... 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, ...

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

... 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., ...

... .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 ...

... DOMESTIC IETELLIENCE. THE INCOME TAX.-THHE R1N CaTHOW0t LEity. if -At a conference of the Romana catholic ecln of the deanery of Tuam, resolutions were adopted ?? of their surprise at receiving papers, the ain -i sending e which anpears to be to charge the voluntary.ttioras of l the faithful-for legal revenues we bnveinP ih-a h certain amount of legal taxation, and annouuiing their . ...

... The ueccal weekly meeting of thise committee wee held yester- PC day, there being present-Mr. Larigadale (in the chair); MSessrs. Halihed, Nicholson, Gladstone, M'Nicol. 9 5 Mr. Johnson and Mr. Roek-cll waited upon the committee for th r, the purpose of drawing their attention to the present state hi a of Smith-street and the Streets a-ijoinicig. Mr. Johnoen co e stated that itwsas the great ...

... A duel has lately taken place at Madrid between the Marquis de Turgot, the French ambassador, and Mr. Soul6, the American minister at Madrid, in which Lord Howden acted as second to the Marquis de Turgot. Another duel had previously taken place between the Duke of Alba and Mr. Soul6, jun., son of the minister, arising out of the quarrel, which took place some time since at the French ...

... THlE LIVIRPOOL LRRY. TUESDAY, DECEMBER-270Ml.. a ?? ! ' . ?? D S U M MI A R Y. When the vacancy in 'the representatiowa Cloninel first became known, a. whole br candidates apeared In the -feld;- but when it was 7tlcai'l 50 known that It.' John O'Conlidl h~d secu'red the Vail to I support of the Rev. Dr; B urke, all the'OthetCdfr`I'~ C&Ybt5ia didates, vanished, from a, wonvic .tion' ii 1 a ...

... THE LIVERII'IOL MERCURY. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1853. BALUS POPULI LEX SUPREEA. S U M M AR Y. The leaders of the Liberal party in Liverpool do not intend to proceed with the petition against the return of Messrs. Horsfall and LiddelL: That bribery, in the shape of a day's pay for nominal services, was again practised on a large scale is a provable fact; but, from the very outset of the contest, ...

... It is well worthy of remark, and it should in- p struct us in what we have to expect, that while the party which calls itself Liberal-Conservative is eagerly enunciating theories on Parliamentary Reform, the Tories confine themselves to criti- cism, and guard their secret-if, indeed, they R have any-with a jealousy indicating the domi- nion of a master mind over mediocrities. Now and then an ...

... 30 FsLLow-cITIzENS OF TUW SENATE AND OF THliE HoUSEF. OF RFrRa- - 5ENTATIvus.-The interest with which the people of the re- 10 public anticipate the assembling of congress, aud the falfilment, V0 on that occasion, of the duty imposed upon a new president, is - one of the best evidences of their ?? to realise the hopes 10 of the founders of a political system at once complex and sym- metrical. ...

... FOREIGN INTELLIGENQ1i, - ?? ?? -- - ?? ?? ---T i FRANCE. on tl PARTS, DEC. 12.-Complain11s of the dulness of -trade Peer are general ansoag the shopikeoers of Paris. They say treor that the necessaries of life were never dearer, and their if eo profits never lighter, than at the present moment. The of tt amounst of sales effecited at present by some of the prin. mitti cipal hiouses is stisteid ...