... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... ?? ?? ..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 ...

... 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, ...

... 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 ...

... ! I (From our Special Sunday edition of last week). In accordance with a custom which has obtained in re- cent years, Innocents' Day wee commemorated by a spe- cial service for children ?? abbey on Saturday afternoon. Ordinarily this service takes place on the day of the festival, but owing to Itiocents' Day, falling this year on Sunday, it was decided, for obvious reasons. that the ...

... | NAVY STATIONS FOP, JANUARY, 18SO. , | Acbillcsh. hiucl .u.irelil oitd W C. ofA. ON-telioe m c Iucilrou ?? xi Ii T ?? y f Airica Owell. C or 1. conid AciuioL rt;Sl1;ai. slidf ]irc (e01 1 eortsmn ilihce leL c Alhbcolc.BermIllda lti'iilot-er tol~ud l)slilcV, Ia AlI.Ii1 - lic-eagc to IIidWpeit PO.si. iln:i ' 0101lL l'uniiiugo, N. A. and u'elrlat. lacific Allierta. Portsmnouth 'l . lisio PourS ...

... | Numiansa 2. O'Connor was petitioned against on the ground that being a County Member he had not a sufficient property qualification, i.e., £500 per annum arising from land. He went before the Election Committee, and was weighed up, when, in consequence of some of his land being on the other side of a broek, he was held to be short of the Jegal £500. He lost hia oeat, and was expelled the ...

... SBVIAT, ANUVAUT 4, 1880. SUNDAY'S EDITION. - T-- E TAT RB3DGE. An event, unique in its character, has ended in a catastrophe so horrible as to enable-us to realize how to sup full of horrors. A train crossing, on Sunday evening, the Tay bridge, on its way to Dundee, suddenly disappeared, with its freight of some ninety or a hundred human beings, into the. waters below.. There was a hur- ...

... WOkD9 r~ot- Txz WORZN01I- -- TO TER NDITOE OYiRnhoLs S'HW5?AFEB i.SXa,-Oi this, the fret wetk like, in the new year, MO andrmymates, ?? the yard after the Christ-. was holidays, found that one of our mates who works in the carpenters' shop had pasted up two significant and curious paragraphs cut from newspapers. The firstt was a paragraph out of an Old World paper; the second was one froma New ...

... 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 ...