... OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENCE LONDO.N, WED\'NESDAY EVENrN'G, I have heard nearly every speech made by 11r. Gladstone upon the Eastern question, whether in Parliament or out of it. I heard the great oration, one of his greatest, with which he introduced his resolutions in favorr of contingent concerted coercion against Turkey. 1 heard him, later, on the policy of the Government before it entered ...

... EXTRAORDINARY SCENE AT A IFUERAL. zest l urn The 1kv. George Drury, rector of Claydon-'cm- in Akenham, Suffolk. whose name has frequently the been before the public, not only refused on Saturday ved to bury the child of a Baptist parishioner because 'uld it was unbaptised, which, of course, the rubric hat justified him in doing. but entered into a most of unseemly wrangle with Mr. Tozer, a ...

... IL IMPER-1ltAL PARLIAMENT IlObJ' 01? LORDS. THURSDAY, AUGU;ST 15. Tii Lord Chancellor took his scat :it a quarcer I to fea~r. r 2sAL , A-biGES Q BILLS. Tlic- Conisoiidat ;1iund (AppwE7pri tiori) Bill and the Expiring Laws Coutiniuance Bril were read a second t'no, anrd passed hrokgh t!,e remaining h stages. The Arranmore PUing Ditrict (Ireland) Bill, n t]e > a.xctequer Bills and Bonds (No. 2) ...

... , DUBLIN, MONDAY NiGosu. To-day was the busiest yet in all the sections, of there being papers read on a great variety Occ n- subjiecte, some of which were of unusual pulbii Il interest. The weather on the whole has been fine, -rs and there is no-sign of flagging interest in the, proceedings of the association. n I FIRE-DAMIP IN COAL MINES. a- Professor J. Ferry presided over the mathema- P ...

... TIlTE O'IGOMIAIN 1NCIDENT. I Mr. Speaker Brand has had the courage to solve the question which none of his distinguished predecessors could bring themselves to face. On Mr. SDeaker Onslow being asked what would be the consequence of putting into execution a threat of his to name a member, he answered, The Lord in heaven only knows.' To Major OGor- man belongs the doubtful honour of resolving ...

... I OUR ONDON CORRESPONDENCE. LONDON, TuURISDAY EVENJN(;. _ We can h1pe niow for nothing more except tlt Irt vi .:l oft rade, said a vwell-known C'onserva- tive to me yesterday. At the end of its fifth session. the tlon.sei Aive inistry is as strong g as. if not stronger than, any government has bee'n in the present reign. Its domestic policy passe. almost without criticism. [ts foreign s paev ...

... PARTY ORGLNJISATION. ,ivsslry in the turning of compliments is C~titaiil I an improvelnent upon a constant iiuterchange of sarcasm and invective: but really. as a mere matter or over-satiety, are we not getting just a trifle too much mutual adulation out of this new co- ,.artuery between the Prime Minister and his distillguished coadiutor at Berlin.' We all klnow by this time how Lord Beacons- ...

... THE SAMTARY UO-llONDITION OF BIRKENHEAD. uor- From the annual report of the sanitary condition E.of Birkenhead and Claughton, just published by lose Mr. F. Vacher, medical officer of health for the ikin district, it appears that during the year 1877 there tter'were 1984 births aud 995 deaths, giving a natural the increase to the population of 989, as compared with eon 106 in 1870 and 704 in ...

... 8 Srg SPU- AX OPPR1fA. SUMMARY, 'Tie nobt-b-ud b'a-rh of the Sailors Rome. situale 7il into z->reeu. off (Grcat Hvw-ard-srreet. was formaclly ope. ed vestcr- dav by Lord Sandol. Iln the aiternocn. his lordship ditributiled -he annuaal prilc> to the tcoys of t'ne tainis;z shipladefaii- gable. Colollel S ?? Secrcalarv re' nWar, yeatercdav opened the Barrow Cossservative working Men's Club. HTe ...

... LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING. I do not know how long the Conservatives of Newcastle-under-Lyme have been able to boast that they returned at least one member. My books of reference do not carry me beyond the first Reform Bill; but from 1832 to 1878, Toryism had its supporter from Newcastle- ?? as regularly as the election came round. At the time wben the Whigs carried all before them they were so ...

... The Agricultural Gazette publishes its annual report on the harvest from correspondents in every county of Great Britain and Ireland. The follow- ing is its summary:- We have a considerablv i better series of crop reports to ?? before oar readers this year than any which they have read I since the great crop of 1874; for, although the wheat crop is not, upon the whole, much more than 'an ...

... I __ I ?? A branch of the London and Westminster S npply Association, Limited, is being opened in Liverpool. Particulars will be found in our advertising columns. ACCIDENT TO THIE Mssx1BER FOR ACAussAVON Boeouuls.-BMr. Bulkeley Hughes, M.P., is con- fined to his room at Alas Coeo, Owing to a serious accident he met with idf the House of Commons in bringing his shinbone in contact with a heavy ...