... 7* ~- I~ I UR!3 The following has -been Issued by the Ladies' National Association for. the Ilepeal of the Con' tagious Diseases Act:- There are two Acts of Parliament-oue passed h in 1866, the other in 1869--ailed the (ontaglious t, Diseases Acts& These acts are in forea In some of ,g our garrison towns, and in large district. around them. Unlike all other laws for the repression of ...

... AiNNUAL MERCANTILE CIRCULARS. COTTON. t - The Liverpool Cotton Broker As'ociation annual circular publishes the following as the stock in the ports of Great Britain on the 31ab of December esch.year:- 1O0OK IN 1869. xEcair-P Liver- Lodon, A L vge. lbs. TION. pool. &C. a wght.j &nerican.. 70,900 100 77,000 487 88,049,000 Brazil ?? 24,870 - 24,870 160 8,899,200 ,,gypta 26,260 80 25,810 504 1 ...

... COR1UEBPONDENCR MOCK SUNS. To THE EDITOBS .OF* THR LIVERPoOL MBERURY. Gentlemen,-,On Tuesday last, the 28th, at twelve o'clock noon, as I was walking alowr the Happy Yalley road, and near Ktngsland Park, O~oI obsferved what is rarely Heen in our lint!. ?? moat beautiful phenomenon-a double; parhelior., or two mock suns. At eual distataon A ton each side of the sun east and west, and at about ...

... ITHE HOUSEOWNERS' ASSOCIATION &AND THE NEW LUNATiC ASYLUM. Yesterday afternoon a meeting of the Liverpool Houseowners' Association was held at the Claren. don [ooms, South John-street, Mr. Walter Pierce presiding. Mr. Robert Neilson, a county magis. trate, attended for the purpose of affording some information to the association in reference to the decision of the court at Preston, on Thursday ...

... THE REPRESENTATION O0 MERIONETHSHIRE. We have already made our readers acquainted with the 'fact that the Tories in Merionethehira have resolved to nominate Colonel Tottenham, of PlAs Berwin, Llangollen, in opposition to Mr. Samuel Holland, the Liberal candidate for the seat made vacant by the lamented death of Mr. David Williams. The contest thus brought about is invested withpeculiar ...

... LAJTEST Y D T1I' ,EGRJAPJIC NEWS. COM MERCIAL. LONDON, FRIDAY EVa.NbXG. COTTON STATISTICS ACT. 1868. ,ho following is a ruturn of the quantitiea of j:nnnrted and exported at the various ports CC the QWlited Kingdom during the week ended b9thday of December, 1869 :- be t )ORn`01TZD. UCPOBRTD. Bales. Bales, Amerle - 30,227 1,194 3radlisn ?? 3,611 ?? 439 EFat IDdan . . 8,356 .. 12,361 ?? . 55 ...

... LIaERIoK, FRIDAY. Two policemen, named Doyle and M'Conaghy, were 6red at in tho village of Aakeaton, in this county, abont seven o'olock last evening, while andig im a butchers stall. Doyle was mortally wounded, a nd i9 reported dead. M'Conaghy was a swounded in the arm. No person hag yet been F arrested. e ST. PETER'S WARD. INTE9JDED RESIGNATION OF MIR. JACOB G. BROWN. The burgesses of St. ...

... THE wit'lUBPoP L1tr(UtPtPM - -S VALN POPULI LBX SUPREMA. I3 I DOMESTIO. The nomination, for Longford took place on Friday. Captain Greville Nugent and Mr. John Martin, the Nationalist, were proposed. The nomination was followed by disturbances and a collision between the police and a riotous mob. The revenue returns for the year and quarter which ended last night chow, as compared with the ...

... T- OLD MI1D THB NEW YEAR I: ~- . . - .. . . T~he year of 189~isnowr numsbered with the past, and this day a pev period of ?? commences. Sitaudiuig on the boundary Une whioh separates the past from tbe futis, mingled feelinge animate the breast as the mental vision scans the scenes of the past year, and the bright imagininga of hope gild the future. Nationally, no great evente ocourred in 18v9 ...

... i ATONOMICALOUU EN s -FOR J4NUARY. (Prom the IRltlu fed London Almcnack ) The moon will be near both Meroury and Mars during the evening hours of the 3rd day, but both the planets and the moon will set soon after the sun., On the 5th day Venue will be near the moob during the ?? houas, and till the moon sets, at 81i. Or. p.m. On the 10th day the moon will precedo Jnpiter, and on the 11th will ...

... ELOPEMENT AND FORGBERY. I An extraordinary cocurrence, of a romvAtic, but unfortinately criminal, Charaoter has just been brought to light before the' Trafeo magigtrates. A few dad ao, a yodng lady residing near Gastle- inland, the daughter of a'farner, eloped i aitha young ootchgamekeepernamedDonuIdOamenon. They had, it appeared, been 'for a long time pro. ?? verg much attached to one anothr, ...

... WILL OF THE MARQUIS OF WESTMINSTER. Probate of the wil; of the most Honourable Richard Grosvenor, Marquis of Westminster, KG., P.C., of Eaton Hall, Chester; Motcombe House, Shaftesbury, Dorset; and Grosvenor House, London, was granted by her Majesty's Court of 'Probate to his relict, the most Honourable Elizabeth Mary, Dowager Marchioness of West. minster, and his sons-in-law, the Right Hon. ...