... e WOLViRRHAIPTON. g TIE VACANCY IN TcE COUNCIL.-Owing to the elec- tion of the Alayor (Blr. John Annan) to the aldermanic scat rendered vacant by the retirement o MIr. H. Fowler, t.P,, avacancy has been caused in the representation of St. James's Ward. On Saturday Mr. Walter -Love- ridge, residing at Dane's Court, Tottenhall, of theltirm of T. C. Clark and Co., hollow-ware manufaeturers, ...

... a The Right Hon. G.J. Gosbhen waee the guest of the Liverpool Reform Club at a banquet last evening, to which i about two hundred gentlemen sat down. Mr. Woulton, 1 chairman of the club, presided, and among those present c Iwere Mr. Charles Russell, Q.C. 5 Mr. Gosehen, who met With a hearty reception, after a Ifew introduotory remarks, said: Events have occurred since I received yoar kind ...

... The Durban correspondent of tbe Times, telegraphing on Thursday, says :- President Krtilgev left Pretoria for the ' border last Thursday, escorted by fifty mounted artillery- I menl, who10 will act as despatch-bearers. Mr. W. E. Bok, ( Stte Secretary of the Traesvnal Government, has ad- V dressed a letter to Lord Derby, dated the 16th of Decem- C ber, in reply to the latter's despatch of the ...

... PARLIA.MENTARY NOTES. YI GOVERNMENT AND THE SOUDAN. THE VOTE OF CENSURES THE CONSERVATIVES AND THE PARNELLITES. lIousE or Comos, Thursday Night. Thi proceedings in both Houses of Parliament were unexpectedly tame. In the Lords tilare was a full muster, . the Prince of Wales being among the other peers t presentwboare unaccustomed visitors. Ladiesthronged the I galleries, and members of Commons ...

... EXHIBITION OF STUDENTS' WORKS, This exhibition, opened yesterday in the rooms of the a Royal Society of Artists, is interesting from two points of I view-from the exceptionally large amount of good work It contains, and from the circumstance that it is the last of the series which will take place under the management of the school by a committee of subscribers. The new School of Art is now ...

... I Tio Welsh mounitailli have beenl snow-capped fon several days. - b The tclephone isnow in ,)peratmioi betws n Boston Ind I New York, a distance of 200 miles. : he death is announced of Lady Lousia Cator, at Dryanston Square, London, in hler nhiety-first year. Arthur Childs, groomn, has beci Fentenced to eightecea .months' imnrisonmenit, at Lincoli, for horso stesling. Amelia, Countess de ...

... I On Tuesday lest-the day on which the new statue by Mir. F. J. Williamson. was uncovered-it being Air. Dew- r eon's birthday, a luncheon was held in, the Lecture Room c ,of the Church of the Saviour, and about eighty members v of the church sat down. Fliers were also lpresent Mr a Bernaid Dnwson, Mr. Williamson (the sculptor), the Rev. S. Fletcher Williams, the Roev. Joseph Wood, de. Letters ...

... I ;TjFT BY AN E RMNre B cy.-O n Wednesday, ati the Borough Police Court, William Stock, aged twelve, living in Avon Strept, was charged with stealing a sovereign end half a sovereign, the mone of Mfr. W. H. Cooke, High Street.-For tire past m honthl or so prisoner had been ?? as errand boy at the establishment of Messrs. H. T Cooke and Son, hooksellers and stati oners High Street. On Saturday ...

... At a recent meetin, of the l'rotestant Dissenting t ministers of Warwickahire and the neighbouring counities, t the secretary (the R1ev. Charles Clarke) wras instructed, on t the motion of Dr. Crosskey, to forward the subjoined I memorial to the Education Department of the Privy J Council. The memorial was addressed to Mr, Mundella, N M.P., ice-president of the Committee of Council:- The ...

... THE GORDON MII'.MIORIA1, F1SIN. _flrrrf __ , w SPEECH DY TMu 2'IIICZ (iF WALL' ~'On SaItUrday ?? Coroailitto nE' 1,:0' providing as iatiortal mnem-orial to fi oird4e.al i ittheir lint meeting-, at the Manrsionr these, 'EsLa Mayor presided, and there ?? prcesent tieI'' it Wales. the Duke of IEdinbrgtvr;4 e Drie .e thle LordI Chancellor, the H'erv' Secretary, , ?? Fitowilliarn, Levi ...

... , I _ - lo THE AFGHAN BOUNDARY. STA~TEMENT B3Y TILE CZAR. OFFER MOF All) TO ENGCLAIND. {mEUERn'S TELCEGRAit-S.] .ST. PETFtISEIJEG, MiARCHu 14 ITire semni-official Jortr-nalfdeSt. Preferstoicit, in ain article Ito-day upon thet, Afgiann hoursdisry tlrrestisn, says: In I viw 'if the recent deolaratiteis of the Biteiishr Ministers in Plarliament, woreit- at ai lost Lo acciount. for tshe ...

... In reference to this subject Dir. Benjamin Bushell writes:- From a report presented at the meetingon Tuesday of the Anti-Annexation Association the public are led to understand that the Aston Free Libraries Comn- mittee is in favour of the petition to Parliament to separate the Aston distriot from Birmingham for Parlia- mentary purposes. As a member of that committee, I beg to state that no ...