... I LOCA- LEWS Ii - LOCAL N$ OBW At Blackburn. on Saturday, Charles Richard Ox H indles, aged five years, was caught by an express exbil train while pasn Harrison's crossing, on the fronm Lancashire an -Yorkshire Railway, and his body ofta Vs was literally cut to pieces. This is said to be the fami 5S sixth accident at the place. hush MANs FouNDn Daowuzn AT Bsaxsmws.-~Abont Of I ie half-past ...

... WEST COAST OF AFLICA. INGs , _A-JA AZ'U THE TRADERS%. C , tUl: AFtlCA'AN GCOTD WOIVWtINGS. as - ?? . 'The Br'itish un2d African Steam Navigati:an Gem~- I ?? royei mail Etuamer (isboou arrived in the D: i eraty yebterday. . She reports that at Old Calabar oe the 11thli n usimo the health of the Europeans wo7 remark- ,bly grood, but trade was almost at a sta:dstill, L partly oa Lcouut of tie dry ...

... CONVOCATION'. Yesterday mornir_-, convocation of the province of Canterbury met for the despatch of business, the A usual celebration of the Holy Communion takiag place not in 'Westminster Abbey, as 'csual, but in the private chapel of Lambeth Palace. The Prolo- V cutor took the chair in the lower housen, when several notices of motion were given. Canon Gregory presentei a memorial of ...

... 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 ...

... U/> lU tULC l~ULtt3LD tL U LU UU l. t THE REV. W. BIANS ON THE STR1ES A2ND LOCKOUTS. _ I . . . i _ - . - . B: PJJ.LtflBdJ .&1'J ?? XVV. Last evening the Rev. W. Birns, of Charing-cross Unitarian Church, Birkenhead, delivered a lectare on The Fresent Social Conflict and the Remedy. He said that religion was mixed up with every department of human thought and life, and that ministers of ...

... THE GREAT STRI. There i8 a hbroak i;> +in rgiclq P r A ant. se] There i8 a broak in the clouds. Prudent ov foimnsels havo at length found acceptanceel) among the dock labourers. They no loneer talk of no surrender. They have been th brought by their leaders to see that the Of wiseot course is to submit tko points in 7t disaizte to arbitration. Yesterday they i emuowcred -Mr. Simpson and two ...

... A general meeting of members of the Liverpool Farmers' Club and farmers resident in this district was held yesterday afternoon, in the Assembly Room, Eberle-street. Mr. Halifax Wyatt presided; there was only a small attendance. Mr. Samuel D. Shirriff, of SaItcoats, Drem,, N.B.. one of the judges of farms of the Royal Agricultural Society in 1877, read a paper on Labour, with reference to ...

... WOIIK AND WAGES. II ,J±L .a AJJ IT £1\.XAIQ ap p THE LIVERPOOL ENGINEERS. Mp2c An aggregate meeting of the men engaged in vlsi the engineering trades of Liverpool and Birken- eve; head was held last evening, in the Concert IaUl, sy11 Lord Nelson-street. Mr. Bernard Hughes, chair- few man of the central committee, presided, and there wad was a good attendance. It appeared from the nail ...

... . . I OCAL. 'NO Amogst the regimes ordereld t the Cape is : Dragoon Guards, whioh a London japef atxte tht : tioined at ganbeateir. Au a ma, er Offst t racks are coonpied by the 5th ]tragooi '45 having left here a coneide'able time a~o, and being 4t stationed at Aldershoti I dare ay 1e ?? ° caused a little flatter of exoitemext at; the barracks, Ds it might at first be supposed thit tX ...

... 1.. 0-rlFOREIGN NWS. THE WAR WITH T- E ZULUS., GREAT' DISASTERitO -10 ITISTE - - ~~~TROOPS. OAPIT0WrIT (VIA ST VI ?? aJI. 27.. On the 21st inst a British colun consising of a portion of the 4Rinient a 400 natives, with one battery, was defeated-with terble los. .by an overwhelming force of Zulus, 1 whp num-, berb4 :26 090. i A valu bla iov of ?? ji Consisting of 102 wagons, dra by 1,000 oxen, ...

... I ? Varal, are PlOtTid. ?? .platielayerv named William Gresty, er Il 1lyD on the Min he` oth ?? ande, atheinba om Railway near Sae Station Wsi ru over b oa killed in Tusday after0 ndoo by a train, into the C track of whioahbe had stepped ai order to anoid ?? whihour. spprdoq dag from the opposite fe shreetioc. lo Firem NN MCHESTER.-Shortly after four 0,01ok on Thursday afternniinformation ...