... MR. B. A. MACFIE, M.P., ON COPYRIGHT & LITERARY MONOPOLY. At a recent meeting of the Fairfield Literary Society, Mr. 1R. A. %acfie, of this town, the parliamentary representative of the Leit4 district, made some pertinent remarks upon the effects of the existing copyright legislation. Mr. MAcrca, having shown that the result of the copyright system was the establishment of a literary monopoly ...

... IMPORTANT R.EDIjCTION IN LOCAL RATES. 'WTe are enabled to lay before our readers tho new rates for the several districts of the tonvii agreed upon at a rating sub-cominitteo held yesterday, which will be submitted for the approval of the health committee and for the confirmation of the town council on WNJedesiday next. It wfli be seen that i the parish and all the out-townships there is a ...

... I The number of wrecks reported last wveeklwss 10i making for the past year a total of 2508. he Indiantroopship Crocodile,Captsin Watson, arrived at Spithead on Monday night with troops from Alexandria. 'The marriage between Lord Colchester and the Hon. MissMaude,daughterof Viscount Hawarden, is fixed for the 28th instant. A woman named Norfolk, 85 years of age, was accidentally burned to ...

... b. she subject of moat general interest dealt with nby the council at its adjourned meeting on Wed- t- nesday was the motion of Mr. Steble for the appointment of a special committee to report ?? - the corporate expenditure, with a v,ae to it, Y reduction. It stood la.. Upou the notird paper, ig and came 9kl at a Ulne when the cuncil chamber I, wile isoro thinly tenanted than at any previous e ...

... Nigbari Yo1nDg hns now 23 actual wives and 31 'lie late Mr. Douglae, of Dunlop, bequeathed u £2500 to charitable institutions in Gllasgow. A girl who is not yet twelve years Of age tried to drown herself at Caniock on Sunday. It is t! doubtful whether Ohe is quite elne. t it is said to be the intention of the Government to fistabliich savingst baulcs for sailors lat all the polots cf the ...

... THE MARQUIS OF HARTING- TON'S CANDIDATURE FOR RADNORSIIIRE. The Marquis of TIartington, Postmiaster-Genera], has already addressed several meetings, at which he baa been enthutsiastically received. At a nume- rously attendedone, held in Rhayaderon Monday, Mr. Green Price explained the reason which had induced him to offer his seat to the marquis. He stated that he fully appreciated the high ...

... ?? - - - . THE POACHING AFFRAY IN WAl'xI2s. FIi foiln li- ysthe t a~istrates of Swansia har- Le tit -:,A itlIiI ii *4i - ti tinI the IIf:t ' ,IInecte--I vith ehc poa)ilur adllrv which oturrmd on tln Im ielrvc it M'rt. .1. I ). Jfdv'y n, J ?? I t P'etlhlr- gare, i)n the night *f the 26ith if I )e-vnibe)r last. 'I'he ?? in thb extaniiriation has h-)11n in consi- puence ,;f the 6vrire' ...

... IFOI1MATION 0it A LIBEIZAL ASbOCIAT1ON 1I4 EVERTON. . ast evening a meetinlg of the Liberal t h ctors of Everton ward wais held in the Schodlroomn under ; the Rev. John Thoman's ('hapel, Netherfield-road I South, for the purpose of firming a Liberal AFEociation in Everton ward. The room wam crowivded. The chair -was taken by Mr. John r Jobnson Slitt, and aniconst those present were Mr. William ...

... BURDENS O SHIPPING. I Lblic The question of whether the expenses ofr the maintaining the lighthouses of the United L Kingdoin should not be defrayed out of the public treasury, in the same manner ast British consular charges in every part ofc the world-namely, by an annual vote n7 of Parlionient, instead of being paid Ea tb by the shipping interest, is being once ijce, more forced upon the ...

... NINTH WEEK, 1869. In the week ending last Saturday 4181 birbhs and 2711 deaths were registered in eleven large cities and boroughs of England, including London. The births exceeded by 345, while the deaths were 21 below, the average weekly numbers in the ten years 1851-60, corrected for increase of population to the middle of this year. The deaths showed an increase of 87 upon those returned ...

... I Yesterday afternoon, the usual meeting of thisF board was held at the cemetery, Anfield. Present: Mr. J. R. Jeffery in the chair, and Messirs, dcic- ?? Adipson Hard Unwin. I~rom the minutes of the executive committee it appeared that the case submitted to counsel by the board as to whether St. Johns churchyard and others of a similar nature are parochial burial grounds within the meaning ...

... ICONSTITUTIONALISM WITHOUT I I DISGUISE. . That wvas an instructive meeting which the ?? Constitutional working men held the other evening in the Common Hall. Conservatism was there stripped of the rhetorical disguises with which Mr. Disraeli and his imitators have surrounded it, and we obtained a glimpse of the real thing, as presented to the mind of Mr. Councillor Holden and thousands like ...