... d ?? . -, 1 TV -1- A AA . - 0n MtRovly-o0Ic, FRIDAY, ArRIL 16, Two O'CLOCE, AM. WVI )f . W ?? W. .. 50 L(Y ELBCTRIC TELEoGAPIH.] col to HOUSE OF COMMONS.-THURSDAY, APRIL 14. ae it th: is The speaker took the chair at four o'clock. Ta h A nuinber of pelitions were presented it, favour of repeal of bea advertisoment duty and of the stamp duty upon iewopapers. a e Sir DK LAcY EVANS asked the ...

... (A telegraphic summary of the following appeared in our Second. Edition of yesterday .-1 The United States mail steam-ship Baltic, Cap. tain Comstock, arrived at Liverpool yesterday morn. ing, from New York, with 190 passengers, and specie to the amount of about $4,000. [FROM oeR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] PHILADELPHIA, APRIL 2. We were astounded yesterday morning by an announcement in the Tribune ...

... A CLERGYMAN IILLING TifE OrrIcE or CIIURCuI- IV.UDEN.-The rector of Ackworth, Yorkshire, has this year appointed the Rev. R. E. Batty, curate of Wragby, as his churchwarden, and the rev, gentleman has accepted the offiee, PRE-REFORMATIoN SERVICE BOOKS-An attempt is made in certain quarters to revive the use of service- bools anterior to the Reformation. Anew 'Companion to Confession and ...

... - : -. f THE LIVERPOOL MERCURY. c FRIDAY, APRTL 15, 1853. . a SALUS POPULI LEX SUPREMA. t SALuU ruRuL, and STOuWE. HARRIET BEECHER STOWEr. All the portraits of Mrs. Stowe which are exhi-of 1ted in the shop windows are little better than an cwicatures. Instead of the hard, frigid look gel which they bear, her countenance wears a soft and th( gentle expression, quite in accordance with her wl] ...

... I LONDON: FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 1853. In the HousE of LORDS, last Bight, The Earl of ABERDEEN, in answer to LorA BEAU- MONT, said that the terms of the amendment with which the Earl of Winchilsea's motion on May- nooth would be met, should be laid on the table this day. Some bills were forwarded a stage. In the HOUSE of COMMONS, Mr. SPOONER gave notice that he should move the rejection of the ...

... CO Uit T CIRCULAR. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Rent visited her Majesty yesterday at Backinghtm Palace. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, Prince Alfred, and the Princes% Alice, and attended by Lieutenr,.tt-Colonel F. H. Seymour and Mr. Gibbs, visited the Gallery of the New Society of Painters in Water-clours, ...

... L - TO TITE EDITORS OF THE LIVERPOOL MERCURY. D GNTEMNI ?? MVrD'.r of Tuesday last it was gel Fannouncred that government had appointed six new ma gistrates for this borough, in compliance with the wishes brm of the select vestry ; and I see by yesterday's pro.. _( ceedings of the town council, as reported in the Live?'Pse Lai Tinesesof this morning, these appointments have given much offence ...

... . -- ?? ?? [BV ELEcTRIC TELEGRAPH.] I, THURSDAY EVENiNo, APRIL 14. Yl FUNDS, STOCK, AND SHARE MARKET.-The tone of as English securities was remarkably good, and prices bad expe- ye 7 riencd a nmarked ?? shares, induened by Tb - funds and purchases for noxt account, were mulh better, and Cr closed with an advancing ?? mines were generally the turn higher. Nuggets ?? shares were steadily Rt t ...

... IHOSPITAL Jor WOMEN, SOHO-SQQUARl Yesterday, the teeth annual meeting of the supporters ot this excellent charity was held at the offices of the lospiral, 80o1s-qaare ; Sir J. D. Paul, Dart., treasurer of the institl- tion, presided. The CaHAIfMk, having read letters of apology for non- attendance froin Lord Henry Cholumeudeley and Lord Cliel- sea, said it would be found from the report of the ...

... ELECtION EXiOSUIIES. 'i'hoe comtttnitteO oo;ut yesterday mottling at 11 of the petitiono. It wxlill be seen fromu thc proceedintgs be pettiftietucrst5 eu t to sulbstantiate againlst the sitting memn p~ir' 55'r, wsx the t called (l'andl produced thle statemui its 1n i,. ileet etjnitlullt they madec to him they (lidt not tic- itskit tht trhev received any mloney for their votes. 1tbe X z2e l ...

... r Mr. Shand presided at the meeting of the dock conlmitteel1 p1 t yesterday; and there were present-Messrs. Barber, Brockle. Pt d bank, Grcgson, Holden, lolme, Langsdale, Malcomson, Moly. an neux, Rankin, Robinson, Royden, Steele, and Tobin. Several to tenders were accepted, including two by Messrs. Jones and Oh Jump, for the exeoution of certain work, and one by Mr. sh ' Armstrong, of ...

... [AOVERTl~MIS N 1 Par THE LATE FIRE IN IIILES-SVREET, TOXTETH- tion PARK. allot TO THlE EDSITORSS 0' THlE LIVERPOOL MERCURY. has GecEtA ,w me, through your medium, to express Clas ?? toegeteenwoso kiadly rendered in methi a~~t~O uin tefie adalomy entire satisfoc. proc THE OLD WOMAN'S BUDGET. of ti TO THlE EDITORS OF THlE LIVERIPOOL MERCURY. Cate DEAR FiE-'at~,-I did not knew how to getimy ...