... p1jgMOURS OF. PEACE AND WAR . [BY ELUOCTRIC TELEGRAPR.] [foQa OUV OWN CORrtESP0NDBXT.l BERLIN, MONDAY EVENING. The peace rumours have obtained such strength Is to have sensibly affected prices on the Bourse. The Russian journals and letters, however, re. present the Emperor ALEXsANDER as bent on con- tiOalg( the war, s0 satisfied is he with the state Of things in the Crimea. ol the other hand, ...

... I On Wednesday, at the adjourned quarterly meeting of the Town Council, the following members were pre- sent, viz,, H. E. SIvester, Esq. (Mayor), Aldermene Brereton, Crosskill, Robinson, and Stephenson; Coun- cillors Arden, Baker, Boyes, Brigham, J. Crosakil, Champney, Hind, Greenough, Nutchey, Page, Stam- ford, Whiting, Dr. Williams, Wilson, and Wreghitt. Twelve of Boyes's party, and eight ...

... THE LIVERPOOL MERCURY. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1855. SALUS POPULI LEX SUPREM A. SUMMARY-. Mr. Baron Parke is about to retire from the tl bench as one of the Barons of the Court of at Exchequer, and the learned judge's elevation to m the peerage, by the title of Baron Ampthill, is t expected to appear in the Gazette of to-night. i Returns published by the fofosding Post show er that un Christmas ...

... ud The Rev. H. B. Brown will address the working classes, at the Concert Hall, Lord Nelson-street, on Sunday after-. L neon next, on Miscellaneosu Proverbs. I led t i sttedthat R. A., Mantle, REsq., of this town, has !an iven4106 iiaid'of the Presbyterian missions in China. a A few years ago Mr. Maclie gave £1000 towards the i 'he Indian emissions., of During the assizes, a militiaman in ...

... Tal 1IIIATARY ?? . is o- We do not wonder that Albert, F.M., m Colonel of the Grenadier Guards, eni' his bro ther o ffioers of the privileged brigade, have dote their bis to keep their owU counsel. We canl a- sincerely sympithise with the little sortuincs they *6 ?? ustavoidahly feel on seeing their famoutis d meuturial of the 17th of August, after reniaining e in safe and hallowed privacy ...

... - Yesterdlay forenoon. the R0ev. J. Kelly Preached a sermon at o he Creocent Chaepel, Irsving reference to the ?? ot tire la, Mdr. Teoman Blackburn. Ibe chapel Wms well titol aln many e porons were preseut from other disseenting pfaoos'ior wurolip. trhe rev. gentlenmon aelected for his tent AetO xiii, 36-- For Vavid, after he hod served his own georeratkill iry lire will of Uod. fail on aleep, ...

... iral COURT, &a. The Queen, the Prince, the Princess Royal, Prince anit Alfred, the Princess Alice, and the younger children, de attended by Lody Macdonald, lady-in-waiting, Lord )an Alfred Paget, Genieral Grey, and Captain do Ros, are irri expected to leave Osborne next Saturday, for Windsor ffho Caotle, die Her Mtajesty has commissioned Mr. E. M. Ward, It.A., of to paint a cartoon (the exact ...

... P)R. OBRYE? AND TIIE CORPORATION OFP THE I. . . . ~ OjR . Auldi' ailteroim5 partern.' 1' To the' .Editor of The Britol. fe'rcry. dc S nI eed. make no ?? for aekieg your Indulgenice to at enable me to defend myseilf ?? before the public such ar expianf.rloaitioi a I can offer of certain expresslofls that fell- from hi theIrish, lelasr -of 'the'Rolig, whencle it'nstl emeretb miatter ofcooats. ...

... - SECO'N PDITIO$ BY ELECTBIC TELEGRAPIL At amseetingof the Eaetert Counties Railway eon, yesterday, the Chairnan (Mr. Waddington) and received with a degree of clamour borsering upoe A, motion to adjourn the meeting was rejected, the of lavestigaton'a report was adogted, their abourts, qnested to be continued, and the C airman and a iitiM k Directors were called upon, by mu resolution, tore, ...

... ' JUMANLE REFORMAORY IMNTUTo#- I ME.TiNGA Ar SHREWSBURY. I . I . I. On Thureday B ?? &uc iriflcttat 'meetipg' ot noblemen and gentleman connected with thbis county took place in the Shire Hill, Sbewasbary, to cosider the bomro priety ?? ?? criminals of'the. counltyto a reformatory institution. The chair was taken by ?? Lieutenent, the Agght' on. Visconnt Rll; and a0 tg - thoe present (besides ...

... I ' THE BANK CHARTE ACtd-. I . ,- X, ' _ i., ,, . .. I TO T1UB ED1ITR 01 THE DlAlL W5. C SiR,-Under the abovoheading a letter; in large c type, was published in the e8a' on FridAy. Its S substance wag incorporated in a leader, SLd the c writer was describtd as a high financial authority, t who, under the signature of ' Mercator,' has taken c the trouble to state a few simple truths on the ...

... - RBi- Ot!MY' 'AWI94N toR BREAD s1r -,s itA 8~trdyrh'ig been the day o g it htepl wafixi o aed po 66lace forithe.election nta isralb the ward-of Broad-stredet. In the room Of'telteM.ldr ?? took li eta od napmeurs' Hall1 at 10 ocolock.precissly. The canddatlets wen. Mr. Lawrence,' son of the deceased -aaldeirman, and k4r. D. Nicoll. 'ide. A B.Jisnstd ?? . Lnou.,an the piart cf.' Mra;~eol, ...