... ISIR HENRY JAMES ON THE EASTERN I I QU RSTION. - . I The inaugural meeting of the Hereford Llberal Asoola.- tion was bhld in the new St, George'e.hall, In that city, OD Tuesday nlght. The audience was immense. Mr. Alderman Anthony presided. Amonget those who sent letters of apology for non.attendance were Mr. GladstOne and Mr. Lowe. In the course of his aommucicatlon, Mr.Gi5adatoie, sueakinD ...

... ROYAL AGIUGlULTU1R.L sOOiETY OF ENGLA1ND. - The annual meeting of the mnembers of this society asa _ beld an TueadAN. at the offieos in London, Col, Kingsete, f M. R~,in the chair. UIy r O thne MotiDoIn of MnWakefielb rsecondedby Mr. Botly, Dra 'Oolonel Kingosote, MP., woa elected president for the WI r |nesuiog year, his term of roffica to commenoe at the oloae of U .the meeting at ~iverpcaal ...

... PENIOLITION OF ST. WERI3URGR'S CELURCEI. Tbe demolitioa o thii ancient structure was eznclutd on Wednesdany, andl is progressing rapidly.. G*Watched wvithl evident interest by numlbers citizens. The north porch has been entirely f~led dioff I This portionl of the structureis believed to liavo Seen one of its oldest, dating from about the year 1400. It, js jutended, if possible, to re-erect it ...

... THE WAR, THLE great event of the week, casting into the shadle all the rest of our Eastern intelligence, is the sur* render of Plevna by Osman rasha, and the capitula tion of the finest Turkish army into the hands of the Russians. It was not, we now see, without good grounds that the Munscovites some time ago confi. dently predicted the fall of Plevna during the first week in December. The ...

... TuF Manifesto of the Czar, by which war was an- pity nounced last T1uosday between hussia and Turkey, re- comj calls plicbh attention to certain untoward incidents of far last autumn. On the 9th of November Lord Beacons- trs field, in a speech in the Guildhall ic London, declared rupt that the integrity and independence of the Turkish Empire were matters which the Government held N. superior ...

... ROYAL ScCHOOn rote DAUGHroTERS Or OFFICERS or .TILE Aiioy.-T1'b Duchess of Teck has accepted the iunvta- en, lion of the Committee to d.istribute the Itrizes to the pupils of the above school before the commaencemeiut of the summier vacation. The proceedings will talke pl~ece towards the end othf the present month. The Princesis wvill arrive inl Bath 0:d(hring the afternoon, and return, it is ...

... Pliamatan) *41lignpo I HOUSE OF LORDS-MONDAY. Earl GRANvaIL, gave notice that in committee on the Bulal3 Bill he would move an amendment to the 74ih clause, embodying the resolution diecussed on the ernond reading, He observed that the Committee had been fixed for Aacension-day-a day on which th3 House did not sit laughter). TUES3DAY. The Duke of RICHs oND postponed the committee on the ...

... HOW THEE AtERICAN PEOPLE ARE FIGHTING I THE ENEMY. I ly - ~ 'To tha Editor of the B~ristol Mercury. r. [The subjoined is forwarded by an emigrant who was ,t formerly a. resident in the neighbourhood of Bristol.] !o SIR-I can imagine some one saying that reads this 2I ythought they had pe'ce at present in America. Well, you a + are grievously mistaken, they are fighting an enemy that is more ...

... A well-known Parisian mendicant Moth1 R died of starvation, leaving a fortune of 4i00ot Wlje, A woman named Maskell has been kiltid Sufifolk, by jumping from a burning house a k ee , An order has been granted for winding up tL Real Ice Skating Rink Company. .Ia3la611 The Ron Asa B. Foster, the greateg railway in Canada, and known on that aeCO y Clrtl' tet Kiug of that country, died ...

... Oa Wedbesday luornlng, Mr. J. Brlht, M.P,, took the obbir at Ereterhiml, London, at a conferetce of the , delegates of the National Labourers' Union, held in, tn support of Mr. Trevelyau's motion to extend the borough d franchies to the counties. The hail was crowded. e Mr. Bright seid that in his memory many -remarkable iemeetings had been held within those wAllp, but he doubted' if there had ...

... |PRESENTAflIONS $O BlAP FIST MINiSTERS. On Wednesday night an interesting presentation service was held at ths Bnptist Chapel, Caleford, Forest if Dearo, or, the occasion of presenting a purse of gold to the Rev. W. EL Tetley, w~ho &Iitev twelve years of minieterial labour has accspt~d tbe charge of Albemacle- etreet Chapel, Scarborough. Dr. Batten, J.P,, preelded, and touchingly referred to ...

... GN1RAL NEWS. *- Theb lIatst form of rat-teuing in Slefficld has been i ...