... A correspondent writes respecting this important property, as follows :— There has been a £ood deal of talk of late about selling these Docks to the Liverpool authorities, and almost all the newspapers of this town speak favourably of such an arrangement. Let me give you my views. There are many reasons why Birkenhead should for Birkenhead, as there are for Liverpool being for Liverpool, and ...

... In the Mercury of July 23 we published comparative table of exports from this port to the United States during the first three months of 1847, compared with the first three months of 1846, showing an immense increase in all the principal articles. A comparison of the exports last month with those of the corresponding period of last year exhibits, with the exceptions earthenware and coal, the ...

... Cite label-pool SALVS POPVLI LEX SUPHEWA FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, If the country party continue to follow the lead of that stable-minded statesman, Lord George Bentinck, in his present steeple-chase run for political distinction, the stakes, we think, vill be two to one in favour many a fall and broken neck before they come in. Ran/ as, all times, on the authority of his friend Mr. ...

... Bank of Messrs. Jonbs, Loyd, and Co erroneous and unfounded statements have »d ♦ eW and been cir culated privately hi reference to the affairs of Measrs. Jones. Lovdand l at the motiTe and the onlj motive for he proposed change in the business of the bank is* the r * ? dward Loyd by j?* -8 . has be entirely man need for manv ln * bllit of the firm to spare, from the Sid ti m ondo » anj ...

... Dock Commissioners.—An adjourned meeting the Commissioners was held at their offices, Argyle-street, on Wednesday morning last, at nine o'clock. There were present Messrs. (ireene, (chairman,) Bcntham, Thomson, Hicklin, \V. Laird Nicolls, and I'ritchard. The Chairman stated that the meeting hxd been adjourned from the usual monthly meeting for the jnirpo.se receiving some information relative ...

... To the MEMBERS of the TOWX COUNCIL of LIVERPOOL. Gexti.emex,—However much opposed in politics this hide the Council table may that, let hope thai there still exists a sufficient sense of decency on Ik sides induce at least an outward regard the cardinal proprieties civilized life. I can not pay you the compliment of saying that, think the Council as body, are distinguished for over rigorous ...

... Manchester is almost entirely peopled by immigrants. Its aristocracy consists entirely, or nearly so, of new names —new families. Few of the great local and historical men have engaged in, what they consider, the contamination of commerce ; and they look on with much feigned contempt, but more real alarm, upon the great masses of wealth and consequent power accumulating in plebeian hands. ...

... SIXTEEN NTH ADDRESS TO THE PROTES- TANlI'T OF THE EMPIRE, BY THE COMIMITTEE OFr TIE: NATIONAL CLUB. -Tb Th eosures of Government on education, and the proceed- ln's colslected wtithi them, have been ?? watched and clailiitetI by the collmmittee. They biare abstained till now from puttil]g faith anly opinions respecting them, first, because they saw that the public manifested no lack of ...

... A. meeting of the Town Council was held yesterday (Thurs- day), B. M. Jalland, Esq, in thechair. There were present Messrs. Aldermen Gresham, Runton, Brownlow, Bilyth, Thompson, Priest, Bean, Cookman, and Ayre, and Messrs. Armstrong, Boulter, Larard, Platford, New- ton, Jubb, Huntley, Carrick, Forrester, Richardson, Blundell, Tall, Bannister, Digby, Wilkinson, Jones, Sissison, Seaton, Anderson ...

... LOSS OF THE ROYAL MIAIL PACKET COMI- PANY'S STEAMER TWEED. The Baltimore sailing-packet, from New York, ar- rived at Uavro on Saturday last, bringing New York journals to the 10th ult. The Yucatan schooner Atrevida, which sailed from Campeachy on the 19th February, brought a letter to a mercantile house in New Orleans on the 1st of March, aulouttcije, that the Tweed had been wrecked on the the ...

... I The following letter has been addressed by Dr. Kaye Shuttleworth to the Secretary of the Home and Colonial Infant School Society, Gray's-inn-road.- . Committee of Council on Education, Council-office, Whitehall, Aug. 14, 1847. Sir,-Since the receipt of the report of Her Majesty's inspector on the schools of the Home and Colonial Infant and Juvenile School Society, the Committee of Council ...

... PROPOSED SUSPENSION FL~f1 IN COTTON FACTORIES (From the I b.. k,,. nen a Ala1elccte,. GU~erdion1. The following letter from Mr. Mark Phill~,in re ence to the proposed suspension of labour Il' ItI Is handed to us ; and as we presume it was ?? ~tpublication, if considered desirable byti ar fo iiwhom it was virtually addressed, we do not 1parltiee t' it give it insertion in our column~s, ...