... LATEST AD TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. I plo AMERICA. ei _____ sexI ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMSHIPS up DAMASCUS & GLASGOW. SAVANNAH NOT CAPTURED Zeco Lei GENERAL DIX'S ORDER U. REVOKED. FEDERAL EXPEDITION TO WILMINGTON. ( 92J THE FIGHTING IN TENNESSEE, UM ARRIVAL-OF THE DAMASCUS. arr The Canadian steamship Damascus, from Port- fir land on Dec. 17, arrived in the Mersey yesterday. ai She brought 10 cabin and 17 ...

... XLOAL INTELLMENOE I an Prra d e ,* b l f errtadionfo the CeoH '1 rporati, of 8torpchc' College, and eurate of Sit. Barnba, in thiP toe. * ST. MSABErt CH0BAL-S0CIT.- On Fridaty evening last, the St. Mark's Choral Society gvrel their second annual coFcet n the htell of tho Liverpool Intitute, Mounetgtreet, to a larg e audience. The aoloista were M~isses Beer and Borst, and Meessrs George ...

... ! -ORREPtO bN;b. C.| , aTE1 0':FOSTER FAMIlY. TO ,TIlE EDITOS Or SHI U LaUPOOL UBOURY.. :' lGeAfenAin, I- rea' With much- ;inAthe recital .in your paper to-dsm Vof the adecae o..the Foster fa Inily cl T. sholcg oou-ten ehillinge'for their relhef, and.trust 3ome unedlate stepsmay 'b taken for the welfare of ' theb rphaDus Idom ban a case no adapted for,.publiac sympathy of 1te many ...

... I The case of Widow M'Dermott and the Bromp. ton Oratory has become further involved by a re- port, signed Lieutenant-Colonel Brocklman, which states that several persons have been investigating the circumstances mentioned in the letter of Father )djlgairns and tbat it will finally be shown that Mrs. M 'bermott's character is irreproachable, At Westminster police court, on Saturday, Mr. ...

... The weekly meeting o0f the health coninilfl was held yesterday in the council chamber of the Towu Hall. Mr. Alderman Dover presided, ana the following gentemenwere also rst: Messrs. H es, Siamuelson, Holden' p reset Williams, Whitty, Mlleldew, J. 1?,. Robinson. The Borough Englneer and Inspeotoi of Nui. mances reported vrionus particulars of the opera. tions in their eeveral departments during ...

... 1~ . . I It appears from the returna of the-quantity of cotton imported in the first six months of the present and of the two preceding years that the great and sudden fall in the price of cotton which took place in the autumn of 1864 has been followed by a very serious decrease in the quantity of cotton imported into the country in the first half of the pre- sent year. Up to the autumn of ...

... JECCLESIASTICAL NEWEL PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMBNTS. Bennett, Rev. T., to Incumbency of Christ Church Plymouth. Best, Rev. J. X., to perpetual curacy of Laue End, Bucks. Blagden, Rev. R. T., to aesistunt chaplaincy of Horfleld BarrackH. Bowen, Itev. A. 3,, to vicarage of Ravenathorpe, Cave-Browne-Cave, Rev. B. F., lIcensed to be a general preacher in the diocese of Lincoln. Curtis, Rev. H. B., ...

... ( ORRESPONDENCE. I MBDCHANTS' APPRENTICES. TO THE EDITORS OF THE LIVERPOOL MERCURY. Gentlemen,-I saw a letter in your paper a day or two ago about tbe bad pay of Liverpool clerks. I would go a step further, and advocate the pay- ment of apprentices in merchants' offices. A lad enters an oflice at the age of say l1i. He has to serve five years, and therefore is 21 years of age before be has ...

... Spain is: going ahead. The Spanish Government is, it seems, anxious to let all mankind know that it is impervious to all considerations alike of prudence and of justice, and that the remozntranuce and censures of the civilised world are unavaing to prevent an iniquitous and unprovoked war. A few days ago the public opinion of Europe was insulted by an official circular detailing the trumpery ...

... CANON M'NBILES REPLY TO THE REV. B. D. GUY. 'O MN Rf WS 'OF TOP LIVUIPOOL Hn;dafy* Gcntlemen,-I have said two tbng. First, that the Churoh of Rome requires from every member of her body that reads the Scriptures a cartificate in writing from a priest that he in h euitable person to possess the Scriptures; and secondly, that Ur. Guy, In his note to me, dated December 15, betrayn ignorance of ...

... PAWUS, FRG. 15. As early as ten o'clock-one excited lady, who had lost her place, said eight-the great gallery of the Louvre began to fill with an expectant crowd of women, in full morning costume, and men in full evening dress; with white ties; looking, ae men always do who have reversed the day as far as their costume goea, as if they had not got home from last- night's entertainment. Later ...

... D1EPARTURE FROM THE MERSEY Olf HE ERX-CONFEDERATE CRUISER SHENANDOAH. This vessel, whose appearance in the Mersey caused so mnch anxiety, has at length sailed from this port, and is now on her way for New York. It 'Rill be in the recollection of our readers that a fortnight agotbe Shenandoah was formallyhanded over by Captain Paynter, of H. M. S. Donegal, to Mr. Dudeley, the United States ...