... Dr. Bowring is about to lecture in this town on China; also on the decimal coinage. The privilege of collecting the ashes from the parish of Marylebone has been let this year for £5651. In Liver- pool we give somewhereabout £10,000 a year for a person to take sway the ashes. Commissions signed by the lord-lieutenant of the county palatine of Lancaster:-1st Regimient of the Duke of Lancaster's ...

... MUNIOIPAL ELBETION. MU nd The election of 16 councillors, in the place of the same 453 of number who retire by rotation, will take place on Tuesday For, next. The following is a list of the retiring cooncillors, 647 so and of the candidates in the several wards, SD far as yet S] to announced:-- . ^ thal is Wards. Retirng. Members. Candidates. pea me ?? S. M. Meller ?? S. . Mellor. stea ?a a ...

... -~ - ?? .C n ! AlJS T H A\rl'. ARRIVAL OF THE BRITISH AND NORTH AMERICAN in B ROYAL MAIL STEAM-SHIP e. The steamship America, Captain Lang, which sailed b- from Boston on the 23rd, and Halifax on the 25th, reached it the Mersey yesterday. She brought 65 passengers, and of $433,131 in specie. On the 24th ultimo she passed the le steam ship Canada, and ou the 4th instant the Asia. l. It is ...

... REG I .T , ?? ..G ?? BOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRANCEL too The duties on solid bitumen. have been abolished by the imperial decree. The Archbishop of Parts and the AbbE Deguerry have, Win on the proposition of the minister of public lnstrujctlun cult been created by the emperor officers of the legion of I honour. In the army, Generals de Is Hitte and Bergbre, Di and Vice-admsirrl G*rlvel, have ...

... A man, named Johann Diederfck Cordes, who was em- oon ployed in a sugar refinery in London, went with a lighted in candle, on the morning of the 30th nlt., to clean out a tank :el- containing charcoal. After removing the lid, ha placed his en. legs inside the tank, when the explosive gas ignited, blow- 33 Ing Cordes backwards against a brick wall, and injuring red him so severely that he died ...

... THE LIVERPOOL MERCURY. FRIDAY, AUGUjT 26, 1853. S&LUS POrULl LEX SUPIREMA. S U IMI MI A It Y. There is now a lull in the political Vorld. All 0 apprehensions of the disturbanlce of the -peace of c Europe have been removed. Legislators, after the most protracted of sessions, are ?? that a leisure which is necessary for recruiting both mindC and body auld the people, in the enjoyment of the ...

... - t -. - M68--i-\s--am-A\ --A ?? canl A deputation on the subject of the Pilotage Bill had an balt interview with the Right Ron. E. Cardwell, on Mondey, tr at the board of trade. The deputation consisted of Mr. bul Turner, M.P., Mr. W. Brown, M.P., Mr. Henry Bremner, ber Mr. Shepherd, Mr. Hudson, and Mr. Nowall (parliamen- thr tary agent). Th Tus POLL FOR SELECT VESTRYMEm.-The poll for two Set ...

... I]?7 SA. M.v. X;--i .. rd 1 d (From Its San Francico Herald.) d The great basin in the middle of our territory, bounded'. i on the north' by the' Wahastch mountains and the settle- e meets of the Mormons in Utah', on the east by the Rocky r mountains skirting the right bank of the Rio Grande, onr e the south by the Gila, and on the west by the Sierra o Nevada, is a region still almost unknown. ...

... -O ;. J L ,AECTURE ROOM'AT MECHANICS' INSTITUTE NEVER USED. TOHTHi EDITORS OF THE -LIVElPOOT! MERCURY. re Gzxsn~islw,-Dr. Bowring'e lecture last night reminds ns, thb re subscribers to the buliding of the Mechanics' Institution, hoev; n little that excellent room is used. We, many of us, gave more Or moley, thaD was a aU conveoient to have a leeture room, where l: wenmight receive intrubtion ...

... 0 0- The Sarah Sands, screw steamer, under the command to of Captain Thompson, arrived here yesterday morning, from Plymouth. She left Melbourne on the l4thFebruary, us and reached Plymouth on the 28th ultimno. It Will be he recollected that the Sarah Sands was built at Liverpool, Y, and was one of the first of the ocean steamers in which M. the screw auxiliary principle was introduced. She ...

... Of What has been decided in the intimate covr-w tc ',sation of the Czar Nicholas and the E pror i 1g d.Francis.joseph can only be surmised. The ?? ria lie they met to play was one which must be ?? I!1 witout awitness. There is, however, little reason iti0, 1-to hope that the result is other than was from the Yorke' 0f first expected. The young Kaiser has bent his 16; N cheek to theJudas-kiss, ...

... PROMPT ACTION OF TMIE BRITISHI GOVERNMENtP PROMPT ACTION OF TVIE BRlTiSII GOVERNMENT. We yesterday Ilarnedl another instance of the way ih which British travellers are stopped, without any known cause, by the Austrian authorities in Italy ; which ease also furnishes another satisfactory illustration of the promptitude with which such matters are taken up by the present government of this ...