... RAILWAY INTELLIGENCL recmil GRkAND JUNCTION RAILWAY. the anc The htrslf-yolarty speial general mneetting of the proprietors of g this oympanY was bald Onk Friday. at the cotton Salerwooe a. eei, Chalsli5LIMM110cloyII,, chairman1111 of the board of th directors, r Inthe ieh~hir. £10 ae The CHIRM~MAN, after reading -the voilge mummonieg the Ato gal it meeting, called upone Mr. Booth to read the ...

... NeWd antr Obderbattand. tinua. ~he THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. bags, tea ,: ?? WITH MEXICO. rtnds Est The fine packet ship Yorkshire, Captain Bailey, which the e iad left New York on the 18th ult., arrived in the Mersey~ Brig on Tuesday. By her we have received important misce- It his ligence from the seat of war, although it is only one day fence be later, and if it can be relied upon, the ...

... [THIRTEENTH NOTICE.] a Lve LIVERPOOL GRIEVANCEs.-We have on former ur occasions recorded our own local grievances the eir vast distance to which Runcorn and Parkgate have I wve been removed from us; the difficulty of correspond res ing with St. Helen's, Chester, Ormskirk, Prescot, r ili- &c., with which places we ought to be able to ex-t ire change letters and replies within business hours on ...

... UNCLOSED PARCELS BY MAAILWAY. WVe expressed a decided opinion, a few weeks ago. on one branch of this question, namely, that any person ordering sundry parcels for himself from another town, has clearly the right of directing the whole of them to be combined in one, to his address and also that in sending divers parcels of his own to; another town hehasclearlythe right toform the whole into ...

... The sixteenth annual congress of this association corn- y menced on Wednesday afternoon, at Southampton, with . a very numerous attendance of members of the general committee, which was held at the Guildhall. The chair was taken by Sir John Herschell, Bart., the President :- at the last meeting at Cambridge, who was supported by n Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, ?? the President A y elect; the ...

... ASCENT OF VESIJVIIJS. ASB By GBNTLRMAN OF LxVwsPOOa. T he Januarg ls,'5546. nef t *y Yesterday I went to Veauvius for the first time. I thene isstarted from Naples by the nine o'clcck train, and Rot At w he off at Portici, (under which Flerculaneom is buried,) and - am walked to Rosina, where we procured each a horse and as one guide. I war. accompanied by 3. D. G}. After a A attedious and ...

... THE C()MET OF SHORTEST PERIOD. SO) TO Use EDITORS of the LIVERPOOL MwERCURY. -( ve GaNZI LwMEN-In the communication made- to you otm .rm on the 19th Miarch, relative to the comet discovered in do February, by .Mr. Brorsen, at Kiel in Holstein, it ias be the mentioned tnat Profes3or Eneke had given to it an orbit ma the of 1256 days, as the result of his calculations. Sincethat cm vl.time ...

... nT, A , , . . I D. j JRS ofti onti Saudyevening is, in all Christian landv, different 4 from other eveningsintheweek. Thelibourer isusually d relieved earlier, and the shopman kept later than on It Ordinary occasions; buyers and sellers of all kinds of ?? wares are more numerous ; the circulation of money in small sums is brisker; and there appears in the minds of % the working-classes a more ...

... I SIGHT1S IN LIVERPOOL-PRINCE_ I ALBERT'S VISIT. T~ot1h' EDDITUR 0'tH' .REURRY. W Livesrjcoo, Ogwti fast, 184. thc Sup,-Yo're no dewt steniobt laset yeeor at gettin 0all lettur fro are Yes ostid to moo, bat bee mannidgt hit GO wheel konsidrin. Yore begin to think as ritin runs i'th' fammily. line toud'as teem lettars mack folk laff, to neaw, as th stur's ore yone happun bee so god os crom tis ...

... PASSING OF THE CORN AND CUSTOMS I BILLS-REJECTION OF THE COERCION l BILL--CHANGE OF GOVERNMENT. I i is U As we anticipated in our last, the Corn Importa- tivi tion Bill and the Customs Bill were read a third of ] time in the House of Lords on Thursday night, and ten passed without a division, Lord Stanley, the great LWo leader of the protectionists, contenting himself with wh as(infg ...

... Unanim ously reslved,- That, in the opinion of the thc D,* Council, it is expedient that all local rates should be nal ,- levieit upon the owner, instead of the occupier of the * property, as being more equitable in principle, less burdensome ini application, less costly in collection, and shc therefore, beneficial in its operation to both landlord P and tenant. Toat it is expedient that R ...

... WESLEYAN ANNUAL CONFERENCE At the recent meeting of Conference, held at B'ristol the following facts relating to the Wesleyan body erer' stated :-The number of Sunday-schools, in May la, was 4106-increase, 93; the total number of school scholars was 436,299-increase, 18,396, Not I than 121,7S8 children in the Sunday-schools also attele, some day-school, showringt that if day-schools were ge. ...