... II THE WEST INDIAN AND MEXICAN MAILS. t The Royal Mnail Steam-shilp Tay, Capt. Sturdee,arrived I at Southampton on Tuesday cvening last. Site had on freight 600,000 dollars for mterehats' account, gold dust t and gold, value about £33,000; 7601b. of silver, 7 pack- c ages of platina, 53 bales of tobacco, 07 cases of cigars, c 1 cases of pine-apples, Rud a variety of other produco. c The ship ...

... am. The failure of the potato crop which, in the permission her her of Divine Providence, touched this country, extended through his the length and breadth of' the sister island, to a degree of which practically we believe our Leaders have as yet brined terno adequate conception. Before us is an address on the at subject from a committee of the Society of Friends in Lon- ich don, appealing to ...

... |I STATIONS OF THE BRITISH ARMY, (From the United Serice Jaurnal.) r (Where two pleces are mentioned, the last named is that hi which the depot of the regiment is stationed.) I CAVALRY. 43d, Dover. 1st Life Guards, WIndsor. 44th, Belfast. 2d, Do., Regents-park. 15thCapeG. Hope, Ile of Wigh Royal Horso Guards,-Hyde-parln Reselve batt., Cape G. Hoie lot Dra . Guards, BIrmingham. 46th, Canada, ...

... GREAT IEETxNG OFMR. BRIGHT'S *ELECTION COMMITTEE, * r LA3ST. EVENIATL. * The general committe formed to'cond ct Mr. Bright's election, had their 'sual 'weeklyc l ai'eting, at Hayward's Hotel, last evening, .when there wass a more crowded audience ;than perhlaps evdr'atteid'ed'a srmil'ar.'rmeeting -incthis' borough befove! We heard 'the numbers con- 'fidently estimated'at from 700otot800 ...

... THE EXAMINER. 'MANCHESTER., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1840. TIHE TOBY IGUARDIAN, AND ITS TORY 1'os CANDIDATE. I is That misfortune makes people acquainted with strange bedflloxvs, is an old and a true saying, and it receives a happy illustration in the events which is I are now passing in Mlanchester. The Gnacrdiqn ty affects to ridicule the charge, that he and his friends .1 have gone over ...

... LOCAL AND PROVINCLAI NEWS. HIATntniEAvrs CHlonRt SocItY.t-Tha second concert of the season was held in the iree Trnde HIll, onil Thursday week, on w1ich occasion the Misses Williams and Mr. Hatton were the principal vocalists, und Herr Kellermian, the violoDn- cellist, was the solo instruiliental performer. We were not able to hear the whole of the concert, not arrivin.g till Herr Kellerman's ...

... 71A-idtriet futtiltvart. ii- h al WARRINGTON. a re Riss WHIITNALL'S CoNceSr.-On Mondny evening last, Mice of Wbitnall gave a grand concert, at the Lecture-roorn of the Me. ed rltanics' Institution. Sa ...

... Isirkell-fteArt &C. ,IBEFsNeovT Criurtc.-Various improvements and alteratiotb ox khave recently been made in this ancient edifice. The no tb Rc west aisle boa been nearly rebuilt, and the ?? windows f ...

... - UNITED STATES. The Halifax royal mail steamer, Britannia, arrived at Liverpool at seven o'clock on Tuesday morning last, hlriigikig New York papors to tho 5th November. The Jfollowing is the most important intelligence contained in those papers:- THES WAR. It appears front a late number of the Washingto 'Union, that despatches had becn received from Goneral Taylor, to the 1Qth October, but ...

... THE EXPLOSION NEA R CHORLEY. DEATH OP TIHE FIlEMAN. On Tuesday afternooll lnst, an inquest was held at the c house of Mr. Thomas Glover, the Wheat Sheaf Inn, Cop- b pull (thlree miles from Charley, mnd seven from Wigan), b on the body of Thoulas Grime, the mau who was eml)loyed r in the coal mine of Johnll argreaves, jun., Esq., as fire- man, when the melancholy explosion took place on the b ...

... I 'i RIOSITIES OF MAT'IMON | - (Fi-om theo hercujrp ?? At Steyniln, in Sussex, in 1798, Mr. Wolgar, aged eighteen, to Miss-Langley, aged-eighty years. Almost all the population of the place attended upon this extra- ordinary wedding. At Oldham, Lancash0ire, Dece i 807, Mr. Joseph Jackson, aged seventy-three, to ience Bardsley, aged sixty-four years. The hap if room was the sixth swain the lady ...

... _ - . W4ASH. SPECIAL COUNOiti MEmiir,.;! On Monday afternoon a special meeting orthe Council was held, in pursuance of public ntice, for. the purpose of appointing a person, on behalf 9 the C nciJ to lay the infornations under the recent wui55ndBAic. when, we believe, the town clerk was appoted i only a formal one. L CLBf TO T3 .D AtIseRTES.-he Town Council of Wigan, ctiug ?? advic6'of the ...