... AN interesting paragraph relative to l4. CHEVALIER'S remarks upon this subject, in the report on the French department in the late Exhi- bition, appeared in our columns a day or two since; v but tbe important coasiderations to which attention was thus called by that eminent French statist and p political economist, deserve a more prominent notice a and more extended illustration. Time was when ...

... LAVNCASHIRE DISTRE-SS. | >THE CENTRAL RELIEF FUND. (From our vorreapondet.J A meeting of the Executive Committee was held yesterday afternoon, at the Manchester Town Hall, Sir J. K. SrHUrTLEWORTH in the chair. There were also present Lord Egerton of Tattoo, Colonel Patten, M.P., Major Egerton Leigh, Mr. J. Platt, Mr. R. Gladstone, Ar. W. Mason, Mr. M. Ross, LordE. Howard. Mr. J. Worrall, Mr. S ...

... LEEDS, DECEMBER 10, 1862. HUnDDm1SFIELD CHURCH INSTITUTE.-On Monday night, the annual meeting of the members of the 1Rudders- field Church Institute was held in the roading-room of the institution. Mr. George Armitage, JtP., presided. The statement of accounts showed an income of £254 9s. 10d, and an expenditure equal to that sum within £4. It was stated that solm items of expense had not yet ...

... a0- THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND THE The committee of. New York citizens seeking to enlist the co-operation of the whole of America in the national effort so auspiciously commenced for relieving the sufferings of the English oporatives, have made a stirring appeal, from which the folowing is an extract:- We are called upon, in the name of humanity, to relieve men, women, and children, who are ...

... THE FRENCII IN AMEXICO. PITY without relief has got a proverbially lald name, but bad as it is, it is all that we can afford to 1estow upon the French in the pretty plight thcy have got themselves into in Mexico. If people will gratuitously put their ?? into a wasps' nest, they must not expect very active sympathy when they withdraw their nasal organ in a vcry inflammatory condition. We are ...

... LATEST NE WS. S.S a.~ .a. M - .a. -4 ma * * r. @ [REUTRr's TELEGRAMS.] ITALY. THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS. TURntl, DSC. 6. The following is the probable list of the Nevv Ministry:- President of the Council of Ministry and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Signor Pasolini. Minister of Finance, Minghetti. Minister of Commerce, Manna. Minister of Public Works, Menabra. .Minister of War, Petitti or Larovore ...

... THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION AND ITHE SILAVEOWNERS. The correspondent of the N ew York Pimes, with General Rosencranz's army, writes fromn Gallstin, Tenees. see:- The country in which we are is beautiful, fertile, and comparatively well improved, yet on all sides the withering, blighting effects of the rebellion are visible, Uncultivated fields, dilapidated outhouses, vacant resi, dences, ...

... ?? . T is stated at Turin that commnunications. have' passed between the Italian and French Governments which practically amount to a shelving of the Roman question for an indefinite period. In an interview between; .M. FARIrI and the FRENcH' MINIsrTa at Turin, the former is said to have stated to M. Sartiges that' the present policy of the French Government rendered it little probable. that ...

... A PERSONAL EXPLANATION. (From our Comrespondedt.) At meeting of the Manchester City Council, yes- c teiday, was culivened by ex~lanatory statessents of a J character very dilfcreut fro usthe usual routine of its a proceedlings. The business of the oceting had come to a . close ; tho new M1Iayor (MrI. Abcl leywwood) was leaving the fi chair, andk the whole of the scmbers were rising simulta- f, ...

... OUGHT THE COTTON DISTRICTS TO RECEIJTE A PARLIAMENTARY GRANT? A FEw of the Members of Parliament, and. a considerable number of other gentlenicii, who have spoken at public meetings on the distress ill the Cotton Districts, have assumed that on the meeting of Parliament a grant will be made from the Colisoli- dated Fund towards the relief of that distress. We shall not be suspected of want of ...

... ANOTHER DEATH. (From the Sheffield independene of yesterday.) The interest and excitement created throughout tl.e iron manufacturing districts by the late fearful explosion at the Midland Iron Works, were clearly demonstrated yesterday. From an early hour in the morning, the roads leding to the work-a were thronged with persons anxious to see for themselves the scene of wreck and confusion. ...

... WI OLESALE DESECRATION OF GRAVES IN THE ROCHDALE CEMETERY. TRIAL OF THE RLEGISTRAR AT THE LIVERPOOL ASSIZES. LIVERPOOL, Monday. Norris Taylor, late Registrar of the Rochdate Public Cemetery, was indicted before Mr. Commissioner Gurney, to-day, for having, contrary to law and public decency, removed bodies from graves and placed them in other graves. Mr. Kay, oneof the counselfor the ...