... 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 ...

... ~~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 ...

... ?? 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 ...

... 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 ...

... - ing tea On Saturday evening, the Directors of the East India Com- the pany gave a sumptuous banquet in honour of General it5 Vivian and the English officers who have been appointed by ,en Her Majesty's government to the command of the contingent tre of Turkish troops about to be raised, under a convention an, with the Sultan, for service in the ensuing campaign in the en, Crimea. Tile dinner ...

... 31.foreal alt oývsas LECTURE ON TIRE WAn.-A resumh co' gir. George Thompson's lecture upon the war, delivered at A rhainisj Institution, Salford, on Monday evening, is th.ea t -end will appear in our Saturday's publication. itE [3, E ROYAL.-- iMazeppa, some years ego one of the Ostfavcorite of the equestrian dramas, is now playing 0ig11atl the T'heatre Royal, and may be said to be got up Jll ...

... OANADA. (tle Canada, in new edition of ' EnCY!JClopadý Bri- tannica, by J. B. Brown, author of Views of Ofanda and the Colonists.) The recent return to this country of Lord Elgin, and the accounts which have been more or less widely diffused, of C the progress which the Canadas have made in recent years under his wise and temperate administration, have directed, under the present ...

... EUTPerial varl(allient. 'HOUSE OF LORDS. of it FRIDAY, FEB. 9. PI r. The Lord Chancellor took his seat upon the woolsack a to CSfive o'clock. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY presented a petition from M Bath, praying that an address be presented to Her Majesty requesting that in the present state of affairs equal favour fo might be shown to Poland as to Turkey, and showing that i d this country was ...

... The tw?enty.sixth annual general meeting of the subscribers and friends of the General Hospital and Dispensary for Children was held on Monday morning, at the institution, North Parade, St. Mary's. The aRev. William Huntington, rector of St. John's, presided ; and there were present the I Rev. Henry Sayers, honorary secretary, and Messrs. Thomas I Coulbourn, Dr. Louis Borsehardt, physician to ...

... We remember to have read, some years ago, a pamphlet, by the Rev. R?BERT WHISTON, entitled Cathedral Trusts, and their Fulfilment. Although we had fancied ourselves before that time to be tolerably well acquainted with the odious system of corruption and abuse prevailing in the Established Church of this country, yet we never felt such intense indignation and disgust arising from any ...