... .1, .A i e, MARITIME ?? , Iwas - . oloing leter embodying facts and argumen ts In WA ?? of a ohange in, m.rltime, law), has been issued. by the a ?? Chamber of ComoierOO.- It is addressed, as a Dr. matter of form, to the mem bers of parliament; for this city, 4bu~t isi Inteded for general pema5i-al might (Manchester Chamnber of Commerce, January, 1860. Gentlemen,-.On tide occasion-of this ...

... MANCHESTER . On Saturday morning the rain, which for some daya previously had been frequent, was accompanied with a stiff breeze, but In the afternoon the sun shone cut, cnd the weather remained fine for a few hours. Betweez seveu and eight o'clock in the evening, however, the rain again began to falL heavily, accompanied with a stiff breeze from the soath-west, which increased in violence ...

... . - I ?? ?. ?Attopolitivil and wyovind - ?? a' 4mg. GREAT FirE IN CAITHNESS Q~ f serious and extensive coofl~gratio5 tat e this county took Pls&ce Oa Wednedy it,~r and valuable meal mill belonging to r ril~~ ag terminated in the total destruction oftepeas~ad corn and meal deposited within th . Atmdih ai sight is represented as having been, heul THE 1GREAT EAS9TERN,_b~.4hrCnp lt chairman of ...

... CLEVER CAPTURE OF TIEVES. : One of the cleverest and most prompt captures which we have had to record has been effected by Inspector Fearn and Sergeant Davis, of the Derby borough p6olice force. On Monday evening Inspeotor Fearn -received information of P robbery that had been effected *at Mrs. Leeds', George Hotel, Statlon.street, from A cup.- board in that house, and that £20 or £27 ,had ...

... VERDICT OF MANSL&UGHTER On Saturday last an inquest was opened at Mliddlewioh before Mr. W. Latham, coroner, on view -of the body oi Henry Heath, who was killed by a boiler explosion in an iron foundry In Newton, Middlewlch, on the previous Wed. needay. The first witness examined was William Heath who had suffered some severe injuries by the accident, but Is likely to recover. He deposed he ...

... THE BISHOP OF RIPeN ON 5' THE GREAT I -SOCIAL EVILT The thirty-elghth annual meeting of the Leeds Guardian Asylum and General Penitentiary was hold'on Thursday, at noon, in the Philosophical Hall, Leeds, under the presi- dency of the Lord B shop of Ripon. The report gave con. ysziog proofs of the satisfactory working of the scheme. Alter some resolatlbns were passed, the Mayor took the chair, ...

... ; iESkthCTION EN AT WOLVERHAMPTON. | On Monday, at the Wolverhampton petty sessions, Francis Roper, and James Elwell, two young men of respectable appearasloc, oolliery engineers by profession, were charged with'havlng,.on the 24th of August, 1858, disinterred from her grave, in the Jewish cemetery, Wolverhampton, the body of a femaie named Rosa Wolfe, it was said under the beliefthat the ...

... A SWINDLERWS OPERATIONS IN GOOD I I SOCIETY.' ,1 - m_ HA_ I A very extraordinary case of swindling was, & few days ago, submitted to the Tribunal of Correotional Police. The accused was a remarkably good-looking young mall, who though formerly only a private soldier, has received a goo, education, and appDears, from his manners aud style of talk.- ing, to have ?? good society. Before entering ...

... - WEEKLY TnhEs OFFICE, Saturday, Nine a.ms. MORNING EXPRESS. (By Elctrie and Magnetic Telcraph$s.) INDIA. BomSBAY, DEcEMBER 27.-In the Ghoorka campaign 2,000 to 3,000 rebels have already been taken, in addition to those killed, and Nana Sahib is confidently reported among the dead. The Nepaul campaign is also looked on as finished. The Bombay import market has been flat since our last ...

... LORD MAOAULAY. THE year which has just passed before us has been specially memorable for the many famous names which it has blotted out from our living literary a celebrities. HALLAM, the historian, at the ripe old age of 82, was called away in January; MACAULAY' the poet, the statesman, and historian, leaves us la December of the same year, and though at an age l which was protracted enough ...

... -ANOTHER CHARGE OF FATAL BRUTALUI Y I~~~ -- -: SEA it. . - On Monday, at the Hull Police Court, Williram Lorenson, a seamnan, 18 years of age, attended before the stipendlary magistrate, Jr. Travis, and made the following deposition upon oath ?? am a seaman on board of the Dutch schooner Maria.l Sho3 arrived in Hull three or four weeks ago, from Marseilles, She sailed from that port to HuU11 ...

... ANOTHER FEARFUL COLLIERY ACCI- DENT THROUGH NDGLIGENCE. SEVEN LIVES LOST. Dd An appalling occurrence happened about a mile and a es half from Wolverhampton on Saturday morning, and m resulted in the instant death of seven persons. A little he before siX o'clock, the colliers at the Blue Fly Pit, at the at Wedaesfield Heath Colliery of Mr. H. B. Whitehouse, of mg Wolverhampton, assembled aronnd ...