... the sessions on Monday last, when a pretty nearly successful attempt was made to over-rule the choice overseers previously made by the inhabitants Toxteth, in vl's! ry, must have been struck by the great fact, hitherto unknown, or, all events, not acted on in parish matters, that would not be so difficult, after all, for some six or seven persons, in any given community, to upset the ...

... on Thursday last, tile own clerk recommended an increase in the salaries paid to his cleiks, Messrs. Driffield, Topping, and Jamieson.' It seems there is a disposition abroad to augment the salaries of persons high in office, leaving those who have really to perform the work of the Corporation to be miserably underpaid. take this opportunity of contrasting the number of hours the clerks at ...

... AMERICA. GREAT BATTLE BETWEEN tub AMERICAN AND MEXICAN FORCES. The Royal Mail Steiuß-ihip Hibernin, Captain Rjrrie, which left Boeton Ist inat. and Halitax on the 3d, arrived m the Meraejr jeoterdajr morning. She brings vetjr important neva. A great battle haa been fought between the American and Mexican armiee, between Saltillo and Monterey. The accounts are not verjr positive aa to the ...

... C.\::Pr S ASKS AT VuHK.—J.M. 14 11., M. II . tn . :up New Yoik.and their diin «li 11:it«m pr day, wo ...

... Dkath «»f Mk. Chaklkh Edward Cropper.—We lament having state that ihn« pr>»miMing youth, the oniy child Cropper, E»q, died the h scarlet in t. He was a visit at the family Dingle? b ink, during an educational recess. On Sunday week wan apparently excellent health, 1 at ended divine »i-rv:ee during the day but iHday complained being unwell, and, «r >wing worse bv the following and the nature ...

... wnonsll, THURSD)AY, APRIL 15, 1S47. jpoRTAN-T FROM TIHE UNITED STATES AND AlEXIC0. t . E;LuPOGf, THURISDAV AFTERNOON. Kov ?? steamer Hibernia, Captain , -- ;on, * oe up this morning in gallant styie, mr a c lurl average passage, considering h e tile iorst season for Atlantic *oyages. ill es us*wth important intelligence from ?? Air . General Taylor and Santa ; ii a ,rra met, and(t, after a ...

... THE I NTRIGUES OF LOUIS PHIILLIPPE. As the designs of Louis Philippe upon the ?? become developed, whataluourn- ful spectacle is presented by the position of the I unhappy victim of his barbarous policy. ire, are not now about to advert to those recent public transactions in the capital of Spain which excite the curiosity and enlist the sympathy, hspeculations of the people of othercountries. ...

... It has been a long and inveterate practice among the ?? people to accompawy their charities with fee- tivity. If a subscription is to be got up tor Polish emigrants, it is heralded by a Polish ball. If the as- sistance of the benevolent is required for a hospital or an orphan asylum, it is deemed advisable to have a dinner at the Freemasons' Tavern or the Albion. ~ancin~g, music, and the ...

... BANBURYltY, APRIL 1. DrPTan-March 26, Miriam, daughter of Mr. Harrison, saddler, aged 12 ?? 27, Rachael Hlunt, of ClIthorpe-lane, aged 16 ?? 28, in the Ahnshouse, Mary, widow of the( late John Mascord, blacksmith. CONecEnr.-The Choral Society gave their third concert th'e seasou at the British School on Tuesday evening last. The room was not so well filled as usual. The performance onsisted of ...

... OXEORID4 Suizirday, April 24. J. L 0 WNDRS respeetfully informs his FrWends and the Public that. in conseouence of ?? death of Mr. Haldon. he hag taken his eldest Son into Partnership; and that the STA. TIONERY and PATENT MEDErCNE BUSINESS Will in juture he carried On under the Firm of LOWNpiEs and SON. In ?? his sincere thanks for the patronage shewon to him for so many years, he begs to ...

... MIR. O'CONNELL IN PARIS. MR. O'COseNELL IN PA1IeS.-Olr..O'Connell, who,. as we arnouncedl on Saturday, arrived in Paris~on Friday, does not seem (says our correspondent) to have suffered me from his journey;, and the only thing, of which he com- of plained was great, personal fatigue from the effects ofhia Irv journey, and considerable mental depression. WelIharn as from Paris, that the twelve ...

... CAMIBRrDGE AND LINCOLN EXTENSION, AND LINCOLN, YORK, AND LEEDS JUNC- TION RAILWAY. 10 TNJE EDITORS OF THE LEEDS MERCURY. 01 Leeds, 2Gth Marcb, 1847 *S G£;NTLEsrES,-The proprietors of the above railway nsst be avery quidt and conf~iding class of beings iudeed, or tile 01 sleepy plrooeedi~ss of the dircotbre o£ their athlirm would cutely lin'we uslie for commxlent or remnonstrance ere tbis. As m ...