... PARLIAMENTARY INTrELLIGENCE. ] HOUSE OF LORDS.-MONDAY, APRIL 25. THE TURKISH EMPIRE. In reply to a question from ties Marquis of CianrIcards, in referentceto the negotiations of late carried. on between certain European powers and the Porte, The Earl of CLARENDON, While lie declined at Present to give all the information required, stated that her Majesty's ministers were unanimous in their ...

... THE WAGECS MOVEMEN'T. l A meeting of weavers was held In the Orchard, on Saturday afternoon last, Mr. E. Swinglehurst presiding. There were about 6,000 persons present. The CUAISRMAN, in opening the meeting, said he had been at many important meetings duringthe week. some ofthems at places in which the manufacturers of Preston had induced the employers to lock up their mills. Bacup was all ...

... CLITlIEROE. GOA14MAIC SCHOOL.-On Wednesday evening last, the Rev. Mr. Boden delivered his second lecture on the atmosphere. NEw ?? are being made to raise funds for the purchase of an organ for St. James's Church, Clitheroe, as a tes. timonial In remembrance of the late Rev. Mr. Powell. 'Lo frst minister of St. James's, and formerly head master of the Clitherae !grammar school, who died a ...

... BLACKBU-R - B LAC KB U RX EARLrY CLOSIXG.-ThC pawnbrokers of this town believe, are about to commence closing their 'ti C ments at seven o'clock every cvening, except Saturd We trust this salutary change will be effected in In Y other establishments where assistants are ernplqcd. 'NESLFYAN 3lessioss.-Two sermons were preached oI congregations on Sunday last, in Clayton.street Chap.l * tgc ...

... PETTY SESSIONS.-MONDAY LAST. (Before the Rev. R. Moore, and Ed. Birley, James Eden, Giles Thornber, and Wmn. Efletson, Esqs.) PoACuING.-Lawrence Porter was summoned for poach- ing on the preserves of W. H. Horoby, Esq., at Weeton- with-Preese, on the 28th February last. He had a walk- ing stick, a gun, and a hare in his possession. Richard Kirkham, the keeper, proved the case, and it ...

... TUE EASTERN QUESTION. (From the Morning Post, of Tuesday.) Oil Tuesday last we announced the most important and 5ignificant fact that has occurred since the agitation of tie Eastern question-namely, that on the 24th ultimo a nolference was held at Vienna, at which the representa- tives of England, France, Austria, and Prussia agreed to a proposal of the nature of an ultimatum, which was there- ...

... APPROACIIING BREAK-UP OF THE M1ORMION IMPOSTURE. A few weeks ago we inserted a graphic account of the disruptions in the Mormon camp, with a report of Brigham Young, the Latter-day Saint prophet's fierce denunciatory speech, breathing murder and extermination against two classes of people inhabiting the Great Salt Lake city, the Gentiles and the Gladdenites; the latter of whom have seceded ...

... 6. krl~bavl5 (tgolblull. oltjif the Moir0. Nature has given Its two ears andbut one month, for this reason, that we should hear twice as much as we should speak. Riches without virtue are a ilrebrand in the hands Of a mad- man, given only as a ?? evidence of their trifling value, since they are often inherited by the most worthless of mankind. Every thing is accidental; even our birth that ...

... APrOINTMENr.-The Lord Bishop of Manchester has licensed the Rev. Henry Holme Westmore, M.A., to be a minor canon of the cathedral chnrch of Manchester, vacant by the death of the Rev. Richard Remington. l Canon Westmore is a native of Preston, and son of thei late Mr. Westmore, watchmaker, of this town. CsURCun MiISSIONARY SOCIETY.-On Tuesday evening last, a crowded meeting was held on behalf ...

... Vitifizo from Jouutujl. TIIE PAPAL. CuE.-TiO Pope has been ordered to phly billiards for hiN health. Judging from the speeciilis lie hias hitlerto manufactured, we doubt whother his Holiness will ever mako a good canion. ltt:rALItTroN_.Plotography, it was erroneously stated, had en. able-i forgers to commit frauds upon the Bank of England. Had I it b.eii true, the retribution would have been ...

... THE QUEEN.-On the occasion of the Queen's passage through this town, on Monday last, en route to Balmoral, the bells of the Parish Church rang out many a merry peal during the day, and the royal flag was unfurled to the breeze on several of the public buildings. SERMONS AT LoNaToN.-On Sunday last, two sermons were preached in Longton Church by the Rev. William Sharp, incumbent of Altham, in ...

... There is something rotten in the state of Blackburn. There is evidently something essentially and radically wrong in Its local government, or we should not have, as has been the case several times within the last twelve months, the town abandoned to the ravages of a lawless mob, and the authorities kept at bay by a gang of ruffians who smash windows or break heads without the slightest ...