... 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 ...

... TO TIHE EDITOR?. OP TIE DAILY NEWS. SIR,-The intended new Reform Bill begins to engage a great deal of public attention, and those who have to consider and frame it moust very soon, if they have not already done so, begin their work. As a very old reformer, long before reform was in fashion, I submit some notes, which will perhaps be deemed worthy of attention. The tories, with the Timses, and ...

... THINGS OBSOLTE. The two dark days of November are over; the fifth and the ninth of this present month are past. 8 (Guy Fawkes and the Lord Mayor of London have Pee had their holiday; folly has had its festival; and wise men are ashamed that such things are. But there is more than folly here. The anniversary of the gunpowder plot, or, as a polite contemporary - calls it, the carnival of ...

... I THE EmpEBOWS MAIFESTO. (From tis Vines). Our readers have now had time to weigh and consider in all its original audacity tie manifesto of the ?? Empe- ror in justification of E Turkish war. The reserve judiciously imposei in this country upon the public writers by publiv opinion, together with the respect conventionally held due to the governments of iidependet states, might have pre- ...

... THE LRQOL MERCURY. | TUESDAY NOVEMBER 15, 1853. SALUS POPULI LEX SUPREMA. . . . - - - -- hour Mu- AR On Friday afternoon, a rumour was current in ranil London that Parliament was to be called together triie b~efore Christmas, owing to the present aspect of the the Russo-Turkish question. The Olb8erer says WOU that there is. no truth whatever in the rumour, the and that the Cabinet Councils ...

... ,TO TILE EDITOIt OP TEE DAILY NEWS. Sm.-Ill my last communication I asked if tbe Archdeacon of Winchester on the Sunday on which he c professed to read in at St. Mary's, Souxthampton, omitted t to read the Morning Prayers. Allow me to transcribe into i your columns the subjoined copy of a notice issued by the i Rector in March, 1851, which appears to me as conclusive against the Archdeacon, as ...

... RUSSIA AND TURKEYt 'Fihe Vienna Lloyd's says that the foundries of St. Petersburg and the arsenals are occupied day and night. Every day immense quantities of amrnuni- tion are sent off. It is believed that the Emperor will make a journey to Bucharest, accompanied by the Grand Duke Alexander. The German and Transylvanian papers contain a number of scattered notices and statements reletive to ...

... I I -. . .. . .. I ?? . The c imrnitteo beld its usual weekly meeting yesterday in their rooms, in the Commercial Buildings, Lord TALBOT DE AALAHIDE in the Chair. Messrs. Rooe, Mrlaid, Boyce, Dunne, Lentaigne, Dwyer, Greaeiam, Bland, M.P., and Power attended the meeting. The S cretary reported that a deputation front the Pawn- hr, kers' Society, consisting of Mr. Jamies Plunkett, T.C, ...

... [CAPT. jy L. ?? oN.' TE ARCTIC ~; . ?? I .: . t.xS AR Th , i to I .,Last~ evenlink the Royal Geoagraphlical Society held wa its first meeting far the session of 1853-64, at the rooms of suit the Horticultural Society, 21, Regent.street. The an- cart OPP nouncement 1hat -Captain. Inglefield- would upon this occa- W sion lay before the society the results of the late Arctic ex-i peditions, ...

... ?? N an, THE LICENSING OF PUBLIC HOUSES. it TO THE EDITORS OF THE LiVERPOOL MEROURY tri- GesNenasuN,-The evidene taken before the select committee yet appointed to inquire into the present regulation of public an housesn and particularly the very comprehensive and clear ash statement of Mr. Robertson Gladstone, which you recently I an published, clainms soene anxious consideration. That the ...

... qriE REV. MR- CONYBEARE AND TE REV. H. M'NEILE. The Rev. W. D. Conybeare, in a letter to the Timma, replies to the Rev. E. M'Neiie, on the partof his son, on the (,rotnd that be was chargeable in at great degree with haitlg instilled theopinions into his mind. The following is the replY: Llandaff, Nov. 8. p~ear Sir,-As you haveothought It advisable to publish in the a tetter, heavily ...

... S'ALISBUY BORBOUGH ELEUTION. SALISBURY, MONDAY. 0 To.day being fixed for the nomination of the can- c didates who ehave oflered themselves for the seat rendered vacant by the death of Mr. Baring Wall, the city was astir at an early hour, and active prepasations were made for the te proceedings, which excited considerable interest throughout is the city. The ?? General Buckley, of New In Hall, ...