... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... atPOLITICAL CONSISTENCY! Cal Of To the Editor of tui M~ltilchester Exam~itier. lati it. SirI observe amongst the list Of flames paraded in the Po' 1Gliardian, as apostae rm h ieal ranks, that of Mrt. T. B. the ,e Potter! Will -you. allow me to ask whetber this is the sam11e the - Mr. Potter who was chairman of tile Universal Suffrage nei e, Society in this town, and who took part in the ...

... - -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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... A special meeting of the council eva held on Wednesday, 'Mr. Alderman Watkins, in the abseence of the mayor, in the chair. REPORTS FROM COMMITTRES. The reading of these occupied a large portion of the sittina. Only that of the finance committee occasioned any discussion. The council hail appointed a sab-comnittee to report on the borongis coronere's account, amd generally as to the expenses ...