... , The eomplicated nature of this inquiry, the variety of subjects the investigated, the number of witnesses examined, and the free sti *equent inconsistencty and contrariety of the evidence, render It coo no easy task to Presedit a clear, definite, and just exposition of 0101 teatessbtedto your committee. ¶1 It The difficoity of this task has been enhanced by the impose1- hog tblilty of ...

... MEMOIRS OF SYDNEY SMITR.t -f v. I oftile - We fees it will be longpece English literature or the English a bseirV~ church cen beast of a genial spirit like that of Sydney Smith. I f-lntyr'c His kindliness neic be said to have been a payt of his godliness, W, 50 His wit wag brilliant, net severe--it was the correcteon of a friend, not ithe sneer of en Opponent. His humntour smacked conie. of ...

... ttILATEST FORE0GN NEWS.I ata THE HANGO AFFAIR. 'oraper BR ihTLE BAM is- The Lightning arrived at Dantzic on the 22nd1 with news respecting the Hango massacre. It in apasthat only six of the men helongiug to they & os kwere kiled; the rest were wounded and adt made prisoners. ad. SPAIN. ir 'Our news from Madr-id comes down to the 21st. t) ?? Howden, our ambassador, left Madrid that o lie t day. ...

... v9arietfrs,. of Major General thle I-on. Yorke Scarlett has left Fenrance's UIHotel, London, for the Crimesa. tel , ~A Tempieroance Society is in course of formation ha ~the city of Lyonis, founded onl the English model. lie Mr. Horace Mvanin has been appointed registrar of the naw irt, axaninitition department for the civil service. cl Al. hover reports fiom Scutari, that die provisions ...

... THE MASSACRE AT HANGO. THE OFFICIAL DESPATCHlES Of Admiral Dundas and Captain Fanshaw (of H.MI.S. Cossack) confirm the statement of this atrocious act. Captin Fanshaw gives the following particulars of it*- -idolt is with- the- deepestconcern that I have to report to you the destruction of a cutter's crew and the officers who went into Hango with a flag of truce yesterday, the 5th instant, in ...

... - - - It.± ?? _aJ..LL LIVERPO-OL DOCK BILL. MVl(NAV MONDAY. K The select committee of the Housie of commons re assess- bled to - day, for, the purpose of proceeding with the con-I sideration of' thle Liverpool Dock I ,xtinsion Bill, All the members, both select and local, were present; end Mr.I Labouchecre presided. WNhenl the' committee adjourned on B Friday, they had not decided upon the ...

... I There are very few among otir renders, we think, whose attei - tion will not at once be irnested by the name of one who has so often and so greatly contributed to the enlivenment of our cli columns as Pyngle Layne, and still fewer who will not be ve: somewhat startled to find it in connection with so serious a hiec theme as that of the pamphlet before is.+ To ius, Pyngle ln Layne is ...

... HI APEV SUN DAY ! HEAEY SNDAYScon-,. - n,- ?? I 1APEEy SUNDAY SCHOOL. - On Sunday last, three excellent sermons were preached in Heapey uhapes, by the Rev. J. P. Shepherd, after which collections were made in behalf of the Sunday shools at Heapey, Wheelton, and White Coppice, which, we are happy to say, amounted to the handsome sum of £41. ALLEGED ASSAULr.-Thomas Winder, acollier, of ...

... i i is said that 30,000 horses have been shipped at Mar- seilles for the East since the commencement of the war. A proposal for a general and permanent encampment OD Salisbury Plain has been addressed to Lord Panmnre. The Chester Chronicle states that a military encamp- ment will probably be formed at Hoylake, instead of on Ileswall Common, as had been previously proposed. At present there are ...

... I: IBURNLEY; if FATsl. Aaccne wAT CALa -VAL=R P Woaus--On Wed- nesday MOrnigulast, abpiut lalf-past seven o'clockr a.Jonhai.| Watson rag w att9epting to ?? a steip connecited wit one of. the ?? in a room known as the blue dye-housC, I jthe ends of his b coAmfortable, which be wore round bis neck ware, by sense meains or other, caught by a horizontal sbaft, and the poor fellow. was revolved ...

... o 7jAIES AGAIST THE BALLOT, WITH THE ANSWERS. . .. .. . I . .. .. I . ?? WITH THE ANSWERS.. ?? of the Catechism on the Corn Lazvws.) Ike 4thO f No. 1. he rce endered to the cause of free trade by atho er f the Corn Law Catechism,' has indelibly tbe',ud the name of Colonel, now Mjor General, T. Ds, I t TboWpson with the great measures of corm- fey °Dgori-nitbat opened anew era to trade ...

... l l QcnusT.-Tho Messiah was performed in the Parish Church at the Guild of 1842. We do not know whathas become of the flags of the Preston Volunteers, which were removed from the church a few years ago. A pAEisuio2EKR complains of there being no provision for venti- lation in the Parish Church. It -was intended to ventilate the building by allowing the escape of foul air through the cleres- ...