... MR. GLADSTONE AND THE -. LIBERAL PA RTY. LETTER FRfOM MR. BAINiES, Mr. E. Baines,.M.P., has addressed a letter of Eome length to Mr. Crawford on the general question of Mr. Gladstone's relations to the Liberal party. He appeals to Me. Crawford for the initia- tion of som e measure calculated to bring back Mr. Gladstone to the position of leader. Withoutthis the party will be- paralysed,. and. ...

... 'A LIVERPOOL IRM AND A' HAGD 'WITHBANK .X'ONS PI 'a OH-AR'GED WITHE OONSPIBAOY. At theoihcut esrtesedyMI MI ?? Cal12Ipnar maitrt, wan te greatfer pato1tedy hmarln'gaasw excited consilderable literest amonigst-commercial Circles.' 1t w~a acharge idla AMessrs. Richard, Henry,' and -John, Rankin, ikinfounders, Man. oheaiter-stroet, M1er~?co) anwd Mr. Henry Barr of having cofonsied to defraud Mr. ...

... ; I I 7 | We cannot nndertake to return communlcations of which iwe do Dot avail ourselves. Oommunicatlons should always be le bly written in Ink r and on one qad f MA paper onlyr length intcreases the difficulty of finding apace for them Whatever, to intended for Insertin must be -authenticated by 'the aendarsso the writer, not neceuarlly for publication, but as a eguarantee of his good ...

... . LO CAL NWB.: I - , _ - ~ , --t I; .. .I . .2 Th`e rc cupl or yachts belonginog to the Royal' I 'Meraey Yacht Club presented bythe 'Reare Corn- P no~dore', Mr.' P.-B. 'briikwat'er, iA ffxe~d ton off on the fthodf.Juneanext.t 'om ' ' Areview'of the looni 'volunteer istob hldo the lst Of Zuni next, at Rellsington, under the1a command of Colonel Bruce. A, preoiisition ha ea als8o been made for ...

... I - co Last Thursday evening a large number of persons at assembled in the Derby Corn Exchange, at the invita- it tion of the Iibeal committee of the Reform League to th hear addresses from Professor Rogers, M.A., of Oxford ra University; Mr. George Nuttall, and Mr. J. S. Wrighst, PI, of Birmingham. hi Mr. WILKINS occupied the chair, and having opened W( thle proceedings, th, Mr. JoirNsoN ...

... RESTORATION OF BROORDISH OHUaRH. Brockilash Church, dedicated to St. Peter and St. Pault, furnishes an additional instance of the growing desireto retor lte fabrics, which, through the con- tinud acion flte tooth of tiwe,~ havehbecorne di- lapiate an ina state or disrepair. Our columns havefre~eatl cotallned accountst of Church restora- tionin ofolkandSuffolk, and in no instance have we had ...

... INTRIGUE IN ITAL Y. THE circumstances connected with the recent Ministerial crisis in Italy have been very inadequately made known. The correspondents of the ?? press have been either unwilling or unable to throw light on an incident that fell like a thunderbolt out of the summer sky. The whole matter has been shrouded in a mystery, which has had the inevitable effect of stimulating conjecture ...

... THE newspapers have just announced the visits of the leaders of the National party of Bohemia to the great Slav meeting at Moscow. This step is no doubt meant as a Czech demonstration against the new Austrian system, and as a hint that the Slavs of Bohemia will not scruple, in case of need, to associate themselves with the Panslavistic propaganda of the old Cossack party. The politics of the ...

... 'TY NEM O U T C a ON sERVATIYvI ASSOCIATTON. I INAUGURAL DINNER. On Tuesday evening the first dinner of the Tyne- mouth Conservative Association was held in the Al. bion Assembly Rooms, North Shields. The associa- tion was formed a few weeks ago, with Farl Percy president, the object being to secure more united ReX tion in political matters of the Conservatives of the -districts. For some days ...

... I IIULL BOARD OF HEALTH. re OPPOSITION TO TVM 'DOCKS BILL DISCONTINUED. St On Tuesday afternoon a special meeting of the ,h Local Board of Health was held at the Town-hall; mn the Mayor (Alderman Loft) presiding. The meeting a was convened in pursuance of a requisition'to the Mayorr signed, by Alderman Atkinson and other aldermen and councillors, who last Thursday voted for a continuance of ...

... I At the Mansion House (London) police court, C on Friday, a young man, who had refused to give II any name but who was recognised by Agar, the warder o? the city prison. as a notorious thief, S named John Betts, and who had been frequently bh in* custody for robbery, was brought before the 2( lord mayor charged with stealing a watch, -the n property of a person named Charles Cadge, residing ...

... MISSIONAR Y WORK IN MADA GA SCAR.* OUTStDE of certain peculiar, though large, circles of religious tendency the stationary preacher of cities, towns, and villages is scarcely thought of as an evangelist in our own days; he is treated as a religious lecturer, and his sermons are freely handled in newspapers and magazines without the smallest deference to any claim they may make as divine ...