... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... SECOND. EDTIOL iN' ero, ore( lis! yEiti-eegaP4 iug P~uscs, TR5A. T .Th~. und imrovd.Three,. pe'r the :.Cen closed~ 7410; ?? per Cents, 101 850. ied The ?? wheat in the various makt ?? appears !to be again 'arested,: ad ecine f priced s ore ad a'gerl tobservable. ter, RUSSIA AND T-URKEY. onl. There are no. later advices from Asia, or from' the banks ine of the Danube. ' Iv-~The Post's Paris ...

... LATES -N: itLATES - .NEWS .: BY S. JOSAPHAT TIN C PARIS _NTI ,E TAL, TELEGRAPH Bounsa.-CLOSING PnLicES or THIS DAY. ;Taanchester, December 23rd, 4 p.m. ~TE 2Three per Cent ?? 40- * Four-and-a-Half ?? lot 25; Bank Shares ?? 2,980- VIENeeA,-CaOSING~1`11rCE5 dot * Five Per Cent ?? Si Exchange on ?? 11 17 Bank Same.. ?? r - - FourAmSTRAsDAM.-CtosINGePnIcne1. Forper Cent Dutch ?? 984 .MO ?? Two-and ...

... . I D. ? L.L?- ?? aistrtct Newo ? ? adt ASHTON. v ji- HYD.K M110HAN tea' IreSTITUTloi.-Thle second of a series ji be Of lectures on 1The study- of history, parttiiularly that of I ry our own country, from the English revolution of 11188 to the pj le. close of the l8th century. was delivered by C. Pountney, a cll Esq. of Manchester, to a very respectable audience, in the --lecture hail of the ...

... THE MANCTIESTER PENITENTIARY. - ANNUAL MEETI1NG to The annual meeting of the supporters of thei Manchester Ish tie Asylum for Female Psalmists wats hield on Wednesday morn- d' ing, in a commiittee-room of the Town Hall. - The mayor, bat Benojamin~ Nicholls, Esq. was in the chair. In comumencing altt proceedings the chairman asenred the meeting that he-hadl nei much pleasure in being called ...

... I- I -l Mi~e-nsn ?? areN ,SyDiRy.-Mr. Richard Keats .eGranger, ?? onl the 25th July, at his the y attob ieof bid Chinese servants, who ran away; but w ci three of them were ~subsequently apprehended. Two of r-~ them, named Sin Sin and Ly Sic, made a voluntary state- ant dmwent, through an interpreter, that Bin Tie cut Mr. Granger' a e w throat, whilst Tsh Sic end Tiam Tsoon held him, and that ...