... SIR T. SUGGESTS EARLIER CLOSING. ALD. THEWLLS'S COMMENT. The remark of Sir Thomas Shann, speaking from the chair of the Manchester Licensing Bench yesterday, the effect that clubs shou ...

... SPIRIT THE PRESS. FREE TRADE. It growing more and more difficult for the opponents commercial reciprocity to silence the trier.of'the working classes. Free trade lessons are fluently preached many Lib ...

... CINDERELLA. The reign pantomime for the season 1R96-97 if now fairly established. Tragedy, for the time-being— at a::y rate—is banished from the melodrama hides its diminished head, ...

... (Ui.ilto) Why i* the Queen i k«- the Thames •' Dv'e give it P Because »be'» got (tunnell). Ol» ! 01. f! ! I soI'EST at I'klTHßloi.-An inquest was held r ,| last at the W heal Sheaf, in lie body ~f who, about month ago, Han thrown rarl and hail In* (high broken. The broken limb , i appeared Join# well, though Slading lii>i not left bio bed. died suddenly on the Monday ,I.llll*. It via* the ...

... _.i BaABLI dove good aavim pubhc attention to the unsatisfactory sute of our T otllZT h !r cc - Thia he do - - ™ 2x7* Tm n V nd the _ yiewa be has ?? caun* fail to stimulate reflection even in the minds to whi ch prejudice and political antipathy fo7bid hey t mir? CtmViCtion ' The timeB he *» ohol fcJ o a Trtr^ ?? ° Bi ; iOQS 0f *»»t should be the policy oi a great country like England, are ...

... Paris, Thursday. Sensational statements purporting to give particulars regarding the latest developments ■vf the Panama scandals, and especially Madame Cottu's interview with M. S ...

... of inanulltle than appeared in the morning, which led to a that were not anticipated in earlier part of • since that period more business has been done , '|han in any of the preceding week* during the iD s month, and, i.« understood, on American ac- frU . but the orders from the United States are not of UOC agnitude to produce any decided impression on the t Specially when orders from the ...

... BOLTON, BLACKBURN, CLITHEROE, AND WEST-YORKSHIRE RAILWAY. OPENING OF THE C LITHE BOE BRANCH. On Thursday as we announced last week, a very splendid fed- was giveji at VVbolley, to celebrate the com- pletum of the line to Clitheroe. The contractors, Messrs. Nowell, Hattersley, and Shaw, were the euteruuuers on ihe occosiou ; and the whole arrangements were under the control of their agent, Mr. ...

... BLACKBURN INFIRMARY: ITS ORIGIN, HISTORY, AND PBOGBESS, TO ME LATINO OF TBE FOUNDATION STONE, ON WHIT-XOKDAY. The foundation stoue of an InfoTnar, for Blackburn and tbe adjacent populous and important district was bid on Wbit-Mondav. Tl.cre was thus a beginning made to a work which bus been l ...