... 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, ...

... 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 ...

... ?? ji .aJ. ptw o a aitf VrobtnaiL;- ?? ?? . .. . . ?? ?? ?? .. ?? . .. .. . ?? . The court remains in seclusion at Osborne, and scareely 1 furnishes matter for insertion in tile usual Court Circlular. f POOR-'LAW CASE.-Mr., Wakleylhas been holding an inquiry B into the death of an infant, which died in its mother's arms, in London, one day lately, from exposure to the cold, Both father and ...

... THE CHRONICLE. PRESTON, SATURDAY, YDECEMBER 10, 1853. 1 -I- ?? A gentleman, by name Mosely, with the academic initials B.C.L. tacked on at the end by way of garnish, has published one of the dryest of dry pamphlets on the question at issue between the belligerent parties in the East of Europe, to which he attaches this title: Russia- in the Right, or the other side of the Turkish Question. ...

... THE NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT OF THE TIMES & THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT. a Most men in this country, who have paid any e attention to the recent course of American politics, e a will scarcely have failed to remark the inveterate i, hostility with which President PIERCE and his rcabinet have been assailed by the New York oorre- B spondent of the London Times. For several months, i, every ...

... ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? bui 3- Mr;-J. B. Gough, the American temiperance advocate, lec- Wi ?? at Liverpool this week. r- Oin the motion of Mr. William Brown, M.P. the, special eat a~ committee of thle Liverpnol Oliscni'ier of Commerce on deco-I t .mal coinage has been appointed. aI r. iA man named Joseph Valentine had been committed by ' It the.Aciirhigton magistrates to the assiies for perjury at ...

... 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 ...

... | IhMP'ROVEMNENT COMMISSIONERS' MEETING. l I Irn' - . a1 A -1 - _;A . I . A A; I The monthly meeting of tie above body was held in their gr office, In Dock--street, on Mlonday last, and excited more titan ass de ordinary amount of interest from the importanco of the business to be traneacted. There were present-NV, Elletson, Esq., in the ebair; Mr. Pitt, clerk; F. Kemp, Esq.; .J. A. Turnter, ...

... MANCHES ER ROYAL INSTITUTION. i LECTURES ON THE HISTORY OF gr THE MIDDLE AGES. a The second lecture was delivered by the Principal of ur Owens College, on Monday last. The subject oln that e occasiou was, in tbe firstplace,the ?? H and other barbaric nations into Gaul. He observed that tbey at tirst appeared, in alliance with tite Romau itrns, at the se battle of Chalons against the Hunnish ...

... ~ ' I - - - - - - _- _- _ _ TO TILE EDITOR OF TlHE PRESTON CCURONICLE. r SIR,-I have been informed that the letter I addressed g to you on the 24th ult., has been printed and posted; this se I did not expect, and it has been done without my know- d ledge. I felt sorry to write upon the subject at all; still, if any good will arise towards the working classes, I care not for any odd individual. ...

... M~EETING, YESTERDAY, TO ESTABLISH A PUBLIO ri LIteRRY. d A public meeting wits held in the Town-hall yesterday, 11 to take into consideration the ln'ans of establis4hing a gublic liiary for the use of Prescot and the neighbour-0 oci. Tiemeeting was culled for twelve o'clock, and 0 the announcement tbat Lord Stanley was to take tile go chirdrw ietera umros .~paythe hall being b! co nletly illd. ...