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The editor of the Liverpool Mercury apologies for want of editorial matter. by stating that the effective force of the office is reduced to him and the publisher-that he discharged his only journeyman for drunk enness, and that his only boy is on " his an- nual visit to his papa and ma-,na.' He describes the process of making .Mercu- ry, thus:

 :" Between us we set up the type; one makes up page, and the orthe the other; the publisher takes proof and the editor reads it-when both fall to, and correct the form. When it IS ready for the press, the editor beats and the publisher pulls, and forthwith out comes full grown Mercury When the form is worked of, the editor folds and the publisher packs up the mails. il little difficulty being likely to arise as to which of us should play the devip in distributing the papers to subscribers in the borough, we agreed to jif for it; when -humliating to record--it fell upon the editor; so here he goes with

 News from all nations numbering at his back. "--sp;rii cf the .ige.