... The arrangements for despatching the troops selected for service in Canada have now been entirely completed. The mail packet which is to leave Liverpool on the 4tb of January will take the 2nd end 3rd batteries of the 15th Brigade of Garrison Artillery, consisting of 12 officers and 234 men, and this completes the list of troops forming the reinforcements. Mfore tban 10,000 men have been ...

... F EADFL COLLIERY ACCIDENT. I T ?? HARTLEY, Friday noon. - The village presents a truly melancholy spectacle. -,eery h16ie appears a house of mouning. The Bishop t of DUrbam, his Chaplain, and several clergymen, with numerous dissenting ministers, have been here during the past three days, affording such comfort and conso- C :ationa each ipecial case required. The immediate I aeceselitis of the ...

... I THE SPRINGHEAD WATER 1. - SUPPLY. LTURNING OF THE FIRST SOD BY THE MAYOR. The work of digging the trenches, &o., for conveying the Springhead water to Stoneferry, was successfully iniaugurated 'on Monday last, wben tbe Worshipful the Mayor turned the first sod at Stoneferry, in the presence of the waterworks committee, several mlembers of the corporation, and a censiderable number of the ...

... Benefices aned Appointiments Vaecant. t PRZBUND. 9: Sneatinur in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, London: i Val. £11: Pat, the Bishop of Londun: Rev T. H. Hlorme, dec. p erBORIiiS. b Barrow, co. and dio. Chester: Val. £263, with residence :pat. st Liord H. 0Cli1olICnondaY ; Rev J. Clark, dee. ll~ -Itchingfield, Suseex : die. Chichester:- vii. £280, with rest. b~ doncee: pat. Miss Lquisa Scott ...

... I The Duke of Cambridge is quite recovered fromn his attack of gout, and has been in daily attendance at the re George C le~rekjwill, we believe, be Provisional ?? in the interval between the dartere of Lord Canning and the arrival of Lord Sir -ChapmanMarshall, who v as Lord Mayor of London during the year 1839 40, died on Thursday. le wjasin his76th ?? it d The mariage ?? Eglinton, and Lady ...

... ISBAEL IN EGYPT. BY X'P)WIN ATTERST0NE. LOMDIX: LONOM AND co. (prom DWetl V,&Nyi MCsenger of -Dec. 14,) Here we have Su, epic poem of goodly dimensions, extend over 470 pages, a f more than extondi legr th, and comprising 27 books, whilst the lliad and the Odyssey have only 24 each. Epic poe'.Yr as Pope a says in the Guardcian, in his ,ruel w'ld wised ',iReceipt for making an Epic,,' 1 the ...

... RALUS POPULI LEX SUPRPMA. DOMESTIC. * In'¶ccordance with the resolution arrived at by the Privy Council held at Osborne on Monday, a proclamation has been issued which directs that Parliament shall meet for the despatch of business on February 6. The extraordinary feat of transmittingl mails from Queenstown to London in less than 14 hours was accomplished yesterday, the Europa's news ...

... I P. .Y The usual weekly meeting of the Mersey Docks And Harbour Board was held yesterday, In the board- room of the dock officeq, Canning-plaoe. Mr. R sukin presided, and the following other gentlemen were also present: Messrs. Beld, Anderson, Mondel, Hab- back, Boult, Littledale, Farnwortb, lernle, Brockle- bank, Shand, Forwvood, Langton, S; R. Graves, Rees, rounthwaite, Arnold, Kendall, ...

... Circumstances have just brought Mr. Smith O'Brien before the eyes of an ad. miring public in a somewhat unwonted attitude. The man who aspires to lead his countrymen against the British Govern- ment, and whose last political act was to write a despatch in the name of the Irish people to the American Foreign Secretary, has condescended to appear as a suitor in a court of law administered on ...

... BRITISE[ GOODS IN PARIS. PARIS, JAN. 7. r The first week of the year 1862 has given an agree. able surprise to those who felt most severely the effects of the prolonged commercial stagnation at Paris, and, indeed, throughout France, Already a sensible tendency towards activity is disp~ayed in the eapital, and the same may be said to have taken place In others of the great French manufacturing ...

... 1. TH4 WATER RATES. it TO THE EDITORS OP THE LIVERPOOL MERCURY. n Gentlemen,-In reference to the letter In this day's i*publicaton dgned A Member of the Houseowners' Asodiatlon, requesting them to arise and assert their ;rights, I beg leave to ask ?? don't they arise to $ aid theilr tenants by crecting large water meters 3, to supply a quantty oP houses, and let each tenant h pay his ...

... CARDIFF BOARD OF GUARDIANS. The weekly meeting was held on Saturday morning, John Bird. Esq., in the chair. The Clerk announced that during the past week there had been 62 admissions and 61 discharges, leaving a total of 373 in the bouse, 93 of whom were in the refuge. This shewed an increase on the corresponding week of last year of 55. The only public business transacted was the election of ...