... In the Birmingham Court of Bankruptcy yesterday, Ludolph Lowenstein, manufacturing jeweller, Victoria. street, Birmingham, filed his petition for liquidation, with liabilities estimated at £50,000 and assets considerable, but not yet ascertained. At the London Bankruptcy Court yesterday, William Puzey, trading as a Cape nmerchaist aud cominisbion 1 agent, in the city of London and at Kimberley ...

... THE STRJEK OF RAILWAY MEN AT MANCHESTER. A meeting MANCHESTER. DI | A eetin1 of men employed on the Lancashire and A i Yorkshire I ativay tit various towns in the hvo counties b was hold at Manchester yesterday (Sunday) morning, in J reference to the strike it the Newton Heath Sheds. It was stated that various arievauces weje felt by eneiue-dr~vers 11 and firemen throughout the company's line, ...

... IUNITED LOCAL PRE^ACHEIRS' CON- FERENCE. For ahout five veirs the local preachers of the various Curistiau et.ieniuatious in Leears have held united con- ierenleS, at ?? periods, with tbe object of promotiug mutual litercourseo aen for the study and discussion of thiologicrll doct ines One of these was held on Saturdey, lat the United Methodist Free Church, Ltdy-lane. In the afterioon Idr. D. ...

... A JU NIOR FISHING SOCIETY FOR I HULL. I e The influences of the fishermen's strike have evoked a - determining energy in a special direction, which all pre. d vieus efforts, whether more or less, have failed in. This i. is in the formation of a Hull Junior Fishing Society, 'e affiliated to the Hull Trawl Fishermen's Protective If Society. A few days ago about forty of the n lads-as they ...

... ical, and General. While on our way in friendly chat We talk of this and then of that. THE promoters of the original scheme for in- creased railway facilities between Yorkshire and Lincolnshire by means of a Humber tunnel will be glad to hear that their opinions were right after all as to the practicability of this engineering feat. I am informed that the recent boring experiments which have ...

... THE LEEDS MERCURY. TIIURSDA XY, November 29th, 1883. A PAnTs telegram says M. Jules Ferry ar.d the Ministers of War and Marine attended the sitting .. . ?? . I , _ z of the Tonquin Credit Committee yesterday. MI. Ferry communicated to the Cowmmittee the Chinese Memorandum, the substance of which has already been ?? public, and the French Note in reply. The Note declared that France has no wish ...

... THEtS I36oP or LIVEOSPOOL o001 TMB CHURCOI DIVISIONSL The sessions of this Conference were opened yesterday, in St. George's Hall, Liverpool, under the presidency of the LOI. BISHOP of the diocese. There was a large attendance of members and also of ladies. The Bishop, in his opening address, after alluding to the late and pre- sent Primate and the Royal Commission on Ecclesiastical Courts, ...

... In delivering the inaugural address of t:e Greenock 1 j'unior Liberal Association yesterday afternoon, Sir Orxs DILuE, who was loudly che-red, said that although the last session had been less productive than the Radicals of the great centres of population, would i wish, it was not unproduative. Besiies the Scotch and Eanelish Agrcultural Holdings Acts ; besides the Corrupt Practices Act, th-3 ...

... - -- ~ ~ ?? A ?? 1 - A BarnvTozq Aurlrmar HAN ?? Stewards hays ?? Ironclad, and awarded the race to Eachem. A Selling Handicap Hurille Race of b0 scovs; the winner to be said for 100 sove. About two miles, over eight hurdies. 12 0 Ur Frarer's Little Ada,6 yr1._ 12 0 Mr Heasrunn's Woodlcan, 4 yrs.2 10 7 Mr lionnedy's Good for Nothing, 3 yrs ?? _ Ejve ran. _ The Contiedown Hurdle Itace ihandieap ...

... ?? W. E. FORSTER, ?? TOUR I IN EASTERN EUROPE. We extract from last night's Pall Mall Gazette the fol- lowing acoeuntof an interview.between, its representative and the Right Hon. W. E. Forster, on his return from the East. We are indebted to the same source for the illus- trative map by which the account is accompanied:- Mr. Forster, who arrived in town o0 Saturday night from a pleasure ...

... |LEDS PROVINCIAL BUILDING SOCIETY. ,o IL__ a_ 1 ?? ?? A 1. IAA } _ A T;he thirty-fourth annual meeting of the members of the Lecds Provilcial Building Sociotv took place Inst evening, in the Civil Court, Aid. Is'emi presiding. The first lbusiness was tho ?? of i number of eantlemen to scrutinise the votes recorded for directors and auditurs during the eusniug year. Mr. J. S. MA.TEns, mmanager ...

... ?? in thn UJrreit i nf v.Rterd-v TrncI fl vnrp e'j As stated in the flrrrict y of yesterday, Lord Overstone od died at his town residence, No. 2, Ctriton-gardens, on oln Saturday afternoon. iu his eighty-eighth year. The ;he Right HOn. Samuel Jones Loyd, First Baron Overstone i weas the only sen of Mr. Lewis Loyd, banker, of Over- 3nt stone Park, Northamptoinshire, ana Sarah, daughter of iry ...