... ALARMING AND DE6TRUCTIVE FIRE AT THE APOTHECARIES' HALL rd Liverpool has again been the stone of a dreadful eonfiaSratclOU si e which, If leesadisastrous In Its results than some of the extenstve not tiree that occurred abaut two yesaret ago, wae certafinly more thr5e %R tening in Its aisprot during the short time It raged. It ?? tcd yesterday aftornoon, between three and four o'elock, In the ...

... Agricultural 3nformation. SIR R. PEEL'S FINANCIAL MEASURES.- PROTECTION TO AGRICULTURE. A special meeting of the general committee of the Central Agricultural Protection Society has beea held, to consider the effect which the remission of the several duties proposed by Sir R. Peel, in his recent financial statement, are likely to have on the interest of the Bri. tish agriculturist. After a ...

... MERCHANT SEAMEN'S FUND AMEND- MENT BILL. I . - I A sMEaTIG of great importance was held yesterday, at the Trinity House, to take into consideration the above bill, and to the interesting proceedings in- serted in another column we are anxious to direct the earnest attention of all the merchant seamen connected with the port. It will be seen by the resolutions, that a stand here, as elsewhere, ...

... REAL PROPERTY IN GREAT BRITAIN, A return was last week issued, by order of the House of Commons (pursuant to a motion of Mr. Villiers on the 6th instant), showing the total amount of the annual value of real property in cach county of England, Wales, and Scotland, assessed to the Property and Income-tax, for the year ending April, 1843. In England and Wales the total annual value of property ...

... 3aailtoap 111telligm e. I ADDITIONAL RAILWAY NOTICES FROM THE BOARD OF TRADE. (From Friday Night's Gazele.) Railway Depoartnient, Board of Trade, W/hteaUll, MIlarch 21. Notice is hereby given, that the board constituted by the minute of the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade, for the transaction of railway busi- Cess, having had under consideration the under-men- tioned railwvay ...

... PARISE AFFAIRS. To the RAITEPAYERS of LIVERPOOI. 19 Lal0EPAnisHmoNRsn,-Yo ur iaterestsarcilargoly involved In IF the proceedings of our paroehial attthorities, who, in several instances, of late, heive acted as if they were the masters instead of the servants of the rotc-payers, who have appointed them to thD performance of onerous and honourabW duties. Twice have they disobeyed your earnest ...

... - ~ -- - - ?? - ~ ~TnlT flTITPV I RATE-PAYERS, DO YOUR DUTYI The close system of our parochial management has received a body blow. The questions submitted to public notice in Mr. Smith's address last week, were fairly mooted at the general vestry on Tuesday last, the pro- ceedings at which will be read with great interest by all our townsmen who are friendly to the principles of fair play and ...

... imptriau laIiirmtnt. = = ., - - I HOUSE OF L ORDS. THURSDA Y, February 27. The BISHOP of NORtWICHI presente A everai petitions from temperance seclties. ?? theprobibitioeliofthe l Of Intoxicatilt; llquers on tho Sabbath. TIIP ESTABSLISHED CHURCH. Lord FORTIISCUE presiented a petition from Dr. Carwltben for a revision of the law retative toi tile observance of tho rubric. and oeveral others ...

... !'oreign and Domestic intelligence. The Carlists are still organising a demonstration in the Basque provinces, which the Madrid government rather en- courages. The French government seems wilfully blind'On] the subject. The object is to get up a movement in favour of the Queen's marriage with Don Carlos's eldest son, which Tsaria Cliristina is determined to carry out coute gui couie. The ...

... eloviculture. ? .1. - I -- - '?,- I EsXCgORY, March la.-Since the beminntng of February the weather has been so remarkably changeable, that it has varied al- most everytwenty-fourhours. Snow,t-leet.arndrain, ivithoccasional intervalsef severe frost, prevailed alternately, and stopped the pe- rations of the plough until the 14th. Since then, a considerbe I breadth of -land has been turned over, ...

... Mome0tir inteliigense. 'I COURT AD _aBIO_. 11er Majesty will hold her first Drawing-room for the season, on Thursday zbe I Oth of April. Her Majesty, accompanied by Prince Albert, and attended by the royal suite and the chief members of the household, left town On Weduesdajy morning for Windsor, where the Court will pass the Easter d remaining at the Castle for about afortnight. The Earl of ...

... DERIBY ClOiltll SOCIETY. 'rle second trelllniiollt'ois concert o11 title Sociely for the present sensonl, was held inl the Newv ASiellibltV ;mb llO 11 TliMrstilV venling hlet, under tile 1e1C Sl)Vv1I9t'( edellVeC iof 'ThIe I'lilt (ii I1(1n0! eovllis tml of a selection II. ovI'1ui1i' clulrnses, &C. rloom 1;siltlel, RoonSil;, Cherulidil, kiiswl amn Rook. 'flit' V1OriosOS VtTC Sulng` ?? greet ...