... a. - AROH AWD THE NATIONAL I AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS' UNION. . Mr. Areh is disgusted with the Union, and addresses the following letter to its members:- To the Memiers of the National Agricaltural Lnbourers' Union. Barford. January 27, 1879. Bretbrcn.-For seven years I have led you to the beat of my ability; but under existing circumstances I can do so no longer. Your Utnion is not what I ...

... Oxford Licensed Victuallers and Beer-l I House-Keepers' Association. Lio~n' The annual dinner olf this Association took place on tube Tuesday evening, in the Town Hall, under the presidency and Of* A. W. Hall, Esq., M.P. The company numbered )i of nearly 300, and included the Rev. WV. West, Justices G. itted Ward and Calcutt, Councillors XV. Evetto, J1. H1. Turner, and Greenw~ood, T. Mallam, ...

... I BLACKPOOL. FATLUOR OF Mr. VILNEcc.-Ths failure of Mr. A. M, Viener, dealer in fancy goods, of Blackpool, Eoothport, and Locndon is announced. Debts said to be £19,000; nssots valued at £7,000., FLEETWOOD. FORLMTIOS OF A RATSiPAYERS' ASSOCATInN.-A meot- ing of ratepayers took place in the Whitworth Institute, Fleetwood, on Friday evening, for the purpose of consider- ing the advisability of ...

... I GF. Thle Right Hon. George Peel dli6e at MIarble Hill, Twickeuham, on Thursday. Sir A. Layard is about to return to England for a six months leave of ahsence. r HOTEL Bu.RNED DowNts.-The Sandown Rail- way Hotel has been biaint down. A youth named Herbert Whitelock has( died at Qc Tunstall from a kick received at a football match. Fl The deathi is announced at Rurgby of 'William Morgan, who ...

... CONGRE GATIONAL TEA PARTIES, &-c. .INORTH.IOOAD WRSVEYAco CHAPEL.-A tea meeting WAS Bheld in thle Wvalker-street.scboolroorn. on Tuesday eveniniz Lin aid of objects connected with the circuit, and aboat 800 people partook of tea. This namber was larcely increased aat the meeting hold afterwards. The chair wae taken by S the Rev. J. Shiphasm, suit among those on the platfitorm were the Rev. ...

... A cAlcroUS COUcCIL. - 1- I - r T_ nXX1 I The Liberal 'Two Hundred of. the borough. of Southwark met on Tuesday night at the Bridge Rouse Hotel, under the presidency of Mr. Parish, for the pur- pose of hearing the views of Mr. Passmore Edwards, Professor Thorold Rogers, and Mr. Joseph Leieester (working man's candidate) prior to making the selection of a candidate to contest the borough ...

... I A ?? A CATWLE DISEASE. A serious difficulty has arisen in the American cattle trade, and one which threatens to close, for a time at least, the whole import of live stock fropn the United States. The Dominion steamer Ontario arrived at Liverpool the other day from Portland, Maine, with 247 head of cattle, and when the vessel was brought into Huskisson Dock it was found that several animals ...

... WAVLL AND MILITARY INTELLIGEiNCE. 1lne stuiaar(t Ior gunners of the Artillery has been raised to the extraordinary height of 5ft. Wlin., which has had the intenlded effect of nearly stopping the supply of recruits for that branch of the service. Some of the brigades are still ?? drivers at 5ft. 4irin., but there ale many rmore candidates than vacancies. The rifle battalions, which have been ...

... TO THE EDITOR OP REYNOLDS'S NEWSPAPER. * Srs,-British philanthropy, like the chame-d leon, assumes divers shades. It is sometimes wrong-sided, and occasionally crooked or per- verse. It does the oddest things at the oddest times, runs counter to public opinion, carries out crotchets of its own, and never wearies of finding some new field of operation. It imitates the flightiness of the flirt, ...

... Nufal Expics. ?? ?? Tims RECENT ELECTION FOR PIUARGATE WARD (if at E that may be called an election in which the electors P' r had no voice) has aroused what the Yankees style a w good deal of latent feeling; and uncomplimentary a! remarks upon the age and experience of the new AC Councillor have been dsropped into the letier-boxes of as some of our contemporAries. As for the youth of g1 ...

... SHROVEITIDE. Shrove Tuesday is called in some parts Fasting tt Eve, and, in.Derbyshire, Pancake Day. Its n former name indicates that on this day it was usual for the people to confess and be shrived, in order H that they might be the better prepared for the obser- ,Vance of Lent (the fasting season), and for receiving 1 the Holy Sacrament at Easter. The previous day is. g deignated ...

... -Iv DYDD IAU, CHWEFROR 13ui.. Ail-ymg3'ylillodd y Scneddc prydnawn heddywv, ar ol gwyliaa'r Nndolig. YnmgyfkarfyddOdd Ty Yiu AioiGT.wVYDnaI anl bump o'r gloch, a'r cyntaf i ddyfod i mewn ydoedd Argivydd Skelmnersdale, a dilynvyd. ef yn mlhoni yebydig fanludau, gai Iall Beacoansfield, Arglivydd Middleton, an Iarll ('adogall. Nid oedd ond yohydig bendefigesally ynyr odiel, at OS eithrir aiuryw ...