... At the City Temple, London, yesterday morning, this Union (which had met for its fdrnial business on the pre- vious evening)}inanggrated its spring session in the presence of a large audience, numbering probably, with. ministers and d elegates, come 3,000 persons, and inludding many of the more prominent Congregationalists.-Tli e Rev. Dr. John Thomas, of Liverpool, who was elected to succeed ...

... I1rOTLVi~IMI MPTON. '1'rrnlxt, ~ ni.To Mayor anal Towin Clerik have held a consuiltation with theo Cha~irman and the (Ss:of thsc Beard of Gunardians with a view of Providling satin) stosiasts of relief for the unemnployedl, Nothingdei Inite has, however, yet boost arrasogesi. 'I'lse Gluarsia so are anxtious that they should not recoive assvitac fro to lee~r rates, in:s5nsnsch as if else ...

... BUMa-Mr. Dalrymuplo's appointment asn Ursder-Secre- it tory for the Home Department gives much satisfaction to B his friends irs Dote. Mr. M~cLean, who is tire Liberal pi sandridlrte at the general olection,' has recently been visit- rs ing the constit neney, arid it is not improbable may oppose si Mr. Dalrymrie' re-election. a]i DonatE U.NivEusrIY, -The writs for Dublin University nii have ...

... DEWS OF THE DAY. Madame ADELNA PATTI has returned to this Y country froan America. 1! The Prince and Princess of WVALES, with Prince £ GiomirD and their daughters, arrived at Windsor r Castle, and lunched with 1Her MAJESTY on Satur- s day afternoon. Their Royal Highnesses returned n in the evening to Marlborough House. Pnnalr Pacha, special Envoy from the Sublime. Porte, left Charing Cross ...

... 1)IRMINGHAM SCHOOL BOARD. CMULSORY SITES QUEISTION. A Select Committee of the House of Lords, nuder tbd presidency of Lord ]isimnorc, took into consideration, yes- ,yl terday, the Elementary Education (Birminghami) Prov-i- a s] sional Order Confirmation Bill. Mr. 'Michael, Q.C., Fand COr M~r. Hopkins 'Vrer fee the School Boardl of Birminghamn ; JD, and Dir. 1'ope, Q,C., Dir. Littler, Q O., and ...

... STOURBBRDGE. . ANrNUAL. MEETING Or TICS CosuAnssooxnes.-Th 3 amnual meeting of the Stourhridgc Uotnmissioners was hold yesterday afternoon, Mr. W. J. Turney ?? Chairman said he regretted that Sir. Haskew wnas not elegible for election as chairman for the ensuing year, as Ire would retire by rotation in September, and Mr. Billing- ham was ineligible from the same cause. He moved tire election ...

... OPENING OF A BOATMEN'S MISSION HALL AT HEDNESYO1D. A Boataien's Mlission Hall and Coffeo Boom has been erected Onl land near the Hedniesford Canal Wharf, by the Birmingham Centro of the Seamen's and Boatmen's I'iond Society, of which Mr. ?? IV. Iilcher is chairman.; The building consists of a mission hall, which will seat about 120 persons; a coffee room and reading room, sepaa rated from the ...

... HlENLEY REGATTA. The anusral amnateur aquatic carnival of the year took place at Beokley-oll.Tlaines poaterday, In splendid weather, and in the presence of one of the largest attenclancas on record both onl tlte water and nlong the bankes ; indeed thle number of pleasure skiffs scattered dil over the course entirely spoilt the chances of several of thocrews tirawing the Buclis station, driving ...

... - THE WESLEYAN CONFERENCE AT NEWVOASTLE. i W II V S AIMMO. The business of tire Conference wvas resumed yesterday. The adjourned conversatiors on thle subject ol tire newi mission to the massa of the populationi in London was tI resumed. Tire [toy. J. Ernest Clapiram, irs resumning thle ti conversation, said no scbeme was less worthy to hang fire than that metropolitan missioa, and yet it had ...

... [REUTEFR'S THLrCim,]3.j CO FRANCE. PARIS, JUNI. 22. The Chamber of Deputies to.day comceucedl the debate on the Ministerial bill aulthorceing the issue of 3190,CO,000 francs in bonds, for thirty years each, but redeecinable in twenty-two years, the produce to bh devoted to the hn- provement of schools and parihs roads.-D1. Daynaml (Fight) opposed the bill, describing the plroposed issue as a ...

... I | THE LIBERAL CANDIDATE. Last night a crowded meeting was held at the Bristol Ptreet Board Schools in support of the candidature of Mr. A. C. Osler. Couneillor.Dr. Foster presided, and others i present, in addition to Mr. Odler, included the Rev. Dr. Crosskey, Aldermen Powell Williams and Downing; and Blessrs. G. Mlarris, C, Breakspear, T. Hewine, J, E, Baker, J. Potter, L. Croiskey, M. L. ...

... .; EVESHAM DIVISION, Asmeeting in support of Mr, A. Chamberlain, thewiberal fcandidate for the division, was held in the school room, Pinven, near Pershore, ?? evening ; Mr. George Workinan presiding4-Mr. Chamberlain, in the course of Ihis addgess, touched upon the Liberti71 egislatlon- of the last forty years, observing, in regard? to the Agricultural Hloldings Act, that it was' the Liberals ...