... I BOARD OF aEALTHMEETING, YESTERDAY. he THE first meeting of the Town Council as a . Board of Health, during the present municipal year, he was held yesterday at the Town-hall. The Mayor (H. J. Atkinson, Esq.), presided. The special object of the meeting was to elect the committees bal for the ensuing year. we PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE.-The Mayor moved, it Ald. Abbey seconded, and it was ...

... I -I S¶Ews the most terrible and revolting has reached k us from Jamaica. The negroes of this island have risen in open revolt against her Majesty's govern- m-rent. Outragles of nhe'ost biutal character, it rt is alleged, have been perpetrated by the ignorant *and half savage blacks-deeds of blood of the vilest and most horrid character. Tales are told o± a ie clergyman, who before he was ...

... .ATIOX ?? .HENA _- ZAINOF TrnI, P ?? ?? LTBERATio OF THE CAPTA. The Liverpool Afercu-ry Cay & C 3 telegram was received from GOe or Wiesda Paynter, of her Majesty's ship D It hy C Shenandoah was surrendered, th gal tow officers and crew Who were not lthe to be immediately aroled. Capitais h e so ceededto ?? ap PA boat. The Rock Ferry Steamer , -i ddiiposal, in which he proceed doah). Captain ...

... [By Electric Mr. Gladstone delivered his valedictory as Rector of the University of Edinburgh, yesterday •aftwrnoon, in the Music HalL The hall was densely crowded with students and members the General Council tl the University. When Mr. Gladstone appeared the platform attired in his official robes, Rector, accompanied by Mrs. Gladstone and the Misses Gladstone, he was loudly cheored, the ...

... THE ANNUAL MEETING. The annual meeting of the North Staffordshire i'ii« Scheme Association, for the advancement of education, was held 011 Saturday afternoon in the Board Room, Stokeon-Trent Railway Station, under the presidency of Mr. E. Buller.M.P. for North Staffordshire. The room was crowded with children of schools connected with the association, and clerical and lay friends of the scheme ...

... The annual meeting of the Governors of this institution was held yesterday, at the Infirmary, Etruria. The Rev E. J. Edwards presided, and there was a fair attendance of Governors. Tho Chairman opened the proceedings reading the report of the General Committee, of which the following is an abstract: —The committee called attention to the interesting fact that the present is the jubilee year 1 ...

... [BY ELIOTKIO Tkuioratb.] AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE JAVA. NEW YORK, (Noon). The adoption of Constitutional amendment by South Carolina secures the making of the amen men part the Federal Constiti»ti6ii. _ Worth is elected Governor North Carolina .>,O(K to 10, COO majority over llolden. Wisconsin and Minnesota voted against ~ST' officially that the -J » e C' U, T>f thc th ,|y Cr *nti'o»e. per ...

... YESTERDAY. Before Hk. Commissioner Sasdsks. Iv re E. Oryitl, Tamirijrth, i>r ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... TO CORURESPONDENTS. We cannot undertako to return communications of which we do not avaU ourselves. communications should always be legibly written in Ink, and on one kide of 4he paper only; length Increases the difflioulty of finding opace for them. Wbatever Is Intended for insertion muast be authenticated by the name and address of the writer, not necessarily for publication, but as a ...