... FTIE VICAR'S RATE QUESTION ' AT COVENTRY. Ie ' -of Ire n anticipation of the 'abolition of the Holy of Did Trinity vicar's rate at Coventry,the cburchlwardens be anhave given notice to the congregation that there TI will be a- collection after the morning and evening di! ;be sermiecs throughout -the year, commencing on the mi ISt frst Sunday in January, 1883. The congregation tic by [are ...

... WEATHER PGOSTICATIOMN. Itbha steen a matter o% frequent observation that the, seasons of severest frosts are those whieh followi !erdods .of excessive rainfall. Gilbert White ass, noticed this, and remarks -that there is great reaesou to believe 'that intnse frosts seldom'tiak plac6 until the earth is perfectly glutted an ld chilled' with water, and hence dry, au- tumn, are s6eddsm followed ...

... TO TEE EDITORS OF THE LIVREPOOL MEERCURY. Gentlemen,-As chairman of the Central Com- mittee of the Royal Albert Asylum at Lancaster, I def venture at this Christmas time to ask permission to we . lay before your readers a few facts with reference his ' to the claims of that institution to the generous the a support of Lancashire and the associated counties. dec a The&e are at the present time ...

... WATER COIMIwTTEE. i The fortnightly meeting of this committee was al t held yesterday afternoon, at the Mnnicipai-oices, PI 0 Dale-street. Mr. Alderman Ety (deputy chair- i Lb man) presided, and the other memb-rs present were- Aldermen Livingston and IW. B. Forwood, j and Councillors Davies, Stevenson, Royden, Mar, j and J. B. Smith. TEE WAkTER SUPPLY. I The following statistics are from the ...

... IJATEST NEWS] VI h -\ TE - COURT, &-c. (.Thr the OyfuciL Cohurt Cirear.) a WrnDson CAs=TL, Dxo. 6. W The Queen. and trincess Beatrice drove OUE ves at terday afterwon:,1 attended by the dIron. Evolyn Ot Page;.. General Sir riotorn Simmons arrived at the Castle. or Her Majesty's dinner party included the Inepress to Eugenie and Princess Beatrice, Lady Abercromby, ly Madame D'Arcos, the Due de ...

... T -- ?? Loan SEFTON AND asr LrVsRPoL Vor.LNTerxs. b. -Lrd Sefton has, we understand, informed the ol commanding officers of the Rifle Volunteer Regi- m .merts of Liverpool, through his agent (Colonel a, Halifax Wyatt), that he is not disposed either to B sell the Altcar range or to lease it to them. The officers, awho are trustees for the volunteers of Nc Liverpool, so far as the range is ...

... SPECIAL TEEAMS, &c, I n. 'Up to last night the Pontypridd police were still at without the faintest due as to the whereabouts of [e the missing Cardiff cabdriver Thayer. His relatives re express belief that he has been mardered for the of sake of £5 he had upon him. The river and canal Mare so swollen by recent heavy rains that it would ,t be useless to drag them. a FATAL QuAaRn Nnn GLAeowV. ...

... S STAFFORDSHIRE MILL AND FORGE WAGE'SBOARD. I I ury j thle Yesterday afternoon a meeting of the- above1 )y a board was held, for the purpose of considering and I i+ and adopting measures for thiere-adop~ting of the sliding 1~1 out scale of waees. The President of the Board (Mr. 0 his Alderman A~very) presided.-Air. Hingley, on behalf was of the masters, said they. were met togethet in pur- 0 I ...

... A LyIERPOOL EXPRESS TRAIN t'r a COLLISION. . . r & . Last night, about five o'clock, a serious collision a occurred on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln- a shire Raiway, at the Dinting Junction, GIossop. I The town is connected with the' main line by a c i branch about a mile in length, and at Diating the s r, pdsmengers have to change into the trains to and I . from Manchester and ...

... I Two MLlNs Losr.-A Lloyd's telegram states that I the Arnord schooner, of Frederickihaw, laden with d barley, has been towed into Grimnsby by the smack e Star o' Peace, totally dismasted, -with two men lost e overboard, e Loss OF A Lraro00o, SnRI.-A Lloyd's telegram * from Capetown, dated December 12, states that the L- British ship Shakespeare has been totally wrecked cl at. Inaccessible ...

... THE CANIMDATES AND THE OPIUM QUESTION. Y Yesterday afternoon both candidates were waited ml aupon by a deputation, consisting of members of the Cl committee of the Liverpool and District Auxiliary of the Anti-Opium Society, and others in sympathy ad with the objects of that associaticn, for the purpose ev of eliciting an expression of their views on the Indo- of I Chinese opium traffic. Jr. ...

... £ '.IS -s O',Dr LEX srPn. . -C i ?? t ? 11 t ?41,f4, ?v curo i 15 ?? o~er- o the new Law Courts| z . aue iii Lne weather, amid great ! s;.- -- - _ . ?? !;r :- 1- i- I- - ?? ne oudces, in state:50 ao - ror. Wrestminster to the new there P;:rocession of ci-e dignitaries. .9:e e ceremonv arrived from the w so alout noon. The ueco, ivoter lsicosses Chhristian and! Parli ?? rted the main entrance ...