... I MR. GLADSTONE AND SOUTH- I I WEST LANCASHIRLE, The following It the copy of a letter which Mr. Gladstone has addressed to each of the electors who signed the requisition asking the right honour- able gentleman to come forward as a candidate for South-west Lancashire:- Hawarden, Chester, 8th August, 1868. Dear Sir,-A requisition to which you have given your name, requesting me to stand for ...

... TiHE NEW CONSTITUENCIES. I The extent of the increnae of the English con- st'ituencieR under the New Reform Act, and tbh relotive positionH of pilitical partie4 On the eve of the general election, are problemis which baffle the wisekit among us, and which call only 1e solved by the lapse of time and the progress of events. Some persons, imagining thelielvee a little wiser thtin their ...

... TRE QUBBEN & MB. DIBRAULL After a reign of over 30 yea, marked by us* ud wavering fidelity to the letter and the spirit of the PM coistitution and by n failing tact an di nd oretloon, he d boereign a not need to be pro. oir tacttd from the ostentations bombastof a Milthi4? 0y bent more on magnifying himself than on prec* 0on tirig the decent reserve which to beoomlng. Bqt a good deal of Mr. ...

... UNPOPULARITY OF PRINCE I CHRISTIAN. -A London correspondent of a New York daily paper comments rather frankly and cyniaoslly upon the unpopularity of Prince Christian In England. 6 Prince Chrlstiln,he says, married the English Princess Helena, and the people, by a sort of Instinot, came to the conclusion that the young lady had been forced Into the marriage, and that the whole business was a ...

... I BBULTION OF RAILWAYS I BILL., 1868. . J ?? On Tburday, & deputation, acirsitfili ckeak men from the chief centres of ca,~ . received by the Prdesdent ofthmoardo ofg g l Trade .cn the subject of -ole th Boardh boll sad Thes 36putation was ae y r .W LotCaford hond Mr.G Au MLtdW. It A~ ,aitdo rpeetatives from MU bldiesl imi Lon o ot. M ad. ..ln fth eaai~,t b following I~J~h~e purpoese of tMA ...

... iTa LIFB & TIMES of L0RO BiROUGHAM IN CANBaY. In the course of the past week (but wit'] a, tthat he report should Lot be Ptitlbd fur a few days) a case of Kreat literary it net came on for hearing bdfore Mr. Churc, she a Iet Inerk of the Master 0o the Rolls, tn which Lord Broushbain was the plaintiff anid Us', Jelaph Canyon was the defeLdaut. The solicitors for LordBrouhamapplited for the ?? ...

... AGRICULTURAL LABOURERB' | I UNIONS. I It in very much to be desired that every- *t. body should be able to earn a secure and ?? comfortable livelihood -by any useful labour. ,2 It is a great pity that any one should ever be SUMM01 in want of employment, and it is also to be rdey regretted that thewages of some are too little LS x for their decent subsistence. The depressed .buzlIg condition of ...

... Ti' BOUNPr ?? BILL |It is e d tat ttere will bpe inother greet trip dtw !IN-ilb . t'l of strenl between the Govern- len ndl the Nouee of Commons thi7 ,Thurtday) ewning, on that elause of the iI oundlwy IBhI w^hich relateb to the horoughs which Nmre enfranchise- or preserved by the Rierain Act of 1832. The new boroughs are vilky mino in nLumber, viz., Burnley, Cb Chelvie., Darlingfon-, Dewabury ...

... THE, SALUf3 POPULI LEX SUPREMA. to hODOMESTIC. I he ttee The Houtse of Lords resumned its sittings ight on Monday evening, after the Wihits1atide ilbe ald recess. Their lordships, howvever, sat only twenty minutes, and confined themselves to M formally passing (1110 or two measures a enstage. Amongst these was the Cotton itee Statistics 1)ill, which was read a third timle T and passed. hill ...

... THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION I A correspondent of the fIe, writing from the CamD at Zoulla, on the 25th of January, Says- T The British oteres in Abyasinla stretch to-day along a line about 77 miles In length fromi the sea coast through the Koombylee Pan to Gootngooma. To.morrow there is to bo a farther advance. A brigade winl leave Senate at daybreak, and march on Antalo. Thin brigade will bd ...

... .TO COQR'EPONDENT8& We ~M4~ reurndet tommunlc ?? W do a1t aoail onmeles. Oesnumeleations should 4111p be igbly wwn in ink and oe onr side of tA4 $$Wo r* I leugth (morea e e diilouty oa filuding in it;,7L Whatever is intended for asertion be authentloated by the name and eddiees ot webor, ncet neoseatl for pubUoatlon, but a a Witamate l of his good faith. Lotr snot otherwise *04oed have be p d ...

... PUTTING THE SCREW ON LIBERAL VOTERS. The Preston Gtuardian says:- Very early on Tuesday morning, the roughs employed at many of the Tory mills at Blackburn proceeded to eject, by sheer brute force, those of the operatives who had recorded Liberal votes on the previous day, or who were suspected of holding Liberal opinions. At Messrs. Forrest's, Navigation Mill, a number of these ruffians ...