... [ 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 Liverp ...

... . 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 advanc ...

... 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 vb ...

... 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 ?? R ...

... 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. ...

... 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 ...

... PWSLMLHET. TEmlyDDIAETH DDA. Dydd Ian, yr 2lain cyfisol, cynhaliwyd gwyl ar- dderchog gyda Theml y Plant yu y dref hon. Am 2 o'r gloeh y prydnhawn, ymgynullodd aelodau Ternl y Plant, i gapel Salem, a Ifurfiwyd' gorymdaith yn rhifo tna 000 o aelodan, yna ?? trwy Church Place, Church Street, High Street, Kingahead Street, North Street, Traeth Street, High Street, Penlan Street, Gaol Street, ...

... ',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 ...

... ABERTILLERY. THE ENGLISH BAPTISTS.—This church has recently built a commodious schoolroom. The contractor was Mr John Edmunds. On Sunday and Monday services were held to ,celebrate the opening of the new room. The sermons were Sreached by the Revs. Mr Lloyd, of Castletown ewis, of Risca Davies, of Newbridge; Wil- liams, of Brynmawr; and Jones, of Blaiua. The collections realised ...

... By Order of Her Majesty in Council, the Con- vocations of Canterbury and York have been further prorogued to Friday, December 6th. While a bowling green was being laid out in the grounds of Conishead Priory, once attached to the monastry of Furness Abbey, and which is now oc- cupied as a hydropathic establishment, an ancient burial ground supposed to be about 700 years old, was disclosed. ...