... GREAT SNOVW STORM AND LOSS OF LIFE. The recent severe weather, which has continued for nearly a week with all the intensity of an extremely cold n winter, has not been equalled, at least in this country, n for many years. The wind still prevails from the h piercing quarter of N.N.E. and there is every indi-.z cation of the frost continuing with increased severity. I In the course of Saturday, ...

... That Mechanics' Institutions have been more than partial failures so far as relates to the immediate ob- ject for which they wore originated, there can be little doubt, Look through the list of members supporting any institution of the kind throughout the country, and it will be found at a glance that the horny-banded mechanic, the man who really lives by the sweat of his brow, forms but a ...

... lw , ? N.VvV-- ?? th BLACKBURN.t f MAYORALTY,__ It is Dow defioitoly -fixed that Thomas pct a Dugdee Esq.chajrthauo of the East LastiasbireEalh r Company, tin of the Blackburn Watecwosrks, and C6tuttcilltorF for Park- ward, should be the next may or Of the town. It Is A , supposed thait he wilf b~e-eecited witboxit opsto.. T r Coaesttess6 inses MEE~ii5.-.The i~iouthly meeiting of the el ...

... L It has been lately ascertained, that while gold is in going from England to France, it is also going from as France to other countries. The Bank of France has l3 latterly lost as much gold as the Bank of England. m From these two countries, therefore, which on account ne of their trade with America, and the connection of in one with Australia, were the first in Europe to receive it the newly ...

... THE EXAMINER AND TIMES. MANCHESTER, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1853. ?? LORD JOHN RUSSELL AND T-HE, FRENC INVASION. -. n' :part tten-. The country has now, for many monthes been agi- of tbh tated by every species of alarmist exaggdration, and absei the most positive statements have been. put for wth both as to the certainty of war, and theo actual pre- prop parations in progress for-tbat, pprPose, ...

... The fall of snow bad been so heavy on Mfondaytnorniog that the oullntry was covered to the height of one or two feet, whilst the temperature was rendered exceedittgly cold by shlarp frost. All irntercoursie, unless hy tle railways, has been interriupted, and, as the corn and provision markets are very scantily supplied, prices have risen considerably,'to thle se- rious detritent of tihe ...

... We learn from communications which have recently th appeared in the London papers that, owing to the , complete failure of last year's vine crop, the inhabi- so tents of Madeira are reduced to a state of extreme 8t destitution. The population, numbering about in 110,000, are almost exclusively dependent upon the ti( production of the vine, and owing to the minute in subdivision of the soil, a ...

... On Monday last a highly respectable funeral took place, at the South Sea House, in London, at which the Duke of Riccamomn officiated as chief mourner, the appropriate whining being distributed amonget certain M ?? amongst whom Mr. BALL and 1r. NEWDEGATE deserve honourable mention. Thci .gentlemen assembled solemnly and decently, to jiutir .the National Association for the Protection of N~alivO ...

... E- - - E S OF F * THE EMPRESS OF FRANiCE. H. Sgr, *ns. r of on- R. sY, ord Mr. ]cr- 'ers , to gilt )a11 ted ing ral tie of vas ,of art, 'to the ary da ng, Mr. rafit rng. 3m- irry te a thea ;rait Lrds asti. at ing rait (Irt. Iof -And rea, so 'ery No the Ork 000 tida ba ted, iu- tier gal- Ia Iof ,aly the ler- ?? buat to. Mty tile and .e to line Ater, f its me, ~avy and the thle will vedl :ell ...

... ir ,.0 .- ~ ., - - ibat Motion made, That this house do resolve itself into acom- ton aid mittee, to consider the act 8 and 9 Vie. c. 25, being 'An act his to amend two acts passed in Irelaad for the better ess education of persons professing the ?? Catholic In'l religiouand for the better government of the College ili established at Maynooth for the education ofauclpersonS all and also an ...

... iselter. ? ?? 0 FB FRANCE..I . 51- PARtS, ?? emperor catse to Paris to-day, aind r. S. presided ait a council of m inisters at the Tu ileries. He was 1k 190. accompanie by the empress. They came to Peris inl an b ,Iopen, carriage and four, followed by a second carriage with ki waooe~ nenibers'O'I the-L household; and had tio escort. The 50d eperoranrd. empress returned'at font o'clock to St. ...

... faiOtfilailroug. A lun1atict, Robert Herd by name, escaped from Rainhill Asylum on Friday afternoon. out Thursday (to-morrow) is the thirteenth anniversary of the rel * marriage of ?? Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria with kltt h iis Rtoyal ftigbruess Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg Gotha, On HerMajesty gave on Friday the fifth of a series of dramatic P's. ,-performsnces at the castle. Sbakepere's ...