... LIVERPOOL NEEDLEWOMEN' I MEETING. The ninth annual meeting of the friends and sup. porters of this Institutionv was held at noon yester- day, in the boardroom of the Blue-cost Hospital. The Lord Bishop of Chester presided, and there wer3 alho present the Revs. R. Appleton, 0. H. Burton, B. Maddock, a. Swainson, and C. Wray; ir, Percy M. Dove, and a large number of ladles. The report, which was ...

... LOCAL INTELLIGENCER DisTRESSIN PRESTON.-The distress ainon t the operatives in preston and the vicinity is daiy in. creasing. It is stated that the number of operatives in the cotton trade in Preston working short time is -five dds 750 ; four, 3000; three and a half, 1000; three, 6400; total, 11,150- Altogetherstopped work, 4040. Working full time, only about 11,400. A BoY DROWNED.-Yestrday ...

... . LAMPS'IN 'ThA MIDDLJ OF f I- I(BI-T~T Witdhin thH last feO' days iie'town has 1lene mmx. pris(d by the erection of two doublegas lamps in the centre of Lord-street, at the points where it is inter. 8ooted by North and SDath John streets. That spot is well known to havo long been one of the most dangerous in Liverpool. The number of omnibuses, Carriages, cabs, and cart3 which pass down the ...

... W v flKEN~llifDOQCTIS ff9WIES!~ C2IWSEU~tIE JlUNTIONT X ! ?? A1LW~S t: ,. Yetterday,' a large and iidsntelal meeting of land owners and others took place at Mr. - lougas's Wood- EIde HiO, for the purpose of promoting the asbove object, whloh, atoordlug to' the prospeoths of the indertaking, -is to qupply the present defolnoy of. adequate railway oonnexlon botween the Birlenhead dooks and the ...

... BY ELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPHS. THE GREAT EXmhB1TiON.-The Secretary writes to contradict the report that her Majesty will open the Exhibition. The Duke of Devonshire was elected Chancellor of Cambridge University yesterday, without opposition. The Varrior steamed out of harbour yesterday, and anchored at Spithead, where she commenced taking In her powder and sheO. Her armament, in- ...

... I THE TIPPERARY MAN AND CANON CHAPMAN. TO THE EDITORS OF THE LIVERPOOL MERCURY. Gentleinen,-You have for some tine past opened the columns of your phpsr to the Johnsonlan out- pourings of a man well known amongst his country- men as Phil. Kelly, a mere mercenary soribbling Arab, who, to give some importance to his remarks, styles himself The Tipperary Man. Having done rths, In trustuent ...

... LORD RUSSELLS ANSWER TO MR. SEWARD. Lord Russell's newly published reply to Mr. Seward's famous despatch is calculated somewhat roughly to dispel the pleasing notion which Transatlantic politicians (always excepting Mr. Lovejoy and his party) seem somehow or other to have got into their heads, that the sur- render of Messrs. Mason and Slidell has been a great triumph of American diplo. macy. ...

... wipoolX, ?? . I 'SALOS POM1InxE SRURIA SUMMARYI - . ?? DOMESTIC.. At a numerous meeting of Australian colonists resident' in England,'held in the metropolis, yesterday, an address of con- dolence with her Majesty was adopted. It is believed in well informed quarters that the ceremony of inaugurating the International Exhibition will be performed by the Prince of Wales.. Tt was reported that ...

... - - ?? lIHE COMMADER-IN-CIEF LILD ILORD WILLIAM PAULET. __ I A correspondent of the Frkind of India gives the following coonectedaeoeount of an affair which ooca. sloned'eonslderable gossip some time agoU: As I observe some of the provinolal papers have got bold of a story about a renoontre between the Duse of Cambridge and Lord Williya Paulet there can be no harm In my alluding to the facts ...

... THEF THENT AIFFAIR (rom the 2mu.) There Il a lull in the near anticipation of wir. The gusts are lessening In their fares, and there is a gleam of light to windward. The storm Is certainly less boisterous, and we are all hoping, and may are believing, we have seen the worst of it. The funds are springing upwards with their never-fallng elasticity. Comsmeree i putting on a cheerful smile, war ...

... NIf ?? IN AMERICA. (From the Uorntingt Post.) The C binct cf V;oshingiton has certainly faller' ?? tlbo lban of its own jurists. tit arblrbous prccaeedirne against Charleston harbaur are precis-ly such as its own acs capted cxpounderd of ilaterntional law havo placed beyond the righata of war. Those intelligent writers ol public jurihpru'ience whlo J!Iusirated what wo were oace proud to call ...

... LATEST AND ?? APHICH .IE Ws. Tae PRINCE OF WALES. It is stated that his Royal Highness the Prince of Waleg Will leave England for the Levant vise Trieste abos ele 13th or 14th of next month, and that his stay I, the East will extend over about jour months. it wg anticipated that the Prince woqld take the rost prominent part in the inauguration of the Great ¢^ihbltion, but under the above ...