... WORKING MEN A ND THEIR TEACHERS. THE congresses which have lately become fashionable are, as it seems, so full of wisdom that they cannot keep it all for themselves. They are overflowing with superfluous good advice, which runs off at last upon their neighbours. Their poorer brethren are benevolently admitted to partake of the crumbs that fall from tables so bountifully spread. The Social ...

... I Tue following estracts are from the several Birminghaml journals of the past week:- (From the Bie oliost .fsst'sot.) tn. TOOLE S PsOtrolixANcEs.-The geotleiatI, hlio is o0w delightitig the playgoers of Birmrigiagsa at the Theatre Royal, is ooe of the few actors who, besides challesgitig the adariration, possesses the rare facility of gladdeiinga the heart of the public, and shedding polp ...

... The psst,71L,715 Star m5id Herald of the 23rd ult. contains thle following- intelligence from Chili: In our sunisisirY two months ago0, although the numbers a were not them returned front all the provinces, we were able to announce the re-election of Don JoB6 Joaquin Pescz. We have Io to intimate the result of the voting, proving, as it does, in the most satisfactory mannerthat Senor P'erez ...

... ROMISH PRACTICES-SO-CALMD - on EXsURB RITUALISM.: TO THE DIiTOR OF THE DAILY NE ; Sam,-With reference to your excellent irti'le on the recent disgraceful occurrences at Nonrthmoor-greefl I fully concur in your observation that the peace of a parish ought not to be at th6 mercy of one man. Nor ought that spirit of domineering, which is one of the chr lacteristics of the papacy, be allowed by ...

... Yesterday evening a second public meeting of members and friends of this association during the Working Men's Exhibition, was held at the Agricoultiai. hall, Islington, in support of the permissive bill movement, The chair was taken by Sir GEORGE BROOKE PECHELL. The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings, dwelt on the advantages of association, as seen in the history of the repeal of the corn ...

... ?? 5ij: BRIGHT GLASGOW I . . . . . . -_ 1 As EAT_ 13right W as entertained at breakfast on w en- ort. morning by a numerous body of the Scottish pesdsa Reform league, at the Cobden hotel. Mr. 1S tienal~p occupied the chair, and briefly ail- 5 the meeting in eulogy of the services which dr gsght bad rendered to the cause of Reform. ?? Cranuford, M.P. spoke in warm terms of the 9r trationof the ...

... A flock of a thousand is seldom seen without a black sheep in it, and it would seem that the British volunteers whom Colonel Loyd- ianlsay has led to Belgium form no exception to that general rule. Con- spicuously posted on the park entrance of the Belle Vue Hotel is a general crler from the British head-quarters, signed John Furley, Major of 13rgade, thus worded:- It having been reported ...

... [THs EnTOnR 1i NOT iRESPoSreiEe, FOPt Trnz oprr:ys EXPRESSED BY COeRE.SEVONc7ENrTS.] Religiouss Serv-ices in our Theatres. 10 TIlE EDITOR OF TME EPA. Sir,-I have read withi much interest a paragraph il your paper of the Gth inst., under tilce title of' Religious Services in Theatres.-' I will not occupy your space by discussing the eape ency of attemzptinig to convert a building, which on ...

... A MINISTERIAL crisis at Vienna has, for the moment at all events, brought Baron Beust once more before the world. For the last three months his name was obscured in the misfortunes in which he contributed to involve his kingdom. One of the ablest and most honest, he has been the least successftil of the statesmen of Germany. No one ever succeeded in impeaching his motives. Hle always acted in ...

... Muca has been said of the exhaustion of the coal-fields: but how ?? will our iron mines last when ten tons of steel are used every week in Birming- ham for the one item of steel pens 2 The Resources, Products, &c. &c., of Birmingham, a series of reports collected by the Local Industries Committee for last year's British Association. and now edited by Mr. Timmins, gives a number of startling ...

... Bj~~LGIU-M A letter from Brussels of Ootober 1Mth sayst'llisrl .this nmorning, tired ss they must have been by iworkc$. .the preceding day or 4ay. the Eqgllsh .vluntoers ?? about 900 trong.in thO Pisoa dQ..Musee. .Prs a yet earlier hour, the jingle of spurs aeula.of bra had eahoed through the large hotels,^a the sound of- rol- ing drums and martial murn hm: filled thektreeta witv;ut. ?? ...

... BEYNOLDS'S NEWSPAPER. UDALT, 'OTOB3R 21, S6Ba SUNDAY'S ED)ITION. HOW -NGLA13M TREATS HER WORKERS AND IZVrXTOBHL I One of the very worst consequences of class govern- mant is that the rewards and punishments which it bestows are not determined by the real merits 4f.the recipients. F6vouritism, not merit, settles the honour or pension to be conferred upon the claimant. Thus the fourteenth or ...