... A NI\W PLEA FOR SPA.\UNO RUSSE.1 te Thou h we do not, with the Times, think. it is the duty gu a journalist to couiiulnt fieqllultly Iupon Mr. Henry Drommind's exhibitious of the e ridiculous in his ovin person, ar long as it is the id pleasure of the ooustituouicy of West Slliey to return hiun to Parliament, still he is such a queer 3t public characier that it woald not be fair to oiw . ...

... MULTUM IN PARYO. _ The new church at Formby was consecrated on Friday, His i ate by the Rev. the Lord Bishop of Chester. Allel ies John Johnson East, a miller at Lincoln, has been tend, fined in heavy penalties for having rice and plaster of A [alParis on his premises. The Rev. James Pedder, M.A., vicar of Churcltown, purp CkC near Garstong, committed suicide on Thursday morning Irels OF last, ...

... RESTORIATION OF POLAND. PUBtLIC IIEFTI5NG IN LIVEROPOOL LAST UETNIN6. A pobhic ?? III favour of the too taration itt P1'ral-d WM AtteoIdan e wase large, the bhall twing nearly tiled i~iat, Ove PRO. The pracoeesiog, were spreloited to co latice ?? , 41loJr .ud shortly .1fter shar IIatte it tao yrr t'ed t-y Mr. ih.: IerJ., tbrickecler, of Scotland-roadi, vcenetul by 31'r. lFobi'- I-otteili ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... ?? The 5th Lancashire militia, under Lieutenant-colonel Towneley, now in Clonmel, numbers 32 officers and 650 rank and file. The deanery of Down, Ireland, has become vacant by the death of the Very Rev. Theophilus Blakeley, MA. It is in the gift of the crown. A Limerick paper states that one-third more of land in the south of Ireland is laid out for wheat this winter than this time ...

... I TIRE LIVERPOOL MERCURY. 4 ltIDsy, DECEMBER 21, 1S55. '.ALLS PoPUnL LEX SUPAMA. &. A Glpnr ?? EL OF RU331AN CIVILISATIO I. If Mr. Driglit is srucere in all his outpouriogs Of glref all I itiligisitiull at tile policy which the uation Irpevo3 of in the vigorous prosecution of tbe wi . a;.liilqt ISsia, then must his state of mind b o.s wmiscr tile. Parsue the phantom of riiitiry glory fir ten ...

... 1dEMIORAI. TO T 'TEl LATE JOSEPH HU.M. Some time back the Earl of Fortescue an- noulncad his aiteltioln of oallinag upon such noble- ineu a'ua gcaatleialmu of the Liberal party as are or .have htbetu amtliberi of the louse of Commons to umae ilJ eietauar a testiunonial to the memory of tbla h: .Mlr. Ilume; but the suggestion of a 'genai-;d pualto subscription for that parpose may bo pr aperly ...

... --icutif(c oustruallp. HATCiIN~G THE EGGS OF THEn MCINEu.MoN.- 'The ichnuemon is a four-winiged fly, which takees no other ea food then honey; and the greet object of the female is to dis- ?? a proper niduie for her eggs.Insrcoftishisi constmat motion Is the Caterpillar of a butterfly or moth the appropriate food for her young? You see her alight upon the Plants where they nirc most usually to ...

... . At York assizes, William Beresford, 56, was indicted for 3having, on the 4th of November, 1848, at Bradford, uttered a tat forged indorsement of a bill of exchange for the payment of tic l ;100, with intent to defraud Samuel Laycock. Mr. Blanshard and Dr. Bower conducted the prosecution; co Mr. Hordy defended the prisoner. oh lit appeared from the evidence that at the latter end of the ...

... Tic uleal weeklY meeting of the dolk committee seas he(ia yeiterday, Mr. P. Shta d in the chair. The otihe nab *rs presert eore M'e-era. lRobinqone, Palmer. Br~oatle. lia,,tak, gFlo. Cha10ner, l-llttltt, Barber, . ailxxdel. Langs dial. At5tlvr onl, Hlubback, Rountlawaiteyn, ai Ranxkle. Thle stab-cotottitite of aviarko re ettitttn(ltdt the auccept qnc 0f titO tenlder taf lilcesra. Jolaeo ...

... L LA-TEST FOREIGN NEWS.J| t (BY BRITISH AND SUBMARINE TELEGftAP11) ASIA. reCI Telegraphic news from Asia states that the of I Princess Dadian has signed a treaty engaging to Im co-operate with the Mingrelians against Russia. THE ANGLO-SWISS LEGION. ar It has been announced from Trieste, the 14th eve inst. that 1,b00 men have arrived at Smyrna. They car( compose a portion of the Anglo-Swiss ...