... WELSH NATIONAL COUNCIL. I THE MEETING AT NEWTOWN. I Details of the Arraiigements. I On Monday and Tuesday next the quiet little town of Newtown, Montgomeryshire, will be stirred out of its normal state of quiescence by an incursion of Liberal delegates from all parts of the principality. Tuesday noxt is the day fixed upon by the Welsh Rational Council t* hold their annual meeting, and as the ...

... a THE CH1JRUH CONGRESS. THIRD DAYS PROCEEDlNGS, There was no diminution In the ?? large ttendmncea at yesterday's sittings of the Church Congress at Manchester yesterday. In the morn- In ties lrge Fr ...

... i X THfE MaONTHA. October. 1qS8. London: Burns and Oates. Trhce October number of Tlh%350ntk is avery good one. The first article is on The Missionary Crusade in Africa, having special reference to the Niger territories, and is from the accom- Yiished pen of Sir James Marshall, C x G, than whom, perhaps, there exists on such a subject no more competent authority. Lady Herbert, of Lea, ...

... .TRS. GLADSTONE. A correspondent of the 1'hiadclphte T'hies furnishes a long acc tof th eventful career and unselfish devo- tion of rs. Gladstone, from which we make the follow ing extracts:- WOMEN't s rnii IN EITOLeH6 1 PufLra TE. The French have a derisive saying that thero are no polilical women in Englaud, and hence no zalons m London. They have no appreciation of that class of ...

... THEORIES AND SUCGESTIONS. The following letter, sigued Nemo, ap- , peared in yesterday's Timnes D Having been long in India, and, therefore, Obi acquainted with the iliethods of Eastern criminals, Ore it has struck me, in reading the accounts of these Ore Whitechapel murders, that they have probably phi been coimmitted by a Malay or other low-class st i Asiatic csming under the general term ...

... PERASONAL1. Professor TJohn El i. tile pet onail fvitid( ot every greatt C(Iriposer of every nationality, from NVdelAr to Wagner, is dead. JMarie Rose is thu daughter of a Parisian lawyer, mionsieur Rose de Ia Hlaye, descendant of Count Rose de la laye, %LVhi ili the uliddie of the sixteenth ceutrY errrligrateii frnm Holland The Comtesse It parts has establisheI thie R.ose LeagnEe of Fr:anco ...

... 1.15, ativultu Vt. ?4 iv:rreenr. plinted now Will make better growth next ?? trig than rlloe ?? in Februory and March. Gite I orders at o rce ter all trees arn s hrubs required1 that there jrray be no deloty ii obtaining thern as soon as the nursery- u- rr teg' to tale them up. All small subjects may be , tn(n up at orce iii full leat Whben a pea or apple is quite fit to gatber, the sceds or ...

... . To the Editor of the Bristol Mercury. SIP-I have been deeply interested by the corre- spondence which has taken place in the columns of t. your valuable paper. Your correspondent doabts the authenticity of the so-called cases of divine healing. I have known many cases where persons have been said to be healed, but have never come across one genuine cure. The late ?? Taylor put faith-healing ...

... TENBY. ROMAN OATHIDLICION.-The Right Rev Dr Hedley, Bishop of Newport and Meuevia, opened a new Roman Catholic Chapel at Tenby on Thursday. These was a large attendance of priests on the occasion, and the chapel, which had been beautifully decorated, was well filled. The bishop preached an eloquent sermon from Matt. v, 25. A dinner took place at the Royal Inn after the service. THJC RAILWAY ...

... THE BAPTIST UNIO N. The autumnnal session o' tlhe Baptist Uinion was resumed yesterday in! Y~ew North-road Blaptist Chapel, Huddereloteld. A devotionaluservrice, eonducte bythe Rev. G. D. Evans, of Bristol, was held at ten o clock, aind half at, lour aiterwvards the chair wa, taken by the President,~i Dr. Cr~arronD.-Tho itv Charles Williams, of Accringtorn, mioved the followinq revellittiolss ...

... MR DILLON ON TIF: TREATMENT OF PRISONERS. Mr Dillon, speaking at l)undalk onD ednesdey, Raid his English friends who accompanied him on June 20th were a-tounded to see peacenbie toWvlenien tramnpled under horses' feet and blulgeoned becaue- tbey came out to express their political opinions. Since then he had Been respectable men wvearinc the felon s dress because they remonstrated with police- ...

... DISTRICT SNE VS. I CoNGnaxcaosAt TzAax-orrsaiG StavicaS.- On Thursday a united meesting of the meinjbera scE the Charlee-streset Congregational Churchl Was heald in the caelP. schoolroom1 to give the ...