... EARLY CLOSING FESTIVAL IN I HULL. o The Public-rooms, Kingston-square, were on Tuesday y evening the Scene of a great and happy gathering of the dI Early Closing Association, consisting of drapers and d hosiers' assistants, apprentices, and other employees, e with many of their friends, who were assenibledlto cele -I ,n brate their release from business at an hour which a fewi it years ago ...

... , THE ARCTIC SHIP RESOLUTE AND TH.E LIVER- 0 POOL SHIPOWNEIRS' ASSOCIATION. ^ ?? AL-LL VI T1A C: . )00'.JJ Ltl 1.U4. On Tuesday at noon, Captain Hartstein returned to the Resolute from bis vlittoViscoutPalmerston, where, hostates, he was entertained with the u'most cerdiality. The same D morning the deputation from the Shipowners' Association of Liverpool, eomprising Mr. S. Rt. Graves, ...

... THE LIVERPOOL MERCURY. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1856. t SALUS POPULI LEX SUPREMA. Mn A deputation from the Liverpool Shipowners' St Associati(,f arrived in Portsmouth on Tuesday, de and presented an address of congratulation and D, goodwill to Captain Llartstene and his brother* he officers and crew of the Resolute. Hearty thanks th were returned by Captain Hartatene, and after- oh wards the ...

... dr The usqual weekly meeting of the West Darby Board of eel Gurardians was hold yesterday, in the boardroom of the West eej Dcrbyv Wiorkhouse. The Rev. W. Badnall ?? the chair, he end the fill wving Members were aso proe tent:-Mesars. Sid- fr, delvy, Lunet, %Vil,011, Elias, Hi. Edwards, NV. B'a'Yles. Abrahamsl, th 31wd,fe v, Wa-dnston, J. Edwards, Johns, Craig, Pitts, Davis, ov beagr, P~ckup, ...

... LIVERPOOL LIFFX: * IT3 PLEASURtE% PRCMOF.ICS, AND PASTIBES. ladN Ts srxn,,, bat trtne f,)r truth is always strange, andI Straoger than fletion.1 Mal- SETOND SE'llEs.-Nto. VI. lads A visit to a thieves' lodging house; a ramble per i amoogst, robbers' dens-the scenes and asso- resti ciutii na to he met with in the moat degraded for a locrlities of Liverpool. I What interest can the pitif, got ...

... BIRKENHEAD FREE LIBRARY AND MUSEUM TO TUE EDITORS OF THE LIVERPOOL MERCURY. Geutlemen,-In July, 1S55, an act of Parliament was passed 5 having for its object to further the establishment of free I libraries and museums. Some eight or nine months ago this t act was adopted by the rstepayers of Birkenhead. The interval a has been employed by the committee in fixing upon the a premises in Prnce ...

... u In a venuer to ao ?? work for nearly £20 less. tij ACCDENTS.-On Wednesday, a man named Will'Lam Sul he Finn was going along the canal side, near Bootle, v/hen wh te his foot slipped. He fell into the canal, and frac tured let ha his ?? Cain, a joiner, in the service of in Messrs. Holme and Co., was employed at the top of sot ., a building now erecting in Oldhall-street. He, feli to wa it. ...

... the FRANCE. wit 1- PARIS, THURSDAY.-The Debate says :- We believe wo of we are able to state with some certainty that England, Del in entering the Conference, distinctly declares she will Li) conform to the decision of the mojority whatever that decision may be. The relative position of the disputants qt is no secret. On the one side, France, Russia, and in Prussia'; on the other, England, ...

... , THE LIVERPOOL FINANOIAL REFORMd I ASSOCIATION. ANTI-INCOME TAX AGITATION. Ii At the week!y meetiug ot the council, onThursday, tho agitw tO tion riowoD fo-t for th ilmmedietereducton of the income lnd D property tax, and its total repeal at the period at present fixed IS Ig law, s referred to as a sulject both of retiret an's alarm to q- ail consistent advocates of tri e trade do' trines anu ...

... PORTRAITS OF Tll MIEMBERS OF THE TOWN COUNCIL. BY A LOCAL ARTIST. th No. LIX.--MR. JosElH GUmu0Ns LivINGSTONE. tb The subject of our present notice is a member at ,f council for the first and last time. In the to election of 1855 he was converted into a coun- b cillor by a trick as unworthy as it was, elec- se tieneeringly speaking, acute. The evening before tb the election, voting papers, ...

... - ?? . ?? -. . - ?? ?? L- ?? ?? _ go] d STARVATION DY A FATHER AND STEPMOTHE1% -At we i- the meeting of the Warrington board of guardians, on Mr t Wednesday, Mr. H. Cartwright, the chairman, gave the On following particulars :-He said that on Monuay he met we it a gentleman who had told him that there were some wa Afchildren of a man named Aiken who were kept literally gel n in a state of ...

... , - I Fll.ANCg. I iTe .Pis Maliteu)' of Wednesday contains an article on the Noufehatel question, the details of which it explains. The Frenh Government intervened with wise counsels; it asked for the liber- ation of the Neofehatol prisoners, so as to prevent any armed conflict, and to obtain a final settlemcnt of the question. Swit. ;zerland would not follow these counsels. The Menfeur ...