... I MAJOR WALTER'S NEW BAROMETER. Mijor Walter, vwbo bas for some 20 years devoted his attentlon to meteorology, has shown thepraotical bent of his genius by producing a barometer which appears to be as much superior to the ordinary instrument now in use as the modern chronometer is to the ant!que water-clock. The new barometer was placed in the Exohange newsroom on Saturday even- ing lost, and ...

... iTO THS RIGHT HOO. EARL RUSSELL, FORTIGN OFFICE, LONDON. Shipowner' Association, Jan. 13, 1862. My Lord,-It has come ,to the knowledge of the Liverpool Shipownera' Assoolatjon, through the public prints, that the Federal Government of the United States have sunk a stone squadron in the ?? Harbour. Thisprooeed. ing cannot fall seriously and permanently to injure the entrance to that harbour. ...

... THE TUSOJRORA AND THE NASHVILLE, On Thursday afternoon, an Amnerloan man-of-war, flying the Federal flag, was observed from -Ports.: month passn through Spithead;.and intelligence tah ey strortly baonveyed to the portoadmairal thab thestangr adanchored off Osborne. This could not be endured ; so Sir Heniry .Brnoe despatched the, Figmy, his ateam tender, with civil instructions that' ...

... tBY DRTIS AND IRISH MACNErX TLtGnAP.H.] PC RtEUTER'S TELEGRAM. M Pt THE TRENT CASE. hi in vi ANOTHER ALLEGED OUTRAGE at ON THE BRITISH FLAG, b. DESTRUCTION OF THE FORT OF it C1A1RLESTON. ci T TEE ABOLITION PROBLEM. T QUEENSTOWN, WETDXSDAY. A The Liverpool, New York, and Philadel. ga pbia Company's screw steamer City of Wash- cc ington arrived here this afternoon, with dates el, from New York ...

... 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 ...

... LOSS OF A STEAMER. ;rSN(:STO0VN, SATURDAY MORNING. The steauer Adonis, from Belfast for London, wa3 driven ashore at Dalgey at 2310 a~m. She is noi drifting out to sea in a sinking state. 10 451 AM. The crew of the Adonis have gone to Dublin by tbe O 0 train. The stearner is supposed to have gone down. The passengers were all saved, but the ?? is missing. DEATH CF JOHN BOYD, ESQ, M.P. ...

... CAPTAIN HANS BUSi'$ PER- I I FECTED lFLE . An infereptlng series of experiments lins now ?? establishe d the merits of an entirely new description of rifle a)%d projectile, the invention of Oaptain Hans Bask.. The bore *:ag four curvilinear grooves, eaoh 025 Inch deep on one side, and gradually diminishing l in depth until r t merges into the bore, or rather into, the next groove. The depth ...