... NEWS OF TME DAY. The Local Executive Committeeof the Briaish As3o eiation held a meeting at Dundee, on Wednesday, to reckon up the cost, The receipts have amounted to £4926., and the expenditure is estimated at £3,220., which will leave a surplus of £1, 706 It seems that Mr. P ic~r'si statement, at St. Bar. tholomow's Hobpital dinner, with re'erence to the recovery of the Princess of WAErs, ...

... DUDLEY. T~nt BECENT CIJARuI: 01: Flklc NGl A BIlL.-C5IA~RtIE si 0 r Pa5iU uRY.-Aatthel~oliretdourt, on Wednesday lorniag, A before AMessrs. S. Budge, G. Bagott, and S. Price, Mr. V1 Thomas Beach, draper, Cradicy Heath, was charged wich 1,: cenmmitting wilful and corrupt perjury. As will be remeus- bored by our readers, the case arose oust of a charge pro. forced by flir. W. Harrion, jutn., ...

... THIE CHURCH CONGRESS IN WOLVERHAMPTON. RITUALISM. Onl Wlinedaymorning, a meeting of clergy was held in the School of Art, Darlington Street, to organiso a larger t meeting in London, In the month of November, to take I anch nation its miglit be thouight; necessary In consequeone t of the scesert of the Ritual Commission, and to deprecate isuy change In t he law of the Church of England ...

... TEEI, RAJAH OF MY9ORE AND ENCLI015 D1 UXN KE' YNESS. uo of Advantage has been talken of the recent anniversary, ho the ec-ventv-fourth, of the birthday of the Rajah of lslyeoro, to announce to him that the House of Corn- noe Unisr bad resolved not to annex his dominion on his oeh death, but to hand it over in due time to his adopted d, sone A correspondent of the :ii7,s, whiio ?? present, i tl ...

... LOCAL NEWS3. T11Lsckrn1E BOVAL,-2Notwithatandiflg the large and~ ?? audienices which continue to attenod the reipre evuitatiiene of I-Oar Aliif~al~ Cousin, Air. 9teale annossecca a change of progrninnne, or rather a succesilo of changes, the first of which will be the proatictlat of The Lady of Lyons, thie evening. Of Mr. Sothec, pesformniaco In this drama, in the cisarecter of Aclofaeff, ...

... The rapidity with which improvements have boen maila In Biiinirghaum during tho last few years, and with which they are still progreeslig, must bo gratifying to all who are intkrested In the wvelfaro of the town, Everyorne must bo pleased with the demolition of the Old Inikleys, a locality which wees a pla-uenspot on Flrmutisghar, and the haunt, nort meruly (if squalor and wietchedneus, but of ...

... A monthly meothng of the Council of this borough was ?? Yvititihly ?? in the Council Chamber, at the ?? Oflice, moor Street j the lteyr (Ir. T. Aevpy) Presidlmng. PlreiIlop]('AI. CIIA1ISTY COLLIETTIONS. - The BMAYoIi read tho following resolution, which had been ?? at a e,,st reetong of the committee for conducting the erlodidal collections on behalf of the charities of Blr- eiriugbair :- ...

... I' | INAUGUMA1 ADDRESS, LAST EVENING, BY MR. DI. D. HILL, QO0; The winter csosion of thle Birtologhamin l midland icestitutc wee oponed last evening, thle hnaugeecal addroin being delivered by the Presdeont, Mr. Matthew Davenport Hill, ?? late Otecoeder of Bhrmingisam. Them Pressident was accompanied on the plat. focu bcyth. Mayor (Mr. Thomas Aver1y), Mi'. Thomao Martineau, the Rev. GI. D. ...

... ) g vor MONDAYV, October 7. e ags The retail price of hlour and bread. is this day o 4.advanced 2d. per peck, .ad ),I. per boat C ,sr- i the 'a understand that the Lord Lieutenant hae appoinrted for Major Rattliff Lientenaut-obonol of the Birmingham b oar Battalion of Rifleo Volunteers, In the room of Colonel aI .us Mason, resigned. Captain Liebbert will be raised to the bi no Majority, P 11 ...

... CERISTIANITY IN JAPAN, The ercicsed extrant from a letter from a Birmingham. geontlek i, now :eridrent a. Hong Krong, to his relatives at Wizrhafli, will be rcad with interest:- I :r,, glad to opcn my lktter to tell roi that many itou 0it1 s oF t f liiarisa 1L4VU boen discovered iu Japan. The J&Iant-Fe say 200,000, h1ut of oouiro that Is an exag. grtratiei. Onr the rald to irgaisakel there ...

... BIRMNHGFIAM LICENSED VICTUALLERS' FRIENDLY A1ND PiWTEOTION SOCIElTY. LL 71ls Alrucal general meeting oit tile above 8seosiaition wal e hldd on Wednesda~y, at Mr. T1hsspon'r Grand Turk, Bel 0 iltreet.. Mr. John Clements, Preaident, Occupied t of I, chair ; and insoniget these present wore Councillors Wad. C 11 bases itnd Issehaw, Messrs. Ratttan, Blacklock, J. Vallard, p, It II. Fulford, ...

... ITHE CHURCH CONGIVESS| AT \VOLVERHAN1PTUN. FOURTH DAY. Yesterday the, Congress reasasombleil fi thle Agrieiltural Hall, the Righit 11ev. President llishop of Llcholrcti presidhig. Tauer wras a huill prlailfintr, arid thle bosly of tb o hell[ was oectiriilcd bj' rin si~disirco ihouit nai truierokias as Chat of Cule preriorrs day, which etra Isi gor hilso ait ainy previou11 ttng THJE MOlRNING ...