... LOCAL NEW& Messrs1 IL Pooley and Son, of this city, have been awarded the gold medal for weighing I ?? at the Adelaido International Exhbitionr of tbu year. FATAL YALL.-A man named Henry Wilson, who was employed at the ironworks of Messrf. |David Rollo and Sons, Fulton-street, fell from a ladder on Saturday, and died at the Northern Hospital yesterday morning from the injuries thus sustained. ...

... I I The weekly zeeting of the West Dez),y Board ct Guardians was held yes erday' at the unios offices, Brougham.terrace Mr. E. Warriner in the chair. There were also present Mesrs. Ballard, B3arlow, Boote, Beftley, Clare, Costine. Edwards. Ellison, Fingland, Greetham Hughes, Lunt, .Mawdsley, 1ve, SharrocK. Thornton. Turner, Tvre, Wrlght, and Parry-It was reported by the master of the ...

... NIL GLADSTONE ON THE IMSH QUESTION. Il ?? MEETtNG OF THE COUNCILO The tenth annual meeting of the Council of the bh National Liberal Federation was opened at the (c Albert Hall, Notti yeserday terno l Sir James Kitson (president of tbe Federaion) tI occupied the-hair, and amongstthose on the plat- w form were the Marquis of RipOn, Lords o: Wolverton Burton, Monklswel), and Oxen. ul bridge and ...

... W'M ilool ;4?j 1 --I ?ttrrllvgo i SAL'JS POUL LEM S-U.PEA.M 0 II At Saturdays sitting of the House of commnona, Sir W. Hart Dyke submitted the education budget for the current year, the whole amount of the estimate being £:3,458,870, as against £3,402,987 in the previous] year. An interesting debate hollowed, in which Mr. Mundella, 3Mr. S. Smith, Sir RI Temple, and others took part, ending in ...

... SPECLAL TELEGRAM &E. The yacht Thistle iled from New York for home yestuday.-Reate. Mr. John Morlev has agreed to address a meet- ing of Liberals as Hull on November 25. Two women-me dead, the other mnconsci6os- were recovered from the Brdford Canal on Thnrs- day night. It appears both attempted suicide. Mr Morton, the aeronaut, returned to Dover yesterday morning from Calmss with his balloon. ...

... I1 ; Me than thre centuries have pased away Aine Alvr di Toledo, Duke of Alva, }ioded in Holland with a Spanis, army resolved on extir- pating heresy from that miserable little land of dykes and windmiU& The history of that awful time will never be forgotte in thi world, for it W a time of daughter such as earth has rarely Aee and it gave a character to the Dutch people which made the. one of ...

... I ., INoN , FnMAr XYGU. Mr. Chwzberlain's speech has apparently ry gladdened the Uniouits as much a& Sir Sy William Harcourt's angered them. They have ra- been eagerly anticipating his tone. Here is htMr. Dioey, in the ?? Ce'w-'y, begging , Lord Hartlugton to join the Government on Dlr the very ground that he aad the Radical le, Unionists cannot carry on together much longer. Mr. Dicey-the ...

... JOUR LONWN CORRBDDENGE I LOYDOX, MFORY NIEH'T. The ews of the great Gladstonln victory at Northhwichv w rooeed in London shortly after noon to-day. i swng completeness took away the breath oven of the Gladatonian It Signals the tot exton of the Liberal Unionist party ia the eonstiency. Lord Henry Grosvenor has obtained twelve fewer votes than were given to Mr. W. }1 Venrdn, Ihe Tory candidate, ...

... I LOCAL NEWVS I A EGTYx DaowvzsD.-iny-sidents in Liverbool will hear with sincere regret of the death by drowning of the Rev. Arthur Newcombe, M.A. The deceased, who was in the 42ud year of his age, was drowned whilst bathing at Scarborough on Friday lest. At the time of his death be was vicar of (iranborough, Bucks. and formerly was curate of St. Paul's Church, Prince's Park. He was the ...

... A-,- TO CORfESPONDEITS. Wv cont undertake to return comnunications of wbich we do not saail ourselves. Commzzctions should always be legibly wr'tteu in ivk and on ono $ide ! ad papmr oev ; length increasem the difflty of flnding space for them Whatever is intended for Insertion int be authenticated by the nam and address of the sender-not necessarily far publica- tion, but as a guarantee of ...

... Week't ttal. Half-yeai's total. I7. 1886. 1887. 1886 Mis. efsst and N. Co 3032 3030 632 64828 136 raledonian ?? 56808 56542 762110 77=92 782k JMbrisan ?? 3308 72711 71630 182 Cockermoutl and KI 80 694 15659 12490 31i IDblin & Wicklow. 3969 4r28 87560 86M 144 I -Fm ?? - 45 8420 152586 150486 139 Glasgow a S..west'n 21454 20713 307533 30064W 548 Great Astern n. 70951 70942 1314234 I114110 ...

... TO THE !fDITORS or THE LIVERPOOL MERCURY. Gentlemen,-In the M~ere ry there appeared, a few days ago, a letter signed Observer on the above subject. Inlstead of b eing an observer heir, pitoctically epeaking, one who knows from official connection, and, as might well he supposed, with a clear idea of what is at hand for the good of our shipowners and seamen. He says that 30 years ago a body ...