... I CORR SPONDENC: WOODSIDE FERRY. that'_ isted TO THRE IiDrORi OF Tn LIVPOOL K1rARJRS. yang Gentlemen,-I think that the contractors one aow and all ought to protest against the raising of the ured price of the contracts, not simply because it affe0W I of their pocots to the extent of *.few ahiin~sa year, but because it will not serve the end in view. hat will they gain by augmenting the fares? ...

... A fire of an alarming character took place at the sxtensive chemical works of Messrs. Marsh and1 EHibbert, known as the I'arr Chemical Works, St. Helen's. It was first discovered about ten o'clock on Saturday night by some of the workmen engaged in another part of the works, and inime- diaeely an alarm was given by the ringing of the; 'dinnerbell belonging to the works. M'desoengers were ...

... I, IAVEDPiv OOL, JULY 2. We have had another month of extremc quictude IH not to say depression, in our different produce markets, extending equally to all descriptions of B lstocks, shares, and public investments, and as a consequence to money, which, though cheaper and more abundant than at almost any former period, seem powerless to attract cmployment. It is somewhat difficult to account ...

... The Rev. J. B. Millson, for 21 years the pastor of Chapel-street Chapel, Southport, has resigned in consequence of increasing deafness. Mr. Thomas IV. Serjelut, of this town, has been p pointed superintendent to the Liverpool Lock Hospital, vice T. Oulton, resigned. Mr. Pickering, Q.C., has been named (says the IPerial eRew) as a probable successor of the late Mr. Stephen Temple in the office ...

... I TO CORRESPONDENT&S We cannot undertke to returnoomnmunieationa of which we do not avalt ourselves. Comnunications should alvays be legibly written in Ink andon one aids qf the ?? 01ofro length increaes tbe difficulty of finding Ipace for tbesa. Whatever In intended for insertion munt be authenticated by the name and addreas of the writer, not neceasarily for publlcation, but an a guarantee ...

... BROCKING TREATMAIT OF I BLUNATICS. I IAPORiA CONVIO TIONS. At the Hereford assizee, on Saturday, before the Lord Chief Justice, Mr. Edward Charles James Shaw, a surgeon, surrendered to take his trial for misdemeanour, inbavingundertaken the charge of one Frances Danvers Weaton, a lunatic, without the medical certificate and orders required by the statute, Thli wa a proreoutioa institated by ...

... AGAINST THE LONDON & NORTH- WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. In the Court of Common Pleas, on Wednesday, Chief Justice Bovill and a epeolal jury had before them the case of Worboyi v. the London and North western Railway. It waan action to re. cover damages for injuries sustained upon the line of the defendants, who paid £300 Into oonrt, so that the only question to be tried was whether this sum was ...

... IMPORTANT DECISION. A very important oint in reference to sales by auction was decided y Sergeant Wheeler, LL.D., at the Ormskirk county court, on Saturdiay. Mr. James Platt, auctioneer, of Southport, sued Mr. Thomas Bentley, broker, Wigan, for £13 1us., the sum at which a hogshead of claret bad been knocked down to the defendant's wife at a sale which was conducted by the plaintiff at ...

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... v-T y r slt MARY. 1-1IWETLYKV., DO)MTIO. e IRoYA1 A ii.1ieatro-the cenen 01 Te at pobtical demonstrations-W8 ,.11 Wedneadq ?? 'oy en ?? ansio 5 to hear Mr. Jo] Bright, M.P., and to declare ita sym tia with the movenjellt for aboliohll'g intolerable inlustice to Irelnd by the Church. The meetinlg was 01,'ve ylcon, Assoiatin, arecedt' Welsh Roforn AsmociatI.D'i 1 for its object stituted ...

... THE FENIAN TRIALB IN I ~LONDON.I A special session of the Central Criminal Court lo illl b held this mornlng, at ten. o'clock, for tho 5d purpose of disposing of the ease of the six persons o cbarged with the crime of wilful murder arising out of the desperate attempt to blow down the 3n wall of the house of detention at Olerkenwell, asd lc the charge of treason-felony against the three l ...

... I THE WEATHER AND THE C. ROPS The continued drought is causingsome unia asinmes throughout the country, as it is feared that unless we have a speedy fall of rain the crops w ill be materially diminished in quantity and affect. id in quality. So far, however, not much harm has been done, and if wie are favoured with a few showers in the course of next week we may exp 'ect most satisfactory ...