... ; I - - - == I The annual meeting of the Sooiety for: the Ralijf of Sick and Distressed, Needlewomen was held at nooni yesterday, in the boardroom of the Blue (oat Horhpital, the Right 1Rev. the Bishop of Chester in the chair. There was a num orous attendance of ladies; aemongst them were Mrs. W. Preston, M .eo Shuttloworth, Mrs. Ne vins, the Missne Bland, htav. Banner, Mrs. Ripley, Miss ...

... LOCAL INTELLIGENCE I ?? A Cmsr. CHoicO.-On Saturday morning last Edward Nicholson, a child three years of age, who resaded with a relative in Saltney-street, wsr choked wbllat eating pleee af bread. An inquest will be held on the by to-day. SUDDEN DBATx, - On Sunday forenoon, Mr. William Moore Green, chemist, Reynolds-street, Bygela-street, was found dead in bed. Tha deosmed, it W said, had ...

... J TO CANON CEAPMAN. I No. 2, ]it The evil that men do lives after them; who The good is oft. interred with their bonise. 51ked So let It be with Uffwsr, -Shakpepre. 1 be Very Reverend Sir,-A~s it was with Clrear, as above said, Bo will it be with you and all men who M.do good in this life. What aiounlt of good, politicaily Feet, speaking, the Ingratitude of mankind will suffer to wed be ...

... PARLIAMENITARY DEBATING SOCIETY. TO THE EDITORS OF THU LIVERPOOL MERCURY. Gentlemen,-The letter of a Well-wisher is couched throughout in such courteous and gentle. manly language that I can well understand his ex. pressed athorrenoe of anything offensive or personal, As the public may not be generally interested In asoertalning whether the member for Birmingham be a rabid Chartist, or ...

... COTTON IN THE PORTUGUE I I. COLtONIES. The Portuguese Government has jnut c0lue to a, important decaionr; from the 4th of December bdst the exportation of cotton of the colonial proviaoes Of Africa will be free for ten years - I The Portuguese Goversment wishes not only to encourage the commerce of that precious commodity, but is endenvouring also to develops the growth of it by a series of ...

... I 9 MESSRS. ALIDLL AiD MASO -WaustN 5 It is the intention of the Southerners resident In 0 Liverpool to give a friendly welcome to the oommis- 1 sdoners on their arrival here, and that they will be D invited to a private dinner. The oonmissdon6ra are I6 expected to arrive in Liverpool by the next mail steamship, from Halifax. t6 Oen Saturday last, the sergeants of No. 6 Battery, 8th ...

... DIPLOMATIC DESPATOH TO THE i'ONTIFICAL GOVERNME.NT. It is sttied In the Independance Beige of Thursday evening that M. Thouvenel has addressed a despatch to Mi. de Lavalette, the representative of France at Rome, which that diplomatlst has communicated to Cardiinal Antonelli. In this document the French Mlals'er for Foreign Affairs commences by recalling the regr, t which was felt bythe ...

... INORWICH UNION FIRE OFFICO We have received the following report of the pro- ceedings of the annual meeting for insertion :- On Tuesday lIst, the annual general meeting of the ,rrretors of this i~mportant intsulation was held at the' cEOisty' Offices, In Surrey. street, at twolvo o'clock,; a large number of proprietors ats mbed, Including the president (ChancellorEvans), the vice- president ...

... IITALY, AUSTRIA, AND FRAMNCE. I The Vienna papers publiah the text of General Benedek's address to the Emperor of Austria on the occaosio of the recent inspection of the troops by his Majesty at Verona. This address has given umbrage to the Cabinet at Turin, which looks upon It as a menace agalnst Italy. The Vienna Presse of the 17th instant has the following on the sub. jcct :- Thbe Cablnet ...

... ?? (From tfh ?? Ynrl ?? - - _ n -r^, ..ouue ot distrusting telegraphic abstracta of news cannot be overstated. The Halifax sum. mary by the Asia gave no Intimatlon that Mr. Seward's despatoh to Mr. Adamu in reference to the affair of the Trent had reached London. Yet froux the files of English papers since received we leara that a knowledge of the despatch and its conciliatory contents had ...

... I AM EUAA. I i~tMRCA. 0 ARRIVAL OF THE PERSIA AND THE NIAGARA. SAFETY OF IE PARA.i THE FEDERALS ADVANOING 'ON CHARLESTON. FIGHT IN WESTERN VIRUINIA. IMFORTANT DEBATE IN THE SENATE. On Saturday, the royal mall steamship Persia, ,r C. H. E. Judkins, commander, arrived inthe Mersey, w from Halifax, which port she lelt on the morning of in the 10th Instant. es THE PARANA. This vessel arrived ...

... THE W5ND1RAM5 CAsE.-Dr. Forbes Winslow was examined yesterday in the Windham ltuacy case. Be expressed his opinion that Mr. Windham was of unsound mind and incapable of managing himself Or his property. DEATH OF T1EE FLEV. H. HOLLOWAY. -The Rev. Henry Holloway died of fever on Monday, while nndergoing 18 months imprisonment for robberies at railway stations. N COURT MOURNING. The Gazeite ...