... LOCAL INTELLIGENOR the DisTnEss IN LivERP0OL,-The Mayor has the 119. pleasure to acknowledge the receipt of 2.33,, a donas. But. tion from the Stanley Benefit Society (composed of ieut foremen and porters employed at the Stanley Deck of~ Warehouses) for the relief of the distressed poor of od COUNTY COUxRT.- MILLER V. BROWN. -Hist mys Honour, In giving judgment In this case, which was Liflg ...

... CONTEMPORARYPRESS.__ THE DREAM OF TRANSPORTATION. (Froma the Econaeniwt.) The prevalent outcry for the revival of transportation as a mode of punishing and disposing of our dangerous criminals will not, we are convinced, survive many weeks' consideration and discussion of the subject. It could scarcely have arisen, had the guides and instructors of the public mind, either official or amateur, ...

... I METEOROIDG1LW RESULTS I Deduced from obsetvaions taken at the Liverpool Obeervator d.rlng the week eading Saturday, December 2, 1862. latitude, 24 48' N. Longltade, 3° 1 W. STATE OF THE ATHOSPHERE. At One o'olock p~m. Greenwich riean TIme. g ' g ?? gg Png~~euaL Uvxinrrv.n Deem *tnb. Mg. Dog. INI Sunday ?? 14 .0.2t2 .. 41.0 5.9 s.6 Monday ?? 16 30.234 .. 37.7 .. .6 ?? 47 Tuesday ?? 30.1)81 . ...

... I It Oppr as as if only a few mo' tbe had elapsed since the Chylatimas of 1861 reae' aea the celebration it so well deserved, and flow 4, Obristanas of 1862 has approached, rsa 81,on be ssoiated with the past, Already the D'ite of preparation has been sounded. In many 6 house the mistletoe and holly have been MPe*,ded, the good housewife is laying In a plentil stree of costly viande, whilat In ...

... PROGRESS OF THE WAU IN AMERICA. The campaign In Virginia appears to have I commenced in earnest. On the 11th December the Federal army crosed the Xappahannook, opposite Fredericksburg, by means of bridges erected under cover of their own batteries on the north aide of the river. The acnfederates appear to have resisted by means of a can- nonade, but we cannot tell from the brief account. yet ...

... THE STORS.A TBE LAT3 HURRICANE IN COITHN133. A letter dated Northern lnsigni Offioe, Monday, says- There have In all been six wrecks at or near Thureo, and several vesselo are seriously Injured, TIhe harbour at Castlebill, the property of Mr. 'Jlrntil, M.P., and the reads In the neighbourhood, have also suffered much damage. There have been no mrlps from Orkney since tbe storm broke out, ...

... THE TERRIBLE ACCIDENT AT I I - ABERDEEN. We copy the following account of this accident fron the S2ootsina of yesterday :- A very serious and fatal accident too plohalce In the flax-spinning 108nufuetosY of Mewss. Itlahards and Co., Broadford, Aberdeen, on Monday mornlag, about half-past ten It ocourred in the preparhig and spinning room of the new patent mil, a aidiug of five storfeg, being ...

... SOUTHERN VIEW OF I , AMELICAN AFFAIRS. Enw YORK, Dw. 13. The monotony in Virginia in broken. On Thnrsday last the Federals undertook to build bridges for their cafe transit from Falmouth across the Rappahannook to Fredericksburg, when they were fired upon by the Confede- rates In that city and driven oif For this act Buruside ordered the city to be ahelled, which was done forseveral hours, ...

... CHUROH ACCOMMODATION AT . LLANDUDNO. Christmas time has ever been the ?? of jollity n and merriment In this our Moerrie England * and 11 thougl Christmas time last year came darkly and I; gloomily over a land sorrow-strlvken by the haud of t' God-over a nation stunned and mousning under a a: heavy dispensatlon-yet as the same Christmas time st comes round again It brlgs with it the thought ...

... THlE OVERLAND MAIL INDIA. We lhave advioes from Calcutta dated November 22, and from Madras dated November 28. The unexpected death of a faithfn alalyof England, the Rajah of Pattiala, is announced. The Rajah excused himself from attending during the present session of the Viceroy's council on the ground of 111-health, but the saudden termination of his Illness was wholly unexpected. He is ...

... II *DsUeRS AND WreouEz.- The subject of the free lechteU delivered in the eochabites' Hall, by -Mr. . Foun. tan,, on Saturday evening last, was Demions and Wlitohes. Two SMo NS were preached, on Sunday, il St. john's Chureb, morning and evening, by the Rev. G. Alker, of St. Mary's, Preston, in behalf of the wardens' expenses, whieh amounted to £50. The celleotione realised £80 ScALDRD cTO ...

... FEARFUL GALE I I A terrific g visited nearly all psrb of England, from o Friday to onday last, and, up to the present time, many disasters have boon reported. A oorrespondont, P writing from Shields on Saturday night, says:- To-nlght a telegraphic mesage came down to the Tyne a from Admiral Fitzroy, announcing that dangerous winds a might be expected, and the nigh storm warnings wer i hboted ...