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... TBE DISTRIESS IN LANCASHIRE AND THE I INDIAN TARIFF. IAlNDIAN TARtLFF. (FIo ou C2obrrespondent.J LONDON, lVednesday. it Tlis imonifing, a deputation from the operatives of Preston appointed by a public meeting hold there on the 15 28th tilt., had all interview with Sir Charles Wood, Scare- rs tary of State for India, at the India Board. The deputa- tion, which consisted of Mr. Thomas Bankes, ...
... EXTRACTS FROM PUNCH. A VERY EA&SY ONE TO GUESS. AS by are the Germans bi;e quinine and gentiau ? Because tbey are Two-tonics. A Movixe; QrESTIN-.-WXhy, il 11101min1g from.1 a house, ought you to leave the waslihand basins behind? Because they are not ewei s. To A CORIESFON-DENT.-QuiZ. Buy a Jolhson'5 Diftiosna-p. Punch adheres to the word assimilate, but liberally presents you with the ...
... The Herald's Paris oarrespondent writes thus on Mexicau ?? French intervention will by no means be confined to & Marob to the Mexican capital and back. The favourite idea at head quarters just now is to establish French influence permanently in the skape of a protectorate, There will be a French high coin- missioner and a Prench army, 'whilst a Mexican parlia- mnent will be ?? eto amuse itself ...
... SALUS POPSL LXW DUPRS . ~ ~ ~ ! _ _ . SUMMARa. ; I_ .W DOMESTIC. A Congress of Clergymen and Laymen is to be held at Oxford, in July, under the p.residency of the Lord Bishop of the DL)io- 'cese, with a view to consultation as to the best means of promoting the practical effi- eiency of the Church of England. The Royal Commissioners appointed to inquire into the present condition of the ...
... -i.-MATIQNAL ASSOCIATION | FROVOTIOI OF SOCIATL SCIEJCE. 'existmeoo n Thur~ay, conjointly with the Ui4og:ib to. i International de Hleicfaisanoeewhich now holdsifts cond third eiession. The association stilIL claims Lord to ts Broughsam as iti presidenit, and, under his auspices it men enee0 more comes before tho pseblia with every Miy, peotisef soceaf ilyachevin lteei~alottd t mk. t'5 In the ...
... n TSeodayd, May 27. Is THr General Assembly of the Free Church met again to- It' s day, at ton o'clook-The Rev. Dr Guthrie, Moderator, in REPORT ON VACANCIES IN TRE NEW COLLEGE, 0. Dr Beith gave in the report of the Committee on the t, Election of Professors. ;In The following were the returns from Presbyteries and P 8 Svnods of the persons recoomiended for the different a Er Cai - M t- For ...
... CHEW DrCANAL CHORAL ASSOCIATION. The third annural festival of the maemrbers of this associa- tion wits held oia Wednesday at the plctutreque'little villag fc of Wraxall, and proved te be one of. the motn roitou fa gathcirsfl8 'the society has yet experienced. Th7object al whichthissocity 'as in vie, asideed its title would hi denote, is the fostering 'of a study of choral music in the at ...
... U 1; X~lJBAY' JUNE 7,-'1868.: TH-E DEBATE ON RETRENCHMENT. , ; .1 , .~ . I .; I . L I . ~ 1 . i i IT has not required any great, perspiacuity in political affairs to prididt ' fozr somh lthiie' past' that we sohould IShortly' see ,a revviva in the codntry of that general I desire for economy which we remnember in our younger 51days. No onecdan be'surprised that the enormhous amount ' - of ...
... THE FIRST SHILLING DAY. The first shilling day on Monday, June 2, like that of 1851, by no means realised the expectations formed as to the high numbers of visitors. The most that we can say is, however, that they were greater on this than on the last occasion, but they were likewise also almost as much bslow anticipation. In 1851 the total attendance on the first shilling day was 23,402, of ...
... We copy the following from the Star of Gwent of last week We hear that the Newport Gas Company have made a reduction price of gas, which will, after 25th June next, be regulated by the following- scale;- 15,000 Cubic Feet, and under 4s. 6d. per 1000 Above 15,000 „ and not exceeding 31,000 4s. 4d. Above 30,000 „ „ „ 60,000 4s. 2d, Above 60,000 „ „ 100,000 4s. Od. Above 190,000 „ „ 3s. 8d. The ...
... DEATH OF THE DEAN OF BANGOB.—The death of this tiuly estimable gentleman is recorded this week. He had been for some weeks previously suffering from chronic bronchitis, but he continued up to a few days of his death to. devote his attention to the cause of education, a work to. which he had willingly and actively consecrated himself from his first connexion with the diocese of Bangor. His ...
... JfitMigeixa. HOUSEHOLD PROPERTY AT CANTON.—Eight houses, which cost £900 in building, situated in the Severn- road, were sold a few days back for £ 320, being X40 per house. THEATRE.—Mr. George Peel, of the Liverpool and other Theatres, has taken the Cardiff Theatre for the summer season. Mr. Peel performed at Cardiff about eight or nine years back, and is therefore not altoge- ther a stranger ...