TI''MES. We -have given a digest of the two days' pro- t ceedings of cthe British Organization, in connec- tion with the Evangelical Alliance, and will con- Li tinue it in our Evening's Edition. We rejoice to see that the members have resolved that no slave- L holder cant occupy a seat in this Alliance, 3. El The Meeting of the Early-Closing Association, held in the Free Trade ...

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