... 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 ...

... 'iUE CRYSTAL PALACE AT SYDENUAM. To the nist of wars and rumours of wars the great peace In f t i5i is quietly progressing towards perfection at pir hthing seems to check the progress of the Crystal s qo matter whether it rains a deluge or blows a her- woae lVOrkls Whether out in the gardens or on the tops of tla5oo feet hi go forward with equal celerity. Yet, as ktors been expected from the ...

... LUNDON GAZETTE. OSBORNE HOUSE, Dee. 5. This day had an audience of Her Majesty :—The Count de Lavradio, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the King of Portagal and the Algarves, to deliver a let- ter from the King Ferdinand, Regent of the Kingdom of Por- tugal and the Algarves during the minority of his Son the King Don Pedro V., notifying the death of Her Majesty Queen ...

... Witerature. ‘Tun Lay or tux Last Minsrnet. - Illustrated by Birket Foster and Jolin Gilbert. Edinburgh: A. & C. Black. To the splendid edition which the publishers issued last year of the Lady of the Lake, we have here a superb compa- nion bound in the same chaste style of clegance, and abound- ing in illustrations of the same rich and varied beauty. No poem has ever been presented to the ...

... keI )le THE PUBLIC AND SHAREHOLDERS, o d, TO Tise EDITOR OF THR ERsiti MERaCURY., tori an Sir-task permission to make a few commentson one ortwo liar peculiar circu~mstances frequenltly altendiug.railway accidents. eac. a The causes of these unitowardl calat7niies, and the measures tot 'rs mrost calculated to pit-vent them, I ?? others to discuss, rear ife merely remarking, thlat at long ...

... LAen A BUILDLNG SOCIETIES. *The rapidity with which Land anid nilding Societies have sprung into existence bears some resemblance to the furor of the railway mania of 1 45. New schemes, are brought forth every. day, and some of the most recent have succeeded in attracting a larger number of members than the societies which have been in existence a considerable time. There are, at the present ...

... SUBWAY POR SEWAGE, GAS, AND Water. TO THE EDITOR OV THE ERA. Sir,-So long as the comment on, and partial contradiction of, the able aticle which appeared in your journal of the 27th ult., irelative to my proposed subway for sewage, gas, and water supply was confined to the communication of your correspondent ' C. G. Y, I was content not to trouble you with any remarks, rbecause it was ...

... ROYAL CALAM1^ITIES. Notwithstanding the antipodean distance at which fortune and caste keep the members of the hueman family apart from each other-the prince ol his throne from the beggar on his dunghill; the statesman guiding an empire from the labourer guiding a plough; the bishop in his palace from the curate in his lodging-there are nevertheless points in life at which we no sooner touch, ...

... HARLOCK'S (Lord Exeter's). Caliban The Consld Maneduff Pbaeton Dandelion JOHN SCOTT'S. Acrobat Scythian Applause Prince Arthur Apollonius The President Blight Bolardo Bracken Burlington Dervish Xoneysuehle Marley Hill Melcombe Meteora Moresca motley Ortolano BUM3BY'S (Mr. Knowles's). Baalbee Caliph Marble Hill DIarsyas T. DAWSON'S. Amalgamation B c by Annandale- Marinella Coris Merr Monk Qui ...