... ANTI-WAR CONFERENCE AT BIR- MINGHA.,* MR. HENRY RICHARD ON IN- TERNATIONAL ARBITRATION. An fnti.war conference was opened in the Town. hall, Birmingham, on Thursday morning, t? pro- test against any policy or measure that ma jinvolve i this country in war with Russia under present circumstances, and to promote a public opinion in favour of that moat important and practical protocol of the ...

... SWASE A SCHOOL BOARD. IM- ?? I A - n+1w1~ - A- i; MM . . 1-- th- iI E o The usual monthly meeting of this board was held on Wednesday, Mr. T. Trew, chairman of the board, presiding. There was a full attendance of members. The echools management committee brought op their report, which included a new scale for the re-adjnstment of teachers' salaries. The oi-n. mittee recommended that the ...

... THRE EUROPEAN CRISIS. for THE RETURN OF COUNT ;he SCHOUVALOFF. ve ARRIVA in, ARRIVAL IN -LONDON. ~ed . Count Schoavaloff arrived at Dover on Wednes- 1r day afternoon by the Calais steamboat on his tar return from St. Petersburg. His Excellency left i,1 Dover'for Charting Cronw by the 3.45 p.m. train. t Count Sohouvaloff arrived at Charing Cross Station, London, from Dover, at 5.54 on Wrednes- ...

... '&1 ARl correspondlents must writa on usn sIoE of the paper only, or their letters will be reje~ted. OR] DR. WAL TERS, THE VACANT PROCTOR. SHIP, AND TEE PASTORAL AID rJOCIETY. $ ;09ln-o; iepeo 9f to.u'iy thqre tare eaten. sire quoaixons mae kot by MrIrvd 1 Lianifigan, and M U, Po-'et?, 9!f Pcrenoergast, fremaprir ti e ir, written byrme to the Her. Aaon&ert of Ca~rmiarthen, on the 25th of ...

... THIE EUROPEAN. I CRISIS. I I- I S. THE CRITICAL POSITION AT as CONSTANTINOPLE. of tCENTRAL NEWS TELEGRAM,) A, LONDON, MONDAY MIDNIaRT. e. No news of an authoritative character has n. reached this country from St. Petersburg. All 4, the rumours that are current are speculations, 'l Put the advance of the Russian army towards the Tsvr'sh lines of. defence at Constantinople is at exciting great ...

... REMARKABLE OCCURRENCE I NEAR CARDIFF. | A MAN KILLED ON THE NEwpORT ?? AI ARrEiST OF FIVE MEN. A; extraordinary affair has yua; trarfipired ita the neightbourhood of Caurdiff. It appears that 4fl Sunday af ternoon, sis young menn- hired two triapi of Mr. Blake, livery.sstable keeper, and drorv co Newport. They returned atnight, passing through St. Mellons a little betore nine o'cloek. In the ...

... LONDON CORRESPONDENCE, LONDON, SATURDAY EvENING, It is understood that the Select Committeeona Parliamentary reporting will not proposo any very consideralle changes in the gallery. The loader. writers will probably be excluded, and suob a re. distribution of boxes effected as to allow of ;bs Press Association and the Central Noews having better seats than at present. Bat no Londoll newspaper ...

... D, PE~NG F EWJOvERIES I C(flTWG THE-'FIRST bOD BY LADY 6 00CR9. 1 On Saturday, atBlasnavon, a 'few miles from Mseateg, lady Gooch (wife of Sir Daniel Gooch, I chairmnnei the.Great 'WeeternRtailway Company) cut ?? odof two new collieries. Foresme raaetthe Great Westerni Raulway Company Iwhirh it is nowinte'at oer pa Blaenda*t covering an aeo ayri~,wl ewre bytecompany forth pwp fsupplyingthi ...

... A speciel meeting of this body was held at the. Pilotage-office on Tuesday, for the purpose of framing a reply to the memorial sent from the pilots to the Board of Trade, asking that the certificates of Howe and Samuel might be returned, and that a re-oonstitution of the Pilotage Board might take place, a copy of the memorial a having been sent down to the commissioners in 4 order that thoy ...

... TOWN WCONCILS. * ELECTION OF _ MAYO . os The a nnu al m ptiuu Of the CG NiE Corpo ration, 1 n the deltm or mayor for the ensaing 1 r. and the transacin of Other bunes w Lo the Crown Court of the Townbha; t 1Z o'cock L- on Saturday. There were preetsz ao Adr a manTTylor) presiding Al Le or if eleotjthans, Jones,Eoehszneati, i 4 and ' tCouclosLW aob,. . A p Sbackell, ewsW Sn , B. .j Dav, D. E, ...

... - - ?? DTSTRIIIT NTEWS. I ?? t ?? ev ?? CARDIFF NATURALISIS'SOCWT Yr..-Te ro pr was a large meeting (A members Olt Thursday of at night in the sesambly rooms of the Town-bail. Co 'a lar. Henry Berwood was in the chair, aud papeM Co w were read by Mr. Richard W, Jones, of Net'POtt Ca x. 5md Mr.W. Honnfeldt, the formker on T rbs ak d ?? of the combustion of col, Sl 4'he I to latter on Musical ...

... 41Vottrn O 1ai1. -EDNIESDAYf, OCTORW±R 23, 1878. There is little turther informalion respect. ig the lsmentable collicioa on &~tirday. IrhA TAiA.litv of the snfferers are I The majority of the sufferera ore progressing favourably towards recovery, but a few of thema are reported to be in a very critical condition. The signalman, Stephon Ellis, was reinstated in.his duties on Tuesday, and ...