... LIVERPOOL. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1834. Grand Junction Raiulway.-On Wednesday sennight a meet- ingof the proprietors of the Grand Junction Railway was bald in the Cotton Sale-room, Exehan :buildilngs, John Moss, Esq. In the chair. The chief object of'the meeting was to h Uanction an application to Parliament. for au Act to amend the Act of last session in some important particulars, and also for ...

... Ek Ott3Lber-poof ?? SALIuS POPULI LRX SUPREMA. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1834. EXTRAORDINARY EXERCISE OF POWER IN THE SUPPRESSIdN OF AN IRISH NEWSPAPER. - . ?? The Dublin Morning Regihter of- Wednesday, which X reached us yesterday forenoon, has announced the adop- f tion of a very extraordinary and astounding measure on r :the part of the Government, which, although it may be v sanctioned by the ...

... . It will be seen from-ourt Parliamentary Compendium that on Tuesday last the Ministers narrowly escaped split. ting on that rock which proved fatal to their predecessors, the Pension List. They opposed, for reasons: best known to themselves, for they produced none worthy of the name, the motion of -Mr. D. W. Harvey for an inquiry, having for its objeetto lop off the names of some of the ...

... e TO, THEEDITOR OF TITHE LIVERPOOL AMERCURY. SIR,-It is not without a fall appreciation of that very an- lr clent, and not less useful than ancient, maxim, that he y who volunteers to take part in an affray. geiierally has e thumps instead of thanks for his reward, that I look e around me for some other wise saw, oir moral instance,!, that will furnish me with an excuse sufficiently ...

... THE LIVERPOOL, AFRICAN EZEDIT1XO. .- .1 ?? ?? :- _ .- _ - _ - : -r _ a ?? - - ?? - - - - I V In the Aihemceum there is an interesting narrative of this expedition, which was read at the meeting of the Royal Geographical Society, at which Mr. MIGregor Laird (who was elected a member) was present.. We extract that portion which relates to the late esti. mable and larnented;Dr. Briggs, as it ...

... .MIL SHEII. - ?? The sulpposition that Mr. Sheil had secretly I .Cxpressed opinions respeeting the Irish Coercion Bill very different from those which he had avowed e in the House of Comnmnons, atd in his public speeches 9 elsewhere, has given rise to a variety of knimadver. sions, with which we ba e been much more amused el than edified. Admitting, for the sake of argument, wt that Mr. Sheil ...

... eta)! ads obderbatiun. A= is ?? SPAIN.- th Letters from Madrid to the 5tli instant state that the gil utmost tranquillity; prevailed, and that preparations'w ere P .making for the convocatiod of the Cortes, which it is ex- COI pected will assemble about the beginning of May. sn * Letters fromt Bayonne, dated tbe.9th instant, state that VR an engagemnent took place on the 6th, near Vittoria, be ...

... ?? -ju t r tif 4pitrlametaty Cvp, HOUSE OF LORDS. i .S THURSDAY, Feb. 13.-The Factories Act Amend. Hot ment Bill was brought up from the Commons and read had a first time. w1. ~ ,er The Duke of Richmond presented two petitions firom It Lincolnshire, praying that the Labour Rate Act might be in renrwed and extended.-Adjourned. his FRIDAY, Feb. U6 -The Factories Act Amendment b Bill was ...

... M There is at present in Mr. Smith's garden, at Conlsbro, Yorkshire, a gooseberry bush filled with geoseberries larger d than a common sized pea, which being in the open air is a most striking instance of the exctraordinary mildness of the 1 oeaaon. F A female pauper in Hunslit Workhouse. named Hannah f Roberts, has been committed to York Castle for the murder of another pauper, namned William ...

... TO THE EDITOR OF 0 THE LIVERPOOL MERCURY. Sra,-The repetition of the fine opera of Semiramide on Wednesday was attended with some important improve- ments. The omission of the long and not very interesting scene where Assur manifests his repugnance to enter the tomb of Ninus; and the fall of the curtain, without more ado, when the melancholy catastrophe has onec transpired of Semilramises ...

... THE L.EODS ARSLECTON.-RETURN Or MR. BA1NZS. We heartily congratulate the honest And independent electors of Leeds. and Mr. Bainre also- Upon the issue of the late mnemrable struggt, the result of which we have briefly noticed in another part of our paper. If the elec- tors throeghout tne coulntry wnuld itivitate the example rse them eD this occasion ; if they would discharge Ubeir dnty ...

... Although a judge is irremovable at the will of the a i Crown, be is responsible to the Legislature, and h therefore only holds office quam diuo bene se gesserit. 1. It wouldbe monstrous were it otherwise, as no human e being is fit-to be entrusted with unlimited power. P The character of the British Judges stands deservedly N high in the estimation of the country; and there fi can be no doubt ...