... I I E LrVERPOOL BANQUET TO MR. GLADSTONE. 0n~hursdayevening, the Ohancellorof the Exchesquerv w asn5 sat~tined t a anquet in the Philharmonic Hall Liver- Su esL by the Liberal Registration Association of the West sla V1by 3undrec About 2,000 persons were in the hail, l who about .650 gentlemen sat down to dinner, while rel ~lers fthe company, including some 600 ladies, were d scoreaodated in ...

... 11 OUR LOUNGER II No. 3. A SABBATH DAY'S JOURNEY. Tbo other morning, as the Great Western Express whirled us past Windsor, the royal standard, floating proudly over one of the towers of the castle in which VICTORIA and her children find a home, failed to call up in our mind any pictures of the Jeun VatIjean order. There was nothing in the flag suggestive of starvation and dirty turnips: ...

... 11 8SiOC8 CHARGE AGAIN.4T MR. JOHN BOOTHUAN OF AColaao;TO-At the Accrington police court, on Thur-. d before J. Worsley, G. Walrnsley, and W. Hoole, ,` Mr. John Boothaman, editor and publishor of the NAeCi ?? (utcardica, and secretary to the Cottage Ownors I)efolice Association, was placod in the dock Ol , charge of perjury. The perjury is alleged to have been .n itted in an affiliation case ...

... HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY. The SE'EAKLR on taking the chair at four o'clock stated that thete was a commission in the House of Lords, but be would not be able to accompany the House to the Bm l of the Upper House. ile would, thereflore, with their permission, vacate the chair, in order theft the Deputy- l Sepaker might attend the committee, and, on the return of the Deputy-Spenker hce would ...

... THE SLAIN IN LIVERPOOLj -)DURING 1865 THROUGH DRINK. I J., j. Awio, f: SOCIAL-, MBDICAL, AND. CRIMINAL STATISTICS OF DRUNKENNESS, BY THE -B5V. JOUlN JOkIES, ] IaEDA;. No. i NIGHT SCENES, They that? be draunken are drunken ia the night. So was it said of old, and so if if still- bacchanalian songs and the' uproariolis sounisj of revelry attend upon the darknessn'more than 'thet light, What is ...

... BREACH, OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE: .DAMAcGES B'500. .. a On Saturday Mr. J. Aston, the assessor for the ?? of Lancaster, sat in the Chancery Court, i St George's Hall, to assess damages in an action for reac of promise, Green v. Ramnwell. . The plaintiff, Miss Eleanor Green, a lady resid- i ing at Southlport, sought to recover from the i e defendant, William R amwell, a solicitor, of Bolton, 3 ...

... HEALTH COMMITIEE iese I- . - 7er, At the meeting of this committee held ester, I oo SanesnBatn HELT O . TuHEs T eOW rN. nt iro- The -Medical Officer of Health reported that the ved number of deaths registered in the borough of ech Liverpool during the week ending March 31st 1868, was 444, or 265 in the parish and 179 in the out-townships, being an increase of 131 on the to corrected aiverages ...

... SYSTEMATIC BENEFICENCE I : ; SOCIETY. . V ?? fifth annual mieet~i4n of. this societ' -the 0 to object idf which is to encourage systematic ~enefi. Sts of ?? held on Tuesdaj', in St.. Gecorge's Hell, ig The body of the' great ball was about thiree-parts I or~ full, and there wvere a few persons also -in the 0 ci' galleries. Mr. Maclie presided, lend amoeigst the at gentlemen present avere the ...

... I THE G-REAT FIRE IN BFASTs The Northern Whig, of Tuesday says -We are exceedingly glad to find that the esti. mate of the amount of loss which was formed proves to have been excessive. The value of sal. vage will be considerable, and the result of such examination as has yet been made is that from £70,000 to £80,000, in the opinion of the chief member of the firm, will be the actual amount ...

... SALUS PCOPULT EB SUP=A. TI DOMESTIC. th Her Majesty the Queen, with their Royal pI Highnesses Princesses Helena, Louise, and ra Beatrice, Prince Leopold, and Princess th Leiningen, attended by Lieutenant-General sty tray, Major-General Hood, Sir J. Cowell, the Bi Countess of Caledon, the Hion. Miss Cavendish, its ko., left Windsor Castle for Osborne on Tues- ini day. Iler Majesty, who ...

... ?? SLATE QUARRYING IN WALES. To O TR EDITORS OF THE LIVERPOOL MEROVTR. ?? thle host of ephemeral and bulbble projects launched into public notice by designing tm kaoduring the Inst ten years to enable simple people suddenly to become rich, few have wrought a greater t a' mornt of havoc and mischlief in relieving crednlouo e people of their spare eash, and causing widespread d disaster and ...

... MR. BRIGIIT, M.P., AT ROCHDALE. On Saturday, the 'corner stone of a new town. hr0 r, a large procession, consisting of the members of the P1 corporation and varidus societies,aitcempanried Mr. 'IC Bright to the site of the new building. The new n( town hail will cost about £40,000, and will be iii 'r suifficiently extensive to afford aeconunodatioln for JA the transaction of the whole of the ...