... TI{~ iV~~FOL MERIOURL . THBAIFATOti TUEpw'A, Ti l~ xq 9 Si. ; aLu, P.OPrLi I 9gL a ?? tI : M M AR BY , : In the House of Lords, on Thursday evening, the Earl of Shaftesbury moved that the Bill for limiting the Working Hours of Needlewomen be referred to a select committee. He eited the authority of Sir J. Clark, physician to the Queen, and that of other medical men of high standing' to show ...

... (Front a London Correspondent.) e The second official paper of the Administrative Reform fi Association contains little more than the opinions at , various times expressed by different leading statesmen at and officials at the heads of departments. The evidene ee t however, is very conclusive, and affords strong proof of re the necessity of a change. It is a great pity that these SI Ftit ...

... THE LEGISLATIVE AND ADMINISTRATIVE INDEPENDENCE OF THE AUSTRALIAN -COLONIES. -. - -- .- .. When a bill was passed in 1850 deciding that de the k-ustridian colonies should be permitted to de- IL teriiue themselves what should be the provisions ac of their future constitutions, we hoped that in te tie course of a year or two we should have got lo rid of Australian politics altogether-a matter of ...

... ?? ?? ?? -- l ?? .. ?? 9 - ?? -- RECENT ALTERATIONS Coed IN T118 sour TIMES OF THE DEPARTURE OF THE pres MAILS FROM LIVERPOOL, F. * IIIGI TOOK PLACE OV THE 1ST INSTANT. last, clou The alterations in the hours of despatch of the follow- ws i .g mails lsay, perhaps, not be generally known to the that pablic, ?? London mail, which takes the corre- had ipoldence foi all the South and West of ...

... - A lb VtA . A A +. tSArb. A S3; Deduced from oliservationa taken at the Liverpool Obser. 83 vatory, during the week ending Saturday, June 16,1855, 42 Latitude, 53W 24' 48 N. Longitude, 3 0' 1 W. 10 STATE OF THE ATMOSPHERE. lo 76 Ozone(0-10),at9a.mn. | OD | 73* j Timeoccupledin 0 ?? Vfaillig I 28f 3 | Collectdingaugel 6 1 ,a0 8 I -30ft.abveground I .OO-.OOO 1 ,4 28 3e0 Daily horizontal I M I ...

... Tfoi CATHEDRAL, ?? i,.,pa ,, BI 3 , *s , , +:nq6 9 Sam Slick,. whose saatirical illustrationls of the human nature always apply to the absurdities and req' vices of other counltries as well as his~o~vll, soifl- imcl where tells a tale of a Carolina planter whol, find- takc ing that his estate was not so productivO as it lie%' ought to be, Bought to discover the cause of this slot evil and ...

... ie [BY THE ELECTRIC AND INTERNATIONAL TELEGRAPH-] tee MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 18. int Int THE WAR. ur- (From the Seconii Edition of the Times.) bhe MOVEMENT OF RUSSIAN TROOPS. The Timms Paris correspondentt writes, on Sunday of evening- A private' letter from Posen1 mentions that ab- the Russian troops that had been stationed on the left rn- bank of the Vistula are either gone on or are ...

... THE CALORIO ENGINE. s Captrja Eriesson has addressed the following letterto a - New York paper. It will be seen that he has not aban- ?? doned the calorie ongine; that Nvhileracclanical difficulties h- prevented the satisfactoryapplicatidn of the principle, f.his faith inthe priniple itself remaiB unshaken; and that .h is still opgacd, with unwearied assiduity and with un- courage, in the ...

... ?? ?? , - - ?? - , THE LIVERPOOL MERCURY. TUESDAY, J.UE 1-9, 1855, SA rVS P4ruI LizX SuPrEs.iMA. THE TICKET-OP-LEAVE SYSTEM. When our Australasian colonies refused to submait any longer to the mother country inflicting upon them that social pest, convict labour, and it beE caaie necessary to provide some substitute for the punishment of transportation beyond the seas, the Government introduced ...

... ?? ?? I .. . .. - Ig- The scheme with which the Liverpool dock trustees went to Parliament for extending the i a docks northward has, been virtually rejected by P a s the select committee of the House of Commons. a Instead of granting the four millions asked for E resby the promoters of the bill, the committee .nk yesterday ct down the amount of money they nd will permit to be raised to £6850 ...

... I it Derby Guardians-was The usual weekly meeting Of the Westo I terb cuairi.l TWas held on Wadnesdaiy, M'r. Joseph Harriod nte ,r h other members present were Messrs. Ledger, Momstfield, Bel- shwEiddeley, J. Birch, Collis, Roberts, Edorrds, anItzKtidd., Mulilin, Wenisley, Batten, Abraham, Lunt, Ewrs n id I henube oumsnatess in the houee Was stated to be 850. g Cheqnuesbfr out-dloor relief to ...

... LQCAL .VINTN G A E. - ?? .. . ?? q Ther,roYtt assent was given on Frida;v-eVenhg' to the' 'LierpolCorortion Water (Athendme-ut) Bill. IL Alfred *W. Adams, Esq., 'has been appointed dejutaty ,ttorney-general for the Isle of Man. Mr. Robert M'Niooll, St. Helen's. Lancashire passed isis examination at Apothecaries' Hall, on Thursdaly last. A grand cricket mnatch' between the Eeven of all Eng:- P ...