... -~ - ?? .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 ...

... .THE LIVERPOOL MERCURY. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30,1863. s.Ius PorUL! LEX SUPRBMA. 1058 t0 It is too early to write the history of 1853. comparf The retrospect is so full of depending events, that cus: in reviewing the past the future presses for con- The bar sideration its chronology can only be a tale half- torily fe told, an unfinishod picture, a register with a tablishn blank page. Abounding in ...

... At the usual weavers' delegate meeting on Sunday, Grn i about £2250 were handed in, being the largest amount IaO 0 ever yet received, and it was what is called a little Ler e week. Last week the committee paid nearly 600 fresh Lw t hands of those who had up to that time received no relief ol1 from the union, and they had a balance in hand of £15. Nu . Yesterday morning, at eleven o'clock, ...

... 1111. -vv - v ve- v - ?? -- v- ?? COURT5 &c. de Mr. William Brodie, now unpaid attaoh6 to her of Majesty's legation at Stockholm, is appointed unpaid ha attach6 to the embassy at Constantinople. rej The master-general of the ordnance has appointed ms Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Robert E. Boyle, Coldatream lea Guards, to be his seoretary, in the room of Captain Lord ir7 Clarence Paget, R.N., ...

... AXERICAN pRESLDtNT'S 8M8AGLI The United States congress assembled on the 5th inst, and the Hon. L. Boyd was elected speaker. The message from the president was read on the 6th. The following contains the principal features of that document: After some preliminary observations, the president thus speaks of the DIPLOMATIC URLATIO1a. Our diplomatic relationis !with freigin powers have un. | ...

... rOURTH EDITION. *PUBLISHED ON SUNDAY MORNING, CONTARUNG TME LATEST INTELLIGENCE, LLOYD'S WEEKLY LONDON NEWSPAPER. Lord Aberdeen is not amongst the least pre- tentious authors of Christmas pieces. He has had abundant materials, and has so used them as to make up a very dramatic and very startling story. In the beginning, the story is simple enough. England is a close friend of Turkey-a very ...

... =,LY NIGHTINGALIETS Z-,Eillv-?L:mas. I ?? Mr.- I TO THWO WOMEN OF ENGLAND. DEAR SIETRRS,-L ask you, and, believe me, in a1l kindness, if there are notnumbers of yue who are victims to an infiritF-I suppose I MUstL cal it-named in do- sasstic parlanoe, pettishncss, ?? which degenerates oc- Maicnall?, and often wkihont any sqtic;ien- caujeinto downright ill-temper? Men generally reard what saey ...

... I THE CITy 0P LONDN COMMISSION.. The following is a senmoary of the evidence given be- fore the commissioners during the Peast week:- Captain F. Bullock, RN., stated that he had been e-n. ployed by the board of admiralty to examine the bed of the river Thames, and to re-survey the river Medway. In stating his opinion of the way in which tha conser- vancy of the river bad been managed by the ...

... FALL OF A BUILDINOG-About eight o'clock on Thursday morn- ing, a portion of the premises partially injured by the late fire at Messrs. Potters' paper and staining works, and used as a store. room for paper hangings, suddenly fell down, owing to the bad state of the old foundation on which it stood, which was some- what weakened by the trench made at Its base to receive the foundation of the ...

... ACCRINGTON & IIASLINGDEN. MIDNIOGT MASS.-On Cbristmas-eve, service weas celebrated at St. Oswald's, Accrington, the R1ev. Joseph Walmnsley being tbe officiating priest. Imtimediately after Christnms morning was ushered in the grand mnidnight mass was performed, the cloir singing Webb's Mass, No. 2. A very eloquent and inipressive sermon was afterwards preached by the Rev. J. Walmsley, bis text ...

... LANCASTE R. . CHRIST3AS FESTIVITIES.-Tho joyous season of Christmab hasa this year been observed hi Lancaster with much greater decorum than it has been our lot to witness for many years. The day a falling upon Sunday may have been one cause for this, but even _ on Saturday afternoon and Monday (both of which were kept as holidays) there was less intoxication and disorderly conduct than ...

... IORift of U Pe tess. oar re~ahe-,s are rpclaily re'.ei~terte to oisosrve, th1at tiiiderI te~orre this hetl e~iv0 e ?? free-i She iecmli hg ?? Of our nlot vrsntuii poe:;k~z r it's ?? of ?? ?? 0 ' a subhi PARLIAMTARY' REFORM- 1Ib he o1l.. rig et riking ?? see front thle ii-coeoln of A i-~taeitoio w ho ?? it to be his dufty, iso far ais lie cteieiceiioiieveai, to) mlake, his mneatsures tile, ...