... tes R.SSINATION OF LORD PALRSTON. The secession of an able and popular Minister in the actual state of public affairs is, for the Cabinet and for the country, a serious loss. That Lard Palmerston will ...

... The weekly meeting of this body was held yesterday. Present-Messrs. Langsdale (chairman), Moss, Glad- stone, Godfrey, Hodssn, Beckwith, Nicholson, Fleming, a Johnson, Idaiheod, and M ...

... - FOREIGN INTELUGENCE.. FRANCE.tr 'Tho following appears in the non1 offcial part of the ow Wonitur of Friday :- Eel II On the 17th of M'uay lost we sald that if the question Vie opened at Constantino ...

... TO .~lE CHRISTMAS DAY. To TnE EDITORS OF THE LIVERPOOL ME RtCIuRY. GFNThmE8:V,-I think the followhig would bo a very correctI form of ?? to be adopted by those who desire this year to ...

... 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 ...

... MANCHESTER - ROYAL INSTITUTION.- i ECTURES ON THE HISTORY OF wI THE MIDDLE AGES. ta Another lecture, On the history of ,urope during the T) period from the fall of the western Roman empire to the in- M vention of printing, was delivered by the Principal of Owens hi College, at the Royal Institution, on Friday last. He now t entered on the subject of the rise :of the new nationalities, tb ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...