... res BY ELBETRIO TB;LERA;I;, HOUSE OF LORDS. C TUESDAY, MAY 20. Their lordships met at five o7clook. PRIEVATE BILLS. Y TSe following bills were read a third time and M passed :-The Wexford Harbour Commissloners, the ag North Britlish Railway (Honkton Hall and Ormiston, nn &o), the Carlisle and SlilothBayPRailway and Dock, Ee the North British Railway (Carlisle and Sliloth Bay, of ?? and the ...

... I IMPERIAl PARLI-AMENT. I BY ZLEOTRIO TELEGRAPH. H[OUSE OF LORDS. THURSDAY, MAY B. The Lord ahe acellor took his seat at fiv o'ologck. THE LEGISLATloj, UPON PRIVATE BILLS, Lord STANLEY 0? ALDZLlY called attentloA to the extraordinary powers ?? in the Unityl Kingdom Electric Telegraph Co aui;j' .311l, slid expresed a hope that some alteration would ipM Au4 in the course of legislation upon ...

... FOREIGN NE\S. I Ve THE IVAR IN AMERICA. Bic The royal mail steamship Pcr,;ia arrived at Liverpool oa Sb Saturday, after a most rapid pium5g0 froml NOWI Lork set THE SITUATION. eat Unider tho above heading, the XNei Iork Hrofrad, oftte o 7th, has the following summary of news: jsmbrad a 1, ,IA ba~ttle Las taken place near W~irfo~brges Ganera gr( brilliant victory has been aehieved by ourfrs ...

... TE DISTRESS IN LANCASHIRE. I THE PROVIDENT SOCIETY. b3 th The following letter has been addressed by Thos. Bazly b £iq., M.P., to His Worship the Mayor of Mancheter, vho t has forwarded it to us for publication :- t h &3A, liarg-stret, St. James's Square, S.W., tb London, 15th May 182. de ?? My deer ?? seen your at~pe on behalf of the o tenseolent labour of relein h existlng distress of tho Ff ...

... - l PItCKUP BASIN SCHonOL Svensoxs.-On Sunday last, the annual sermons were preached at the branch school it connection with thg Independents, at Darwan. The iiev. D. Herbert, of Belgrave Mdeting House, preached In the afternoon; and the Rev. T. Davleg, of Duokworth-street Chapel. in the evening. The collections amounted to a litt o over £10. The school Is oniv a small one, and a larger one ...

... TIHE CHURCH RATE QUESTION. We really wonder how long the people of England will tolerate the repetition of such scenes as was wit- nessed in the House of Commons on Wednesday last, when the whole of the two parliamentary armies, except the blind and the lame, the halt and the o pairs, were marshalled to say aye or no on the Church-rate question. It'is a curious circumstance that the ...

... II - HOUSE OF COMMONS.-YE8TauDAy. [BY BRITISH AND IRISH MAGNZTIC TELERCIIpa] The Speaker took the chair at four o'clock. - MEDIPATION WITH AMERICA.-hir. S TANrEY gave no.. lice that, on an early day,. he shoufd submit a motion to the House for the purpose of enabling, Her- Majesty's government to state their willingness to art as mediators between the Nor- thern and Southern States of America, ...

... THE CHRONICLE. PRESTON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 1862. ACGMARIAN CRIME IN IRELAND. ?? - -- A- A- _- _- _I, _ . .. 1. . . .. .. 1 iOnce-more, we are sorry to be ,obliged to write the words; has agrarian iiurder become rife in the green [valleys-of the south and west of Ireland. Almost ever since the Samine of 1848, a miraculous: tranquillity-ihad prevailed in those hitherto crime-stained districts, ...

... - . .: 11 VIOLATIONS OF THE FACTORY ACT. Atb teptySessions, held at Over Darwen, on Thursday last, before M Ectles and Shorrock, and the Revds. E. C. Montriou and P. Graham, Messrs. John and Joseph Place were summoned by Mr. Henderson, factory inspector, Blackburn, for a large number of violations of the Factory Act. Mr. Dean ap- peared for the defendants. M Mr. Henderson said that in ...

... SIAJtWSlPl## v gS fltEMA SALVs rOPULI 1E SuPREMA^. DOMESTIC. lord Brougham has detected what is * doubtless an important omission in the convention which has recently been con- eluded between this country and the United States for the suppression of the slave trade. The treaty, in its present form, excludes Porto Rico, and Lord Broughain-who, it is almost unnecessary to say, takes great ...

... A SOUTHERN VIEW OF: AMERICA1T AFFAIRS. NEw YoRx, Arnmr 19, 1862. Since my last we have received, both from the Southern and Northern slde, fuU detals of the battlo M of ShUoh. From these it appears thtat thecloso of to the secoud day's battle both the contestants were ho 'a thoroughly exhausted that they were compellei to W: oease In their work of slaughter, and that while the his Federals ...

... lALVS POPSLI LEX 8XUPREM. I~~~ DOMESTIC. The Sale of Spirits Bill (for repealing the Tippling Act) and several other mea- sures were advanced a stage in the House of Commons yesterday. We have already announced that Mr. Stansfeld, one of the members for Halifax, intends, on June 3rd, to introduce a motion relative to the public expenditure, and we expressed an opinion that if the motion was ...