... DESTRUCTIVE FIRB AT WIGAN. £60,000 DAMAGES. Yesterday morning, at an early hour, one of the most terribly destructive fires that have happened in the neighbourhood occurred at Wigan, and in a few hours one of the finest and most valuable cotton mills in the town was utterly destroyed; The mill was situated at Poolstook, one of the suburbs, and was the property of Mr. W. Brown, having been ...

... na THE terrible tragedy which has just taken place in Mexico is having 'a serious effect upon the gaietyof the French capital, The event is, not an- justly, regarded as one of the most unfortunate for the he EmPERoR NArorEoN that could possibly have happened, six and its first results have been the departure from Paris ad of the CorNr and CouNrEss or PLANnEns, the ccanter- stt manding of the ...

... IMPEIRALJ PARLIAMENT. (By Teskraph.) HOUSE OF LORDS, YEBTRBDAY, Their Lordships met at five o'clock. THE DEATH OF THE EMPEROR MAXIMILIAN. Lord STRATFORD de REDCLIFFE asked if the Gov- emineot had received any official aecount of the death of the Emperor Maximilian, and whether they intended to move the House to take any notice of the event, or to condole with Her Majesty on a circumstance ...

... WARRINGTON, Monday. Up to the present time the number of victims to the earful accident which happend at Walton Junction tn Saturday boo reached seven, five of whom m ere either tilled instactly'f y the collision or died before they could e removed from the scene of. the disaster; ono died yes- iteadoy, and the seventh at half-put five o'clock this morning. oA searchingn inqiw' into the ...

... THEE LEEDS MERCURY. TnEr EMPRESS Or THl' FimENO left Paris yesterday for EDglaud, on a visit to QtrCEN Viaroni.| it was arranged that Her Majesty should be aecomi panied as far as Havre by the EmPnEEO, who would return immediately to Paris. ADvIons from Rome state that the PoPE has i sent some valuable presents to the SurrAN or TuBBED and to the VicOEo'e or Eaiper, in recognition of the ...

... IOCAIA ANDGENERAL LEEDS, JUILY 25, 1867. ROYAL PARDON TO MR. EDWARD GREHNLAD. The health of Mhr. Greenland, the former manager of the Leeds Banking Company, having suffered severely from his imptisonment in Armley Gaol for the offence of making false returns of the notes issued by that Bank, a Memorial was presented to the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, M.P., Secretary of State for the Home ...

... HOUSE OF LORDs, YBSTB'RDAY. (Before the LonD CHsAourmon, Lord CRsAXWORwE, Lord WEsuny, Lord ConoNsAY, and Lord OMEiNs.) CAMPBELL AND ANOTHIER v. CAMPBELL.-THE BREADALBANDE PEERAGE.-JTUDGMffNT. In this case, which was fully argued before their Lordships 'omer time since, the appellant con- tended that the decision of the Court of Sessian ought to be reversed, because the connection betwsen ...

... THE WESLEYAN CONFERENCE AT - .BRISTOL. On Wednesday morning the Missionary Com- mittee of Review met, The lower part of the chapel was crowded with ministers and lay gesitlemen, and a consider- able number of ladies occupied the galleries. The Presi- dent called upon Dr. Osborn, one of is colleagues in the missionary secretariat to read the minutes of the comtaittee held during the year. We ...

... THE iuLH PBRBS. - . .. A, i . L (born th AO (I4ke:l.) There are few countries which, in 'the life-time0 of one generation, have witnessed greater or more hopeful changes ina their condition thantIreland. These changes, n however, have been achieved so gradually and so labori-P a ously, the whole demand never having bean at- any time ai conceded promptly, and gaciously, that the nation consi-: ...

... ITHE R EPORT OF THE FrmE PROTECTION I COBMTTEE. The Select Committee of the House of Commons hi on Fire Protection has finished its labours. The chief hi recommendations contained in the report are, we under- E stand, to the following effect. To prevent the frequency l of fires from the faulty construction of buildings there El should be a General Building Act for every town or place i in the ...

... OINCAL. AND GENAL LE DS, JULY 30, 1867, TInY HosrpITA. - Week ending July 26th, 1867. Patients discharged, 26; admitted, 23. In the ?? 43, women 33, total, 76. Waiting for admission, 126. THE YORXSHtEtEMAGISTRATPS AND TiE TENANT FScrzEnns.-Tho public mind of the North Riding has been kept in a continued stats of agitation for nearly six months owing to the diametrcally opposite views taken on ...

... THE LAST HOURS' OF TuE ILL.FATED EMPEROR MAXIMILIAN. T The following deeply interesting account of the ie last hours and execution of the gallant but unfortu. ci nate Emperor Maximilian is taken from a ParisY journal, theFi~qro, which states that it has obtained | it by the Atlantic Telegraph, froma the columns of in the New COrleans Picayune, which republishes it at from thde Esperanza of ...