... DRAGONS BLOOD. A correspondence upon the mysterious uses to which drragon's blood is put is going on in a chemists' journal, Says one correspondent: F or nearly 60 years I have sold dragon's blood, mostly to girls, who, jealous, sought to win hack waning affections by burning it, and using certain wvords of incantation. I know a drnggist who makes large sales of it in the winter time. A ...

... 1-';I-MPJEI,3.A_-PARLI..AMENT. I HOUSE OF LORDS.-MONDAY. e.A The Lanc'eire and Yorkshire Railway Bill was read ,a second time. ' The London and North-Western Railway (New i4u11if, &a) Bill was read a second time. ?? - * '3TUESDAY. . THE VIVISECTION BILL. On the motion' for, foiig ints ¢Omnr'itteo upo4 thie Cruelty to Anials . ' - 'The Marquis of LANSDOWNE obsorvred tha the conclusions to be ...

... ITHE WEEKLY TIMES. - ABUNQHESTER, SATURDAY, APRIU1 17, 1875. UNWONTED animation has been given to the HIouse of Commons by the introduction of topics rather more personal than political. The most spirited debate for a long time arose from one of the Tichborne petitions. Some inhabitants of an Essex village proposed to impeach the Speaker as well as arraign the judges, and owing to this ...

... I AMERICA. [py ATLANT. T'nma PH,1 WASHEINGTON, SATURDAY. -Port Royal, South Carolina, has been eelected -y tlie Government 'as the headquarters of the t1nited States navy on the North Atlantic sta- 3ion, beoause of its proximity to Cuba. The Aew York papers state that War vesades are now sonoentrating there to meet any~'lezegaay crliich may arise. The copleteWASHINGTON, ~;NDLY. The coimulefe ...

... FXTA1L BALLOON ASOENT. trrible acident happened on Thursday week to e uts M5. Tissandier, Croce-Spinelli, and ite], who ha ascouded at half-past eleven in the bal. ,n the zenith, from thea gasworks of La Villette. It c that the balloon fell about four o'cloek at Ciron, were Twoof the a vroliutf Were already dead, and the ...

... lTHE PROPOSED INFECOTIOUS DISEASES I I HOSPITAL FOR SALFORD. I Yesterday, a deputation of about 30 gentlemen, repr6. boo seutitg the inhabitants and property owners of the Be d neighbourhood of Cross Lane, had an interview with rall the Mayor of Salf ord (Mr. Alderman Harwood) in his that Prarlour, at the Town HaU, Bexley Square, to protest Butz against the proposed establishment oE an ...

... ARDWIOK AND ANCOATS DISPENSARY. The annual meeting of the Ardwiok and Ancoats Dis- pensary was held at the institution in Mill-street, An. coats, on Thursday, Mr. John Curtis in the ?? CHAIRMIAN expressed his regret that owing to the want of funds the committee had not yet been able to add an hospital to what had hitherto been simply a dispensary, but they looked forward to increased ...

... I ~ IPXRLIAMEWTI * 'Tle' LORD'CHICEw(LL~OE'ookhis iseaV at'fi~vo o'clock, and shortly after*wards announced that he pro. ;posedatq jfix, the,-seoon4- reading of the Supromo Court of Judicature Ameaidment 'Act for Moiiday the 1Ae of -'OHiURto PATRONAGE IN SCOTLAND. -The Duke of RICHMOND- introduced a bill for the aolition ?? in Scotland,wiok was ?? Lordships andxread a-first, timle. . o .! _: ...

... SALFOUD TOW ?? The quarterly rueeting of the BIallor To, WaB held en Wednesday morning, at the Tor Q Mayor (Mr. Alderman Harweod) proddidng' ' In reply to Mr. M iiso', who kei ht was being made with the Broaghton Park, Mr%5e DAvIEs said the work was being p ' daU rapidly as possible, and he kopepl thftsaat summer it would be completed, or at any tIQ dvanaed as to admit of being used by the pt ...

... THE WEEKLY TIMES. MANCHESTER, . .. SATUILDAY, MAY 22, 1875. WAn alarms have subsided, but there remain the questions-who raised them? Pand who laid them P These are the topics of disotision at Berlin andelsewhere. TheideathattheEmperor of RUSSIA or Prince GORT8CHAKOFR said any. thing to dissuade the German Government from any warlike te p it wase disposed to take finds little acceptance in ...

... The Calcutta Englishmna1an says that a very important memorandum on the subject of over population in Bengal and Behar, and the system of emigration pro- posed to alleviate it, was submitted some time since to the local Government by Mr. Bernard. The experience gathered by Mr. Bernard in his tours through the dis- tressed districts last year butpartially confirmethe view, so generally ...

... The will, dated May 1, 1874, of the Rev. John Wmi. King, B.D., formerly vicar of Ashby.de.la.Lunde and 2 reotor of Basingmhan, and late of Ashby Hall, Lincoln- shire, who died on the 9th of May last, was proved at I the principal registry, London, on the 15th instant, by a William Dashwood Fane, Mildmay Willson Willson, c Charles Brooke, and Henry Peake, the executors, the personal estate ...