Liverpool Weekly Courier. — 1893-09-02 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

EIECTO/L—The gieateet number of acts passed by Parliament was ie 1846,the great railway year, when the number reached was 570, mails up of 402 local and personal, 51 private, and 117 public acts. The lowest number was in 1841, when only 13 were passed, and of those 11 were public acts. T. S. (liaghull),—Bankrupt members of Parliament am by mecum rendered incapable of tutting and voting. At the expiration of twelve months after • member hats bionothe a bankrupt, his election is void, and a writ will issue for the electioa of another representative, unless in the meantime the bankruptcy has been annulled., Semese—The police were attacked it Mitchele town because of their efforts to place one of their comrades in • pOSition to take shorthand notes of a meeting. A comrade narrowly escaped being murdered in their presence in the streets before a shot was fired. The constables were in -their barracks when they fired, through lookholes. T. C. D. (Bolton).—If the vicar induced your I daughter to svithdraw her resignation, aim clearly retains her position, and if the vicar has changed his mind he must give her the legal notice , for terminating her engagement. The stelae may be toed for eatery in lieu of notice, but in court be I may tell a different story from that related by your daughter. Musics—The amount expended in preparatory work for the Chicago Exhibition (that is, preparatory to ouch actual work se the erection of buildings, &c.) was about 1,114,690 donate, of which 391,206 dollars was spent in the dredging of artificial waterways alone, sod 74,833 duffles in the construction ot temporary tracks to get material on the grounds. , Mans—The Abecedarians were a sixteenthcentury German A nabaptiet sect,to celled bemuse they, in claiming direct inepiration from God, denied the value of all human learning, and maintamed that the knowledge of even the AIdC is , detrimental to man, nines it opens the door to all that which obscures the Divinity, and is an oh- I Made to Divine illumination. I L. P. S. (London).—The explosion in Claytonsquare, Liverpool, took place on the 13th May, ' 187 L The boiler is described as being a 90-gallon copper cylinder boiler, used for heating water for domestic use in the hotel. The boiler shut ovei the hotel buildings, and dropped in the yard of the Central Railway Station, Henelegliestreet. All escaped mime two of the domestic stemma, who were only slightly injured. thrzoofte.—A °Deference in Parliamentary phraseology is the meeting of a delegated number of peers and of members of the Oman:ions' House to communicate • written message upon matters in which it is desirable this the two houses should co-operate. At • " free conference" the subject of the written message may be taken into debate. Conferences are now rarely necessary, as the houses receive moseatim transmitted by their Merits, and only one " free conference " baa been held singe the year 1740. SEXING WITH BRAlNS.—Ego.—Undoubiedly it is • fact that " we really me with our brain." The eye is but the eervent, so to speak, of the brain, constructed to photograph images of outside obe jam., and to receive and respond to the vibrations of light. The cornea (or window) lets in light ; the lens is engaged in focussing imames of outside objects ; and lining the whole of the pc/eerier surface of the globe of the organ is the delicate retina, which is constantly receiving the irnprensions and transmitting them by means of the optic nerve to the brain, where the messages are converted into the COLLOCiOUS sensations of colour and light. Tise