... SABBATH DESECRATION.b 5. TO TUB EDITORS OF TilE LIVERPOOL MERCURtY. a Gontleinen,-For several Sundays past my attention has been a drawn, in walking to town, to the number of noon working onl the new line of the Loncashire and Yorkehire Railway, from this behind B~ank Halt to the north docks. At firet I thought scme Unlusual occurrence required, onl that day, the services of the a, first men ; ...

... I PEACE-EGGING. TO THE EDITOR O THE PRESTON CHRONECLE. SiR,-The Blackburn magistrates have prohibited the practice of peace-egging in that town. It would be well if the authorities here would do something to suppress the nuisance. On Saturday we shall have. our houses tbronged with this class of impudent beggars. Your obedient servant, Preston, April 4, 1855. A PUBLICAN. POLICE STATIONS ...

... WHAT HAS BEEN DONE AT WESTMINSTER. (From the Daily Notes) Parliament, which re-assembled on the 26th of Jan., for the despatch of business, adjourned on Friday last for upwards of a fortnight. It Is natural that we should ask how much of the business for which it was summoned together, nine weeks ago, has been despatched. Divers urgent and weighty matters, affecting the national weal, then ...

... RUSSIA & TURKEY. SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL, RECENT DISPATCHES. (From Wrednesday's Morning Chronicle) Paris, Tuesday ?? intelligence received., from the Crimea is without importance. No movement had taken place on either side since the great sortie of the 22nd March. An armistice had been demanded by the Russians on the 24th to bury their dead. Above 300 corpses were removed from before the allied ...

... EXA3INEun AND TIMES OFFICE, inWednesday, Nine at,. of 0RNING EXPRESS. le (By Electric Telegraph.) THE CONFERENCES. (From lhe Timies.) in VIENN TUESDAY.-The ninth Conference was d- held yesterday. It was very short and not satis- -jo of factory. It is uncertain when the next Conference will be held. to THE CRIMEA. I CdNSTA.NTINOPL, MARCH 29th.-Omar Pasha 3s occupies two villages half a league ...

... ol~~l AVot ?? r o 3e P. blA le On Sunday, the Queen, Prine id members of the royal household, atlended di the chapel of Buokingbar.. Palace. Viscount and Viscountess PalmerstOfl ge87 on Saturday. The company included the id dinia, the Brazils and the Netherlalds.1 ie Advices from DanlIzc, to the 14th inehtou, a- inundations of the Vistula have destroyed a of ?? of the 1, at The new Lord High ...

... at his reside ( Lbe jqe ri.T ayor of Salford, William cas! TALITX., * ?? oveniag, at his resdence, Sb 1 Ie 0- ?,atlny, N .myth, Esq.R .A.S. even 100 etertaillc 3ria s Jo 1eph bitrorth, Esqj. OX ; to , .oll,, E i'i Pe, l 1, S. JiS, e ?? Vaughan, D.D.; exhi ; 4 0~,sA? -a ' E .$ ' R .A ; C h a r le s B e ll, FE s q . l s . ia l , d sq o J e s ?? om ?? F R F S . ; D r . A s h t o n ; w e :P;; . ...

... faweeIlaunCoU~2 THE ATRITIC ?? end Scotch resi- dents in Batavia had, in the course of a week, subscribed .1 upwards of £X1000 to the patriotic fund. if ANTI-MAYNOOTH AGITATION.-A.committee composed of a membersof the Church Protestant Defence Society, Evange. o lical Alliance, National Club, Protestant Alliance, &c. have d convened an aggregate meeting of Protestants on the sub- ject of ...

... The annual meeting of the Manchester Diocesan h Church Building Society was held on Thursday last, w at the Town Hall, under the presidency of the Pr Bishop of the Diocese. The report of the society's p,, operations during the past year was inseveralrespects le gratifying. Notwithstanding the unfavourable state ca. of trade, and the diminished means of the corn- ut rmunity for charitable ...

... THE ARMY AND THE' HORSE GUA? AUTHORITIES. be Although the committee on the state of tile anm :0, before Sebastopol have nos yet got a ehic to all ,he cc sources of our siege disasters, we have a stronq bei en that the result will be to show a larmo l)ercEitr,, of of the mischief to have arisen from the hasty In. he dertaking of a work which was not thout il o to 1.st longer than a few days or ...

... FOREIGN - ?? F~tANVIJVIE There appears to ba n loger any reason to doubt that pi the Erperor if the Preols aiU prceed forthwith to the IO Crimea. it, the Coastitatiotnud of Monday it is stated w that his camnp equipag lihas already been sent off; and bi the 10th ot May is collfidently lawed in Paris as the day F on which' he ivill take his departure. His MAjesty, as T generalisitno of the ...

... TO THE HDITOaS OF THS 1YRI1OOL MERCURY. Gentlemen,-I transmit the report on the ispootant sulbect of the division of the county palatliao, and aly as well mention amlaisdenit in referenco theret. that occurre i at the meeting of -the magiatrates at lirkdale, on the 17th instatnt. Y tt are aware that the court doea not open until teltes o'eobk Whilst frprivatesitinigat hall-paeteleven, an ...