... EDUCATIONAL CONYERENOM I AT MANORwOmP'D ,_I ?? I A conference On public education was COM: menced yesterday at Manchester, and will be contibuedto-day. The meeting isof aninfluentale and representative. oharacter, and was convened by the Manohestir educational ?? who promoted the bill introduced last session ol Par. Ihme tby Mr. Bruce, Mr. Forster, and Mr. A. Egerton. The committee having come ...

... I REO; EDITION I The coloneicy of the 7h *)ragcon Guards I8 vacant by the death of GenerAL Sr M, Whit. The Court Crcukr says that Ie,. Ihondy last Prince Leopold has been confined to ble -°o° b'y severe Indisposition, but waS better yetos.'day and is progressing very satisfactorily. The sentence on two Privates of the lot Royals; tried by court mnartlia for Penlan and seditious language In the ...

... I The usual monthly meeting of the connoll was held yesterday under the presidency of the Mayor (Edward Whitley, Esq,) ROYAL VISITORS TO LIVERPOOL. On the assembling of the council, The MArdl said-I may perhaps be permitted to wish to all the members of the oonoil a very happy and prosperous new year. (gear, hear,) At the same time, I have nu announcement to make which I am sure will be ...

... I Z70tteet of ptstoaetnia of tftmnronua~s, entertatu- mints to e0n1l/y03 ar co0 rorpesp club ansiver- saries, admiseione to professions ?? eppon*- rntnts, and matters of a Ul4e nature, the intcrest qf uhich is of a private and timitec rather than of a general and public character, arc charged as adiersWement. CAUTION TO TIM PDBLIO. -On Tuesday evening a vell.dressed young man called at ...

... I Some French obemista have discovered a way of i- creasing the lighting power of gas sixty -fold-viz., . by putting in the lame a small cylinder oft magnesia. This discovery effects a saving of five-sixths of the present SA.DONIC BMILR.-The expression sardonio smile originated in Sardinisa; some say the smile was a species of convulsion caused by the use of a deleterious herb; others have ...

... 1LACKBURN & EAST LANCASmRE. | ?? YEAR'S DAY.-On New Year's-day the whole of the mills, workshops, &c., in Darwen, were stopped. The ?? were closed for the day, and a general ho iday kept %roughotlt the town. WATCR NIGT SEBavicaS.-Oia Tuesday night last there ss divine service in the church and in the Wesleyan chapel, Low Moor. The services commenced at half-past teo, p.m., and concluded ...

... COORRfESPONDHNTS. 'We oannuot slatrtako to return eomun5mflatotno of wbhh we do r g t ovall oureelvor. Conomnnlkatlons should aiwayl'I Falesibly writlen iii fnk, and on cine gife of fth5 paper (4y lenbt~h 'eiscraat3 the diliulty of dudind xpace hr them. Whatevor to intended for Insertion uast e -authemtoetfld by 'he Dane and address of the w tier, not nocilsrltir for pubiicatlon, but ao a gur' ...

... | Notices of presentatieos of teatimomi*, erin- ( meant to employern or workpeopke, dub anniver- sariem, admissions to professions or official appoint- menat, asnd matters of a ?? nature, the interest of ,whic Is of a prisvate and limited rather than of a t general and ?? character, are chaged as t advertisements, t Mr. Robert Lathbury the honorary aecretary e to the 130eiety for the ...

... The Washington correspondent of the Standard writes under date of December 11-The condition of affairs In these States is unusually grave. The people of the moat thickly-settled Northern States are called upon to face real privation, while the people of the South are confronted by famine, disease, and the beginning of a war of raoes. I have alreadysketohed the several reoonstruotion ...

... BREACH OF PROMISE OF I I MARRIAGE. HEAVY DArdAtES. At the Secondaries' Court, London, on Monday, before Mr. Secondary Potter and a Ispecial jury, the case of Yardley v. Tyler came on for sattle- ment. The aotion was to recover damages, laid at £2000, in a breach of promise of marriage, The case was sent down from the Court of Common Pleas, defendant having suffered judg melnttogobydefault. Mr. ...

... THE STORM ON THE COBRN8H COAST: SAD LOSS OF LIFE, (On Tuesday might and the following day a storm of great violonce'raged on the south coast. The wind which was from the south-west, was accompanied with pelting raln. Although the sea In the channel was running so ?? as to dash over Plymouth breakwater and waves of unusual volume entered the SounaD, there was-not any mishap to the 40 or 50 ...

... I S:tHIPPING DISASTERS. I The well-known Liverpool packet ship Hema- sphere, bound from Beeseiln, In Arraean, to this port, witbh aoargo of rice, wtas reported yesterday abandoned at sea, her orew being all eaved and landed at this gport by the Ogono, from Manills. 8he was owned mn Liverpool by 3 Mr. Redhead. The ship Industry, of this port, bound from London to Ban Francisco, with a general ...