... The sixth anniversary of the Blackburn Mechanics' Institution was commemorated on Thursday evening last, t by a tea party and ball, which took place in a spacious t room belonging to the Bolton Railway Company. The i attendance was tolerably numerous. Tea over, a meeting for the passing of a series of reso- lutions was holden, the Mayor (wearing the badge re- cently presented to him) in the ...

... PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGs. Yesterday week, the Earl of Derby wo.ed for the appointment of a committee to inquire into the operation of the Charter of the East India Colr. pany, which was granted; and on the same evening announced that government did not intend at pre sent to interfere with the Maynooth grant. Are the government for playing fast and loose on this subject as with protection ? If ...

... t M . THr NEW RomAw CATROLIC AncEaisarop or DuBnIr. -The Roman Catholic primate, Dr. Cullen, has been placed at the head of a list of three, from which the Pope may select a successor to the late Dr. Murray, as Archbishop of Dublin. A DEArDFuL ?? was discovered ?? the county of Kilkenny. Tihe body of a poor woman, supposed to be a hawker, -was found near a gate in a field, with dreadful ...

... Take Care of your Pockets. We take some pains, occasionally, in satisfying ourself upon subjects involving the characters of individuals, but we seldom give more than the results of our inquiries- when we can draw any. But here, in regard to these Betting Houses, it is necessary to give some particulars, that the reader may form his own conclusions respecting them. A subscriber of ours-the ...

... LOTDON, THUURSDAY APRIL 8. cuR To catch the DERBY ministry may be possible, but of to hold them fast is out of the question. Lord ski DERBY, with an irresistible air of frank sincerity, ste tells the Lords that there will be a dissolution and a peo short session of the new parliament, to decide the hi, fate of ministers, I before autumn has passed ; but the as soon as the greater part of the ...

... , * TO THE EDITOR OF TUB DAILY NEWS.. SIR,-Lord Ellenborough is the bitter foe of the Court of Directors, yet he hesitates to suggest that the crown should hold the patronage. Meanwhile, In India, it is notorious that he is the one governor-general, who, swayed by political prejudice, and influenced by political bias, removed from their post many deserving officers, appointing in their places ...

... THE - TAVISTOCK ELFCTION. OnaTues'.ay the nominatiola took place at Tavis tock, when three candidates appeared for the hconur of se- presenting fhc borough in parllansent~.Mr . S Carter,? Mr. 'Trelawrny (the Isate metmber),: and :i~ 0;. Phillimore.' The shqW qf hairrals d4lhed inifa~voutiv Of'.f tr; Carter. Yester~aa te po~ng tpok place, ivith the .folowing resnit: (BY l3scT410 TELRGRAPL.) . ...

... BURY; LANCASHIRE.-The town of Bury, in Lan- cashire, exhibits, and has done these three weeks past, ?? the heat and turmoil of a contested election. Lord Duncan addressed the electors on Wednesday evening, and was to address them again last evening. His lordship and his friends are indefatigable; but the friends of Mr. Frederick Peel are equally active, and party feeling runs high. Both ...

... RAIL WA YS. SATURtDAY EvEIxN0. The share market was rather flat to-day, chiefly owing to the absence of active operationts. Aber- deens were rery heavy, and fell 129. 6d. per share,I MidlndsandB~gtons also receded 10s., and Lan-I cashire and YorkShi1res 6s. ; but other stocks were scarcely altered. French shares were firm. SHARES AND 11TOCIES IYNGUARANTUED.I Sb. Pd.l EAMLWAYN. Clouing proes. ...

... |CAk-P'tE' OF GOOD HOPE.I TBE KAFFIR WAR. A telegraphic summary of the following appeared yesterday in our late edition.. ; Yesterday morning the Amuazon, 26, Captain I Barker, arrived 'at Spithead from the East Indies ,and the Cape of Good Hope. She has five days' tlater pews from the latter place, having left Simon's ?? on the 7th of MIaroh. ' She sailed from Singapore January, 6, arrived at ...

... BRITISH ASSOCIAT'I'TON FOR TIlE ADVANCE MENT OF SCIENCE. PUBLIC MEETING IN THE CORN EXCIIANGE. YESTMRDY, - at one o'cloclk, a very large and most in- fluential meeting of the principal inhabitanlts of Belfast and its vicinity, was held in the Corn Exchange Hall, Victoria Street, for the purpose of hearing the report of the Local Committee appointed to take preliminary neasures for the ...

... ])URATION OF THE PRESENT SESSION. (From thle Times.) WE have ever been ready to ?? the most favourable view of that singular position into which the caprices of fortune, and the scarcely less unaccountable follies of party, have thrown Lord Derby and his followers. We have vindicated for them the greatest breadth'of9 pledges and length of tether., Ve have maintained that, instead of ...