... ; 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 Hor ...

... 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 th ...

... ?? (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. Se ...

... 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 repr ...

... 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. A ...

... 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 ...

... 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 wi ...

... 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 ...

... 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 Veron ...

... 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~mpor ...

... _ I _ _ __ _~ _ _ . = I THE HIGH SHEtIrFe.-We understand that Sir James P. Kay-huttleorth, Baronet, of Gawthorp Hall, will be high sheriff of this county for the present year. EARLY, PIR E.-At Mr. Robert Cookson's, Clif- t ton-street, Lytbarn, a large number of primroses may be C seen in full bloom. t REPRRSENTATION; or ST. JoHN's WARiD.-The election B of the mayor as an alderman causes a ...

... CORRiESPONDENC E. THE MILITARlY IMIURDERS. TO THE EDIrOR OF THE P'RESTON CHRONTOLE. SIR,-On reading the article copied from the eornaio Post in youir paperof WNednesday I wvecasq Ite surprisedatitsconuladinag paragraph-' Strietlyspcakiing, Ihowever, these orimestiuns coin. mitted are entirely causeless n1iid the sole means by whibh they can ino repressed is by the 'ectible exam le ma e of the ...