... 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 ...

... 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 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 ...

... 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 ...

... OPENING OF THIE FOWLER REFORM CLUB, WOLVERHAMPTON. Last night the formal operning of the Fowler Reform Club, Wolverhampton, was celebrated by a large meeting in the Agricultural Hall of that town. Mr. H. H. Fosler, h.P., Under Secretary for the Home Department, pre- sided, and lie was supported by Mr. Theodore Fry, M.P. (Darlington), Mr. AV. Willis, Q.C., Mil.P, (Colchester), Alderman Major ...

... THEni resources were practically illimitable They have had in requisition power, ability, and experience. Yet they have failed--ignominiously e failed. Wherefore? :Because of the presence of o divided authority, and the absence of clear aim, resolutely and consistently enforced. If the Cabinet will screw up their courage to take a clear consistent, and decisive course, both in Egypt proper ...

... I I SINGLE DAHLIAS. By Gio. RIDbON, Secretary of the Hull Amateur Floral and Horticultural Society. It ls just possible that some may think the garden in which I grew my single dahlia ts very favourably located, therefore I feel bound to assert that the contrary is the case. That garden lies within one hundred yards of the Anlabygroad Workhouse chimney, whose Vesuvius like columns of smoke ...

... I (iFoate London Gczctt of &s night) ADJUDICATIONS IN BZANRUPTCY. Thomas Knowles, ey- -bridge, Bingley, York- shire, also trading with 'illiaa Bakerand William Valiant, at Wigan, as Bake ...

... ILIVERPPOOL MTERCHANTS' GUILD. I to The annual meeting of the above guild, which is , associated with Wright's Institution and Roger of Lyon-Jones' Fund, was held at the Town Hall id yesterday afterno ...

... ?? LBRL ORGA TION LAYERPOO)L StInDR or Tim unupoOL MKCuE -The ?? prominent names C'eIC~eg tbe ...

... SPECUL TELEGRAMSs tc I - - - -p Mr. Nicolson, messenger-at-arms, Edinburgh, has servedallthe decreesof interdict against crofters in Valtos, fig, Lewis, and other districts. Her Majesty's Indian troop ...