... = ?? -- 'loK B ., I MFRuy DOCK S BOARD. The weekly meeting of the Mersey Docks an* Harbour Board was held yesterday, in the board- room of the dock offices, Canning-place. Mr. Rankia presided, and the following other gentle. men were also present:-Messrs. B. Littledale, Bushell C. Turner, M P., Faraworth, Fernie, Smith, iBoult, Harrison, Bold, Klendall, Brockis. bank, Rees, Forwood, H~oraby, ...

... LATEST Af TELEGRPHIC NEWS. jlr. J. NV. Gilbert, author of works on banking, is dead. Tie lnotorious Colonel Waugh has made another unsuccessiful application for release from custody, his appeal to a Judge in Chambers having been dismissed with costs. The Metropolitan RailWay Company began V1orkirg their line yesterday morning with the Great Northern and London and North-western Railway ...

... ILOCA IN TE2LLIGENCE. A deputation from the Liverpool Licensed Vic- tuallers' Association had an interview with Sirc George Grey on Friday at the Home Office. The t deputation consisted of Mr. Atkinson, Mr. Lumb, l and Mr. Danson, and was introduced by Mr. J. 0. Ewart. M.P. Childwall is a sort of standstill place. The in- t habited houses in 1851 were 25, and the number E had not increased in ...

... LATEST TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. LREUTER 'S TELEGRAMS.] FRANCE. PARIS, SEPT. 24. The Pakie of this evening says it is assorted that Prince Napoleon is going to London. La France of this evening states that the Duke de Montebello will be received on the 27th instant by the Emperor of Russia, and will set out oa the following day for Paris. La France also announces that the Russian Admiralty is making ...

... SALUS POPULI LEX SUPREMA. DOMESTIC. Yesterday the directors of the Bank of England raised the minimum rate of discount from 4 per cent. to 5 per cent. It had re- mained at the lower figure since May 21, when the bullion in the establishment stood at £20,683,110. The last bank return shows the amount to have decreased to lI 4,437 ,5,74. The Michaelmas law term commenced yesterday. The Sale of ...

... B3IRKENHEAD COMMISSIONERS The monthly meeting of this board was held yesterday, at the commissionors'offices, Hamilton. square, the members present being Messrs. W. Hlind (in the chair, Earrison, Mocatta, Hughes, Barnett, M'GilI, Beazley, Candler, Mott, Cook, Whittle, Brattan, Peekc, M~ihies, Fad Walker. The proceedings of the fighting and watching committee were read and conftrmed. HEALTH ...

... A ?? ingenious scheme for combining the 1 advantages of virtu4 independence with those se of absolute British protection has just been se proposed to the Canadians by Mr. D'Arey M'Gee, and is, we are told, exciting consider- m able attention among them. Recent Parlia- *h mentary debates and the tone of the English nt press have, as we gladly perceive, succeeded be in impressing some of the ...

... MIULTTU IN PAvo _I It is understood that the court-martial on Lieut.-Colonel Crawley will be held at the Club. house at Aldershott in the middle of November. According to a telegram from California, the Russian Pacific fleet is expected to winter at San Francisco. Coleorton Pit, near Leicester, whore the water broke in two weeks ago, is still inundiited, and the bodies of the colliers have not ...

... CN The Town Council held a monthly meeting yesterday. Attention was called to a letter from Mr. Hadfield, M.P. for Sheffield, calling atten- tion to the necessity for a revision of the circuits of the judges, and to his plan, by which be proposes to form a distinct circuit for Lancashire. It was thought a re-arrangement was highly desirable, and the mayor and the town-clerk were requested to ...

... The forty-second annual meeting of the Liver- pool Seamen's and Emigrants' Friend Society was held last evenig, in Great George-street ChapeL Mr. Councillor Job presided, and amongst other gentlemen on the platform were the Revs. Dr. Crichton, W. Graham, James Buck, asid W. T. Radcliffe; Messrs. John Cropper, W. Crosfield, R. Job, D. Rowlands, Josiah Jones, and H. T. Miller; Captains Hargrave, ...

... IMPORTANT DECIS10N AS TO WAGES. THE DAVID G. FLIMING. n The following judgment haa been delivered by tl D~r. Lusbington, in. the Admiralty Court:-Tbi$ nl is a suit brought by the mate ol the David G. t] Fle-Ming for wages alleged by him to have beea B1 earned on a voyage to Bombay and back to this C country with a cargo of cottou to the port of ol Liverpool, and the petition siusply states the ...

... I Many circumstances combine to give the elections in the various wards to-day more than ordinary interest. For the first time for niany years a vigorous effort is being made to equalise parties in the Town Council. Some of the oldest members of the corporation, who fancy they have a prescriptive right to their seats, will, in consequence of their exclusive votes and conduct, find themselves ...