... WESLEYAN METHODIST FOREIGN MISSIONS. ?- i The 68tb annual meeting of the Liverpool Dis- *h trict Auxiliary Missionary Society was held in Brunswick Cbapel, Moss-street, last night. Sir r J. A. Picton, ?? occupied the chair, and It there was a very large attendance, including the Rev. T. M'Cullagh, ex-president; the Rev. W, te L Watkinson, London; the Rev. Silvester White- ;O head, Manchester ...

... SPECIAL TELEGRAMS, ac; i Mr. A. H. Garland, United States Attorney- . General, has decided that head money mustbe r collected every time an alien arrives in the country.-auter. 'The Evolutionary Squadron arrived off Bantry ; Bay yesterday. The Mercury, Conquest, and eight torpedo boats subsequently entered the bay, s and it was expected that the remainder of the , squadron would come in during ...

... I NOTES ON A TEMPERANCE ; SCAPER.; e l *IL-OVER SEA AND LAND. Be-is, Hasia JUNE 281 A . 1 lain told, air, wrote I a hesterfieldin one 8 of bis inimitable letters to his son, that yoU are p ?? to travel, and that you .begin by H Hol- land. Sows, who are fellow Avcgeura on this , temperance scamper to the cofine of the land of '-he midnight sun. begin by Holland. There is Ano record of ...

... TR sor rDoS Os' THE LITTISFOOL ME&RUPY. Gertleinen,-It having become necessary that I I should see the accounts of expenditure upon the paving of certain streets, I ventured the other day to ask the City Engineer to be allowed to see the accounts of s::ch exserditure. I am sorry to say my modest request completely astounded the engineer, who told mne I might just as well ask to be allowed to ...

... I M CEIL RAIKs S M.P.q At' MOLD I Speakdng at a Conservotive meeting at Mold last night, Mr. Cecil Raikes remarked that when he-wasinvited a few weeks roto address that meeting on public affairs, none of them anticipated what had happened since then. The events of the past-fews weeks had so altered the position of ?? affairs tha~t it was not as easy a matter to address a political mleeting now ...

... I TO TIMsDrroRs OF TILE LIVERPOOL wDacr. Gentlemen,-I have read the letters of vour - correspondents Bring in Little and Specta- st tar in. to-day'sA Mercuric and if one may judge w these as a sample of their contributions to the a' elucidation of the question, little has been brought b in except a self-confident narrowness, a distortion t of argument and fact, and premature exultation l ...

... FRIDAY NIGsnr -The weather to-day has To- mained fine in most places, but showers have fallen at one or two of our northern stations. The chart for eight a m. showed that although the depression of the previous two days had passed away to the northward, a subsidiary disturbance had been formed over the southern part of Scandi- navia, so that the barometer is still falling in Sweden. In our ...

... per I V LT0 EDiTOMr 0? TIM LJTtiOL IUBY. e. Gentlemen, -T3dhe newspapera frequently contain reports of meetings held for promoting the remedy zda or restraint of evils which are acknowledged to be. in serious and widespread At many such meetuis re- clergymen are chief speakers, but it is often dife- ipn c cult to gather from their speeches definite ideas as to the precise part they intend to ...

... IRON AND ST-ITEL INSTfUIE. | GasG-aow, Wrm.srDAY EmaxG. The auttrurnal meeting of the members of then Iron and Steel Institute was resumed this morn- ing, in the Corporation Galleries, Sauchiehall- e there was an a numerous attendance, D Perc occupying the chir. At the outset -the President announced that the Council of the Institute had elected Mr. John Cunninghame, of the Glengarncck ...

... FOREIGN S. TEE AFGHAN FRONTER REPORTED RUSSIAN ADVANCE' ON ZULFICAIL (extom-acEaszcoN-D LrHONow OT1HIS T=MS.) JAGDOBKiBATENT (vn. M M-xn), JULY li. lt is rummnured that the Russians have advanced in forceeto Zulficar. They are-treating the Persian territory as though it were Russian. The F~rontier M ission is about to move to -the vicinity of'Rerat, whithier-the Engineer officers have already ...

... IOUR LODON ?? NDEcO IcDONe, Miosaa EMINr. Opponents of the creation of a separate Irish Parliament wa find every reason for faul maintaining their opposition in view of the new declarations of the Parneltes. The uncrowed t king himself has openly pronounced for protec- tion; and his followers are-quite as caifdas to 1 their ultimate object, Mr. Redmond on Satur- day told some of his-countrymen ...

... TO THE EDITORS OF THE LIVERPOOL MERCURYT. Gentlemen,-Your correspondent E. B. W. -alias ' Sunday Opening -has again rushed into the press without considering whether he has facts or not. IKindlv allow me to again put him right onthis question. He says in his letter of the 1 11th inst. that almost the entire body of the work- ing men refused to support the movement for open- inc. I say I ...