... I HOUSE OF LORDS-MoNDAY. THlE DISTRESS IN LANCASHIiRE. Tho Earl of SHAFTESBU2RY said ho wv3 anxious to put a question to Lord Grauvilie, of which ha had given him srsvatenotice, upon a subject of painful ?? interest. lie House was aware of the severe distress now unhappily prevailing in the cotton manufacturing districts of Lauca- shire, and of theexemplary patience witlhwhich that distress ...

... I PROPOSED SYSTEM OF LOAV POR THEr RRLItP OF TIHE DISTRESSpD OPERATIVES.-Aproposal has been submitted to ns for the relief of the distremaed operatives, the principle of whioh is commendable. It auggeu that a fand be raised by subscription for the Purpose of granting loans to factory and other operativee wiso have been thrown out of employ- ment by the cotton famine, These loans, it is ...

... I I A meeting of operatives was held on Wednesday night in Stevenson Square, for tho purpose of considering the Indian tariff. Mr. J. J. Finnigan was called to preside. Two lurries wero provided for tho speakers. Thero were upwards of 2,000 people ?? CAIRMAx said he believed the meeting that ovening was one of the most important held in Manchester since the last frce-trado agitation. At the ...

... NUMEROUS DE&THS, ACCIDENTAL AND VIO. I I ,LENT, IN LEEDS. During Saturday, Sunday, and on Monday, several dis- tressing doaths took plwco in Leeds. On Saturday aftcr- noon, Mr. Edward AlOnD. ra- ?? glazier, and who resided with his parents in Caledonian Road, committed sulcido by hanging himsolf in his workshop, in the White Hlors Yrd, Boar Lanu. Deceased had not gone home to dinner at his ...

... THE WEEKLY TIMES. MANCHESTER, SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1802. 1 TnE MIANORUSTEn TnAGEDY.-The Manchester tragedy Is, no doubt, one of the most appalling instances of crime, or madness, or perhaps of what, in tho loose phraseology of criminal jurisprudence, is entitled criminal insanity, that the annals of our generation have furnished. Apart) however, from the naked and abstract issue, upon which ...

... li 1 - FOREIGN NEWVS. l A311ERICA. CAPTURE OF NEW ORLEANS BY THE NATIONAL FORCES. ?? toUi1 'royal ?? *9, wfittr cnited Strtem wails 5vaitierpO on ldondeporng from B.od cveryn HualaX. the most Oimpbeirttitem of her news is Ptce ar, ter d ow Orleans. the Kr:''1, Yok ald, -f te2th April, under the head The SitnatiOn, saas: - len sflyconfirmed from IThe capture of New11 Orlias i-i somfin omodr ...

... I - - ?? ?? 1 Her Majestyh purchased20 half-crown Exhi- bition tickets for the members of the household. The tendh has been successfully introduced into the colony of Tamnia. 31r. Catterall, barristor-at-law, has been ap- pointed to the office of Recorder of Wigan. William Hardy, the running trainer, has been ldlled by a man whom he had attacked under suspicicn of an irntrin rwith his (Hardy's ...

... PRINCE OSCAR OF SWEDEN AT THE CREWE I F - WORKS. .ORKS. On Friday week the extensive locomotive and rail works establishment of tiho London and North-Western Railway Company, at Crowe, was visited by Prince Oscar of Sweden. His royal highness and suite arrived at the entrance of the works about four p.m., by special train from Bilrmlncham, and wero received by Mr. J. Tinnio and Mr. T. W. Rath- ...

... MORE THREATENING NOTIC1ES N IRELAND. The Cork correspondentof SaundersNewassays: Con- morning, communicates the following intelligonco: ,, Con- siderablo excitement was created throughout the city yes. terday evening, upon its being known that a magisterial inquiry was held during the day, in the board-room of the Petty Sessions Court House, In reference to threatening letters received on ...

... [ THE CHESHIRE MIT LAND RD.ILAY.-OPNINI I TO IiNUTSFORD. Part of the new line of the Cheshire Midland Railway- namely, that portlon from Bowdon to Kiautsford-was opened to the public on Monday. Tho now line is Q miles long from Bowdon to Knutsford, and has four stations on tho route, including that of Knutbford. The whole distanco from Manchester to Knutsford will he performed by the fast ...

... EXTRAORDINARY DEATH AT LEEDS, Au inquest was hold at the Leeds Town Hall, on Monday, beforo hMr. Blackburn, on view of the body of John Walker. Deceased, who was a young mau, and resided with bhi patents in Holbook, had, a short time ago, purchased some j 3peppermint for his mother, because she was suffering from its on aunday we hwas himseh smffering from con- stipation and to remove this ho ...

... I THE OPERATIVES OF BLACKBURN AND T1iZ INDIAN TARIFF. A public meeting of the operatives of Blackbuari in tho Town iall, on Monday evening, to inep*t government for the immediate and entire repealof se dutles imposed on all Cotton goods Imported into trba Mr. John Cair38 presided, and said tho present the o Di3 time to trele sc ith such questions. They must nehla etstia repeal1 not as a ...