... PARLIAMIENTAr l',Y INT ELLIGENCE. t E HOUSE OF LORDS.-THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10. Their lordships resumed their sittings to-day, after the recess, at five o'clock, Lord Chancellor Cranworth pre- s siding. LAW RSEFORIM. The LOIto ?? gave notice, that on Monday next, lie would state to the house the intentions of her Majesty's government with respect to legal reform. Lord CAMPBELL made some ...

... IMPROVEMENT COMUISSIONERS' MEETING, I I el iu L The monthly meeting of the Improvement Commission. ers was held yesterday in the sessions room,-Wm. Hoole, Esq., in the chair. The following commissioners were present:- Messrs. Thos. Hart, Jas. Parkinson, Christo- pher West, Jas. Boyle, Al. Baron, Jonathan H{argreaves, Joseph Parker, Waterworth, Jackson, and Christopher Parkinson. The minutes ...

... [FnoM OURL OWN' SEPOtTflIt.) Idie Thre committee appointed by the House of Commons to inquireI e into the petition against tlie return of W ia Evceis, Esq., for re the. borough of Bliscrkbiirn, for alligel brvibery and treating, buld 1liel their first sitting, at twelve ''li'olel S;itlrirlas' last, in thre Corn- ntrl mittee Roomn No. 9. TIre comm ,ittee coosisrel1 of Winl. Deerles, lint Esq., ...

... I X. Y. Z. is inadmissible. J. D., Clitheroe, is received. C. R. will see his question answered in another column. S. E. N.-We shall be glad to hear again from this correspondent. A READLIt OF Dusrxrrs.-Ur. Disraeli is in the 48th year of his age. P. L.-The trustees of Savings' Banlcs have no power to advance money for building purposes. Their deposits are invested in government securities, A ...

... 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, ...

... r TiE LANaASHIRE AND YonKs.SlriE.-The half-yearly' report of the directors of this railway, to be submitted to the general meeting on the 2nd of March next, has rbeen issued. It appears that the total capital amount is £11,809,360. The balance of revenue for the past half- e year, applicable to the payment of interest and dividend, L- and other fixed charges, is £262,401 9s. Id. It is recom- Y ...

... The weekly meeting of this committee took place yesterday. bo Mr. Alderman Langsdale presided, and there were present- th Messrs. Iligham, Fleming, Dover, Gladstone, Beckwith, T. L. do Hodsoss, John Nicholson, Moss, Johnson, Ifalhead, Godfrey, Td and Henderson. A communication was read from Mr. Lea, In reference to his lhi application, submitted to the committee last week, to be allowed , the ...

... s---777777 TIE IVRPOOL MERCURY. t TUESDAY FEBRUARY 15, 183. i BALUS &OPULI LIX SUP_. IM cOnIC The Ministerial programme of the session, siblill orally announced by Lord John Russell in the -adop Hlouse of Commons, on Thursday evening, wa .oled; listened to with great attention, but produced whe very little exctement. The efect on the public wher a very useful and valuable one, eve togitbe add ...

... || A deputation, emanating from a meeting held at Man- chester on the 10th of last month, and consisting of gentlemen representing boards of guardians, ratepayers, and others in Lancashire, Yorkshire, and Nottingham, waited on Wednesday on the Poor-law Board, at Gwydyr House, for the purpose of asking the board to rescind its amended prohibitory order of the 14th of December, 1852. Nineteen ...

... I IV. h - ^ -I h- -LSAAe vv e nave oetore us a Parliamentary return of the polu- hation and number of houses, according to the censuE of 1851, of the counties and towns of Great Britain retu-n- ing members . to parliament, and of those towns above 2000 inhabitants which are now unrepresented. From ;his paper we make some extracts which cannot but be rwad with interest, as showing that in any ...

... 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 ...