... I he he The election scrutiny still continues to rage within s re.the committee rooms of the House of Commons, t, re. and, as will be seen from the accounts, has terminated ti a- in many instances fatally to the individuals attacked. C at There have been but few escapes, and of these several il )apatients have been left in a very indifferent state of , hiealth, with a monition from the ...

... ASHTON. Hyde Mechanics' Institution.-The first of a series of lectures upon Music, was delivered in the lecture room at of the above institution on Monday evening last, by N. H. Alcook, Esq. to a numerous and very respectable audience. hi BOaRD Ow GUADIAx SS-The weekly meeting of the board was beld oil Thursday last; A. B. Winmpenny, Esq..in the Ci ahair. Al r. Wild's bill was again brought ...

... 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 ...

... .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, ...

... . CLEIOCAL.-The Lord Bishop of Mlauchester, at the diocesan registry, St. JameB's Square, licensed the Rev. \W7.ilt William Kendall, M-A. to the Stipendiary curacy or the Parish Church of Middleton, on the nomination of ti,f Ite 3 Richard Durnford, the incumbent; and tle Rev. Tlls',ns Hanley Ball, Bas. to the stipendiary curacy of B1dbh Pod j near Bolton, on the nomination of the Rev. W. Bromw ...

... a On Monday evening, the annual meeting of the Man- b chester District Association of the friends of the Church I Missionary Society, was held in the Free-trade Hall; it d was tolerably well attended. The Lord Bishop of the p diocese presided. The report of the society having been ii read by the Rev. T. P. Pitcairn, as well as the treasurer's a accounts, which showed that the year's ...

... . Rstal, Aflus.': ed Owing to the unusual demands uopn our Space to-day, we are reluctantly compelled to postpone, until Wednesday next, cal several artioles, and reports of interest, including one of the ian able lecture, delivered on Wednesday by the Rtev. Henry of Richard, secretary of the Peace Society, on The originI e and character of the present war with' Burcuah; also of the ...

... I I Diotric 2 (Contilnued from Supplementi.) 40 ASHTON. FATAL ACCXOEST AT HoaeST.-A chimney has recently 11,been in course of erection, to carry off thle vapour from the 5n- flue of a bailer-house which is ait the bottom of the coalpit lide of Messrs. Ifeuwrorthir and Brother, Heyes Colliery, 1-braIS, Tia jell near Ashton. In thie preparations for the workr, it was a Ago necessary to drive a ...