... 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 ...

... EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE.- MEETING OF THE BRITISH ORGANISATION. s The report of the conference, in our last week's paper, was j brought down to Friday evening, and we now furnish our readers with a condensed account of the most material reso- 1 lutions which have been adopted subsequently. The sixth session was held on Friday evening. It was I .then determined that there shall be no money ...

... l We are glad to learh from various quarters tiat the failure in the potato crop is fear from being so great or so widely spread as was at first supposed. From Yorkshire, an intelligent farmer writes that not more than fiom five to ten per cent. of the winter potatoes in his neighbourhood, have been tainted with the prevailing disease, and as regards the district of central Yorkshire, ...

... CORRE SPONDENCE. ew TO IREADERIS AND CORRESPONDENTS. cee di, eEVANGELICAL. ALLIANICE--The letter of Homno arrived too late for ng insertion tlajs week. a i TanL SCRt A'WIG-O-LSTE!N QUESTION.-The article onl this sub- ie ject, from a lisaubtugh correspondent, ssill be inserted in our benext. . bel M~hADAME VEaSTRss.-We are unable to answer the question Iof a al C'onstant Reader, regarding the ...

... 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- ...

... I Fzan AT HiEip FOLD.-On Saturday evening, a little after nine o'clock, a barn belonging to Mrs. Aked, widow of the late Mr. Edmund Alked, of Heap Fold, was ob- served to be on fire. Nearly the whole of the contents Were consumed, which consisted of hay, cats, and wheat, upwards of 7,000 stones ii weight rhe fire engines belonging to ?? ?? of Eeap Bridge, and one from Messrs. Op0ensllnv;'1t ...

... MR. ABSALOM WATKIN AND THE GUARDIAN. taULAttDIAN. teW- e have been requested by Mr, Absalom Watkin to insert ; is the following copy of his letter to the ilfenchester Guardian. er TO Ile Editor- of the jl'M1,hecstel, Gni'dn. i,-r,-111 the notice, in your last Saturday's paper, of the to aeeting of Mr. Bright's frieuds in. the Free trade Hall, yoLI t, asserti that the proposer of Mr. Bright ...

... 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, ...

... DiR. VIAUGIHAN'S LECTURIE ON PERSIA. o Ui e On Tuesday evening, the Rev. Dr. Vaughan delivered, at g ,- the Mecllatics' Institution, a lecture on aicient Persia, as v e ilinstrated by the ruins of Pcrsepolis. The lecture ?? e s delivered in connection with the Mianchester Sundaly School ui Union, aid ?? attended by a Ilarge aid(l respect ble aun M d dieuce. Dr. Vaughan said thit the subject ...