... BOLTON, BLACKBURN, CLITHEROE, AND WEST-YORKSHIRE RAILWAY. OPENING OF THE C LITHE BOE BRANCH. On Thursday as we announced last week, a very splendid fed- was giveji at VVbolley, to celebrate the com- pletum of the line to Clitheroe. The contractors, Messrs. Nowell, Hattersley, and Shaw, were the euteruuuers on ihe occosiou ; and the whole arrangements were under the control of their agent, Mr. ...

... BLACKBURN INFIRMARY: ITS ORIGIN, HISTORY, AND PBOGBESS, TO ME LATINO OF TBE FOUNDATION STONE, ON WHIT-XOKDAY. The foundation stoue of an InfoTnar, for Blackburn and tbe adjacent populous and important district was bid on Wbit-Mondav. Tl.cre was thus a beginning made to a work which bus been l ...

... _.i BaABLI dove good aavim pubhc attention to the unsatisfactory sute of our T otllZT h !r cc - Thia he do - - ™ 2x7* Tm n V nd the _ yiewa be has ?? caun* fail to stimulate reflection even in the minds to whi ch prejudice and political antipathy fo7bid hey t mir? CtmViCtion ' The timeB he *» ohol fcJ o a Trtr^ ?? ° Bi ; iOQS 0f *»»t should be the policy oi a great country like England, are ...

... SPIRIT THE PRESS. FREE TRADE. It growing more and more difficult for the opponents commercial reciprocity to silence the trier.of'the working classes. Free trade lessons are fluently preached many Lib ...

... Paris, Thursday. Sensational statements purporting to give particulars regarding the latest developments ■vf the Panama scandals, and especially Madame Cottu's interview with M. S ...

... CINDERELLA. The reign pantomime for the season 1R96-97 if now fairly established. Tragedy, for the time-being— at a::y rate—is banished from the melodrama hides its diminished head, ...