... 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 '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 ...

... '1DIBRMINGHIANI AND MANCHESTER ECONOMISTS. ve e poerceivefrom the last number of Doit las ?? he ?? Wleek7y A cwsipatper, that our strictures on the le currency doctrines, promulgated in that journal, have ed led to some very ary remarks on what it calls 'the ~re ungeuerous spirit in which wye lave assailed it. d Now in reply to this elnuge, we must say that we to are utterly unconscious of ...

... e (From the Sheffield Iris.) We hope that Manchester is not about to get itself into a fix. That the men of the great centre of manu- r facturing industry, so world-noted for their intelligence, generous spirit, zeal for social and educational reform, and whose wealth and exertions may be said to have wrenched the free-trade tariff from the grasp of mono- ypoly-that such men should now, fronm ...

... the To the Editor of th 11w alnchcater Examiner. j. ?? you, consider the following Xenji as worthy of day corner in the Bxamhzer, they are 0.1 your service.-Yonrs, 0 dem r, p PASQUIN. ' shy, youth Grove, Dec. 14, 1840. icier, I'-BIRTH.-TnE 1 GUAnRDAN OF A4 CANDIDATE. said, For months the mountain in gestation lay; der. At last arrived the lesig-expecte(I clay. ble Thlen, le -A morse? Wh~y ...

... ASHTON-IJ ND E R-LIYNE. Tuis MONTHLY CATT LE Fu ki ?? the monthly fair was held, when there was a good show of horned cattle, which fetched high prices. A moderate business was effected. MEETING OF SOLICITOIS CLERIS.-On Monday even- ing the clerks employed in thle solicitors' offices in Ashton and Stalybridge, held a meeting at the Globe Inn, Ash- ton, for the purpose of' discussing the best ...

... - -0. -- ?? . IH M MEE:J'TINtG OFM' R. BRlGHT'S COMMITTlEE. I The pecond general weekly meeting of Mr. Bright's elee- ePI tion. committee was held ?? evening, in the large reon room of Ilaywardls Hiotel, Bridge-street. There were about 3.X0 persons present, and there would in all probability have (R( been many mjore, had not it heavy fall of snrow commlenced nod, about an hour before the time ...

... INTIMIDATION BY TRADES' UNIONISTS.-John Bons- field, Alfred Cheeseborough, Francis Johnson, John Dumbell, Gilbert Gray, Peter Grundy, Samuel Mills, G Win. Murgatroyd, Joseph Platt, James Quarry, Nathan Ranmsden, William Reed, Henry Selsby, Joseph Smith, Robert Westwater, Thomas Wilson, and Thos. Wright, H were brought before the magistrates on Saturday, charged with having at Newton-in ...

... LeFO LEOTTERS FROMIVI ITDON.b0 No. XLV. PI Tue recent death Of Mrs. HooD reniinds uts Of poor HOOD VC himself. IHOOD was DflasocRaTrs iud HERACTATtJS rolled to NTT into one. The teair was ever strutnggitng with the smile onhis wi an cheek. His soul was afounitoftliiideepestpathos; like the Wi lem1 central fire of PYTHAGORAS, and tie central hseat of modern lth sot its geologists, the ouitward ...

... DEATlH BY Fini.-On Wednesday, Mr. Chapman held an inquest at the Royal Infirmary, on the body of Samuel, son of Joshuai qhaw N t R nlMno7 7.TI son ci' Joshual Saw, Nelson-street, Bcohdale Road. It appears that on Tuesday the child was roasting potatoes in the fire, it being alone in the house, and set fire to its clothes. It ran into the street screaming for help, and a neighbour went to its ...

... VARIETIE S.- -as A letter fromt Bome, of the 18th, contradicts the report that Is- the Pope intended to make some new cardijnals, d, Admiral Sir George Coclkburn has, within these few days, ,et lost the se Of his left side by an attack of paralysis. he Oeothe Hanlover morning papers published the news ho0 of the incorporation of Cracow with a, deep black border. lot The last accounts from the ...