... A1NjTUM IN PARVO. nI Shortly before, midnight on Taesd!* an engiae- i`1P teriter named Samnll Eyre, who had !:ezn winding I two men out of the Grimneethorpe Colliery, neatr h Sheffield, fell down, t.he shaft and was, smasbed to fa pieces. H While three mess, named Richarfi Sutton, Wendle Wisiker, and Pobert Crome, were engaged in collcctirg ice on1 BEctydon Waiter, near Great T. Yarmouth, on ...

... ThlE TAY BRIDGE. [HAT PA'kT CE TEE IBRILGE WEICH HAS FAILED IS SaOWN IN THE PLATE BY TWO CROSSES PLACED OVER IT.] The idea of bridgieg the Tay, and so conneetiug two great railway concerns, the Dindee and Perth and the Edinburgh and Northern, was first sag- gested in 1845, whcn a high -level bri1ge was projected near Newburgh. This scheme fell tbrough, as did also a similar one in 1865, and a ...

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... THE PROPOSED INCREASE Or, MUNICIPAL SALARIES. TO THE EDITOR1S GI THE LIVERPOOIL 1ERCURY. Gentlenen,-I have not totted up the additibns to corporate salaries which are to be proposed at the next meeting of the council. The liet loks too long for me to go through in this way, and I suspect it 'sill wear too lengthy an appearance for a good many other ratcgx ers besides myself. At a glance I ...

... MONDAY, JANUARY 5. EIrGHT &-.-The barometer is falling someswhat over Scotland, aud a large depression shown to the north-west of that country, while a small subsidiary disturbance has advanced over Ireland, occasioning a slight decrease of pressure on our south-west coasts also. The wind is southerly to south- westerly at nearly all statioas, and in the neigh- bourhood of the two disturbances ...

... _ MR. ELADSTONE AND THE JEWS. I TO -n R m HON. W. E. w, &DSTOUE, IS P. Sir,-! bave observed in several papera two letters written by )Ou having psrtial retefdrencr L) the Jewish vote, whch, I venture to think, met sasve been fonnded-tastfen brosddy-n insufficieat ie ermation. It canot-62 too distinctly reiterated thae Ase overwhelming majtrity of J3ws in Great Brita&D are Liberals. The eveits ...

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... TIHE IEW _Y:t4A. idig ?? To a severely mathematical mind pro- ,S thne babiv there is no difference botiwieen the day vwhich uhers in a new year and any other day. Scientihcally, time itself is but as an expression-a convenient method. of marking off atomic sections of eternity for - mortal uses. Day succeads day and year year, but the tide of human affairs sweeps pDLU3 on in unbroken ...

... 1UBLIC, BI0ARDtS. TOXTETIH. A 2NEW PHASE OF THE BOUXD C 1iY Q(UESTION. 'lhe montbly rmeeting of this board S as bd' at the Law Asseciation Booms, Cook-street, 3esterday after- roon. Licut.-torneI Wilson occupied the chair, and the oh mernembers present were Messrs. Ralme, Edward-, Damrie, Rogerg, Alpass, and Dresser Tioe Chairran Eaid that btecre the ?? ?? ced he wished all the menerurs kthe ...

... LETTERS TO MEDTMI S. CO2?OIRATE SALAhIES. Gebti ree.secebm lected. s-,,er can-i-ii it-.s; the ovi c.unci ptmtia eoorv~s;. To-n, 1,,w li It thaet ery Seartssey vwte for nsoresrt, i04 satirist, auA ias tosed tale . 'os is asu, dons by ttie g- c;-ors pony, the ~oVerlnn'er-t ?? an1d iac-gme tase or poor ret-- eo1LCtOro.Isel i,5S, ~nsnt rates are paid ho each member C? ~ tOlo-A-O es3anrl ?? is to ...

... I LIVERPOOL SHIPWRECK AND I HUMANE SOCIETY. At a meeting of the committee of the above Eocidaty, herd IosterdAy, the foglowing awards were made- BEWARD3 FOR GAL!AXTRY IS SIV3IZ Ir. 2os. each to John Doodson and George Henshaw, dock labDurers, for having jurmpedinto the West Waterloo Dock on the 22nd ultimo, and rescued a moan who uad fallen from the Aide of a vessel, and received llunry to his ...

... THE CLERGY AND THIE TiTHE RENT-CHARGt3 h TO THE EDITORS OF THE ULvERPOOL E2( ?? Gentlemen,-In your impre3-ion of the let inst. appears a copy of a letter ?? tun by the Bishop of Bath and Wells, in answer to an ir uairy whether a rector ought in the prc!ent ateta oe agricilture to msako any abatement is rv pect *.f tithe rent- charge. The bishop says, 'I tbink there cia be nc question that he ...