... SIR JOHN LAWRENCE ON THE I . INIAN FAMINE. On Friday. at the meeting of the General Committee at the Mansion-house, London, there was an interestimg conversation between Lord Harris, Sir E. Ryan, Sir G. Trevelyan, Sir J. Lawrence, and others acquainted with Indil, as to the extent of the distress and the best way of relieving it. Sir J. Lawrence said he had received a letter from Mr Roberts, ...

... I DREADFUL SUFFERINGS OF - AUSTRALIAN EXPLORERS. d The Australian papers publish ant account of the n sufferings undergone by Trooper Lyons, and hlacpbereon thle saddler, in their endeavours to overtake.Mr Burka ' and the advanced portion of the exploring expedition. i Information of their pitiable condition was at length e brounht to the reserve camp by an aboriginal, and a i relief party was ...

... LIVERPOOL AND BIRKENHEAD MARKET 4. A.HTICUU. iS', 3U 3}' Wednesday. Wednesday. s. d. s. s a. d. V pound.. 0 0 8 0 no « Mutton 0 6..0 8 0 8..0 Veal 0 7 .. 0 .. 0 9 fforeqr. ..14 0 .. 0 II 0 .. 0 0 I hind qr 8 0..0 0 8 0..0 0 Fraeh i'ork .tf pound.. .. 0 64.. 0 74 Lotaicrs .. .. 1 0 .. S 6.1 9 Balmm 9 .. 0 .. 9 Oid ~ .. S .. 0 .. 0 4 Holes 0 9 .. 0 0 0 10 .. 1 0 Bi»t „ .. 0 9 .. 0 0 6 9 .. ...

... The town oouaoil having adjourned their usual monthly meeting last week daring the debate on the water oommittee's new scale of rates, met again and resumed the debate yesterday. Many anomalies the new soale, and numerous oases of hardship to which would give rise, were cited ; but the Chairman made a most able statement in reply, in whioh contended that the present critical financial position ...

... The annual Easter vestry meeting for the township of Everton was held yesterday morning, at Halliday's Coffee House, Ever ion Village. Mr. Cooban presided, and there was a very numerous attendance ratepayers. 'Ihe Chairman briefly opened the proceedings requesting that every geitleman would befllowed to have a fall and impartial hearing. The minutes oi the previoua annual Vestry having been ...

... at the county magistrates 1 court, Birkenhead, five young men, named John Marshall, John Swair.bnrn, William James, Samuel Houghton, and James Wilding, all volunteers belonging the 12;h Lancashire Artillery, were brought up remand, charged—the former with cutting and wounding James Scott, and the others with aiding and abetting. The magistrates upon the bench were the Rev. R. M. Feilden, Sir ...

... TH I XI. BIPORK Ma. BAFPtra Vtiblisu Bust or Ex\ man reapeotabie appearance. nam*' a commission agant, bavin - ?*' w ln etuis E!'fl lis exohatige tin- rem 'ed ralue iSSm t r , -„ rn behalf the pro* M . r J WlliOD oil behalf the priamei opening the «« remarked that J° °Z o» 'or t. prosecution b ...

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... THE EXPULSION OF FRENCH JOURNAL ISTS FROM VENICE. .e 'e (From La Sifcle.) io We wishi there were still any doubt of the expul- le eion of the French journalists who had gone to Venice. The g letter we publish gives us circumstantial details us to that Is expulsion. A We ask every impartial man if it is permitted to an t- Austrian ambassador to deliver passports to a functionary r- and to ...

... PAISUH CARE OF THE AGED SICK POOR. A correspondent, dating Monday last, -rites ! Yesterday afternoon, in the parish church of shotlsy, Suffolk, the 'Rev. Mr. Hibbs, the clergyman who is tool' porarily officiating for the rector, directed attention in his sermon to the inadequacy of paxochial assistance in the ca5e of the aged sick poor. The preacher s tatod that he wag about to bury a poor man ...

... This is a second, and unhappily a posthumous edition of the principal published work of one of the greatest almong our English scientific jurists. That suclh a work should be ahlost thirty years before the public ere reaching the goal of recoglni- tion implied ill t call for a new edition may seem at first to be another instance to be added to the manly in which merit has been disregarded by ...

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