... A meeting convened by the Lord-Licutenant of Lancashire was huldl yesterday at Manchester. Earl Scfton, the Lord-Lieutenaut, presided. Earl DERBY, in an eloquent awnl exhaustive speech, moved the first ?? the manufacturing districts of Lancashire and the adjoining counties are suffering from an extent of destitution hitherto, happily, unknown, which is borne by the working classes with a ...

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... MUEETING OF DAIRYMEN. A meeting of dairymen was held last night irn the Globe Tavern, Hill Place, to consider what steps should be taken to protect themselves from. the prosecutions now being carried on against them at the instance of Mr Paterson and Dr H Littlejohn. Mr Wright, Carnegie Street, who occupied the chair, said that the Police Act of 1848 (though it had never been fully carried out ...

... Aaillvam graffic limilltv. The following are the Railway Receipts for the past week ;- 1862. 1861. Belfast and Northern Counties, .£1,880 £1,739 Belfast and County Down, 563 575 Blyth and Tyne, . .1,172 1,477 Bristol and Exeter, 6,252 5,303 Caledonjian, . 15,572 14,968 Cork and Bandon, 347 238 Cork, Blackrock, and Passage, 151 167 Cornwall, 1,072 984 Deeside, . .309 317 Dublin and Belfast ...

... The following proclamation was addressed by r General Forey to the population of Mexico, some . da.s after his arrival at Orizaba:- November 3. r1 MAexicans,- On reading the proclamation s9 which I addressed to you on my arrival in your e country, you cannot have been mistaken, but must have recognised in it the haud of the s Emperor; he alone possesses the secretof sayingso r much, and ...

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... OUR L ONDON LETTER. RUSSELL ON TiHE FEDERAL STATES. I have not been able at present to get from the library My Diary, North and South, by Wil. liaam Howard Russell; but I can see from the extracts which have been published in the Tine, Athenaunt, &c., that it is a valuable book. Mr Russell was, as you know, the accredited corre. spondent of the Times to America when the revo. lution broke ...

... II -1E I - - -DiA I S ECON .) EDJTION. M\lER;CURY OFrICE, SATURDAY, Eleven UVO]OIk AMERICA. QOi.YEST0W ?? 27th December. The Royal na)I! steaner Uhina, from New York, on the 17th i arrived here at 1.30 A.M., with 60 passen- geVrs, and 35,000 dollars in specie. She landed F 67 sacks of mails, and proceeded for Liverpool at 2 Ae. A All well. She was detained off the land rig~ht hours by the fog. ...

... TESTIMONIALTO MR BTATHIGATE AT PEEBLES. A public meeting was held on Saturday after- tb noorn, in the Great ilall of the Chambers Instita- w tion, for the purpose of presenticg a testimonial ni to Mr John Bathgate, secretary of the Peebles cc l'ailway Company. The promoters of this object se were certain directors andt sbarcholders of the L Company, who, entertaining a high sense of Mr ti ...

... (tolvit.Avxa SAIllion. WINDSOR CASTLE, Dec. 3. The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Louis of Noeise, drove out this morning, attended by Major- General Seymour. Dover ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ?? rivda Hs Royal HPighness the Priace over ntend- it 3Dover onl Wedncsday, afternoon in the Governsmentl yacht Vivid, Comusroider Allen, whichl left Caln hrl fe ;~oe oclckandreched the Admiralty Pier at Dover .9oon ...

... ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDLNBURGH, The address at the opening of the present session of the Royal Society of Edinburgh was delivered last night in the Royal Institution by Principal Forbes, of St Andrews, one of the Vice-Presidents of the Society. There was a large attendance of members, and other gentle- men present by invitation. Principal FoRBES began by sketching the history of the Society from ...