... I (iFoate London Gczctt of &s night) ADJUDICATIONS IN BZANRUPTCY. Thomas Knowles, ey- -bridge, Bingley, York- shire, also trading with 'illiaa Bakerand William Valiant, at Wigan, as Baker and Valiant, late a tanner, now a farmer and ironfounder. William Thomas, Pembroke-street, Pembroke Dock.t grocer and baker. Thomas Grove, Mardy Ystmdyfodwg, Glamorganshire, draper. Henry Jenkinson, tradinz ...

... ILIVERPPOOL MTERCHANTS' GUILD. I to The annual meeting of the above guild, which is , associated with Wright's Institution and Roger of Lyon-Jones' Fund, was held at the Town Hall id yesterday afternoon. The Mayor (Mr. Alderman se Radcliffe) presided, and there were also present tee Mr. S. Smith, MLP.. Mr. E. Whitley; M1.P., the rnRev. Canon It Stewart (rector); MVessrs. J. B. L Clarke, H. ...

... 6LATEST NS THIE COURT. &o. . ?? JuNEr-7. .The Qum, anomnnied by Prnneess Beatrice went out yesterday mornung, and her Majesty in the afternoon drove with Princess Beatrice and the Princess Leinengen and the Princess Mar- garet and Prince Arthur of Connaught to Glassal Shiel, attended by the Hon. Horatia Stopford. General the Right Hon. Sir Henry Ponsonby, K.CB., left the Castle.-Court Circular ...

... 4Y, ?? .THE COURT- -w, of ~Wnsma CAsMY2, XAZWX Z ms Her Royal Highness the Princess Beatrice* O led attonded bythe Hon. Mary? ?' roe out this by br~ morning. His Royal Highaessthe Prince-of Wales n. arrived at the Ca4te, and visited her Maiesty.- still keeps her apartments, owing to- her -knee 8 having become ?? from the effeots of her-fA Rai Of last Saturday. It is fe:ared that she will not ...

... LOCAL NEWS& JMo0a EEO Oti-This club in dr - JusoaBasira wa-hb lubwill be closed thi to members, from this (Thursday) evening until nest no Wednesday morning, to alhowthe greater portion of a' the interior to be thoroughly cleaned. O Vans op LocAL MEns.& ý- The majority on against the Government in the division on Sir John me Lubbock's Bankruptcy EM ?? J, las h ?? ne UIL Davies, Lord Claud John ...

... CI.1-NGES IN THiE ARMY. The A ram and Mmt-'; Gczxtc gives the followin5 . particulars with regard to the officers who will I retire from the active list of the army dt:ring the enaing year:- Two retirements will tblko lacx amnong the ?? on the ?? W. C. Napieer, on March 19. 67 year' of ae, and Sir E. Selby Smith, on June 22, five years unemployed, There will be six retirements of licutenaktr ...

... FOREIG NNEWS. ?? TZceGRAM THE TRENCH BUDGET. I~PAPas, DEc. 27. In to-day's sitting of the Senate, the ordinary ( 3- budget was approved in its entirety. M. Dauphin ( k demanded the immediate ?? of the portion t J of the extraordinary budget upon which he pre. r e sented a renort yesterday. a M. Buffet opposed this course. a' The Senate subsequently voted the estimates of t4 expenditure, and ...

... LOC0AL NEWS, LiasmAL LecrunE 3p Livsaroc-Mr. J. F. V, B. Frith, MSP. for Chelsea, will address a public I meeting of the Greneral Council of the LiverpolI Liberal Association, to be held in the City Hall, a no E Eerle-street, on Monday, January 7, at eight I p-m., on The Anarchy of London, showing its 9 injury to the 'p'eople, and es-,pecially to the poor,2 illustrating it by the facts as ...

... ArFniRs Os o A. BROGDES, M.P.-At the Londoi 1Bankruptcy.Cou, a hursday, an appli- cation waa made for.the sthe esolu- tions passed- by the creditors of Alexander Brog- den, ItP., ?? Brogden, contractors and colliery owne~rs, whiio recently filed a petition for liq~uidaton with ?? amounting to £:500,000. The creditors resolved to liquidate by arrange- ment, but. the registration of resolutions ...

... GI APTAIN WEBB DROWEI ' AT NIAGARAA _ - t -, - Is- t~ ?? NEW Yang, JLTY 25 t Captain Webb, the well-known swimmer, was v drowned. yesterday, in his attempt to swim through a 8 the wbirlpoot and rapids of Niagara Fetls. t C aaptain Webb left the Canada side of Niagara, E W below the falles in a small boat, and rowed to a ?? c r about 300 vards above the old nstpension bridge. r i He, dived into ...

... CA-UIRDE IIGMR LOCAL EXAMIATIONS. )tcy Y=RESUILTS OF MM=RIC CAtDI- Fromathe-BPPlC tinaryteeiiow-issued 'wihMh bsit the class hists of the higher local examninations re akeof this year, held at varous cautres. throughout a M38 England, we are-able to-give the. following full re- in snduits tie ?? the candidates who passed at hi DrU district centres, or while passin~ t other centres, .12 ...

... MRg. EiILE LOUIS'S CONICER. A concert of a very agreeable character tool place in the Concert Room of St. George's MXall on Saturday afternoon, the executamts being chiefly pupils of Mr. Emile Louis, of Bedford- street, who enjoys a considerable position as a teacher of the art of singing. One object of the concert was to publicly introduce those pupils of Mr. Louis who propose to adopt music ...