... Efte ibter-aol Mieerrurv. OALVS PPULI LEKX SUPREMA FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1849. EVILS OF INDIRECT TAXATION. si SECTION XIV.-THE TIMBRER DUTIES, AS AFFECTING r SHIPBUILDING. n t~ The repeal of the navigation laws has brought the timber duties more immediately before us (June, 1849) than otherwise they would have been.0 Momentous to the industrial interests of the country t -at all times oppressive ...

... hall flcltAirmano.) the Ituv. J. S. It. Erann, ai t Robciirt NtL-ijto, q. ?? the ?? qChri~tie, Joehn Fe irix, I-Iup, Cullcil, Michaiel Alirtin, Chrifitophtr D~alton, Joato Kin-,, J. s Giii ttn,,rt, a ndj J h t Tayl a , wu!ia to oonmone~ ofuri~ to'er, 00 iu i n,4 i e f .) , t'it a whii F't z i ieatl y- Eltree t, t'reicot. ChITr i st e. ac I X ata i ,Il t i it. w te titi flied in periatties of ...

... TAKING THEE STARCH OUT OF 'EAl- A COLD WATER SKElTCH. A knot of idlers stood Upon the end of a pier which d f ran out into the Hudson River, in one of the small tu [towns near Albany, a few days ago, amusing them- or selves with hurling stones into the broad stream, ' each viing with his neighbour in the endeavour to pitch a missile at the furthest distance from the shore, when a tall, rugged ...

... MEETING OF TUE BRITISH ANTI- ISTATE CHURCH ASSOCIATION. S, tit! Y Last evoning, the members arid friends of this associa- pal is tion, which hias for its object the liberation of religion a I fram all State interference, held a public meeting at the lit Concert-hall, Lor-d Nelson-street. On the platform were £P,3 tefollowing pertlemeni :-Charleis Robertson, Esq., tepi nRev. W. Forster, of ...

... I cases have occurred in Leei Several fatal cases have occurred in Leeds. At Brad. ford there have beea five cases and three deaths. ai The cholera has beon raging with great virulence at 12 Rennes; it has also broken out in Silesia, at Vienna, and at Pretburg. At Vienna, 197 persons have been tat admitted into the military hospital; 85 died and 89 tat recovered. The last advices from Egypt ...

... u-. ?? R JVr 1Ups2u fe, poVeL FLAGELLATION.-.oDuring thv current week a 'Or tnarllbe mode of dealing summary punish. menthas com ounder r ournotice. AcoUntrygentlema, residin in the vicinity of Rarnecy, has for some time' past been excessively annoyed by repeated attacks made ire upon individual character, through tile medium of a dis- tY, reputable publication issued in Dougl by. Under thein ...

... 1 ad THP RnsToRATioN.-Tuesday last being the anniversary of the restoration of the merry monarch, Charles the Be- Stcond, the bells of the Parish Church rang a merry peal tle on the occasion. e- PREFEUMUEST. -The R1ev. John Thompson, B.A., of on Trinity College, Dublin, and late curate of Walton-le-dale, has been presented by the Lord Chancellor, to the vicar- age of Easby, near Richmond. id ...

... ;FLEETWOOD, PRESTON, &i WEST I* RIDING JUNCTION RAILWAY, EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING. t On Wednesday last, an extraordinary general meeting i of the shareholders of the Fleetwood, Preston, and West I Riding Junction Railway Company was held at the Town l Hall. The meeting was called in pursuance of a requisi-l tion, signed by twenty shareholders, desiring that a ime.t. v ing should be ...

... TH WA TE9RLOOi°'D~I:NNER. -a POMONA GARDENS. The commemoration of the battle of Waterloo, on Monday ? (the 18th June), by a dinner and fdte to the pensioners, and ? ,j. other veterans of Manchester and its neighbourhood, who served at that ection, so famed in story, was a most jute- resting and successful affair. The dinner and fdte were given at the Pomona Gardens, under the superintendence ...

... MORTALITY AMONT PUBIAS MEN. It is our painful duty this evening to announce 7, the decease, the unexpected though by no means ?? premature decease, of one of the most eminent od among the benefactors of the workingi classes. id Thousands of our industrious population will be sad- ck dened when they learn that on Monday, the 28th of May, their old and devoted friend, John Fielden, e breathed ...

... - WHIT-MMORDAY EXCURSIOiS. Monday morning last being one of the most beautiful mornings that a kind Providence could have bestowed upon earth, as early as five o'clock in the morning great numbers of the inhabitants of this town, including the juvenile and the aged, were astir, dressed in their holiday habiliments, to be ready for the cheap excursion trains which wer e in preparation for them. ...

... (From David Copperfield, No. 2) it was a large long room with some large maps in it. I doubt if I could have felt much stranger if the maps had been real foreign countries, and I cast away in the middle of them. I felt it was taking a liberty to sit down, with my cap in my hand, on the corner of the chair nearest the door; and nben the waiter laid a cloth on purpose for me, and put a set of ...