... An error the press is often spoken of; but an error the typography is what is meant; and of the extraordinary blunders sometimes made by compositors, despite all trie care that taken in the plain manuscript, or j«equent marks by the corrector, we had two specimens uesdny. In one of the instances the writer had extolled one of our most opulent mercantile men : one who whether in the town, as at ...

... T tCE FACTORY BILL. | al lll . -, , v -, , -I contested Factory Bill is about to undergo al in the Upper House; we presume iti will be easy as compared with the fierce has surmounted in the House of Com- Worthy of remark, that the. most .bitter this wise and wholesome measure have 'n Liberals, and of that class commonly olitical Economists. The operative, on A has had an excellent opportunity ...

... |P1EOM¶'OTIOiS and APPOINTMEiTIS. a 7- - -AtmT aidly PROMOTION. ?? the Lievtknaent-F. Beauchamp Seymour, flag Lieutenant to ited, Rear-Admiral Sir George Seymour, to be acting the Commander of the Collingwsood. Mr. Seymour the has been five years absent from England, serving in The China and the Pacific. der- APPOINTMENTS. airal C'aptain-W. H. Hall, to Dragon. C'Ominander-C. J. Balfour, to ...

... MIM8OLLA MOUS NEWS. * Dissuw~ras.-At se. Bees there are, it is stated, about thirty ex-dissenting preachers, all studying for the church ministry. BLACK SAaLORs.-Some curiosity has been excited at Cork, by the arrival, from New Orleans, of a ship wholly Manned by blacks. Tan LAST ROYAL MARRlAGE..-All attempts to effect a reconciliation between the King and Queen of Spain have been unsuccessful ...

... SHAKSPERE'S BIRTH-DAY AND Robjt I 0~~~ * The annual festivities in celebration of the Birth-day of the hsad of Avon took plane in his native town en the 24th elI, baq there was little pnblic demonstration. Says a peal of hllo ,fr the tower above tepoet's lost resting-plane, and a bannter q, reol ahovo the Shakspere-holl. everything wan quiet adnpe The meeting of the members of the Shaokoperian ...

... SUNDERLAI'D POLICE. Saftisday, Mop ?? Joseph Brown, ?? and R. Carr,Esq'.-James Carter, coaster of the ehip leamc of this port, was summoned for not delivering to Francis Hazlorsan, a seamen, his reghter ticket on the eoueple- tion of the voyage. Delfudant alleged that the coII- plainlant having left the ressel at Peterheatd, bafore the termination of his service, the register ticket was ...

... a In the latter period of last week, a young man r named John Bourne, respectably attired, took up his n i- residence at Mr John Cox's, the Ord Arms Inn. r . Scotswood-road, Newcastle, for the ostensible pur. t , pose of being trained by Ifenry Clasper to row a s skiff match at Manchester, and Mr Cox, in order to ] r nake him comfortable, gave up his own sleeping u o apartment, in which was a ...

... The Mlancliester journalists have no capacity for fine vritiag. They seeni-to think that they have no other use for words thlan to express their thoughts. They call a spade a spade. The Guardian, having occasion to use tin word twice may, to avoid repetition of the same term, call it, on tio second occurrence, a horticultural instru- ment, and theG Courier, in naminig it, may occasionally give ...

... IDISTRICT , INTELLIGBN CE. ASHTON-UNDE&LYNE. r SALTEsRSnoos TURNPIKE TRUST. -At the special c sessions, at the Ashton Tbwn Halloxn 1Wedilekday, before r J. Jowett, J. Lord, and J. Grimsha'w, Esq4r's.;, Mr. Robert Worthington, clerk to the 'tousteestf the Saltersbrook t Turnpike Trust, applied for aa'rder dn the surveyors of the Old Town division f Ash'p for she sum of £280, I that being the ...

... SIR,—My attention havim; been directed to a paragraph in your journal 01 Saturday last, therein an attempt has been made by seme one (evidently not 01 the craft), to lower me in the es- timation of the public, Lut with what views 1 am at a loss to conceive, I will thank you, as an act of justice to myself, to publish the following copy of a letter received from the Grand Lodge, leaving your ...

... I I soutDatotaft. 'I SATURDAY) MAY 8, 1847. l The Tay, steaer, is expected in the course tf the l day with snails, &c. from the West Indies. 0 The fadrid, steamer) Captain Weeks, arrived on l Wednesday evening from the Peninsula, with the bsualI eimails, 40 passengers, and a cargo of fruit. The officets e and crew of the Royat Tar, steamer, belonging to the N l.%tuguese Government, but ...

... I DREADFUL SHTPWRECK ON THE COAST OF ISL2AY. V. ~ ~~ Lf- L 8Y XSDUIV ?? * '1'I ?? LOSS OF TWO HU7NDRED ANYD FR' ILVEB. W\e announce with extreme pain that during the storm of last week, a lamentable shipwreck has occurred on the shores of Islay, being accompanied with the most extensive less of life which has taken place on the weset coast of Scotland within our remembrance. The intelligence ...