... SPIRIT OF THE LIVERPOOL BROKERS' ANNUAL CIRCULAR&. ked t a. late hour last night we (Liverpool Stindard) uld succeeded in getting copies of the annual eirculirs of tome 'Our of ourleadtiing brokers; awl we now proceed to g ive their Ye:. sotanthe pubbahed ubtnce., refer ring our readers for the witsstaistis pblihed i the tabular forms at the foot of this Ion article. We take first the cotton ...

... . 'HEROIC PnRIs.-We- read in a journal ot' the Lanudes:- During theli'ght ofhihe 19th, while DM. Bernard ~Cassigne, the assistant priest.of th`ecommune of Hern, was ltul bed,>lwe he eard~.theiteltlity eteps 'of a man approaching hi .rdhis. ,As several .attempts 41'a.robliery had recentl; been. . 'mn'de orlihisjhouae;thi wasonhis guard, and jumping out. : ol'1ed rushod'' towards ...

... Trance. PAnrs. Toesed.y.-Christmas being kept as a cloce holi- day, the Legistative Assembly did not meet and the Military Administr~aive Courts of Justice ns trell as the Bourse re- mained cloied. The churches were unusually rrowded, and it is remarked that a religious feeling appeared to be on tile increnser. T'he Emperor of Austria bhs sent hia portrait as a present tb the President of the ...

... Duiiw, JAN. 1. The requisition for the meeting of the county of Dtublin in support f ?? inon ,Mail of last night. The meeting has been convened for Friday next- for the purpose of considering the expediency of adopting petitions to be ready for presentation to both houses of parliament, at the com-r mnencement of the approaching session, representing the imminent ruin which impends over every ...

... HEAL'IH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK. I In the week ending &A-.t Saturday the deaths te- gistered in the nwerop litanditrcts i were 1,053 ;the weekly average of this season, corn cted for increase of population, is 1,162. The mortality of last we.k is, therefore, less thea the estimated amount by 109 deaths, and is nearly the same as that of the previous week. Of the 1,053 persons, whose deaths ...

... VI--$re e taiv 3Jonngal DUBLIN: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 150 IRISH CONSTITUENCIES-COUNTY OF DOWN. The landlord party have taken the alarm, and their organs already give note of warning that they intend to resist any attempt which may be made to restore to the people of Ireland the right of voting in the election of representatives in parlianent. Of that right six out of every seven ratepayers in ...

... . _. THs report, based upon the calculations of some matbema- tician, more speculative tlltn profound, that, from the vici- nity of the sun and moon to the earth on the 29th, spring tide would rise from eight to ten feet above the usual height, caused a very general apprehension among all classes within the threatened bounds. The truth of the prediction was denied by various gentlemen well ...

... | RAILWAY INTELLGENCR. I I1I - CALEtDONIAN RAILWAY.-Tihe report of the Committee of Investigation to the Shareholders of the Caledonian Railway Company has just been published. Atabularstatement-fur. nihdy the Committee, shows that the sums expendetfaud liabilities beyond- the guaranteed capital on the several ines with which it is connected. amount to 936.782, and the Ast- mated yearly loss ...

... REJOICINGS AT STRICHENINONOU O TE ~~~MASTER, OF f@OVAT. ^ : THEt Honourable SIMsON FRASER, Master of Lovat, hairl~ng~ atttainbd his majority on the !21st ualt., thre inhabitants of 'Strichen, and the tenantry on the estate of Striclhen, Lord Lovat's property in this county, testified their attachment to the firmily,and their joyful notice of the event of the day, by ringing the village bells ...

... The following letter has been addressed by Sir RI. Pcel to the tenant-farmers on his estate:- I wlito communicate with you on the present state and the prospects of agriculture, so far as they concern our rele- tions of landlord and tenant, and I know not that I could select any better mode of communication than lihis wbich I hlave adopted. > There ceX think, be no question that the efleot of ...

... I to PARIS, MOzwD&a, 11 A M. Oa Saturday the President of the Republic reccived a numerous deputation of gentlemen from the depart. St ments of the Nord, Pas-de-Calahi, Aisne, Oise, and vs Somme, who came to solicit the speedy introducti-on :y of a bill for the relief of the landed property by 'a sy. re tcnm of loanson real property, calculated to place capi- r tal at the command of ...

... ; Why is a fool like twenty hundred weight? W Why is .t Cockney sparrow like an article wvhicl has lately r attained to pobliC ithVOUlY ? Why is the son of William Tell like aL person who has 0 nearly met with Ft very serious accident? Why is a ?? likely to make a comnmnotion in the alphabet? . W hy is a meritorious action like a broken key n Why is a cat like an act ?? parliamrentt? , When is ...