... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... SECO;ND JVDITIN-..| KMciL-o1`le9, TUUiAy, Nov. 22, vs O'cliCK, 'AM TI=E WAR IN THE EA. s Letters from thefprincipalities state that nn iase-bad been publiabed'giing permission to the port of 6dessa to continue its commerce with vessels sailing. under neutral dgfags. ; ' The Bosman corps of 10,000 men was prepariogto cross it it the Sarvian terrntory in order to join t~he Turks,' although no ...

... f Every day brings new and often most contra- A dictory rumours on the action of the hostile, despi 1 armies in the East. At present, no very serious de pi r conflict seems to have taken place; but all along, Turl the Turkish frontier, wherever there is a Russia embi e force, the state of war has been actively recog- ov t] a nised. In the Eastern provinces of the Ottoman to tl h empire the ...

... In consequence of repairs at Aigburth Church, the con- gregation for the present attend divine worship at the. new church at Grassendale. Owing to this arrangement the church on Sunday was crowded. This and next week a series of German and Italian operas will be givcn at the Theatre-toyal, the artists engaged being Madame Caradori, Mademoiselle Zinimer- man, Miss F. Fluddart, Herr Reichardt, ...

... I The turnoat of colliers and factory operatives at Wigan has for some time past occasioned fears that peace would not be maintained; and on Friday evening an outbreak of an alarming character took place (a telegraphic notice of which was given in sur latest edition last week). At Wigan, as at Stcckport and Blackburn, under aimilar circumstances on previous occasions, the small police force at ...

... PAST DAYS AND CHOLERA DAYB. To Mw EDIcoTR-Sir,-Perhaps you will allow me to makea Few remarks respecting the proceedili goftlic Edinbgh anrei prayer. It seemsthat thiosworthy body-had addressedaletter to Lord Palmerston, inquiring whether the appointment of a national fast was contemplated by her Majesty, and the ansa received from the home secretary hae thrown them into a state (ao the penny ...

... I- THMS n.PALTS OF LONDON. The number of deaths from all causes, registered in London in the week that ended on Saturday, the 5th inst., was 1,112; in the previous week it was 1,144. In the ten weeks corresponding to last week of the years 1843.52 the average number was 1,001, which, with a correction far increase of population, becomes 1,101. Hence it ap- pears that the mortality of last week ...

... WOR13EN AD WAGES. NO1ES OF THE WEEK. STocxponT.-We shall be obliged if X. Y. Z., who has I forwarded several letters on trade matters in Stockport, will furnish us with his name and address. Loxno-.eirA public meeting af the working classes of London, for the parpose of considering the niecessity of rendering support to the weavers and epinners ofPreston, who are out n strike, and to receive ...

... A very interesting statistical document has just been published, under the authority of the Eacumbered Es. tates Court (Ireland), showing at a glance the great ex. tent of its transactions since the commencement of its proceedings on the 21st of October, 1849, to the 21st of October, 1853, embracing a period of four years. It ap- pesrs~that in the four years just ended, the property sold in ...

... - I CHOILEY U.atoN.-The Chorley Board of Gl6arii.-oi; hi weekly meeting on Tuesday Air. J. llaydock in tle' following was the rlulllber of paupers in recept Or Tl 1n.door-Chorley W'housc.. 2 -door-CorlI it' BrintUe Ou,,o S8 ?? ?? The masters' day books showed articles receiveN itt, , 1v: liouses as follow --'W Chorley Workhouse£l 12 8 IBrindle Workhouse £1, Produce of ?? I 11 0 Produce of ...