... LIVERPOOL HOSPITAL FOR INFECT1OUS DISEASES The annual meeting of the friendsaed supporters of twie institution was held yesterday afternoon, in thnayor parlour. Hlis Worship the Mayor(Mr. A dprxyon Hubback) proulded; aid amongst those present were Dr. Gee(honorary physiciau) Isears. Alderman Dover, J. J. Stitt, 0. BUsheZ, 0. T. Bowring, J. Whitty, S. Hill, &o. A report embracing the yesrs 1868 ...

... On Saturday four boys, named James Dickson, Adam Kyle, D. Johastone, and John Wright, went into a field at Morningeide, Lanarkahire, to elide on a cut, or hole, caused by the coal workings of the Shatte Iron Company. They had not been very long on it when the ice gave way and they all fell into the water, and Dickson was drowned. On Saturday afternoon a number of boys went up to the dam in ...

... BEITORATION OF CfEIE T tER UATHtEDUA IJ. A meeting was held ycetordhy, in tho council chamber of the Town Hall, to rcoeive a Stateieit I of the progress hitherto mada in the restoration of 9 Chester Cathedral; to take etaipfor increasing the e subsoription list in the Lancashire part of the li diocese; and to make preparations for a pablio a meeting to be held on the Tuesday in Whitsua. ...

... IMPERIA; PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF LORDS. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14. As the telegraph break-down ?? us of our usual report of the proceedings in the Lords on that evening, we now append it. THE COLONiAL QUESTION. Lord CAeRuARvoN called attention to the present relations of the colonies with this country, Re. membering how deeply the public mind hod been! engrossed by the affairs of New Zealand, the Red ...

... A MAN CHARGED WITH DROWNING A WOMAN' At ?? Police Court, on monday, Charles Nobbse, age.d 35) an inoffensive-looking man, described as a porter in the ?? Office, was placed in the dock, charged with causing the death of Louisa, Ovary, with whom he coha. bited, by throwing her from Westminster Bridge into the Thames. Thomasmorgam,lUivginGreatWfde-street, Drury~ane said On Saturday night, ...

... I The annual soiree of the subscribers and friends of the Ragged School, Butler-street, Oldham Road, was held on Tuesday, under the presidency of Mr. Peter Spence. The gathering vas especially interesting, as showing how much real benevolent work can be carried out by the corn- bination of a few earnest minds, in spite of obstacles. In tke district of which Holland-street may be said to form ...

... I The consecration of the Suffragan Biahop ?? Dover is to take place on tbe 25th instant. At a meeting held in Bradford on Thuraslsy night, resolutions in support of the free breakfiwt table movement were adopted. Branches of the National Education Lveage were formed in Li.hfield and Salisbury on Tlinri. day night. A labourer namned Wood, living at Sutton, near Hereford, has been found frozen ...

... The name of the Ausr.tan brig whioh wenO ashore ?? is the ., GiqV1uluift0mTri60t0 for Falnouth. During t he gale at Yarn.'Oath on Sunday night, the schooaer Favourita, of arbroath, was lost. The veesel has gone to plecC'5 The Duff lifeboat saved four men. One of th Cre wVF drowned. The gale still continued yesterday. SUPPOSED LOSS OF A VESSEL ANL) ALL ON BOARD. During the gale on Sunday night ...

... - BISHOP1TEMPLE'S VINMT(ATION, ?? l. I t. In the; Upper House of Convocation, ca' Friday, the 11i Bishop of Eieter staid he wished very much on Thuroda,1te rider make a personal statement with reference to an Nrinounce. tin Ient. which appeared in one of the papers, but he was a.ea obliged to delay his statement until this monn.Hewa iich anxious to make this statement as Goo as possible1F0 ...

... The immediate practical benefit of the Irish Land Bill is that from the day when it becomes law it will free every tenant of land in Ireland from the fear and the danger of being turned out of his farm and deprived of the means of existence without any claim Sor compensation against his landlord. This is the grand advantage of the measure, as a means of conciliation and peace. Up to the ...

... i Sir Richard Brooke, Bart., high sheriff of the county of Chester, has appointed as his chaplain the Rev. J. E. Hughes, M.A., curate in charge of Weston, near Runoorn. TEE EVIDENCES 01 CHRISTIANITY.-LaSt even. jag, Mr. Thmams Cooper delivered, in Myrtle. street Chapel, a lecture on The Evidences of Christianity. There was a numerous attendance. Mr. Crippe presided. SUICID1M BY A RocFaDILE ...

... The Baptist denomination at Egremont and the neighbourhood have just erected a small but handsome chapel in Falkland-road, a new thoroughfare which has recently been opened up near Rlgremont Ferry. The congregation have for a considerable time peat met in the Assembly Room at Egrermont, but through the exertions of the Rev. 11. W. Perris, the pastor, and other Eersons connected with the eauee, ...