... I - s PBEPARATIOl0 FRO BnOHmroa THH GBEAT EASTEBN.-A little to the south of the rifle range, s and not far from New Feiry, relays of Dien may be seen busily employed fixing the dolphins to 3s the gridiron already laid down for the great ship. As the tides are rising rapidly as the month a . vances, the vessel may in a few days be placed on r the beach, and be seen at certain states of the ...

... | LICENSED VIOTUALLERS' 1 j , ASSOCIATIONr. - The monthfy' meeting of the coimittee of this assoiation was fiild for yesterday. it t'e institu- tion, West Derby-roitd, but the znulmhe of nralin bers who attended betag insufficient to form a. quorum, an adjournment took place until Tuesday next, at three o'clock. -RESIGNATION OF THfN SEORETARY. The following letter from Mar. Orcasman, resipn-; ...

... | CORRESFONDENOE. . UlLIEF FOR THE POOR, TO TIM EDITORS Or THU LIVERPOOL ERCUM. Gentlemen -Yesterday, I sent a sovereign as a donation to the District Provident Society, whose office is in Queen-square. The party in the office refused the money, saying that they only received cash on Mondays; and the messenger actually brought the sovereign back. Surely such a ridicu- lone regulation as this ...

... 'The cattle plague has bad at least one good result. It has overcome the long-con- tinued reluctance of the farmers and their landlords to furnish information as to the amount of their stock and the cultivation of their land. For the first time we now possess something deserving the name of agricultural statistics for the whole of the United King- dom; and although these returns are not yet so ...

... FORE'IGN & COLONIAL MAILS. I JANUARY. The flgure and initialletter at the commencement of each paragraph denote the day of the month and of the week. DIIPATiURES. Shoingflg the 2fte the Letter-box is ciesed at LiverpooL 1 (Tu)-New Zealand and Australia, via Panama, 9 30 p.m.; West Indies and Pacific, 9 S0p.m. 2 (W)-America (New York), by United States Packet, 1 p.m.2 and via Cork, 9 30 p. m.; ...

... I ic-Mr. Bowrlng presided at the weakly meeting Of! the health comnlrittee yesterday, anda the other y01 embr present were Dr. Taylor, Dr. Dawson, teMs. Robertson Gladstone, S. G. Rathbo'ne, in Samnuelson, Holden, Harrison William WiliMN i at Whitle~ Whitty, Bairstow, Y'ates, Robinson, auci LeJ. :B. Ughes. hat MR. ELLISON ONCE MORE. The inspector reported that when, Mr. Ellison's iool contract ...

... THE SALMON FISHERIES SPECIAL THE COMMISSION. PRESTON, TE[URSDAY. The commissioners for Inquiring into the ?? of fixed engines In the salmnon rivers of Sgiand reassembled here to-day to heer further cases on the river Itibble. The comma s are Jamnes Paterson, sEq. (chairmanl; Oapttdn T. A. B. Spratt C.B., RN.; and Major 8cott F. P. T. Brady, lsq., secretary. There-wore only two cases on the ...

... | MULTUMIN PARVO. Nineteen persons were injured by the military during the election riot at Dungarvon on Saturday. Cholera has almost disappeared from. Dublin. * Only five fatal cases were reported last week. Alfred Hotton, son of a farmer at Newlyn, West, Cornwall, lost his life while out shooting, on Mon. dat, by the accidental discharge of his gun. . Edinburh, on Wednesday, a grocer named ...

... | AR. BRIGHT AND MR. DANnY SEY;Bl1?1 I . - . . As mlght have been anticipated, a second letteri, been addressed by Mr. H. D. Seymour, M.p .lv*. M~r. John Bright. Mfr. Seymour says: c(i; Morley appears frow. hisg second letiter ?? to liab mitsunderstood what I wrote to him, and It explale to Mr. Bright follows: lt Athenmum. Cleb, yan. My dear Brlght,-I am sorry to be oblige& to trecb you with ...

... ?? AAi . - d ?? -f ^^1,1 I-AV AA^A ?? a nne ricr ?? ox golq brive been discoverod in the county of IHastings, Calnada \Vest. Of course the dis- covery lias deligihted the Canadians. Thle Kinc o ?? left Florence on the 24th Deeemb.er, to splicl the Cblistmnas fctes at Turin. Prince Amadteus, Siconi ston of Hlis Majesty, bad previously arrived at V~enice. President Johnson having issued a decree ...

... i FRANCE. , SPEECH OF THE EMPERORR. id At the reception held on Tuesday at the Tuilerles, the In Zmperor addressed the following speech to the diplomatic Ox ?? opening of the new year furnishes me an opportunity of expreasing rmy wishes for the stability of thrones and the prosperity of nations. I hope that we Gre entering upon a new ra, of peace and concIllatIon, asd A that the Universal ...

... IAt % - OlAT iB , _ W TOMS. .. * ?? I aI 60Thc Ez gcs of Vlrne-aZdayn ht says -Wltith the glass at below ireezing, as teglstoredt by Negretti aiid Zainbras thermometer, the weather last night indioated the approaoh Of Nnow, which began to fall'tslightly soon after one o'clock this Morning, A strong wind, which was blowiog from the north-west at the time continued till about half-past four, ...