... ITHE WEEKLY TIMES. - ABUNQHESTER, SATURDAY, APRIU1 17, 1875. UNWONTED animation has been given to the HIouse of Commons by the introduction of topics rather more personal than political. The most spirited debate for a long time arose from one of the Tichborne petitions. Some inhabitants of an Essex village proposed to impeach the Speaker as well as arraign the judges, and owing to this ...

... FXTA1L BALLOON ASOENT. trrible acident happened on Thursday week to e uts M5. Tissandier, Croce-Spinelli, and ite], who ha ascouded at half-past eleven in the bal. ,n the zenith, from thea gasworks of La Villette. It c that the balloon fell about four o'cloek at Ciron, were Twoof the a vroliutf Were already dead, and the ...

... THE WEEKLY TIMES. MANCHESTER, . .. SATUILDAY, MAY 22, 1875. WAn alarms have subsided, but there remain the questions-who raised them? Pand who laid them P These are the topics of disotision at Berlin andelsewhere. TheideathattheEmperor of RUSSIA or Prince GORT8CHAKOFR said any. thing to dissuade the German Government from any warlike te p it wase disposed to take finds little acceptance in ...

... The Calcutta Englishmna1an says that a very important memorandum on the subject of over population in Bengal and Behar, and the system of emigration pro- posed to alleviate it, was submitted some time since to the local Government by Mr. Bernard. The experience gathered by Mr. Bernard in his tours through the dis- tressed districts last year butpartially confirmethe view, so generally ...

... The will, dated May 1, 1874, of the Rev. John Wmi. King, B.D., formerly vicar of Ashby.de.la.Lunde and 2 reotor of Basingmhan, and late of Ashby Hall, Lincoln- shire, who died on the 9th of May last, was proved at I the principal registry, London, on the 15th instant, by a William Dashwood Fane, Mildmay Willson Willson, c Charles Brooke, and Henry Peake, the executors, the personal estate ...

... ?? New York papers of the 28th of August contain the amiouneement of the failure of the Bank of California. This great financial disaster is attributed to a reckless stem oe speculation indulged in by the president of ovanbfor many years. In oonsequenoeof thefailuro, tke National Gold Bank and Trust Company and the Merchants' Exchange Bank of San Francisco, two rioh and populax institutions, ...

... i - I MR. BRIG6HT AT BIRMINGH AM. 'I M. Michel Chevalier visited Birmingham on Wed. nesday, on the invitation of the Chamber of Commerceo of that town. in the evening M. Chevalier was entertained by thqe ;Chamber at a banquet in the Queen's Hotel. Mr. Ged. Dixon, ?? as president of the Chamber, presided, In addition to the guest, of the evening, the chairmai was supported by the Right Hon. ...

... i ~ UniON OF Im S. I The annual meeting of tha Lsncashire and Cheshire Union of Institutea was hold on Mondayaifternoon, in the Mechanica' Institution, 1DVid.Btreet, in this city; Dr. John Watts presiding. Dr.. PAxIIHuA8T read the report, ok, which the fol. lowing is a summary: The general position of the Union is satisfactory ant en. ceuraging. The'number of institutes now inunion is 64. in ...

... DEATH OF A REM[ARABLE MAIc ?? There died at Douglas, -IB of Man, on Tb morning, at the advanced age of 78 years, a most' markable man. Born at Marseilles in the year 1e. Peter Henry Joseph Banume at an early ago wtyae to Naples by his father and placed inL 8 1,itCO there. His groat abilities soon brought him ini, co, asd after spending some time in the emuploy of p Caatilioia he became private ...

... | COUNERFEI; COIN. At the Centnrl Criminal Court, London, gs Monday, Arthur Keen, J3uhm Neave, and Annie, JolweUll wore charged with manufsacturing and uttoring counterfeit coin at several of thoe stations of the Underground Bstl way. Mr. Poland p'eusoeted for the Treasury. Dlr. Besley defended Keen - and Mr. Safford the prisoners Weave and Rolswell. AIr. Montsag Williams and Mr. Matthews ...

... | ' THE CATHEDAL SERVICES. The Bishop .of Manchester on Sunday preached in St. Johnas Church, Deinogate, in connection with tho 106th anniversary of the consecration of the church. In the course of hia' sormon the Bishop, referring to the relations.of the-rector and the parishioners, said that thongh there was no disunion in the parish, there was a very Inchristian and uncharitable spirit ...

... IPOST.OFFICE ARRANGEMENTS IN SALFORD. A meeting of the general purpossa committee of the Salford Municipal Council was held at the Town Hall, Bexley Square, on Thursday, the Mayor (Mr. Alderman Harwood) presiding. On the reading of the minutes-of the postal and telegraph sub-committee, the Mayor reported that a deputation from the sub-committee had waited upon the Manchester Postmaster, and ...