... DAMAGES £20C00O, D E A fire, of magnitude sufficient to place it among tU , the rmist serious conflagrations that the borough of tc a Bootle has yet experienced, broke out in the bh )- early part of Saturday morning. A few minutes a] d after three o'clock Police-constable Fisber le s and another officer saw flames issuing from e t the dust bin in the upper portion of the me 2 flour mill ...

... MOSES IN EGYPT.'` In view of the first performance in Liverpool to-night of this composition by the Philhar- monic Society, a few words as to its origin and a few hints as to what is to be looked for, will probably prove acceptable to those who purpose hearing it. The opera, oratorio, or whatever it may be called, stands midway or thereabouts between the first and last of the greater works ...

... THE BLUECOAT BROTHERLY | SOCIETY. JUBILEE CELXEBRAT1ON OF THE I CHARITY. The annual dinner of the above society was held fllast evening at the AdelpWi Hotel. Mr. Thonlas dHfioughton, as president of the society, occupied I the chair, and wvas supported by Mr. Thomas ) Moore vice-president. Amongthose present were 1 e Sir Thomas Brock-lebank, Bart., Sir James Poole, I Messrs. Robert Gladstone, ...

... SouTHPORT fiFIRMAR.X. hr ANNUAL iMEETING. at The 17th annual meeting of the governors of the er So-nithport Inoirmary and Dispensary was he)d f be esterday. The Mayor of Southport Mr. B. J. w ty rimerel presided, an* amouz those present w,vere bi ht Mr. T. a Barrett (chairman of the committee) and b' 9d about 40 representative ?? Mlayor, Pd in moving the adopthon ot the report, which has T ...

... ASSOCIATION OF CHMABERS OF' | COMMERCE - ?? The 28th autial meeting of the Association of L Chambers of Commerce of the United Kingdom KZ was opened yesterday at the WbitebaUl Rooms,. Hotel Metropole, London. Sir Bernhard Samuel- ?? Eon, M.P.presided anid amnongst those present to n M-ere S.r Mtbn Lubbock, M.P., Mrz.- MundelIM HP5. oward Vincent, MY.P., Sir Jacob tb Bebrens. and a large n=ber ...

... ]XPERAL PARLTAINT. L81& TH MI) Y. FEBRUARY 23. ) get LEADING INCMENTS.- ,nitn t d to Rocsg OsF CaKNONSTHURSDAY NIGHT. a1 icity After a long string of questions, many of which I loewere en Irish subjects 'and a number by English . s members on winor matters, Mr. W. H. Smith, 5 asaaswering Mr. Leighton, stilted the Govrmet I ut a proposed to bring i.&' Tithe Rent Recovery Bill. a and very- ...

... DRINK ANT) CRIME. te TO ?? 1suRn OF TtiR LVSRPOOL ff n w, Gentlemnen.-In a recent issue YOU make refer- to erne to the terrible tragedy in Sa31ford; the murder ?? by a father o his little daughter at Barnsley; ;be bt abocking mnurderof a young girl at Aldershot; and mzire a number of other recent and awful tragedies, tie wioe aoreming one of those nrtodicjalpi- demiec of crime which ...

... LOCAL WM. Probate of the will, dated 16th April, 1887, with a codicil made 28th April, 1887, of Mr. William . Taylor, late of Catherine-street, Liverpool, who 85 died on the 25th of May last, has been granted to ' the evecutcrs, Mr. John M'(lean, who takes a .u lezacy of £1000; Mr. Jonathan Simpkins, a legacy of £500; and Mr. Robert Norris. And ; ' the testator bequeaths £1000 to the Rev. ...

... THE WEATHERL ,f Tc=DAYr Nionr. -The barometer is rising d this evening in the extreme north, as well as at e our soutern and Frenchastaions, but in the inter- mediate district. a slight fall is reported. The latter change is apparently due to tbe formation. of some small shallow depressions over ourislands, and ao these move soutbwasds the showery - weather now ptewraing over the northern ...

... A pLEA FOR THE BIRDS. ge ?? 07 THag LIVEPOOL 3MCUB J Pt °Afllow me to occupv a small space G Z71Dlayen vluable paper by tsk hi3 d all wos cow f inclement poor birds du bfavI ~~i~or as man! oF our dear little soag~ters most 1snu §S~er'fly be atarved to death, if a^ little food be Iferil ?? > thaw onc or twice a day. I trust for' But zay t uh t ...

... IIERTAL PARLIAIM . 1w~a l ao n * ._ WEDXESDAY, FEBRUARY 22 LEADING INCIDENTS. liousit or CoxxMs, Wmna j The Seotch campaign ?? to Government s was renewed to-day in the House of Commons, E upon an amendment by Mr. Anderson, the member for the Elgin Burghs, who moved an amendment that owing to the payment of rents in Scotland having become impossible, in consequence of the great fall in the ...

... PmOWER XOSION. j . I An esplosion occurred yesterday afternoon week at Sbe extensive gunpowder works of bessrs. Wakefield, Ostebecknear Kndal. Thefinished gunpowderhad been drawn from the grinding mill, ind when new itorial was being plaeed into the mill an explosion took plaee. The bnte of fire caught the fioisbed gun- g powder. and the toill Wvnt off vith a report that SI v 53 heard miles ...