... THE LIVERPOOL MERCURY. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1855. UALUS POPULI LNX SUPRIEMA- On Monday, the boy John Hamilton was tried at the Dublin Commission Court on a charge of having torn and burned copies of the New Testa- inent at the auto da fs of condemned books cele- brated by the Redemptorist Fathers at Kings- town, on the 5th of November, but he was ac- quitted, and the verdict was received ...

... i- - D. James Clifford, who had been remanded from Thurs- of day, on a charge of imposing on the credulity of several n parties, by representing himself as a messenger from the id other world, so thereby obtaining money from them, was at brought up for farther examination at the Cork police '0 office, on saturday. is A comfortable-looking farmer, named Michael Cash. w man, and residing near ...

... 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 ...

... - 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, ...

... (Froan the Examiner.) On the 24th of October, 1691, William Helme, of Kearsley, in the county of Lancaster, after providing for l his family and benefiting his friends, bequeathed the residue of his lands and beraditaments to trustees, to the intent and purpose that the clear and annual rents, issues, and profits thence arising and growing over and above all charges and reprises, shall be ...

... HE SMBALL FLEET OF ENGLAND. SOBlEW GUN BOATS. l Of the small class of high-pressuire screw gn boats (280 t tons) we believe there ate a out 38 afloat, and betweew , 80 and 90 in course 'of construction at the various meir- cantile establishments. By next MarohiIt is anticipated that we shall possess an equipped fleet of no'lems than 130 , of this serviceable 6iass of vessels. ?? believe that ...

... THE VISIT OF THEE ING OFl I - SARDINIA. at ~~(Frqm the Court Circular.) to Windsor, on Friday, exhibited at an early hour a very br animated. and lively appearance - the. inhabitants being' Por as busily engiiged in decorathig their houses with flags, ban- and ners, and de~iceas in lamps, in order to do honlour to oft tethe isit of Hecr Majesty's illustrious guest. The unprece, obt, re dented ...

... THE CHRONICLE. PRESTON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8,1855. ~l We have now arrived at, and are passing through that dread season of the year when Englishmen, succumbing to the ponderosity of the atmosphere, are supposed to brood over their dyspeptic stomachs, rail at fortune for making them too rich, and become curious enquirers as to the price of morphia or prussic acid. How thankful ought we to be ...

... D Now that our recent difficulty with the United States appears to have given way before the good sense and right feeling of the great mass of the i a American people, it may perhaps be well to advert to certain circumstances in the relations between the two countries which may assist us either in I avoiding, or at least in estimating at their true t value, any future causes of dispute. It is ...

... -- - - - I . - . Yesterday, an adjourned meeting of the Blackburn Town Coun- cil was held in the Assembly Room, Heaton-street; the Mayor in the chair. Present-Aldermen Cunningham, Thwaites, Ru- therford, Degdale, Parkinson, Folding, and Hopwood; Council- lors Roylance, Ainsworth, Baynes, TurnIbull, Boyle, T. Thwvaites, Parker, Forster, W. Johnson, P. Johostone, Beaty, Watson, Hirst, ...

... VISITATiON OF THE LORD BISHOP OF | 1. I I MANCHESTER. . ?? ?? VI- T2:. AT r-1. ?? 2 I.:- ?? ?? ; M. I I AtN UUFEKISTIK. I cted The Lord Bishop of Manchester commenced his sceond athj visitation, since the formation of Manchester into an inde - Mr; pendent see, and his lordships translation to it as the primary 5ner bishop, onWednesday,atlBolton. Twenty-five of the clergyofthe C they ...

... Ural Neum 1-1 ?? ?? LOvENSHULAXE MrcnANIcs' INeSTITUT'TON-01 SaturdaY evening, the Rev. Samuel Coley, of Stockport, delivered lecture in the above 'institution on. Nineveb. .Thle rev. lcectiear illustrated his subject with a considerable number of well-executed diagrams, copied from slabs in the British Mcsseuin. James Sidebottom, Esq. occupied the chair. Tee, SOUTH LANciSsnicE AOiuCULTIIIAL ...