... LOCA L I - ._ OIL T1 NNV rpm L , T - ,, ?? I UPENrNGOF0 THt NgFWTo seen from the report of tii T ?? -. meeting last Thursday t roed 511b declined the. invitation to hat theen p ?? \V1 Preston Town Hall and thtehe pgi l~ in addition to the other festivitiee e th5re has, Inese areview of the volunteers fe there ees Pacjs ?? has also bes iniedt e rw5 t pti answer has been reeieef-nt,~ 0 but e ...

... The National Reform Union held a great meeting on Saturday evening in St. James's Hall. Mr. Samuel Morley presided; and with him on the platform were Mr. Mill, MP., Mr. Gilpin, M.P., Col. Dlckson, andDr. Brewer. The Chairman opened the proceedings by explaining that this meeting was advertised before the government decided to accept the principle of Mr. Hodgklnson's amendment- before, indeed, ...

... . Mr. H. J. Turner, of Richmond, Yorkshire, if who has just been over a great portion of the o midland and northern counties, thus reports on o the appearance of the crops in those districts- I think I never saw spring-sown oorn come up better; but the cold weather we had from about ` the 10th of May gave a check to the growth of aU grain crops. Beyond delay I see on good Idry land no injury ...

... SELLING A GOVERNIOT APPOIIWKNT. I~ tAtGuidhxlU Police court, onsaarday. Wmi. GIrligg Balls, a tailor Hvlsn at 2, Well *eek Jewi streetk WvA mum' mnoned 6efore ir Benamin phS to anower the foflowing charge: For that you, on the 31st dea of October 1865 and on divers other days, i the ud ofty, unlawfully dia receive divera ans of money from Uatthew John Thomas for procuring him an office under ...

... l BLACKTN & EAST LANCASHIIIE. IOw lW 8 M tR.ITY!> 1 -1. 1 - tOW MOOR, ULITHEROE.-The annual sermons on be- . half of the Wesleyan Sunday school were preached on d Sunday last, in the Wesleyan Chapel, Low Moor, by the Rev. J. T. Sanger, of Darwen. The collections made on f the occasion amounted to the sum of £15 14s. Id. NONCONFORMIST INSTITUTE.-On Monday evening, a meeting of the provisional ...

... i INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION IN ENGLANTD. The London papers publish a letter that has been ad. dressed to Lord Taunton by Dr. Lyon Playfair, one of the jurors at the Paris Exhibition, on the subject of industrial education In this country. Among the eminent men of various nations, who had assembled at the Exhibition, I am sorry to say, he writes, that, with very few excep. tions, a singular ...

... 11 ?? M-eH AtAvtA.- fA .A . . w1D. (Froem the Gardeners' Ckroaitcle.) HARDY FLOWZR GARDEN.-FiniSh staking carnations, pinks, and picotees, and so secure the spindles that no injury may befall them. Transplant seedling pansies as frequently as any have fully occupied the spaces allotted to them individually ; they like a soil containing an abundance of well-decomposed leaf-mould, more ...

... THE EARL OF CAvo AD THE JAMAICA OUTBRLAB. I ~ ?? _- In a blue-book issued yeaterdy, oa . further correspondence relatinlg to thoefb Jamaica, are tbe followving despatches frm from th Earl of Casnarvon to Governor Sir J. P.* Gre TO GOVErBiOB SrB J. P. GRANT, oC, &c. Bfr,-By Downing-street, J 30, IWJ No. 173 of 18th J yoa damg,, structed to institute a careful those cases in which grave offence ...

... , THE FATE OF DP, LIVINGSTONE, AP the annual-meeting of the Royal Geographiaol Society, hela& in London on Monday, -the president, Sir Roderlok nMurchison, in the coured of a long address, made Interest. ibg reference to Aifrloan exploration and thbhfate of Living- stone. The president said he had never admitted that there existed any valid proof whatever of the deathrlof' that great traveller ...

... PARLIAMENTARY INxELLIGENCE. HOUSE OF LORDS.-SATURDAY, MAY 25. THE HABEAS CORPUS ACT (IRELAND) SUSPENSION BILL was read a first time. THE CONDEMNED FENIANS.-LDrd DENMAN appealed to the government for mercy to the Fenian prisoners.- The Earl of DERBY declined, then, to discuss the ques- tion. The House then adjourned. Monday, May 27. REPRIEVE OF. BURKE, THE FENIAN.-In reply to the Earl of ...

... SECOND EDITIO N. I [I WEEKLY TiEs s Oimxcr, Saturday, Nine n.m. MORNING EXPRESS. [BY TELMORATH1 THE DIVISION LAST NIGHT ON Tf.l RE-DISTRIBUTION OF SEATS. The Dac~i, Telegraph remarks that the valuc bE the division pronounced yoatexday lie In the fact t1at it Olcar the ground, aud supplies the government voith a broader basin, The Herald says: The government m1ynow honour&bly ?? the charge ...

... L . - A ?? total. Hf-ear's total. to 1567. 2866. ?? 1866. MIles. r Belfast & N.qCootmeS..- 2418 2012 40214 488399 Bristol anS Exeter ?? 7873 7422 138958 131365 14 Caledonian * 24094 34439 63415 537358 !5 621 Cabran*2370 2331 44246 44193 130 ~ Cornwall * 2190 226 32452 36217 865 Deele.0 .522 460 8833 8384 20 I~~~a *- 4211 3476 17 c- Duli Itefs un.*10 1405 29628 28333 613 ~jDubn an rghd. 700 ...