... [ MUSICAL EDUCATION IN LIVERPOOL TO TElE EDITOES OF THE LIVEPOOL MERtCUR2Y. Gentlemen,-Maylask you toixerttbeaommPaung3 extract from a letter bickh I have addressed to Mr. Helry E. Rensberg, of Liverpool, being part of a (orrespondence between us on tle subject of his recent address to the candidates at the distribution of local prizes and ertificates awarded by Trinity Ocilege? This extract ...

... . THE WAR iN AFMAIST AN. 1 THREE HUNDRED PRISONERS I11 OF WAR. RUTRSTELEORAMX,;J PC [nEUTER'S tnLAHEoa, NOv 23. Pa The Afghan forces which retired fromn Koorumn C Fort before General Roberts's advance fell back it behind Peiwar Kotul. The sick and wounded ta: Afghans who were taken in the Khyber Pass will he be dismissed to their homes upon their recovery. The -prisoners of war at Pesbawar ...

... FOREST OF DEAN SCHOOL BOABD. THE RL IGIOUS QUESTION. D At the Monthly meeting, heid at Cinderford Town-hall or. Wedneeday evening, Mr. boid, of a Newnhmm, the chairman, presided. There were M leo ?? Revs. William Barker, Thomas. S Nicholson, and C. Griftha; Messrs., L. Batten, b C. C. Bough. Alfred Tidler, Joseph Thompson, c T. B. Brain, and Arnold Thonia.-The Rev. William Barker moved, That ...

... The Rev. George Dale Copeland, B.D., vicar of St. Stephen's, Walworth, in the course of an interesting sermon, on Sunday evening, upon the words Ye shall carry up my bOLes from hence (Gen. 50 chap., 25 v.), said that there was one object of strange interest to be. found among that travelling nation pro- ceeding from Egypt to Canaan, over 3,000 years ago. It was never parted with during the 40 ...

... In the Court of Common Pleas,, on Thursday, it was decided that,, as Mr Richardson. Gardner, M.P. for Windsor, had not given notice in w.rifcinsr, to tha overseers, of his- intention to pay the rates for a large number of cottages which he owned in that borough, whether they were occu- pied or not, 231 persona who had' hitherto been on the registrar must bo disfranchised. This de- cision ...

... SHOCKING ACCIDENT AT PONTY- PRIDD. On Thursday evening, Thomas Morgan,, of the Castle Tavern, Pontypridd, near the railway station, was taking a short cut towards his home, when he' fell down an embankment a distance of 20 feet. He was soon found, and conveyed home; and was attended by Dr Dickson, who found that a shocking scalp wound and other serious injuries had been inflicted by the fall. ...

... On Monday Miss 'Helen Tayler (member ef the School Beard for London) addressed a large meet- ing of her constituents at the South London Temperance Hall, Blaekfriars road. Having alluded to some difficulties and drawbaoks with reference to the business of the beard, Miss Taylor said the greatest of all the difficulties they had to contend with was the matter of corporal punishment. This, more ...

... The following appeared in Tuesday's Da ily Sir,Dr. Kenealy asks for the letter he wrote to roe. I send you a copy of it, which I will thank you to publish with this note. I have abstained from quoting much that Dr. Kenealy said to me fa the couversatiEm he refers to, and I will not go into the reason why he came to the conclusion never again to think of the sub- ject,—but the reason, I suspect ...

... THE AFGHAN' INVASION. (From the Times of Yesterday.) It will occur to readers who are not concern5edto Justify all that has been done that all these ?? accounts involve the estimate of a perfectly unde- terminate factor in the case. Lord CranbroOk and the Duke of Argyll and Sir H. Rawlinson IrN all gravely arguing what was; the occasion which blazed against us the mind of a passionate Afghan. ...

... EIGHTEEN LIVES LOST. There was a violent storm on Saturday at the mouth of the Tagus. Three vessels were lost in the river, and eighteen persons drowned. FOUNDERING OF A STEAMER. The steamer Rosamond of London, supposed to have been bound from Cardiff to Malta, sprang a leak at sea, and foundered off Vigo. Crew and passengers taken off by the homeward bound steamer Nellie Wise, belonging to ...

... ',ZISECVR-Y O STHE xaYBER PASS. i .(P - Y iws TnLEoA-x8s) A-rRUD,: WVdnesidy, 5.10 ?? the forct reathed Dakta. the vicinity of the camp and t ine pasEeS in ?? Many instancesof piun. l derin¢ ha4 occurted, some of the camlp followers have L eeh cat up, Bnd ~loacer3 have been fired on close to ?? !'cstmp'at Ali Ihsfid. The night before last, and again last night., attack were wade on thle ...

... I PEitv.6 MEETING IN LIVERPOOL. I of IDISGRACEFUL TORY INTERRUPTIONS, 'he | EXTRAORDINARY SCENES. be A public meeting, convened for the Prrpose of .fle Protesting agsDnbt the Afghan war, w, eld last ves9t 0ght at Hope Hall. there was a very Brge eso attendance; but it was obvious from Vae commence- %be ment of the proceedings that there were many present who were not in barmnovy wfth the ...