... I Tho monthly meeting of his Council wRB held on F tur. [ day emnens, in the Grand Jury loom at the Public Offices, Mioor Street; Mr. Hooshan ?? the reading of tho correspondence it *as reported that a letter had ibeen received from the edge-tool makers of Wolverhamp. ton, -stating that Mr. Edwards, an employer, had refused l to ensploy his worlkmen unless they left their union. The Council ...

... TO THE EDITORS OF THE LIVERPOOL MIERCURY. Gentlemen,-This question is now coming seriously to the front; and being one of great local importanoP, it is desirable the public should be botirinterested and informed, and also prompted to discuss the subject. New lights appear and new views are generally advanced in the progvess of an open discussion. In wbat I say I shall not be able to avoid ...

... S :. Tt E is f r Nan -:f fTEl}:-0- f$TOg.f- 0 *_ | f 0 0 _ _ _ An*. _ ._ ; ; 'I , I t . 5 . . .. \ , .. , . - / g . . . THE APPAL'LING CALAMITY AT THE TAY BRIDGE. GREAT LOSS OP LIFE. E THE GENERAL HURRICANE. DAMAGE TO SHIPPING, &c. It must be already in the minda of all that a dread- filly fatal disaster has occurred at the Tay Bridge, near: Dundee, in Scotland. This almost national calainity ...

... MWM? T , , it -ME -: ?? - I-,,j I , ? %, u ii?!?11 -. CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR'S SERVICES.-Considering the extreme gloominess of the weather on Christmas Day, the metro- politan churches were well attended. Dean Church preached at St. Paul's, Dean Stanley at Westminster Abbey, the Rev. H. White, Chaplain to the Queen, at the Chapel Royal, Savoy, and the Rev. G. F. Maclear at the Chapel Royal, ...

... ?? ?? ..E TitiE author of Erchomenon ; or, the Republic of Materialism (Sampson Low and Co.) differs widely from Miss Bevington on the value of Materialism as a basis of morals. That lady, replying in the Nineteenth Century to Mr. Mallock, is sure that life will be all the more worth living, its sorrows diminished, its comforts nci eased, when people cease to look beyond it. With an ...

... AGRI.JLTURAL NOTES. M.-r> th6. Vr1A) Ma~iZ J (Feron the Weekly Mail ofI - (By FINLAi DuK, Fnq.w tT1E DIIANCHESHIEET OF BRITI,,H AGRICULTURE. ie Cbriaftae hbas tot brought to the agricultural mor olasaee its wonted ove dlow of jollity, plonty, and t | prosperity. The seasonable enjoyments- the na quips and cranks and wreathed smiles, which inI troublehmay sober, but cannot banish-oome not r~e ...

... CYMDELTIIAS Y CERDDOMION- CYNHADLEDD YN NGHAERNARFOXN. A Prydnawn ddydd ?? diweddaf, cynhaliwyd , cynbadledd o gerddoriou Oymreig yn y Guild b Hall, Caernarfon, i'r dyben vo flurfio cymdeithas is gerddorol, yn Nghymra. Yr. oedd yn bresenol yn r y cy!arfod oyntaf y Parch E. Stephen (Tany. r roaria), Dr Joseph. Parry. (Pencerdd America), Afeistri D. Jenkins, Ias. Bae.; W. Jarrett Ro. e berts ...

... at present unknown, who was found drowned in tho Thames on the inst.—Johu Frederick Gouity, lighterman, of Winchester-street, Piiulico, said that at on Saturday morning he was proceeding up the river on raft, and when about IUO yar ...

... SOI:ENCE IN 1879. Tar past year has not been marked by any very, startling discovery in the region of science, though it would be a great mistake to infer from this that the army of scientific workers all over the world have been idle. It would be simply impossible in the space at our disposal to give any idea of the amount of work accomplished in science during the year, and equally ...

... THEIS RISH LAND AGITATION., 111 PAUILL Ill NE'W T'OR.i A New York telegram of Saturday's date says :-Messrs Parnell and Dillon, wrho arrived here yesterday, received to-day at Parlor's H~otel,i delegations from Bovston, and from the AssociationL of the Mten of Meatb. Numnerous private visits I wrere also paid in the course of the day to the two- Irish gentlemenl. M~r Parnell will visit ...

... Many of the metropolitan charities have just received some large sums as donations which will go a long way to enable them to balance, their accounts at the Christmas quarter. A maiden lady, Miss Harriet Hurst, late of Stamford and Chester terrace, Regent's Park, died a few months ago, leaving a large sum of money, invested in Three per Cent. Consols, at the absolute discretion of her ...

... A clerk named George Heard, living at Round- greet, who with his wife and two children has been reported starving, although they refuse to enter the workhouse, came before the Luton Board of Guardians on Monday. He has an idea that his father rendered great scientific services to the country, and says he spent £14,000 in perfect- ing the purification of coal gas. This he has pressed on both ...