... I DR. P'LAYPAD'S ADDRESS. I The large assembly that tilled the con- eert room in St. George's hiall ?? aiternoon to hear Dr. Lvon lilaytair's dis- course on education was well rewarded. If the right hono-rable gentleman lacked the fiue literary polish that distinguished t Canon l'arrar's address a year before. the E speech. on the other hand, revealed the c statesman and the politician ...

... i3TiEST P ,N - S 0 o Y M |IE I R C I A I .A I - of the Lotddn and Veotmitl'lte. O f'1 ;: 7 1 tir s u r ti 3eeete r d ie M r tatri ea co iitline& s~a ss co n eu ?? c ~ ~ 5A e 'fso*cr eft-y Donl* t1 rep rt ne orrt -45 }e;99i de tce prevei g inn trade e,1 2 0 ¾3 'te a rS Tie r r o u , r e om me nding a An ~ ~~ ~ ~ 7i per cent. 'J r rite half-Ye;Y r, VW .n'iN sr,)CK EXJAN'GE. r the bu3iLC$9 done ...

... SPECIAL TELEGRAMS, &a I The Forest Tinworks, near Swansea, are about t) start. They will employ 600 or 700 men. Another rolling mill has stopped working at Rbymney. The mail packet service to the Ohannel Islands has been interrupted by a violent gale from the south-west. Yesterda,' morning, two platelayerp, while work- ing near Wandsworth station, on the South-westen Railway, were run over by ...

... LATEST MD TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. Lit CMM .d. 01tDO, FRIDAY Ev~arnmu. by The follown is tihe Board of Trade return of the :r. Inmeofblsof cotton imported and exported a- at the various ports of the United Kingdom during 0- the week ended Aug. bB, 1878:- .IMPORTED. ds asscRIPTIoN. Led. H- uln. Ot Total. .at Amtericsan- 8,099.. - .. .. 17 ?? 8, 109 t's Brzla 1,14R 1.. 3 . -. ..11 ~a- Egyptian ?? ...

... Last e seuing, the Pight Hon. H. Childers, who LSa guest of Mr. J. Fell, of Barrow, paid a visit to ithe Barrow Liberal Clob,accompanied ?? Ramsden and Mr. Fell, and was induced to make a few remarks to the members. After a reference to the rapid growth which bad characterised the town and a corresponding increase in the party pouer. he said he need not say that one of the best vs idences of ...

... I (RETLR' Ti~LT~R~- .] ,- J ac: I ItEzuTER , TELNGM!1si.] I PARIS, AU's. I2, EvIiNi-. j Tb t,.4 le of this evening says that A. Leon i-ny, the naifister! finance, ?? a'comupaiy zl. ;l- Frey-Koint, ile ministet n. public vorlhs,th Bnio0gae,j Calais, ad DUnbirkr, Jnn that lie will deli:er speehes at those places contradicting the rtum urs of the coiveraon of the per cent. reute. -nd pro- ...

... AWFUL I COLLIERY DISASTER IN SOUTH WALES. ring eat. rola NEARLY 300 LIVES LOST. 1, it 9nbe THE PIT ON FIRE. [PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAMS.] Oureorrespondent at Newport,Monmouthshire, telegraphs that intelligence had reached there of a 3o0, frightful colliery explosion at Abercarne, near New- lay, port, at the Ebbw Vale Colliery Company's colliery, Dee The statement is that 370 men are in the ...

... ANCIENT LIVERPOOL., Mfter att unexpected delay, the first number of this work lies before us, and we have no hesitation in describing it as the finest illus- trated book ever brought -out in the English provinces. We expected to have seen it six vars ago, but, late though it be, we give it a cordial welcome at last. The name of Air. W. U. Hlerdman will be honourably and Ver- manently ...

... MIPIRISON-MENTS IN GOTIILANMY FOR CONSCIENCE S. KE. Gothiand is the largest island in the Baltic S2e. It belongs to Swcden, and is nearly 100 miles long by about lu in breadth. The capital is Wisby, a city which, during the wars of the Crusades, attalned ecmmercial supremacy over ail North Europe. It was here that the first .irtaal rules of interaticual maritime law were framed; to meet the ...

... SPECIAL TELEGRAM S O -i Steps are about to be taken to reorganise the'l Huome Rule League in Dublin. l The body of Mrs. Bravo was removed on Saturday monming from her late residence at Soutbsea, for interment in Berkshire yesterday morning. At Alton, on Saturday, in a street quarrel, a mani named Patrick was so badly stabbed with a knife that he died iu a few minutes. His assailant escaped. A ...

... LIVERPOOL UONVALESCEST INSTITUTION. A few years ago, the Liverpool Convalescent Institution-one or 'the most admirable of the kind in the kigtlrom-w;ts established at Woolton. No ?? situation coiddl have been selected for such an institution; the building, too, was arranged in the most perfect manner, every appliance that Nlnitary science and experience could suggest being adlopted the scale ...

... .n ABEec&R-sEP, SUNDAY EvENiNG. k The bodies of nine miners who were killed in the h recent accident were interred yesterday in various t] burial grounds in the adjoining village. {A Owing to a fresh supply of water having been obtained from Crumlin reservoir, the work of . flooding the Abercarne portion of the mine has been completed in the last 24 hours, during which period of time 12,000 ...