... PROPOSED TUNNEL UNDER TIlE MERSEV. -the, will be seen by ourreport of the cqurwilproccedings 9 look of Wednesday, thatt the Cooncil have Jecltted ifr the e'2' Ation present to pronounce any opinion on the probability of aeltar effecting a tunnel under the Mersey. Ste Odif- VWe have had a conversation with Mr. Steele on the sub- CRA f an ject, and his opinion is decisively opposed to the ...

... yartatto. t555 I ith- 5'PILLUNG THE SALT. ew It is a curious fact, though not generally known. that the po. 0 itu- pular superstition ofoverturning the salt at table being unlucky, originated in a picture of the Last Supper, by Leonardo da i an, Vinci, in which Judas Iscariot is represented as overturning the c his ?? Advertiser. [he As the foregoing paragraph is making the tour of the tfi ...

... COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS O1? THE 6TH INSTANT. : . o S e Scarcely any thine of public interest occurred to he recorded. p t at the Council on Wednesday, and the meeting did not c;)ntii ue I for more than two hours and a half. There was liatle discussion, tl e and no division. ff o A vacancy at St. Martin's Church was declared, by the resignatisn of the Rev. R. J. Statihan, who has succeeded to h the ...

... flabal ?,Itclhi I -1clict ?? thle d a Ocean, Lees, for St. Lucar and Seville, was lost 1st Dec. near ] into St. Lucar. Yearly all the cargo saved. n. The John, Renton, from Odessa for this port, was lost about arts the 20th of October, on the Asiatic coast'of the Black Sea, with Br ed; all the crew. . The Susan sailed from Buenos Ayres for Havannah 12th Oct. est and on the following night got ...

... COBSETT S LECTURES. In order to make room for cur copious abstract of the 1 . American President's Message, we have beed obliged to at curtail for the present some observations uhich we had C o prepared respecting Cobbett's lectures. In our opinion, , a great deal more has been written on the subject than si it deserve& as what wes said of the first lecture applies to a . those which succeeded ...

... itVPFRItAY, JANUARY 8, 1X0. LOCAL NUISANCES, y2lVBptEME TS, c. AND nRIEV .NOTCES TO COURESPODENTS. I i,..d nr -ionalv notleeds N.JOTiCES TO I dao Nufisance in Be~f-treet, llrfg r5.A e kind previously notce C e nusn e n B-strgi~t, tile existence anid continuance of hhoI .as represented by, our corresponident A Passer-by, were not very 1she creditable to some parties, wee felt bound to insert, ...

... - t8t- thi ~Y he packet-ship Silas Richards, which arrived-attehilport In Va(*eiesday, we have received American papers to the 9gus th %Ilt. They contain some initeretltng information relative to CO- di kimbia and Peru, but this we are compelled to dismiss veryu0 briefly, in order to give as copious an analysis as possible of the pi esgeto Congress ot' the President of the. United States, at ...

... PAINE'S WORK ON BRITISH FJNANCE. -- a hd5 We intend to jepublish the whole of this celebrated c1 pamphlet in weekly portions. Its interest at this mo- ti ment ?? render all apology unnecessary *,r its introduc- n Afd tion into, the Mercury. - b 'R ci the Nothing, they say, is more certain than death, and nothing g ing more uncertain than the time of dying; yet we can always fix a b oed period ...

... Qjorr~Pfl.tflt . 1'o Tqp1, OyITORS OF THR-LYfMRPOOL 6iiRCUzrY. ?? a -time whreif alllchesn oit~u G tic~dsirly the labouring classes, arc. suffering., greater moriP pati haps, than were ever endt red by the people of pti5ancil at any former perod,-wheni envy and ill wiill, the I hnae 0ff~peig ofcompetition, our present basis O' con-ln legat! ctrcotirse. are eo prevalent, it will not be ...

... . 9Itt ILiterpool ,lercurp. SALUS POPULI, LXXSUPREMA. .ORIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1830. ;MGWUT ASILUM FOR'THE HOUSELESS POOR. E (Comfnunwdfromc our 14As) T Ttlose of' our readers who peruse t'le following article will not require any apology from us for appropriating so much of' our J. journal, as we have lately felt it our duty to devote to the sub- N ject of the houseless poor. It is painful in the ...

... *S-jtu% anb eboertat io. rW i$:1lE5. -. If C The latest accounts from Bombay contain the ?? in- l idiligence that Sir John Malcofm intends* t-o foil othe-eiaibpEt~ set by Lord William Bentiuck, in Bengal, by granting per- I mission to European merchants, and others, under his Govern- t ment, to hold lands for the purposes of agriculture or the estab.- lishment of manufactures. This is a ...

... Jgabat tnutrlligstclc. same Imrrtaent to Mariners.-The following extract from the log. M Mr. boik of the ship Calcutta contains an important caution to navi- gators not to proceed too far south off the Cape of Good Hope: VI 5, of - Monday, 20th April, 1829, lat. 40 50 S. Ion. 46 12 E., one PI ,hter o'clock p. m., strong breezes and squalls, with thick hazy wee-G, ther, double reefed the ...