... At the usual meeting of the health committee, held yesterday at the Public Offices, Dale-street, the members present were Messrs. Bowring (chair- man), Pearson, Holden, S. G. Rathbone, Campbell, Harrison, Fowler, Wbitty, and Dr. Taylor. HEALTH OF THE TOWN. The Medical Officer of Health reported that the number of deaths registered in the boruugh of Liverpool during the week ending Dec. 19, ...

... TESTIMONIAL TO TME RIGHT HON. W. E. GLADSTONE, M.P. Since the close of the election for South- west Lancashire, a wish has been frequently expressed by working men and the Liberals generally of this division of the county that a fund should be raised for the pur- pose of presenting a substantial testimonial to the Right Hon. William Ewart Gladstone, M.P., as an acknowledgment of the eminent ...

... Licauteiant.General Hodgson. wvo larn from the ; iq toeiel Niii1e 6.azette, las ?? the following general *rder r'le lieutenaunt-general cor- Manding the trcupm in Ci!ylon and the Strnits Sie til .nii t naifit again desire that no oicer nder his (eummind wiill apppear at balls or other Iaeties e:;cept iu uniform. If an officer of the army is aichsrrnedor unwillingtoweartbedresT preecvibedby ...

... 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? ...

... THE ?? LE tffux. SAWVS rPOPULI LEX surReA. DOMESTIO. We give elsewhere the latest information respecting Mr. Gladstone's progress in forming a new Ministry. Parliament, it is stated, will certainly meet on the 10th instant, and the swearing in of members will be completed bythe 15th. The convocation of the prelates and clergy of the province 'of Canterbury will 'nened at St. Paul's Cathedral ...

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... I NEWS FORi 'WOVN AND CO 'TRY. It The org0asisatioll for the despatcl and supply of daily .e newspapers is one of the marvels of social nmechanics. d Live where we wvill withill the linmit3 of the three king- d doms, or even beyond then, we have ibat to wvill that a tire news of tire day shall reach us once in every I twoenty-four hours, arid to go through the commercial Is preliminaries of ...

... ' 1IICI-IINGS v. CORDINGLEY. To the BDITOI of toeD.lLY POST. Sir,-The Church Timnes of Saturday last, under the th abLov heading, contabis a report of the Council of the H English Church Union, and as the said report is not so ih accurate as it might have been, I trust you wiil allow me Ct a corner in your paper to correct one or two of the errors D the writer of the report has fallen into, ...

... M ISCELLANEOUS. on Fi iday, the fifthl and last daly, flhe Smittfieild Show wa~s Aviite-d 1by Many thOUSanliS leSs than oil the previous cliiIii dYs, w len each day's takings showed that between ;:uo'00 sed *io,fuo entered threegh the turn-tables. The salles were Very few in nimber. We oender stand that Sir William Snagg, Chief JuStiCe of £antignia, has been appointeti to suc'ceed Chief ...

... CORRESPONDENCEI NOTICES TO COORRESPONDENTS. AlU letters intended for publication must be accompanied by the niame and address of the wdite-, not necessarily tar publication, but for the information of the Editor. Corrceondents. who sat any special value upon their con ncnnicions must hap copies of them, as we cannot untde.r take to return unused contributiona. C. C.-The marriage would be ...

... SUPrOSE) LOSS OF EIGHTY-ONSE LIVES. Wye reported on Tuesday the loss of tie Ilibernia steamer, and of the landinsg of a large number of the crew and passengers at Wick. The Hibernia left Newv York, for Glasgow, on the 14th of last month. When about 700 miles from thce Irish coast the machinery broke down, and the ship became unnanasgeable and sinking. She was abandoned, the crew and ...

... THE LORD CHANCELLOR AND MR. LOWE AT THE FTSH3ONGEfS' HATAL, Several members of the new Government were enter- tained at dinner by the Fishmongers, in their hall, on Thursday night. The Lord Chancellor returned thanks for the toast of her Majesty's Ministers. As a Fishmonger of forty years' standing, Lord Hatherlciy appealed to the members of the company to attest the consistency with -which ...