... B0,11 OUR AMIERICAN CORRESPONDENT. P- -- Pvnn. 26. 185 Jt?tiVO PHILADELPIA, FEB. 2?, 1850. Business has not undergone much alteration since I last wrote. The spring trade opens heavily and lan- guidlY, and the evidences on every hand indicate that it will be far less in extent and value than it was last year. Cotton not having gone forward so actively, the stocks on this side are large; ...

... P'OLICY AND EFFECTS OF THE WAR. ?? 7l~, ~ TrlT-fl~PFP, MEETING IN MANCHESTER. The third meeting To consider the general policy andt the commercial and social effects of the present war, was held last night, in the Peace Soeiety's Roona, Nawall's Buildings, in this city. The attendance was ntumerou.I, and the interest felt seemed to be very great throughout. Soon after seven o'clock, the ...

... FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT. LONDO, FERIDAY. Twice since Lord PALMERSTON acceded to office has he had to grapple with the legacies of personal questions left to him by his predecessors the Peelites ; and twice has he escaped from the difficulties which they threatened, by the power of address and the influence of compliments judiciously distributed. There is no art incident to the delicate ...

... MR. FAIRBAIRN'S LEOIVAES. On Monday evening, Mr. William Fairbaýrh, C.E. F.R.S. delivered, at the Manchester Mechanics' Institution, the ?? it, of two lectures, the subject being Steam; its'properties and application to the useful and industrial artsm There was a numerous audience. The Lord Bishop of Manchester pre- sided, and in taking the chair said he could hardly think of anything more ...

... -:VESTABL-SHMENT OF POLAND. , .. -ore ?? matter upon our ?? ?wingto the pressure of other matter upon our columns ,,a un?,ble Our Wednesday's impression to give more ace werc sua? aryof the points contained in the Rev, Dr. then .a see, delivered at the meeting held in the Town ball 0one e vening, for the purpose of considering the all ? e oland asan independent state in her relations r We now ...

... ~~cefta~eou~,. [a. THE P.TRIOTIO F UND.-A Torouto paper states that thes i Six Nation Indians on the Grand River, deeplysympathising of with the sufferers by the war against Russia, have liberally ve and unanimously contributed the sum of X100 sterling re towards the Patriotic Fond. It appears from the same source that many of the municipalities of Canadaintended to petition i the Provincial ...

... E'rI?ýN OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARIES AND MiUSEUMS ACT. the PAL? °S O Cabinet seems inclined to N tdrop Mr. GLADSToxE's Bill for the Repeal ci of the Newspaper Stamp, the House of Commons ?? b brought, by a little perseverance on the E art of the honourable member for Dumfries, to do bit of raI refonl. {Mr. EwAAT has made the aubject of public Museums ant Libraries his own; wia, begun some years ago ...

... ST. GoeoRG's HALL.-A performance upon the new organ cc at St. George's Hall is appointed to take place this evening, m before the mayor, the Council, and a number of ladies and ev gentlemen specially invited. In MR. JOHNx CAlnERa-The conditions upon which Mr. cc Carden were released. are, that he shall enter into a bond, m himself in X20,000, and two sureties in .£,000 each, to keep to the ...

... ?? TEWAR Pj R UECRIMEA. as THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL. th A rumour was afloat in Paris, professing to have come from London, that an attack bad take n place on Balaglans; that the allies had been defeated, and that Generals Raglan, Canrobert, nd GouricZ had been killed. This was indus-ath triouely circulated, but deemed an ntter fabrication, which it has proved to be. It is trite, however, that ...

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... THE EXAMINER AND TIMES. MANCHESTER, WEDNESDAY, MARlCH 14, 1855. le The Tinies has taken the field to denounce, op- pose, and, if possible, to defeat the Bill introduced by Mr. GLADSTONE into the House of Commons, for repealing the Stamp Duty on Newspapers. The leading journal of Europe is galvanizing itself into the mock heroic style of a stage tragedian, to arouse the sympathetic ...

... ASHTON. METHODIsT NEW CONNEXION SABBATH-SeBOOLS..The I annual sermons connected with these schools was preached on Sunday last, in Stamford-street Chapel, by the Rev. P. J. Wright. STEALING JOINERS' TooLs.-At the borough sessions, on Monday last, Mr. Buckley, chief constable, charged Samuel Matley, with stealing two hammers, the property of two joiners, named Brierley and Plant, out of the ...