... [ 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 ...

... I I ?? MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE. At the second police cort~ in Dale-s treet, yester- day, before MIessr~s. 3. A. Picten and A. Casteilain, the following cases were heard, in vbich pubicains wfere proceededi against by the pol-ice for alleged breaches of the L icensing Act:- John Dunbar, publican, whose house Is at the corner of Circus-street and Byrom-street, was summoned on an information ...

... SUFFOL:K AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION. I A Committee meeting of this Association was held i at the Station Hotel, Ipswich, yesterday (Friday), for p the purpose of receiving deputations from towns in v Suffolk desirous of entertaining the Society at its A annual show in 1879, and for the transaction of other d business. Sir John Blois, Bert., occupied the chair, p l and the other gentlemen present ...

... T TERRIBLE COLLISION TX THE CHANNEL. 1 SERIOUS LOSS OF LTPE. SINKING OF A MAIL STEAMER. At midnight oa Monday a terrible casualty occurred about eight miles S.W. of Folkestone. A German ship, the .Pommerania, was run into while coming up Channel by an iron barque, foet Bilian, of Carnarvon. The German steamer was struck with great force, and the ship was so damaged that she immediately began ...

... ',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 ...

... WEATHER I 'HART, Nov. 29. .1 .- .. - I . The chart represents this western countries of 'Europe from Nerway to the coast of Portugal, and embraces Great Britain and the Britishi Isles. It also includes the North Sea or German OceALn, the Bay of Bisaay, the Mediterranean, the Atlantiq, with the English Channel, Bristol Channel and Irish Sea. 1X 1 . 5'j 0 ID- _- _ _ 6 I.- *~ - ---z T. e r. Ca7o ...

... PARIS, Friday. THE nomination of Ghazi Mukhtar Pasha as Governor of Thessaly and Epirus has given offence here, because in sending to Janina the pacificator of Crete it is concluded that the Porte has no intention of ceding that essentially Hellenic town to Greece and of acting in harmony with the Treaty of Berlin. On the other hand, it may be supposed that the Porte wishes to avoid a ...

... 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 ...

... PORTSMOUTH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30, Om,not been imitated by the Duke of Argyll, and the i ag- result is a decided public gain. The ?? I bb, trusts that certain papers will be included in the cl Parliamentary Blue-book which will bear out his lay view and confound Lord Cranbrook, so to speak, mi- out of his own mouth. The ?? Secretary, 1 Ma, with a full knowledge of all the surrounding cir- ...

... - tre Several letters reaclied us yesterday for which we arc unable to u I ?? find room. 'Usedli etters THE HARBOUR WATERMEN. D me of SRR,-I noticed in your paper that some kindly disposed hard gentleman proposes a subscription for establishing a Ltone 1Soup Kitcene for the benefit of the unemployed water- Look- men of this port. Whilst fully appreeiating the benevo- be iction lent ...

... 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 ...