... T To theEART of EL tESJMERE. Af Y LonD,-The finest modern building in Eng- land, I might perhaps say in Europe, approaches its completion: a year or two wvill finish bt. George's. hall, in this place, at least finish it so far as the public author! ies feel themselves justified in spend- ing any more money upon it. It will then have cost out o0 the Corporate purse about £lGO,wo00; but the ...

... hi P|opPosTD- ALTERATIrON OF THE IM 1 MEN6CHANTi' SEAKIAN'S ACT. A bill for the alteration of the Merchant Searman's Act has been proposed by the Board of Trade, which contains several valuable provisions, mi:;ed Ie p vwith a good deal that is highly objectionable. It prnposes certain regulations very much calculated to prinmote the health and comfort of'sailors, hitherto fr ioo much neglcted. ...

... LONGZVITY.-The following fact will prove the health- fuldnes of the climate of Man :-An aunt, an uncle, and a niece, dined together in Athol-street on Christmas- day, and their united ages amounted to 231 years. ACCIDENT.-On Thursday evening last, am Jar. Moore, e carter to Messrs. Whiteside and Co., of Douglas, was - unlading a cart of flour In Strand street, the horse be- canme restive, and ...

... Lh ?? V. 3he S R IB T - M A KE R S. we The shirt-makers are the most lowly-toiled fe- ig males in London; and severity characterizes their in employment in all other localities. The wages which ar shirt makers can earn are insufficient tor the y, procurement of adequate nourishment. Their num- iy hers are very great, and, gradually, their wages a have decreased, and been reduced to a ...

... MR. BRIGHT ON THE IRISH Q UESTION. 11. I. ?? lave The -Address lately delivered by Mr. Bright, the Hon. Y -I'll Member for Manchester, in the Free Trade-hall, in the d niscourse of which ho gave the result of his observations luCY Ou-ing his recent tour in the sister island, hag created le it considerable sens 8ation amongst the Irishmen resilient in ~ Manchesfter, so much soe, that a large ...

... ;± X A tot I Thle general weekly average of thle price of grain for the week exeo ending Dec. 201:--Whest. BMe. 4d. ; Barley, 26s. id. ; Oat~, at 15s. Cd. ;Rye, 2l&Od.0. ; Bane, 26s lid. ; Pease, 29s. Seine0 time A last ?? 48s. 9j. ;Barley, Its. lid. ;Oats, 193. Id. ; tlr Rye, 29s. 7r. ;Beans, 3ISo. Id. ;Pease, 38.Bt rov, The ?? iotice appear-s fromt Mr, B3irirnell, clerk of tire Soc Grocers' ...

... Nast vwork a ?? urging the vleots of thlc Liver- Y pnol Ariciatioii in reteretics to tile mov-cnent fir n r riluctinll othe duty on tt, w ereiorwardc ton the Leo.ds C of the Tse Tuery thrnugh Mr. Cit dwell, M.P., ?? has pi .modo; pp!ication to Lord John R.zlieIl to reccive a dpe:- .ation trona tho Liverpool Aasociation and other colatcr-E - c ha! b.1Loi'. Th;e niremorialtii cet 'orth, in a ...

... lMR. D ISRAELI AND MR. COBDENje] 7 r * L . . . n noln n n n T rE f i o l f AH I %I It is amusing, though somewhat painful, to n witness the contortions by which a political quack ri endeavours to wriggle himself out of a responsible c position when he begins to see that the period of r exposure can be no longer evaded. The Honourable b Member for Buckinghamushire, in addressing his ti ...

... 1u2e~i0 Knu$ 92eblu xtrl Obderbtiotand. t TAT re D- s- fl UNITED STATES. The British and North Armer~can Royal Mail Stearn- Ahip Hiblertlo, Captain Lang, which sailed from New Yoek on the 26 .h and Hulifax on the 29th, reached tho lleraey onl Wednesday Morning at one o'clock. The HA4ute Of RePreronlativcr, after sixtY-two) intifec- tual ballot irsl , auccotided on the 22,d in electing a Se ...

... PROSPECTS OF PARLIAMENTARY I REFORM. . _ ?? Though eome of our contemporaries would seem to doubt, none of them venture to deny, what the Times announces in quas.-official and authoritative tone-that the ministerial programme for the en- suing session wilj include a general measure of Alectal reform 4r ,tow Unital Kingdom. With regard to the -precise nature of the scheme, our informant is ...

... the la~t new aid clplecndid packet-ship which has reached this port from Ncw York. She is, by new measurc- mont, 1000 tores rogietter, but her burtheis considerably cxcdtols200l3 tons. Steo was constriucted ano a sister ship, is of similor dimristiontii to the favourite liner Guy Mlar-I noring, anod is, consequently, a three-ta(cker, and romeI five or' Six;Ieet larger than art ordinary 71 gun ...

... TILE SELECT VESTRY. I.- - ?? * L tex . The fortnightly meeting was held on Tuesday last at am- theoffices in Lime-street. Present,-Rev. Rector CaI era- bell, (in the chair,) Mears.Woodruff, Cafferata, Will rnp ket. Ireland, Mellor, Molyneux, Abraham, Denmon, Jeffmsr, the Hodson, Shakeshaft, Gardner. Whitby, and Earle reys, The SacnETAny having read the proceedings of the t at Special Committee ...