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... WEST BROMWICH IMPROVEMENT cohmissiONEiES. A meeting of this Board was held yesterday; M'r. T, I Lloyd in the chair pro tems. -The Cleric reported that Messrs. Reuben Farley. Samuel Roberts, John Peters, and Thomas Rolaison, the'four retiring Commissioners, had been re-elected ne'mbers of the Board.-Mr. Fieldnmoved the re-election of h r. Reuben Farley as chairman for the ensuing year. This was ...

... CIANGES IN ROMAN IA'IIOLTO t ?? outcon3e of thio recont Confereneo of ?? C~t;lic dignitrei. particetlars liave been imblislwd DSto C10i ol o ef cmitonmphatod olanges in tilhe oinan Catholic D of this country. The chalnges will Prineilally ctl turrito'll, J-iFjuisdiction. ?? elioceso of ord !d leso t io distriets of LA1,liey illanl ]Jlahelbura, 'I Chvill lie adlded to the seo of Liverpool; nnd ...

... The G4rand Duke of Hesse is expected to nrrive In Eng- i land about the 23rd instiit, on a visit to the Qucen at ij BIalnornl. | Muore than two-thirds of, the 600 aminnestied Coinmuiste i who elected to be brought to Paris have, it is stated,.5 found eluployment M. Halarizisr, er-director of the Paris Opera, has beon rcofganis3 the St. Petersburg and Nlo5- cow Imperial theatres, t A London ...

... . THE FIRST :OF SEPTEMBER. 21 i _ : . For a 1et of September yasterdeynmust have proved the most barren day within the rnemory of the oldest sports- man livieg. ailnd it been hut a fair season, had there been but an average prospect of sport, tho Fourth Corimand- nnent would have been - wall, let us say cracked, if not actually broken, on Sunday last by nel overhauling of hreeahlosnlers and of ...

... RAISINGIC SU'.ieN VESSEL2S. . Souetbitig hlis been done towards the solution of the fi L prhblcm--if it hns not completely solved it.-of how tols raise sunilo n o hips, by Jatncs 'Personts P. amechanic, in the k Jeploy of the North Staffordslilre lilwlay Company, at ^ , Stole. on-Treot, wios lne patenitttl an invention for oileSu- tig this object in what appears to bo a very simple anti v ...

... A fountain, presented to Leticestor by the High. Bailiff, 9 Mlr. Israel Hart, was inaugurated. on Wedriehsdacy. It cost tat about £2, 0IMI. YeN A whale, 25 feet in length and 14 feet in girth at the thickest part of the body, ran agrouind on. 'Tuesday at; 0. Grangem.outh, . Blton College reopened on Wveslleseday, at thle close of the long9 vacation, tho lowyer boys being the first to 2, ...

... I - -- AND JOURNAL. I I - - THUr1SDAY, SBEPTENM]BilR 11, 1879 NEWS OF THIl DAIY. Colonel EvYN WacOOD, V.0., ?? 19th legiment, and Lieutenant-Colorel .Uo.nnER, V.a., C.53., O;ths Rifles, arrived at Balosoral yesterday, and had an audience With the QuELy', whO Was graciously pleazed to-confer on Colonel WOOD thle honoor of knighitlhood, investing l him with the insi-onia of ?? and Colonel BUrLEa ...

... THE LONG-DISTANCE B1CYOLE CHIAMPIONSI:IIP. Punctually at six o'clock yesterday mornitng Waller, Pagis, Idighai, and Terroiut were promnptly at work at tbo Agricultural Hall, Ajndrews coming onl two minutes later, Cairn at 0.10, 'I'hresher at li.13, Leerniga yesterday, beig -ti absentee, Walltr completed 1)00 miles at 7.45 and Terronit at Y.54, both being lonuily cheered by the fcwv spectators ...

... , ?? _S ?? our 0ecn CtorYesPona*1cs. ecf Qtnbmbisse tlop, nal ,treiu.` The proverb is a good one, and finds its application at this muoment. Iord lisacoun'eld's (0overslmast has seized upon a heavier prey than can be hold within its grasp, and the spoils amassed I are dropping fyo-; one arm as fast as they are boing Pnm- btaced by the other. Fiji nndt Cyprus. Afghanisnn nand the Transvaal ...

... - A Reuter' tce~urrn fvaot New Yark r~lwhrt that Roawell baa won Sir Jobn stLaley' belt, with aascor oftm3 miles. Tam CAPTUEii OF CEcritWAYO.-Malor iMarter, King'sA Dragoon Guards , Is to receive the brevet of Lieutenant-C colonel, in recognitiion of his services in connection with* tecapture of OCetwayc.a ANT ISANDMJLA MEM.)ORIAL-Stepsl are proposed to be takeon by the officers and poet ...

... ADVANCE ON CABUIL. PROCLAMATION BY GENERAL ROBERTS. [REUTBsI TfLEGRAMS,] SIMLA, S TErnICER 29 (2.15 pan.) Tabir Khan, Governor of IKhelat-i-Ghilzai, has O.written a letter to Major St. John, expressing d pleasure ait the approach ofthi1e British forees, and d promising supplies of provisions. !s i The British force from Candahar will probably lI advance upon Ghuzni, Cholera is decreasing in ...