... ?? Select Committee of the Lords appointed to eon- to aide th olteration of the acts for the sale of beer, have tWV agreed to their report. at The Comnmittee have no hesitation in stating that e ;thle expectations of those who proposed the existing sys- 'ii, tem hare net been realized . Their oljeet, appears to ?? have been to create a class of houses of refreshment, lie respectable ,!in ...

... GREAT LOSS OF LIFE. I:5 Ls' Since the me lancholy wreck of the Rotlisay Castle, itI alhas not 1)0en our painful duty to record any casualty clon-t C iscto wih te seais nvigation of thle port. of Lirer- :y pool which has excited more intense interest than the id less of the sislendid steam-shipii Orion. After our coast e.has been visited by a storm, the public mind is prepared ?? of fearful ...

... The .iepo femr1 -- - SALUS POPULI L1EX SUPREVMA. TUESDA 1; JUNE 11, 1850. CHIURCH GOVERNMENT. It r I I I - *s Weas Thie Bishop of London's bill for providing at pulle clerical court of appeal in questions of heresy, dis- nuntil cussed and negatived in the House of Lords the to ea ?? thrnght, contained one of tlios~ propositions itsII which none of tire noble debaters seemed willing T'eY to ...

... THE STEA.MTE -Slill ATlA; { 1:. 1 ?? ?? - :1. .- . 1. I !n (IO ill' te..t i IIIt blN I th I- -o i ii lo -2 ?? alnit comirtandci r ha. been gj._I Ir _ tt I, I o halo' ! It.. U ' 12 Ill ,.Ijli* ils ' fa ll Iltl.i~l*. I , W mo Id I I,.I il. III II 111111111 I 1L, ?? Irt. p me p : l'tl on i lltp~ C Ii. I, ii I X j , p Ill ills a ' I X i I ' , L`i131' ?? r N ill fi11.111 loiii AX lii r~l'i ll' ...

... I f ? oII I : , ?? June S. The Assembly met to-day at twelve o'cloek,-the Rev. Dr I Paterson, moderator. -. I COMrMITTEIS ON OVERTUDE: RETURNS.I * Mr Gray gave in the report of this committce, which stated ! that 58 Presbytcriesliad approved of the ?? of the General Assembly as to the admnission of midbers froum other b'odies-aud only 1 ilisapfroved of it. In riegare to'tlie orertnre * and ...

... wbe STUAtoY J eu l0u150 SATURDAY, Jir~VF 29, 1850. | As much justice as space would permit is done in the columns of this day's Mercury to the debate on Mr. Roe- buck's Foreign-Policy resolution. Though sug- gested by Lord Stanley's Greek motion, adopted last week in the I-ouse of Peers, the resolution of the Member for Sheffield is of larger scope, takes a wider range, and therefore, ...

... DESTRUC TVE FIRE AT THE GREArT WutERN COTTON.WORKL, . fifre broke ?? at rnt Thursday morniCngl, tracabout to 'cck, fire broke out at ?? usedin stern Ce aor mn tworks, nohic, although it proved somewhat' lestle ?? than thatwhinh themook piace on the af- terwoonaofsthe i~l of October last, nevertheless resulted in the dt The f haeli e the ewecaorsoping sh tr h nnmer manufaspctur- r ...

... PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGE, NCE. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-TnURSDsAY, Jhine 20. Mr. II. BERKELEY presented a petition from Bristol against the mercantile marine bill. Mr. Moony presented seven petitions from places in Somerset against the Jews bill. Shortly before five o'clock,at which time the liouss was densely crowded, Lord Palmerston entered the house, accompanied by Sir George Grey and the ...

... aiateonian ?? EDINBUREGH THURSDAY, JUNT 20. It is our painful duty to record one of those desolating catastrophes in the wreck of the Orion steamer, on her passage from Liverpool to Glasgow, which, in the destruc- tion of human life, we believe has had no parallel in this end of the island since the loss of the Comet in 1825. We refer our readers to the latest particulars of this ap- l palling ...

... FRANCE. Some political arrests have taken place at Lyons. The Feujille du Ptuple was seized on Thursday for a sedi- tious article on the electoral law, and the editor is to be pro. p secuted. 0 A meeting of Legitimists was heldl on Thursday evening, tu when the subject of the proposed addition to the salary of the I President of the Republic was debated. No decision, how- ever, was come to ...

... NOW, MdR. m1ERIMAN! Civil stri'e brings strange cbaracters as well as great characters to the surface, and if society were, in this country, thoroughly stirred up, we should see conspicously swimming about, oddities as singular, and, we fear, as dangerous as those which have figured in France. Generally speaking, with usmen become acknowledged as leaders before they are listened to; that is, ...

... IMPERIAL PARL IAMENT. In t] HOUSE OF LORDS - F~itDAir, JuNE 28. lj'tle The house met at 5 o'clock. Lord LmNGcm&LB sat speaker, takei PETITIONS PRESENTED, Como FACTORY LABoURt. - By the Eark of EGLINTON, varli from :he factory workers of Todmnorden, in favour of an shou effcient Ten Hours' Bill; Lord STANLEY, from the and' operatives of Manchester and Todmordels, to the same butI effect. nohli ...