... I A.MERICA. 1 BY ATLANTIC TELEGRAPYL1 NEW YORK, SATURDAY. The President has appointed Judge Frazer, of Indiana, to be United States Commissioner under the Washington Treaty, and the Hon. Robert S. FHal, of New York, attorney, to be the agent for receiving the claims of American citizens against Great th'itain. NEw YORK, SUNDAY. Senor Valmaseda is about to return to Havana. Rumours are current ...

... THE BARNE S CONVALESCENT ROME, CHEADLE. On Saturday afternoon the foundation stone of the home for convaleneents in connection with the Man- hester Royal Infirmary, to be built by the munificence of Mr. Robert Barnes, was laid at Cheadle by Mr. Hugh Birley, MP., in the ?? of many of the most aotive supporters of the Infirmary. The honoured founder of the institution was unhappily detained by ...

... | SATLFORD TOWN COUNCIL A quarterly meeting of the Salford Town Council was held on Wednesday, the Mayor (Mr. Alderman Davies) presiding. TUlE lBROP09SD VISIT TO WOODREAD. Mr. Alderman PELLETT moved that a resolution of the Salford district water committee, as to the inspection of the waterworks at Woodhead-the consideration of which was postponed at the last meeting-be adopted. In ex- ...

... On'Saturday, an inquest was opened at Bolton, as to the death of William Schofield, one of the men Who was in- jnred on the 30th November, in the riot which took place when Sir Charles Dilke, M.P., was announced to deliver his address on registration and representation in Boiton. Evidence having been heard, the jury, after a consulta- tion of over an honr's duration, returned a verdict of ...

... On Monday night, Mr. B. Lucraft, member of the London School Board (Finsbury division), was entertained at supper at the large clubroom of the Hole-in-the-Wall, Kirby-street, Hatton Garden, by a number of his friends, t chiefly composed of the working classes, in celebration of I his return to the School Board as being the only working r man candidate in the metropolis elected to that body. 5 ...

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... THE WEEKLY TIMES. MA&NCHESTER,___ SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28,1871. Tun chief interest in foreign affairs just now centres at Vienna. The constitutional difficulties of the Austrian empire have reached a crisis of suspense which has lasted for more than a fort. night, and of which the issue can hardly be further prolonged. Thursday's telegrams state that the policy of Count BEST has carried the day ...

... i A meeting of the Hospital Sunday committee of Man- ?? Salfordwasbeld ?? inthe Mayor's Parlour, at the Town Hall, under the presidency of the treasurer, Mr. R1 Haworth, to consider thF report of the sub-consneittee appointed to consider on wiot prin. ciple the moneys raised on, or in connection withI Hospi. tal Sunday ought to be distributed. The repord, which ifs given below, having been ...

... COLLISIO>XN BETW\VFEN THE HIMALAYA ?? | ?? TH. eRWI ?? The following is the official report to the Privy Council cn the inquiry into this casualty:- We, the undersigned, John Trevillian Jenkin and Geo. Browne Brook, two of her MIajesty's justices of the peace acting in and for the borough of Swansea, in the county of Glamorgan, having been applied to, on the 27th day of March, 1S71, to hold a ...

... SINGULAR EFFECTS OF LIGHT-NLG. The neighbourhood of Ashton-under-Lyne was visited during Saturday and Sunday by a series of violent storne, which have been accompanied by lightning and thunder. On; Saturday evening, about forty anglers wore contending for prizes Eu; a pond opposite the Ashton District Infirmary, on the Moseley road, when they were considerably alarmed by a severe storm, in the ...

... The scheme for the conversion of Francis Cartwright's Charity, founded in 1708, for the purposes of education, under the Endowed Schools Aot, 1869, has been issued. The governing body is to consist of four members, viz., Mr. Robert Gladstone, Mr. Murray Gladstone, Mr. A. H. Heywood, Mr. W. H. Houldsworth, and one other peroon to be chosn by then. In filling up vaeanocies upon the Board, ...

... ti. he There were two municipal contests in Salford on Mon- id day, to supply the vacancies caused in the Council by ?? the elevation to the position of aldermen of Mr. Cont- ad cillor Jenkinson, of St. John's ward, Broughton, and of 0g Mr. Councillor J. B. M'Kerrow, of St. Thomas's ward, Iy Pendleton. BS In St. John's ward, the candidates were Mr. James te Sinclair, merchant, 189, Great ...