... ?? l frnF OMTi OF THE DEE. 1I0 I~~nY3PTn t3MTOES O THlE LrvERPOOL 3mrXCuRY. .ec,-Tbe letter in your issue ot Feb. 24, yV extract from. a speech of the Duke of mazde at a meeting of traders and *Va' red.ec at the Grosvenor Hotel, 3 the 18th February, deecrves some I' ai ) nmonas represents the feeling nor is the prediction of a tt: rstepayers endorsin the senti- ' r ,ee ed by the Duke of ...

... ig TO TME IMnOns OF TRE MVERPOOL MiERCURY. 3 Gentlemen,-The prominence you have giveu to the important question of being able to preserve ie green and succulent vegetable matter for an in- ie definite time, and presentable to cattle at all s' times, like rep'lar roots, must be my excuse for asking a small space in your paper to discuss the question. 1 I have often wondered why those who have ...

... IFX~tt82gt tiV~1~00 19ityo knerfurg4 I SAWlS POPUL LEX SUfBKRA. In the House of Lords, yesterday, Lord Salisbury moved a vote of censure on the Government for their policy respecting Egypt and the Soudan. In the House of Commons, the debate on Sir Stafford North- cote's motion with the same object was resumed. In the House of Lords the prin- cipal speakers were the leader of the Oppo- sition, ...

... h~ODG~AND NORTH-WET RAILWAY. The report of the directors to-be submlte to the proprietors at the balf-yearly general neeting, on the 17th Febrary, shows that the tffic e- ceipts, incliding rents, &f, amounted, to I £5,412,415, being a decrease of £45,238 on the year. The profit on the had-year's working was £2,177,153. a decreae of £1t,91L. The net poi of the half-year available furinoet and ...

... COLONEL SMITH, M.P., AND THE REPRE- SENTATION OF THE EAST RIDING. A meeting of the Liberals of the Southern Division of the East Riding was held at Beverley on Monday, .e Colonel Hodgson (the president of the Liberal Associa. s tion) in the ?? the Chairman had opened the proceedings, Mr T. W. Palmer moved, and Alderman e Crosakill seconded, a resolution, to the effect That it 1 was desirable ...

... THE EARL OF YARBOROTGH'S I FOXHOUNDS. ?? I-4.._JA A -- AL ?? -T - S -AHALilA s The meet on Saturday was at Newsham Lodge, at the I north end of Brocklesby Park. The field included the d Earl of Yarborough, the Covntess of Yarborough, Major a. C. Uppleby, J.P. (Barrow Hall), the Rev Cecil t Legard (Healing Manor), Herr Shaviel, Messrs Brooks, . Lieutenant Swallow, Mr MoVicar, Mr J. B. Swallow, ...

... RANDOM REAINGS. How ia it that, while a mau places his purse in Li Insi'de pocket that no thitf -may secure it, the young lady t wilY boldly hold hers in her band, as though to challenge a all comners'? 0 ' Paddy, do you know bow to drivel' said a traveller II to the Jehu of a Jiunting-oar. 'Sure I do,' was the n answer. I'Wasn't it I that upset yer honour in a ditch c two years ago'?' I ...

... Since the terrible massacres incidental to the sc Indian Mutiny, it may be questioned whether any in c event has occurred in the military history of this tI Y country calculated to cause so poignant arid wide- rE i spread a feeling of sorrow, and so deep and general a a sense of personal loss throughout the nation as L S the disaster which it is our painful duty to announce ui to-day. The fall ...

... GOSSIP FROM TRUTt The bad cold from which the Qaeen h4s been suffering is really influenza, and is, I hear,' the rjsult of a Chill caught during a walkc in the grounds at Osborne, in the course of which her Majosty got lori feet wet, Sir Wyilainm Jenner went down to Osborro at once, aidd ordered the Queen to keep in her ow warm rooms; f and the journey to-Windeor, which was postponed for ...

... GLEANIN GS, All but three of the forty m-embers in tics xaness0 Senate are lawyers. A boy mesmerist from B'ostoni is doing wonderful thingsI in New York. The claimant to tics Tiichborne estates visited Shlcetfi and Rotherham on Monday night. Ladiy Payne Franklin hats presentedI a handsomely-carved reredos for Tiirek parish cli scrl, by Duimini, of Florence. Tico ice bridge at Niagara this ...

... A crowded and enthusiastic meeting of the electors of the newI borough of Fuliam was held last bight, to hear an address from Mr. G. W/. Russell, M.P., who is a candi- date for tile representation of that constituency in the next Parliament, The chair was occupied by Mr. J. Napier Higgins, Q.O,, who was supported by Sir Chas W. Dulke, iH.P, and Mr. J. B. Firth, Hf.P.-After an address by Hr. ...

... WEATHE R FOREASTS T l I Cotlaod, N ?? ozuth .westerlyand MIIl - F 0. Scotland, N ?? Fouth weterlyand s ly 1. Seotland, ?? ., to fresh or strong - fair rid 2, itagland, N.E. Southlwesterly or s luther cler,,i ., 1'nglaod, E lair, cool, bhazy ;thenr weet.'r4cI Jmilder, perhaps sh e ?? 4. DIED. CONTMEs. {South. westerly andh s '.o5the , 6, EnglandS. (Loi. Same as Nos, 2 an6' don & Channel.) 6. ...