... LOCAL INTELLIG ENCE. It will be seen by the advertisement in another column that a young lady, Miss Redmain, will lectero on Friday and Monday next, at the Royal Assembly-rooms, Great George-street, on The Horrors of Slavery. M r. George Vancenhoff is to appear every evenin this week at the Royal Amphitheatre. Last night he was t play the character of Handet, and to night he will repro bent ...

... RA.ILWAY INTELLIGENCE. RAILWAY TRAFFIC WEEKLY RETUIRN. This Same 11lf-yr's Sasinc Miles RNamn of Railway- Week. 1S02. Total. 1302. Opel. Aberdeen ?? 1160 1360 4223 4040 72 Belfastand Ballymena.. 245 618 5279 5067 371 BWhead, L.,& Cheslmire . 1710 1330 14318 311059 33 B'burn(lteB. C.& WY.) 743 72 o'244 59V0 26 Bristol and Exeter ?? 3692 3637 51451 29180 86 Caledonian. . 8007 761 20329 22I21 ...

... I - L- a s TE i ?? 11 SUDDEN DEATI._On Monday morning last, Mr. Pd - ward Hutton, of Galgate, tanner, was fould dead in bed sd by one of hiti workmen. n, LANCASTER AND PcESTON JUNCTION RAILWAr.-The m roport of the directors, to be submitted to the share- es holders to-day, states that the directors will declare the le ?? ariielyforthe whole shire, £2 3s. 81.; 1,, three-quarter share, £1 Ss. ...

... --uvrc ?? r CO1M!TTEreS CONCLUDED. BLACKBTURN.-Mr. Eccles (Liberal) not duly elected; guilty by his agents of bribery. BRIDoNORTI.LMr. Whitmore duly elected. Sir R. Pigot (Conservative) not elected ; guilty by his agents of bribery. CAmisaonor.-Mr. K. Macaulay and Mr. J. H. Astell (Conservatives) not duly elected; guilty by their agents uf bribery. CANTrRBURY.-Mr. Hi. P. Gipps and the -lon. H. ...

... A I ?? - - . - -. - .1- I .. I . On Wednesday evening, the largest in-door meeting ever B, held in Canterbury took place at the Corn Exchange, to re receive H. Vincent, Esq. as a deputation from the peace congress committee. Some hundreds of tickets were given away to ladies, who densely crowded the front seats, almost le as many more being unable to obtain tickets: the body of the hall was ...

... rxonT'I'Amn, '1 errs n-lTJAotPT.Dlf fnr ITTUh DEPUTATION TO THE CHANCELLOR or THE EXCIIEQUJER. u On Saturday a vecry numerous and influential depots- thi tion of members of parliament and representatives o still the mercantile and cominercial comiunnities of Londo lit and the various outports waited upon the chancellor o the exchequer, at his official residence, Downing-street for the ...

... i EDUCATIONAL STrArlsrIcs.9We have been favoured by an officer of the county constabulary with the follow- ing return, showing the nunmber of day schools, and average attendance of scholars, in the Darwen district, comprising the townships of Over Darwen, Lower Darwen, Eccleshill, and Yate and Pickup Bank. The return is brought up to the I6th inst. :-Over Darwen: 7 schools attendauce, ...

... .forcgT 3InteXlwlienr. seq FRANCE. squ The Conslitudownel states that Mi. A. Henrtiojr hits been ! charged with a commercial mission to China and other wh~ countries in the extreme east; and that hea is shortly to wol proceed in the steamn corvette, the C'olbert, from Toulon to ?? Macao. Thursday mnornineg's Moniteur contains! a decree, dated the 23rd ult, remitting the remainder of the ...

... Theft was quite compatible with Spartan virtue, if d in it was not found out,-but found out, the perpetrator d was tried by thieves, his peers, and sentence pro- n 3y nounced against him, not for the offence against fr mnsociety, but for the clumsiness of its perpetration. a tifSo, in the English Legislature, bribery, if not quite I lo compatible with high notions of honour and honesty, fc ig ...

... ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? .. . Suri ANCASUIaRt Assizns.-By some areident, our, h parcel con taininlg a report of the opening proceedings has tII not renrh ed us. We are therefore unable to give yesterday's S business until Saturday. h ENCROACHMENTS OiN THE PUBLIC RIGHTS-A meeting II of property owners, and others of New Cross Ward, called to 0 consider an alleged enoroachmeant on the public rights, on te ...

... t I Em il Se-e . :- 4o-'j a ?? ~ - I l'r ?? . - .: . ! .. _ i . , I . - E T - I The adjourned inquest held by Mr. Rutter, coroner of the Iconty, at the Wagglon and Horses Ion, Loogsight, on the .bridieseof the four-men employed in the Polygon engine- repairing house of the North Western Railway Company, who werekilled there on the orninig of Tuesday week, by the explosion of the boiler of a ...

... X ' WAT-T T - E- FOUR LIVES LOST, AND THIRTEEN PERSONS INJURED. Little more than a week has sufficed to present us with every variety of railway calamity-running off the line, col- lision, break down, and blow up. An appalling instance of i the last named in this frightful category occurred yesterday 7 morning, at the great engineering works of the London 8 and North-Western Railway Company, ...