... Tire following is a copy of the memorial which ap- peared in the Shipping Gaoette last week on this sub- ject. Not a day passes but collisions between ships occur. arid, as in the melancholy case of the steamer ' Marshall scores of human beings are often hurried to a premature grave. It is surely time something should be done, and the thanks of the community are due to any one who succeeds in ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...