... I - LOCAL a lire I elm glad to hear that the D x satiefactorily. The Arta Clab t~ ah i thbe wvas the original design Of the Bra0d Odetl ?? meaa Of nterooxl ee. b .t.T ' Itheviz f ed, literary, and muesial professiona, ?? o a kind the Brazencao had la, oe 4ed to in a sufficiently coomprehslen 0 j stes l ire. Arts & ordial ?? sot.y~ti to gentlemen havesignified tie' l, r hat there is a ...

... B WPBENTATION OF NORTH-EAST LANCASHIRE. A correspondent writes: So far as at present arranged the requisition to Lord Hartington to become the lead. iug Liberal candidate for North.East Lanc'shire will be presented to him without delay. It is expected to be done during the present week if it is convenient to his Lordship. Very likely the one from North Lancashire will be presented before the ...

... A Simla Welegram Bsas that Major Cavagnari will accompany the Ameer Yakoob Khan on his return to Cabul, escorted by a detachment of the Guides. Arrangements are proceeding for establishing the now Anglo-Afghan frontier. The Tines, in addition to the terms of peace already announced, says ?? has promised toimprove -the high roads along which trade passes from and to India, and to protect these ...

... THE BISHOP OF MANCHESTER ON THE COREDIE FRANCAISE. v:_ - ?? :_ There was a very large congregation, including seve- ral members of Parliament, attracted to the special Snnday-evening servico at Westminster Abbey on Sunday night, the sermon being delivered by the Bishon of Manchester. In the course of his remarks, the right rev. prelate said the whole of London had been de. lighted during the ...

... BAILWAY COLLISION NEIR BIEMINGHAM. A fatal railway collielon occurred at the Bloom- fold Junction, on the London and North-Western Rail- ray, on Saturday evening. The junction is situated ?? and Deaplielde stations, and is formed by ho Foinoe End brauch line and the or~lall it TAB at thia point that a train running from Walsll to Folverhampton oollided with the Liverpool expresstrain B ...

... THE SALVATION ARMY, At the Manchester City Police Court, on Wednesday, before the Stipendiary (tr. F. J. Headlam) and the M3ayor (Mr. Alderman Grundy)i Ballington Booth, John Wileon, Thomas Richards, Tom Kent, and Thomas May, the first-named of whom is styled the captain, whilst the others are employed am ordinary Sevngeliste, in connection with the .Salvation Army -a mission of which ...

... SIR WILFRID LAWSON & MR. SULLIVAN | AT .LIVBRPOOL.I Sir Wilfrid Lawson, M.P., and Mr. A. M. Sullivan, M.P., attended a luncheon on Saturday at the Wash- r. iugton Hotel, Liverpool, whioh has been opened upon ir ?? prinoiples by Mr. Ronald M'Dongall. There Was a large attendance of local gentlemen interested in e the temperance movement. d Sir WILFRLID LAWaON said Liverpool had got a bad g name ...

... - i LETTER No. CK. f MR. BURNE JONES AND HIS ORIr[OS3- The little fracas which has been raised over the merits of Mr. Burne Jones's pictures at the Grosvenor Gallery is rather disquieting to those Iof ?? who are accustomed to rely with humble fasith upon the judgment of art critics. To do . justice to these gentlemen, it can hardly be alleged that they proclaim their infallibility I n so mane ...

... TEE -VIOTOR GROSS. ' i~~ .. . - II The Victoria Cros wil be onferred by the Queen on tie nundernentioned officers and soldiers of her Majesty 'g army, whose claims have baen submitted for her Majesty's approval, for their gallant oonduat during the recent operations in South Africa, as recorded against their names, viz.:- 60th Riam.-Captain and Brevet Lientenant-Colond Readvers H. Buller, C.B. ...

... I I LETTER No. CXL- b WlATERLOO AND THEN WAPO 30B. Owing to the not very remarkable cirOum- *tance that a letter must be written before it is printed, I an sitting down to this week's mnO-. logue on the 18th of the mouth-the anniversary r of the battle of Waterloo. It is 11 p.m. by the clock, the moment when, as M. Thiers tells us, the vanquished Emperor turned away from the fatal field, and ...

... THE IMAEQUIS OF RIPON ON CONSERVATIVE I 7! L - I ^1-, - - - I A now Liberal Club at Crons Bank, Carlinghow, Batley, which has been erected at a cost of .£1,650, was opened on Tuesday afternoon by the Marquis of Ripon, who was accomparled by Mr. W. Bates (president), Mr. EH. P. Beaumont (Whitley Hall), Mr. C. U. Gaskell (Wakefield), Mr. H. Brooke, Mr. Joshua Taylor (chair- man of the Batley ...

... LORD CgAA&1rROOK AT SHEFFIELD, TheSecetay o SateforInda at~ded a Conserva- tivedemostre1.00 hed uner te t 0p18 of the- oliff, charmanof th 5.500i5.i~ as pi~dd ported lb 1e17. EORGE~VX~bN movd thef~lowigresoln- a tion:b ,I bat this meeting heartily supports the poliey- of her I ziejesty'a Msinisters. 0: ictr.Lxws R. STARKIEY, M.P., briefly Seconded the Di resolution. a Lord CRArinRzoole, after ...