... I ANADA. The Montreal Ocean Steamship Company's vessel Indian, Captain Jones, which saed from Qeebec on the 15th, reached the Mersey this morning. She brings 145 passengers. Basiness continues as last reported, but the excellent condition of the crops, and the bare supply of goods in the hands of country storekeepers afford the promise that considerable improvement will shortly take place. ...

... L&TEST NEWS. ?? p (ByTHSaw ?? mfTRflAT1OvALT TaLEGRAPH1.] ~s S'UQh16tQ'.10Ay EVENIG bIJOUBT 25. Care -- John 34 At a md0e1ing of the Ro)-1 Surrey Gardens Company Joseph to-day, a resolution was agrees' to with a view to prevent Mr. Jones from winding up the 0-i0cern. George 1. Ches, PROROGATION OF PAlULTAMENT. Peter I T1he prorogation of Parliament is ;fixe for Friday. Johnlj The Court will ...

... ' The fortnightly meeting of this board was held yesterday at the offices, Brownlow-bill. The Rev. Rector Campbell oceupied the chair, and the other members present were D Messrs. Denton, Chesney, Byers, Jackson, Bairstow, > Mellor, Williams, Crawford, Smitb, Woodruff, Owen. r Richardson, Cook, J. Jones, Luff, Syred, Crellin, Whitty. ,, ~WOELIKOUSE COMMITTEE. The following report was included ...

... (innTTorrt l A i tL- I CORCAB1MT, &C. Bons On MondaY the Duchess 'Of Kent left Frogmaore station ye (travelling by the Great Northern) for Scotland._ II. 1 g cer- The election of Dr. Creanyni to the Bishopric of LndIon01 ~M ?? West) has been confirmed by the crown. o et to TheQaen and Prince Consort, accmane y h lder WI ,rrtl, royal children, arrived before Choerbourg on Tuesday in the IS( aic ...

... ?? ?? =- he FIANCE. d The Ermperor and Empress left St. Cloud on Monday, at ' . de four o'clock, for Biarritz. of The Aforcitezut announoes the reception by'the Emperor of )S- his Excellency Ferakh Khan, ambassador of'the Shah of . h. Persia, at a private audience, whereat the ambassador presented a an autograph letter from'tbe Shah, together with a sabre whichl 0 .s belonged to Shah Abbas the ...

... SPEECHIES OP SIlt JAMES GtAIIA.l2 The first stone of the new docks for Crlisle on the - Solway Frith was labi on Tuesday last hy sir James Graham. There is a railway from Carlisle to Siiloth The dock is to be tour acres in extent and 36 ie t ieep, and when the harbour is finished there will be two feet more ,2 water than in Liverpool. Tle company have cicli sod eight more acres in the vicinity ...

... -3-oi.o1e rtwe%. The Boston Courier says there fs a dilemma in the coqurt at Boston, as in the House of Commons. In England, as to the pro. naloe suggests treading on his corns.i NS The opinion that the heat of the equitorial latitudes is what has produced-the blackness of the human speides is not confirmed b y the fact that the inhabitants of Van Dieman's Land, living in aeliarth a cold as ...

... ead RAILWAY OVERCHARGE. TO THE EDITOLrS O0 TUlB LIVERPOOL MERCURY. 000 Gentlemen,-Believing You to be lovers of fair play, wvill iq., you find space for the foolowing in your widely-circulated o be columns ?-In the latter end of July I w as in London. I took a box to the office connected with the goods depart- ree ment of the London and North-western Railway, paid the [he carriage, 3s., and ...

... I OREIGN INTELLIGENCE. SARDINIA. MI The Piedmonterae Gazettc publishes the new lawon public Go instruction lately voted by the Piedmontese Chambers. Fa The following aire the chief points :-It dist~inguishes three branches of instruction, viz., the elemreutary, se. Sales condary, and superior. The minister has authority ov ?? all public schools, except the military arid naval colleges, Sto ...

... . ?? ' - i: IIAlLWAY TRAFFIC WEEKLY R~ETURNW. i8.ter, Natn ofRailay. This Same Hlf-yr'a Some Ali~es Cisri ?? 1666. Total. 185(k. oPen. trict L a Belfastand llallymena.. 13i)2 1019 02~4 7903 66 Tine. t lanukburn ?? 1u53 982 6411. 4514 286 aas6 Whieadl L, & Clieshire.. 8103 W285 213S0 Lf030 81 Bristol an IL', Koer ?? 7468 7405 41317 43958 117 W. Caledonian & ?? &tGlvA. 216891. 14L74 ..s . . 19Sf ...

... CANCER HOSPITAL-LONDON AND BROMPTOW. e The fifth annual meeting of the governors of this , hospital was held last week, in the boardroom of the Ce h hospital. Oliver Farrer, Esq., in the chair. n The Secretary (Mr. Cockerill) read the annual report of the committee, and from which the following extract has e been taken s The committee of management, in mating their fifth ,annual report, have ...

... --4 ?? RAILWAYS AND REVOLVERS IN GEORG@IA. The Timrs h..n R>AQ Abt~~ ja- - -A ?? The Times has a special correspcndent at present wc travelling mi the Southern states of America, and in a up letter written * n the 23rd of July from Macon, Georgin, be this correspondent thus speaks of the yet-rememberod th narrative of railway horrors:- ha In going from Augusta to Savannah, and thence to ML ...