... .Ar = . t*t; .. . --7 - ,, . -- g WJ GREAT BAND OF 11OPEE DEMONSTII MTON. A band of hope demonstration, on a much larizer scale than ever wa-s witnessed before in Liverpool, took place yeeterday evenin: at St. (eIor cc's If-ll. t It was promoted by the la lies' committeo of the Liverpool Temperance Union, ai-isteA hy tlln I general committee, and it is only doing them 4 justice to say that in ...

... THE MARRIAGES OF FIRST COUSINS, The report of the London Association in Aid of the Deaf and Dumb contains one statement important for the information it gives, and for the further inquiries which it suggests. Researches in Americat and Europe indicate the fact that a large proportion of the congenitally deaf and dumb are the issue of marriages between near relations, ant ?? between first ...

... THE TURN-OUT OF COLLIERS AT ROWLEY REGIS, During last week there have been several private mcek- ings of the men recently ensployed by Mlessrs. Wright antl North, but now on strike against the introduction of the tonnage system. In some instances the vacant situations have been filled up by the firm, hut we understand that the new hands left again on Friday last, for the same reason as ...

... SOCIETY FOR RELIEF OF AGED AVOMIEN. I The forty-fourth annual meeting of the Society for the Relief of Infirm and Aged Women was held yesterday, in the Sehool Room, Upper Priory ; MP. John Cadbusry in the chair. All the other members of the society present were ladies. The followiug report wvas presented :- The comnittee present their forty-fourth report to the frionds and supporters of this ...

... ICURCH OF THE SAVIOUR CONGREGA- I TIONAL GATHERING. The annual gathering of the congregation of the Churci of the Saviour ?? held last night In the foawn Hall. A large collection of pictures, scientific apparatus, curiosities, and other objects of interest, occupied the floor and galleries. The work of varlous elescliptions leurt by Mlessrs. Ellington was extreniely beautiful and interesting. ...

... PfW6REI;s'- OF ROMANISM IN 10GLhAND, i Terh g._. . ?? - I .I I e other day we gave from a Romish source tho Stta stics for some years bygone of 1fomish ptogress and perversion in England. The results appeared to us much less important than they are generally believed to be, the increase in chapels and priests being in a great measure accounted for by the na{ turnh inrease of the Auglo-Irish ...

... TIHE LAW OF PRIMOGENITURE. ng - e, TaE Eceoliciefis doss not attach any very great social or poll. [)r tiedl importance to the change inthiselaw byMrtLocke King, b all( expresses tho belief that it lies nothing whatever to do d ,a wvitli the existenco of aristocracy or the massing of land in 5 oi l uge estates. After illustratieg in a variety of ways the ho cwell-known Egilsish feeling onl ...

... * An Appeal, likely to be of considerable interest to the ki police authorities, and to poachers, will shortly be tried in the Court of Common Pleas. On July 19th list, four meln, supposed to be poachers, were seen on a road near Rother- ham by several policemen, who gave them chase, and found in their possession upwards of a hundred rabbits, together with IL largo quantity of netting and ...

... PRESE\TXTlION OF AN ADDRESS TO SIR Td OINAS BATESON BY THE TjNANTRY ON THlE moIRA ESTATE. [FiiOx1 OD WIl REPO3flf1l] KoM n, TNURSDAY. Tisn af.ornoon, a meeting of the tenantry on the Moira estate was held i 1 the large room of the Mar- ket House, for the purpose of presenting theirland- ioe'd, Sir Thomas Bateson, Bart., with an illuMri- nated address congratal.ating him upon his return as ...

... ?? ?? ;, i , - . ? I . I :? 1: . ; ppwgfidlos? StwolffigqL YR ACHOS 0 GODIAD ABLODD SENEDDOL YN Y BYD. MEWx cyfarfod diweddar .o'r eobden Club,rhodd. odd Mr. Duncan M'Laren, yr aelod seneddol'dras ddinas Edinburgh, yr hanes canlynol. o'r hyj a arweiniodd i'w gyfodi ef yn y byd :-Nid- oedd genyf n(meddai) un rbagolwg am ddeebreu busnes arosewy fy hun, a herwydd nid oedd genyf unrbyw gyfaill ...

... S. To the Editor of the Gfavolo Herald. Glasgow, 14th January, 1869. SIR,-I vwas gratified to find that tberecent letters in the Herald as to Early Steam Navigation have led Mr James Steel, ef Liverpool, to give, in your impression of the 1st instant, an interesting ac- count of a trial made by the late Mr John Wood, shipbuilder, Port-Glasgow, with a screw in the pro- pulsion of a ship's ...

... At the Westminster Police-court, on the 11th inst., Charles Legg was charged with brutally assaulting his daughter, Mary Eliza Legg, 13 years old. The prisoner has been married three times, and the only child—that one in question—was by the first wife. According to her evidence, three years ago, when at Dorchester, he seduced her. This illicit intercourse has been kept up ever since, and seven ...