... THlE PROPOSED PUBLIC BUILDINGS AT AMON. Yesterday morning Major Tulloch one of the inspectors i of the Local Government Board, hold an- enquiry at the e Board Bloom, Aston, with reference to the application °, made by the Local Board for sanction to borrow £10,500. for the election of a public library and offices for the I transaction of the business of the Board, There was a a large ...

... Dr Ea-leton presided yesterday at the weekly meeting. -Theweekly returns shlowed 818 persons in the house, against 728 in the eorresponding week of last year; and the out-door relief was MP98. 5s., or about £17. more than in the corresponding week of last ?? report of the Visiting Comiluittee was to the cefeot that the mem- bers were surprised at the removal of the man Williinms from the Guest ...

... THE DISTRESS IN IREL.MD. FO)IIMATION OF A B1PRMIG11,HA01 FUND. A Vublic, meeting, convened by tule Maiyor (Mlr. BI. Chaim. berlain), wvas held yesterday, at the Council Houses, to con-I sider the desirability, of Commencing a f und in aid of the relief of the distre5gin. Ireland. There was alargoattendanee. 5ud among these present were the Amayor (who presided), 'Aldei'insf Collings, Avery, ...

... THE AGITATION IN IRERLAND. A. land meeting, attended by about 3,000 persons, wns held at Kilooneily, county Galway, yeterdlay, hially of tile procol- soloset cartried ?? pikes- a.n tons. ?? flavitt was preseit, and in the course of ili speech advocated the abolition of lanidlordinm as the panacca for the ilels that afilict Ireland, and rounselled the people not to ceass their efforts till its ...

... * at ?? . M- ?? .1 ?? j1en n-cGit, Corresp'ondent. weA LoWio, Wednesday Evening. S-1 There were not many bills offered in the ' Diseounit cei market, but rates. were unchanged, at 2.1 to 21 par cent. frs Slhcrtloasns were' still in demand, and 24~ to 3 per cent. was Charged. cc The Rhein has arrived from New York with £32,240. in Lii silver. The. Guadiana has sailed with.£101,500. in speciea ...

... MOVEMENT OF THE MOHMIUNDPS. 'OBIDE TROUBLE WITH THE KOHISTANIS. [Elkuk's Ykit~ohgp>mQi C.&o.CUTrr, Wednesday. A large number of Molhmunds hlae crossed tho Kambutka. A. fresh combination of Kohistalnis is reported near Lundi Kothl and Dakka, vhich stations are i being reinforced witll a view to immediate oilensive operations against thlo enemy. Kucuf Khan proceeds to Lorar, in charge of that ...

... An American exchangs calls a tack on a ohair seat a harbinger of spring. Mr. Childers, alF,, intends to return to England about the 14th January, 1880, Messrs. - Hfrtwell's flour mills, near Sudbury, were destroyed by fire on'Vednesday. Six years age shad were introduced into California waters. They may now be taken there every month in the year. At the Salf6rd Polico Court, Thomas Grindley ...

... THE MYSTERIOUS DEATH AT, IXPERT MINSTERu WORKHOUSE, The above case remains.still as great a mystery as ever, and not the least light'hae been throwp lipop ib, thousb ?? have, come to, hl,,i fromz all prea jf ls, country. Mr. Hope, the governor of the Kdderlipstr Workhouse, daily receives letters asking for a desedriutioa of the deceased and an inspection of his photograph, and these come for ...

... IICHrFIELD DIOCESAN CEURCH EXTENSION SOCIETY. The annual meeting of the above society was held on VWednas- day, at the Gulldhall, Lichfield, under the presidency of the Bishop of the Diocese. There n ere also present the Dcal of Lihl- hleld, Arehldcalonss es nod Sir Lovelace Stonier, Bart., Cenon Lonedelo, ProbendarY Plant, aild thle avds. S. Allen, IV E. Ce idvell, and S. WV. Betaleni Mir. C. ...

... LATEST., NEWS.I VeUfe's Telaegcrams, per.Press Association-.] TILE DUIKE OF CUMBERJAND. BERLIN, JANUARY 20.' r' Referring totho statement, pablished by some foreign newspapers, that the Duke of Cumberland does not intend to accept the last proposals alleged to have been made to him by the Prussials Gorvoqment in regard to the Hano. verian question, the semioffcial Norths Germia Gacette to-day ...

... The lortnightly meeting of the Birmingham Board of Guarldians was held oil Wrediesday afternooll ait the la'arish OSlices, Paradise Street; ilri. J. 'Taylor presiding. VISITING AND GgsEnnAL PlR7rOSr,S CuIOsI.TTTEi.- Upon the readill of the iminutes of this committee, Dr. BAn sATar, ill moving their adoption, referred to a resolu- tion which they hnd passed relative to some children who had ...

... Tire eheep-hear grinders of Sheffield have offered it re- duction of 1 5 per cent. on best handimade work, and 10 . per cent. on other sorts next March. 3 Mr. Prentice, Q.O., yesterday finished the second municipal election enquiry at Liverpeol, and declared the Everton Ward election void, each party to pay their own costs. I An order directing that the Court should go into mourn- ing from the ...