... _OC.L - N _ a. a LOCA.L- NEWS. : I The' Birkenhead Improvement Bill was read a third time and passed in the House-of Lords on Friday night..,, - * : . . - . CHEAP Tsipr. The usual trips t'o Southp'6rtwillI take placb cfii Whit' Monua4. The faies tand retnuns ?? geeniln our adveitising columns. c FmST LAvvoimuxue RiFLE. VOLVN TXRS. -The' challenge cup, prpsented .by. -Mrs. 'Stable, was again ...

... EXTRAORDINARY SCENE LN BELFAST. Last week the recorder of Belfast was to hg-.: commenced his sittings in the curthowe, tt when persons arrived at the gates they four them closed, and they were kept out in the rsv- Abbut five minutes before ten o'clock a pers- from the inside of the railings intimated that v court would not be opened so sne recorder or c - public. At this time about 200 or 300 ...

... - LATEST,; TELEGRAPHIC NEWS THE MUNIFICENT GIFT BY THE QUE W. The rumnur of her Majesty's intention to erect end endowt ;an hospital in the countryaas aacn valescent hospital in comnection with the royai foundation of St. Bartholomew'se is correct.-, The governors have recently received an intimatlon 'of the Queen's pleasure through the presidet 6f ithe hospital, his Royal Highness the Prince ...

... , 4 t F AU OPU7LI LEX S DOMESTIC. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday. No arrangement has yet been taade relative to the vacant Chancellorship of the Duchy of Lancaster. On Saterday, several Irish Conservative members had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer for the purpose of explain- ing their views concerning the Irish Reform Bill. They went as a deputation from a meeting ...

... X sac or w e_ _ A_ := > v . - «a i .. I.,,.9ii.P P ?? W ,,,e haive sho!wn i 'gg' ?? ?? were. 'the 'plaes in diffeie'nt pairtsi 'ofe t 4hkin from 3. mwlch it has been .propesed' to take .oaa ot more : :'mliez rs Qin t 'thre sche es brought 'orward' i y ?? e pirejint Governmeon- b Mu. Gla tone last sqssion, n4 by' Mri,. ?? inthe preenati ession. There wore a number of pripos4ls in Mr. ...

... | ,,)RDVDEMMSTRATION, AT I I ilX TB I ; 11 . I. , On Siturday, ' 'greait united Reform demno- stration'? ?? place at; Manpheater 'T e word i nited4',,necessitates some explanation' to those not well road in' the hlstoty'of the political organisatione which' the reform 'movement has called into lilg, -Two agoidations were- formed to' crty on the work of popular agitation: one called itself ...

... The House of Coinono has entered on'the second half of its Reform laboqrs in a spirit which proniises ?? for the ultimate result. Great -questions of . prmnciple 'or policy are debated on their merits, with an entire freedom from narrow' party feeling, and decided by such majorities as put an end to all -further controversy. On Thursday the house settled the fate of the four delinquent ...

... 7jll 1 -. .- , : i:. .. .. . I-. - t , r iESTABISHED CHURCH. Oj ; ; ti sla Mr.. W. Smith, of North Lelth ! eonv~eeJ of the:endowmen eom.mittee, gavein !the rej,6it of that ,imporEtantcheme olf the ohurcl4 whilh' shid that 'thwgioas' amountf of-' funds hithertureceived fort.heprnoiil4fupl nountod . all ,the eiatoroups t122, 7j ; thab toh'efmn t eceivedby the geherbl and lodsl tre uaeidxrins r I ...

... ISHOCKING ACCIDENT&% I:N128 T COLLIERY. NINE LIVES LOST. within a week Of ?? at 1104 Colliery, involving the loss of two ?? renoe of a similar nature bat attendedwith ' more melancholy, haa Ippened at W Colliery. This pit in situated near the O Old Waahington, about eight or rine rn e cf of Newcastle, and is the proper o Kiinpster, Gateshead. Bewe vn o'clock on Frday night, the men who bd ...

... -I SC D DT -- | ' :Sz IY'-iDITION ?? 'I ?? ., . , . ,. [BY TLEGAPH.] - - three l tii tiis O ambniri -..MAILx NEW8 ~ ?? .The bromer ,rteitirt New Yorkc, from New 'York, paied krita -stleet 6 5 ai.m. i sE DIST 'RI sJ N.;ITQ OF 8AT.;- ,T;.lho LZi~Ii hcwa renmark, that 4;taklng int :aqount the iioesestg of' ?? and 'I brtcidbitt:0f,0bt;3iiW aaidjustioiteitheq. .the rival emiof -r. Diaeli a'd Mr. ...

... COIRRESPOWDENOGE. THE DEPUTY TOWN-CLERKSHIP. TO TH19 EDITORS OP Tnz LrvzBrOOL MERCURY. Gentlemen,-My name having been mentioned in the papers as a defeated candidate for the office of deputy .town-clerk, and it beig tstaed in some ot them that the choice made by the commlttee is to be contested in my .favonr by a clique, allowv me to say that no clique was iormed by myself or friends6 and that ...