... Six easy chairs have been sent to Fort Pitt General Hospital, by desire of the Queen, for the benefit of the ?? News. The Europa transport embarked 17 officers and 465 men of the Land Transport Corps, at Plymouth, on Wednesday afternoon, and sailed on Thursday morning for the Crimea. Each of the captains selected to command the gunboat and mortar-boat flotilla for the ensuing year's campaign ...

... SOLDIERS' REMITANCES TO THEIR . FAMILIES. ad . I'.1,1M II at Major Powys has forwarded to the Times a letter from be Lieutenant-Colonel Warre, Lommanding the 57th Regiment, n corroborating the statements made, that most of the married ] 9 soldiers do remit money to their wives, while th~e are stilli some who positively refitse t'J do so, knowing, as they do, that they cannot be compelled. to ...

... A noble gathoring of the brethren of the abovo loyal and benevolent Institutlon took place at the Sc. George Inn, Grange. lano, Birkonhead, on Wednesday evenoog lost, when about eo of the members and their friends emembled to celebrate the anmdversary of the Perseverance Lodge, No. 1511, in the Mao. chestor Unity. The worthy host, Mr. Wingfield, had provided a most eumptuoos dinner for their ...

... ST. AsDAN'S THEOLOGICAL COLLEO, BllKENHEAD. I MICHIAELMAS TERM EXAMINATION, B55. W P PRINCIPAL'S PR .OTIONs.-Pirsc Trta: First class e Phillips, Guest, Firth, Connell ?? Fcatherston, o s,(Equ.) Second cla, David Rtchards, Vale, Tentiell ii n- Thomas 1-I. Davico, Hartley, Ford. Thirdoelas,Jua., d it Thlorrlry, Lsmh Irt, Fox, Seweli.-Second Term: Fir.t n n- olass, Foster. Seeond cl8, Pashley, ...

... 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 ...

... As yet, no euthentic details of the fall of Kars have come to hand, but the report comes from too many iode- pendent sources to leave any doubt as to the fact. As we anticipated in a former article, the whole political world is filled with crimination and recrimination on the subject. The Tories lay the fault on the government and the mioaiterialists (out of office) on Lord Panmure. The Times ...

... DISTRI DIST041BTMON OF PRIZES AT THE 'OCLL2GIATE INSTITUTION. 1 On FridaW . th. ?? ?? -o -A- 'U-J.cl1ij'X IV0dTITI.TJON* Z On Friday, the half-yearly dietfibutlon 'or 'prIto at the Collso4 ?? Imllon took plaeo,'eunder the presidnc o th Lr yisho ?? h har f else iuetitutlon wvas. ase eus,I wele. Amongst those Present we noticed the following :- Venerable Archdeacon Jonesi, Peev. Dr., 'Nello, ...

... THE LIVES OF GREAT MEN, AND WHAT I WE MAY LEARN FROM THEM. l to IY -LYAfl A IV A . . -. 0 A LECTURE DELIVERED BY WILLIAM ALFRED JEVON8, EQ., Is AT THE TUORERSIAN INsTITUTE. p is Except history, there is no literary pursuit more bone- r 9 ficial to the mind than biography; but the usefulness of f it biography is of a different character from that of history. e 0t History has been irell defined ...

... - - - hat the recent difficulties between the nt Pe nr Ranilwany of Portugal and the English con- riors, Messrs. Shaw, Waring, and Co. has been arranged, ESTEIN COUNTIES RAILWAY. -The Board of Trade, hose attention to the state of this railway had been called f tile town council of the city of Norwich, have appointed e ?? Wynne, RE. to inspect the line between 1jendofi and Norwich. ...

... COURT, _tc. - 0 WINDSOR, DEC. 26.-Lord PAispoure and I jsr . It to pub ?? Harry Jones arrived yesterday ?? O VI, whe a sertigay RYLBARON OF BsEf.-Tbie; old English joint Ofl awas this year as p lied to Wiodoor Castle by the royal Cir't n5purveyors at Windsor. Thle baron was cut from a five- Clr is yer' Hgln Sctfed by his Roval Highuness Prince eand he ek yea: I, Th i. The, Rev. H. S. Brown ...

... FRANCE. ?? PARIS, SUNDAY, SEVEN rPOL - Denmark, it i~s ox- D ~eted, will very shortly Sign. a treaty simslsr to Chat VI0f Four Enlstvessels of swar hoave ?? in tbse thi ID dsh ster to look after some American crf known b to be l aden vith war materiel for Ru;sia. * The news of the satpfluation of the Swedish treaty, we P .Lear from Germany. has proiluced a groat senentien, and P ~eIalty ait ...

... 'SCHIOOL YOU1 TIIr DIRIAP AND DusmB.-The pupils of thi~s orhojlto he iuniserof bou 70 vsjoyd their usnal Clsiotssa l~~t tt hurdaylu-t. he itting hall Of everrees, eed he hilrenwerelsrvidd sith sets *.sv seetsen um~e innr o m~t befastd ibus padds~ b thebouny ~ Ric~itt 1tultho~,Esq., chalir. ployrd orualilooted with various articlsi eilwrs rude by she girl-. Lat~er its the da3 h uispttcl Of ...