... BSALls POPULI LUX SVPR7ZA. ., DOMESTIC. The Queen was much concerned on hearing of the destructive fire at the Crystal Palace, and requested the directors to furnish her -with particulars of the disaster. The Queen has taken a deep interest in the late yacht race across the Atlantic. At her request, the yachts druised on Saturday off Osborne, and so pleased was her Majesty with the sight that ...

... I BliKENHEADCOMMISSIONERS| . . . .. . 'I Af The monthly meeting, of this board was. held Ldyesterday, at the commi sion ers' offices Heamilton- ie square, the members present'being imiestr e W. 3. Ili.d (in the. chairi Mocattving McGir, Emanso en teirson, Glover, Bretherton,. itgham, Lovat >r cotteeCook, orhattdn, Ferguson, mdott, Walker, .y and Barnett.- IsNCREASE OS THE HEAD CONSTABLE'S The ...

... BIRTHS AND DEATHS IN I .- LIVEIRP4OOL. .FIFTY-SECOND WEEK, 1866. In the week ending last Saturday 3475 births and 2610 deaths were registered in. ten large cities and boroughs of England, including'London. The births were 157 below, while the deaths exceeded by 88, the average weekly numbers in the ten years, 1851-60, corrected for increase of population to the middle of this year. The, deaths ...

... |I. . - I A special me~t~ng Of the town council, for the purpose Of appointinag trustees nhd commissioners under the local ants,. was held Yesterday; in the foune1cil chamber of the Town all, the Mayor (Mr.. Alderman J. Q. Morris) presiding. His Worthip the Mayor having wished a1 present a appy and prosperous new year Mr. Robertson Gladstone eaid, before tiay com- menced the business for ...

... AN'-IRISH ELECTION 1RO1r. I The Dublin Dailu Expr-s, a Tory paper, . i lishea the following particulars of the disturbain at the *atertord election :-'Anticipatin. c: violence the agents of C.aptain Talbot r.w.t that the voters should be aqbembled in large bo Ltt and sent under a sufficient military escort t o town of Dungarvan on the day preceding t I polling. thus thinking to avoid the ...

... NEW WELSH CONGREGATIONAL CA IIEL, PARK-ROAD. The Congregational body having increased in Liverpool during the last few years, chapels that were a short time ago large enough have now become inadequate to- the requiroments of their d growing congregations The consequence is that ney and handiome'edifices have' been built, and in localities where recently a Congregational place of a worsbip was ...

... . ^B , a ,, !.S I ?? -, AMALGAMATION OF W&BH . : I IIRAILWAYS. From a report Issued by the committee of deben- ture and share holders meeting in London to promote amalgamation of Welsh railways, and addressed to the parties interested in the several union undertakings, it does not appear that the scheme will be seriously supported in Parliament during the ensuing session. Of the l9linesof rail ...

... I WEST DERBY. The monthly meeting of this board was held yesterday at the offices, West Derby village, Colonel Thomson in the chair. The other mem- bhers present were hMessrs. hillier, MECaig, Haughes HEarris,, Radcliffe, Barker, Douglasr, Owen, and Cooper. The works committee reported that at a meeting on the 11th of December the clerk stated that he had seen the clerk to the commissioners of ...

... . The Earl and Countess of Derby will leave Knowsley for London next Monday. STASn' OF THl SUiP JoiNoas0 oiu rZ Guz&T EABTZRN.-At ten o'clock yesterday morning all the non-society joiners, with the exception of a small number, including apprentices, left their employment on the Great Eastern, owing to a difference with their employers about wages. It is rumoured that Mr. H. C. Tunnicliffe, of ...

... I T'E FIRE AT THE CRYSTAL I X, I, PALACE. ME SSAGE FROM THE QUEEN. On hearing of the fire at Sydenham, her Ma- jesty ordered the following telegram to be sent to the directorn of the Palace :- The Queen is con- cerned to hear of the serious losses by fire, and wishes to havp some details by post. The Times says the Crystal Palace is insured for a sum of £80,000 on the buildings and ...

... ENGLAND ANp THE EASTE. N QuhETIo IS X, It appears not improbable that 'he ,preent year may witness the serious revival of the too familiar Eaatern QUtetioP-or, perhaps we should rather say, the occurrence of events that 'in other days would have provoked the diplomatic jealousies and hostilities which this ominous phrase has come to denote. It may be that the Governmensts of Europe are wiser ...

... - MURDER- BY' FRENCYI SOLDIERS. . The first military tribunal of Paris has just been engaged in the trial of two voltigeurs named Ciosi and Agostini, both natives of Corsica, for murder at Champerret - LevalloiR, a commune in the environs of Paris, during the night of the 2nd November last. The two accused had been spending the evening at a wineshop on the Boulevard Beneau, kept by a man named ...