... I - A ER RE-M TillE DISSENTERS AND UNIVERSITYf REF:ORM. This question, which was so ably examined at the public meeting lately held in this town, has since come before the House of Commons, on a proposition to refer the Government measure I of University Reform to a select committee. In fact, this motion went to get rid of the bill alto- gether, at least for the present session, and Mr. ...

... sailed on the 2nd April. On the 20th, in lat. 42, lon. 30, passed a large lower mast, not long in the water, and several spars and loge. os the 24th, in lat. 40, Ion. 28, boarded the Commerce, from Hull for Montreal (before reported), abandoned, and took from her some spars, &e. The Portland, MI'Lellan, from New York, has arrived at this port. An American ship, dismasted and abandoned, hailing ...

... DOMESTIC _NTEUNCE. t.u IU~flsQ havo Em- .sLL a ll ?? A Yankee newspaper, critieising an ocean of wordsa without meaning, poured forth from the press by an archbishop, compares the produotion to a tub without bottom-a dictionary on the spree. na pleasant country village of Perthshire, says the ?? Cotuier, the town crier of which is a true and steadfast liegeman of King Alcohol, ithas been ...

... I 1U ?? 1LXLALJJ VJ.15 5JJ45LbA' 'Jsj ! O. STBAMER LUSITANIA. Ir- On Tuesday afternoon last, a number of gentlemen a- n sembled in the saloon of the screw-steamer Lusititnia, be. ad longing to the South American Steam Navigation Corn- et pany, lying in the Wellington dock, to witness the pro- gs sentation to Captain Brown of a handsome servioe of '4 plate (a description of which has appeared ...

... MULTUM TN PARVO. ; 1L U sU Iti V D I ,I All ?? .d William Smith O'Brien has arrived in Belgium to join 0his family there. ?? The Barl of Kenmare has made a free girt of 14 miles of land for the Tralee anid Killarney Railway. LS In consequence of the spread of the cholera, Cardinal Witseman has granted permission to his flocek to eat flesh it meat on Fridays and other days of ab~tinerce and ...

... De TO THE EDITORS OF THE LIVERPOOL M3ERCURY. to Gentlemen,-The Welsh resident in this town, as you 10 have been previously informed, had in contemplation the ir holding~of a concert, the proceeds to be devoted to the IC ByPatriotic Fund. In order to carry out this benevolent r f intention efficiently, a very influential and intelligent r tocommittee was formed, which held its meetings at the I ...

... THE MANCHESTER AND LIVERPOOL AGRICULTURAkL SOCIETY. On Friday last the annual exhibition in connexion with ni this society was held at Altrincham in a large field near k the railway station. The event drew together a large at- a tendance of gentlemen from the neighbouring districts, d and the shlow was considered one of tile best which had ?? been held for onie years. There was an excellent ...

... ?? - ?? ?? - The Liver Club held their opening soirce for the season on Friday esoning last, at Messrs. Palner's Rooms, Wilton-street. The refreshments, provided by Mr. Oakes, of Lord-street, and the orchestral arrangumuents, by Mr. Martin, were excellent. DEATII FPtiG ExCSSIVE DRIlNKING. -01 Saturday r last, an inquest was held before P. F. Curry, Esq. borough t coroner, on the body of Julia ...

... TUE, WEST DERBY GUARDIANS. Th 'ec weekly meoting of thiii board woo held on Wednesday atj ~ligst, alt the ?? f tm OfIWest; I ,b~~1hUO~ = pesntwe~re - Meesri. Shoaw, Altplety, Alpass, Siddeley, we ttArhteLnt, Weneley, James Birch, Jeltreye, Pitto, Hyeeo no .t Kieklus, Brown, Ledger, and Biatteni. Cheeques, for out-dlour o relief were drawn as fellow :-Mr. Potts, £70 ; Mr. Allen, £65; d Mr. ...

... TheLimeriekReporter has the following gloomy state- ment respecting the spread of distress in that quarter consequent upon the enormous advance in the price of all kinds of provisions I- The state of the poor is lamentable in the extreme. We never remember to have witnessed them undergo more privations. The capitalists' who speculate on 'war' have absdlutely placed provisions beyond their ...

... I TURKEY. The Grand Council, which assembled on the 17th ult. to deliberate on the propositions of arrangement was unable to come to a decision on that day, and it met again the following day. After remaining in delibera- tion till the evening, it came to the conclusion to accept the proposition. Other letters agree in stating that little h1pe was en- tertained of the negotiations leading to ...

... Sir G. H. Seymour, lately our Ambassador at St. Petersburg, was at the Easter dinner this year, given by the Lord Mayor of London, and addressed the CCn, pf.-y2 at some length. On his health being drunk, he said that the compliment belonged rather to the system under which he had been brought up than to himself indivi- dually. That system was a remarkably simple one. It was in fact, nothing ...