... The weather of the present week, though not so ri formly brilliant as that of the week by which it was pre. ceded, has been sufficiently favourable in Yorkshire to admit of the farming operations of the season advancing satisfactorily, and the small residue of the corn hsroeat that remained in the fields at the commencement of the present month is now generally safe in the stack yard, or in ...

... AS rRONOMY. r the THE NEW PLANET. T1 Ot, On the 13th of last month a memoir of the highest 511 very interest was read by the Astronomer Royal at the meet- wi )the ing of the Royal-Astronomical Society, on the history of thec( Elos- the discovery of' the newly-found planet. As yet the addie fling planet hias not got an acknowledged name, and it may Gave nidcome to be called Atlas, as suggested ...

... ?Letter?. THE; WATER QUESTION.t the To the EDITORS oJ 0he LIVERPOOL MERCUlRY.s ng- GINTLaII5N,-Wi!I you be kind enough to inform me as~t whether, providing the Hiighway Board succeed in ob- h*eir taining their bill to gupply the rate-payers with water, I f ice, ehall be rated for property where I do not consume water. E i In fact, I am now rated for premises £120 per nnnum, t ont and having ...

... RANDOM THOOUGHIN LEIS BY FCBzs ELIZABBTH D3 B~~ Fw'rczs ?? Ul By FANCS ELZART~i DAVyU Black Ipirit an m~lt~be. II. rea spirits And groy Mingngle, gle, mi blmingle, YOU that 91,81 Do spirits walk the earth? How oftenitha suggested to the thoughts of the olirii qust; nature, but whene sball we find the Sage wh tdn of reov h roblemP Not Pythagoras lea? can t Itt lre, and backed by his fifteen ...

... AhTRONO)MY. -ii .. M. LI vEltllERI'8 NEW PLANSET. I. n (riPoPo:1n NAME, ATLAS.) !v d In the RacCaJAo Scienlitgca di Rorna of December I t, the folowing nnnouncement, and, along with it, the fio li . l,,viing positione, wre given for the new planet, (Atlas, p I siamely,) as determined with the meridian circle of the' .- Obscrvato~y of thc Cslegio Romano:- za ?? MaIS SvC I DVG MITN. FRC. e0 Oct. ...

... I I The first impression which attends the perusal of Sir Robert Peel's speech Is one of regret, that the grandeur of a scheme at once so bold, so comprehensive, and so jns safe, recommended by reasoning-economlicallY, so pure sut -and, practically, so well confirmed by the experience abi of the past-should be deprived of any part of its lustre ap] ie by trifling1 and petty concessions to ...

... I CONCEALING THE BIRTH OF A CHILD, I; On Wednesday, a young married woman, named r- Mary Belli apparently about seventeen, was brought be. r- fore the magistrates, charged with concealing the birth af re a child, of which she had been delivered, by secreting it i., in a chimney. The prisoner lived as servan with r D 1, Scurfield, shawl dealer, Bold-street. Mr. Dixon Scurfield stated, that the ...

... :4d rftt W~iberl0 t ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? __ ti SAlYS POPULI LEX SUPREMA. d b FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1846. - 0 Lord Broughaum, who is indefatigable in legis-'I pa laive alterations, though not always successful C *n ?? the laws of our country, has brought st rn a bill to amend the real Property Transfer t] Diii which was passed last session. Our readers 11l remember that the principal object of that fa ...

... _TlEX LIVERPOOL TOWN M~ISSION.\ IC izim ? ?? - - I On Tuesday evening last, the anana aleeting of' the ii friends and subscribers of the Town Mission was held at CR055 or the Concert-hall, Lord Nelson-street, a'id was very air- ? ie merorilly attended: Edward Cropper, Eeq., occugied the *4 ? ly chair, and on the platform we observed man oft a lead- 6 0 s.m., ?. in? Dissenting ministers and ...

... aira ateoiugeare. - Si ANOTHE INSTANCE OF THEi LIBaBALITY OF RICHARD :i -VAUIGHAN Y ATaS, Ea.-On Tuesday evening la-st, our res- 1 *pected townsman, it. V. Yates, Esq., with his accustomed a liberality, gave a most excellent tand substantial dinner to, g 'the workmen engaged at the vatrious buildings belonging h to him, now in course of erection in th rne'-ak The dinnier took'place in the ...

... JVLTU?7 IN PAreVO. Tire Brook of England returns for the week ending the 6th IS inst., state the amount of notes Issued to be £28,325,001), :h of which the banking department has on hand £C8,468,180, leav- :h Igthe criralation, in bank notes, £19,866,820, to which. must a- as b addd, ank ostbills, £851,088; against thris, in addition to- in the Govern'.ssnt debt and other securities, there is, ...

... THE LIVERPOOL DOCK BILL IN CObMMITTEE. Yesterday week the Committee re-assembled at twelve. Application having been made to enlarge the time for ithe construction of the landing stage at George*8 pier, Mr. Hillyaid, for the Commissioners of Birkenhead, Bproposed a clause to the effect that instead of one large stagve two smaller ones should be built, one of which should be exclusively devoted ...