MONGST the old customs recently fallen into desuetude, it is singular that the custom of giving maundy money should so long have stood its ground. To each of our readers who may be curious to learn the preservation of this gift, we would advise a visit on Thursday next to the ch

[From our own _Correspondent.] MANCHESTER, Tll IX BM% Y.— Lord Brougham's correspondence with Mr. Bright and Mr. Hamer Stansfield has excited much interest, not unmingled with regret, among the free-traders of the north. It is greatly to be deplored that the time and energies of

Yesterday fortnight a slight shock of earthquake was experienced through a considerable part of the north•eastward of Manchester. We have now to mention that another, and a more violent shock, or rather shocks, for in most instances two were felt, occurred a few minutes before o

Gentry, and Public in general, that they are the Sole Inventors of the Improved INVISIBLE SPECTACLES, with a groove cut in the pebble and glass. W. and W. have taken the above premises for the retail sale of Spectacles, having manufactured for these last six years for C. W. Dixe

We can scarcely imagine a more difficult position than that in which a jury is placed, before whom stands a man accused of deliberate murder, but of whose sanity there is a doubt. The mind revolts at the idea of claiming an expiation from an irresponsible being; while, at the sa

of the people, was a moderate and a reasonable one, he would ask whether they could by any possibility adopt a course more calculated to give encouragement to extreme opinions? His proposition was for a committee to inquire into the effects and consequences of the Corn-law of las

New York papers to the end of February have been received by the British and North American Royal mail steamer Acadia. . . . The only proceeding of interest in Congress had occurred in the Senate. It arose out of a passage in Sir Robert Peel's speech on the address in answer to

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yet he could not believe that the prisoner had spent £BO or £lOO in three days. If the prisoner did not return the money, he must send him for trial to the Old Bailey. The prisoner persevering in his previous statement, Mr. Combe ordered depositions for trial to be taken. The ev