... LORD ROSEBERY'S SPEECHES. 1 THE QUESTION OF COPYRIGHT. In the Court of Arpeal, yesterday, before the , Master of the Rolls, Sir F. Jeune, and Lord Jus- tice Romer, the appeal of the plaintiff in the action Walter v- Lane from the order of Mr. a Justice North, who, on the 10th of August last, t granted an injunction restraining the defendant - fiom further publishing a book called Appre- I ...

... I LIVERPOOL DRIVER' I SOIRag j THE TREATMENT OF ANIMAlS. The Royal Society for the Prevention of .th Cruelty to AnAls has also for its object the a dede of their kind treatment, and during ,in a decade of yesa the Liverpool branch of the I of society has csrvied on this work with conspicuous an success. Whilst the society has to resort to ?? prosecution where treament is brutal, neverthe- ; ...

... CORPORATION FREE LECTURES, For some years past the Library, Museum, and Arts Committee, under the Corporation, have arranged for a series of popular lectures to be given at the Pipton Lecture Hall, William Bro-street. The efforts of the committee have in every way proved successful, and large and appreciative audiences have been attracted. Con- siderable care is taken in the choicea ofaubjects ...

... THE GREAT PRISON AT I CAPETOWN. A R EMARKBLE COLONY OF CONVICTS. Amog the many interesting things in Cape- town, says a man recently baeck from South Africa, is an immense pr;on, where almost every l nation of the globe has representatives, Within this prison there are more than 10 oonvicts of nar every size and colour. Theremre American minem and eonss of the English aristocracy, Frech, ...

... MAYOR or ;INTERESTI.NG n Last night, at the ili;itation *t Birkenhead (Alderman J. T 1thotep members of the legal professi ri' of which his Worship is a se B were entertained to kenhead Town HalL There wre t e William Jackson, R. D Fp -Pt5~ (Town-clerk), J .ames Fear ' an d clerk), Cecil Holden (borough Coro> Le Copeland (magistrates' clerk), Jjo , H. Mathison, Percy Hughes s F. Leos, R. ...

... MR. EDWARD EVANS, JUN., AND MR. SALVIDGE The following correspondence has been sent to us for publication: - Copy of letter received from Mr. Edward Evans, jun. Bromborough, Oct. 3, 1899. Dear Sir,-Your letter has just reached me. The report you send me is not quite correct- it should read worse political attacks, and, besides by those who were present, would be so imderstood, as they ...

... It is in-earkrwinter that those who keep a few pigs to convert into bacon for their own ue generally kill and cure them. Coring cannot be done in ht weather, but November is always suitable, and so are the winter months up ul Marh. The workman's family pig is often a monster, Lnd will weigh 18 or 20 score pounds, bet those who keep a better table prefer them of a less size, and from 12 to l4 ...

... ?? LE1X urt . SALUS iPOU LEX $UREMA. _ ?? THIS MORNING'S NEWS IN BRIEF. News of an appalling disaster to British arms in Natal was received yesterday at, the War Office. A column consisting of the Gloucester Regiment, the Irish Fusiliers, and No. 10 Mountain Battery, which on Sunday night bad been despatched by Sir George White to clear the left flank at Lad)ysmith, found it necessary, after ...

... A SOLDIER'S HIsroRY. STIRRING STORY FOR STIRRING TIMES. Mr. Samuel Williams, of Brithdir, a station- master on the Snowdon trainroad, is a man with a stirring history, which a North Wales Ob- server representative elicited from his modest and mnly lips. He is an old soldier, of whom in these warlike times we may be proud, and his story is appropriate to present interest Born forty-five years ...

... MARQUIS OFNORTHANIPTON IN LIVERPOOL TRUE IMPERIAUSIM. SPEECH ON THE TRANSVAAL WAR THE HOME RULE QUESTION. The Marquis of Northampton, who on Mon- day paid a visit to Southport, was yesterday, at the Liverpool Reform Club, the guest, at luncheon, of the Chairman, Mr. T. S. Hasy, J.P. Those invited to meet his lordship were Sir Edward Russell, Colonel Bigga, Colonel Whitney, Dr. A. P. Thomas, ?? ...

... LIVERPOOL AND THWE WAR. RELIEF OF WIDOWS, ORPHANS, AND WOUNDED SOLDIERS. A FUND) OPENED. GENEROUS CONTRIBUTIONS. I Called by the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor r(Mr. William Oulton), a public meeting of in- ,habitants of Liverpool was held yesterday at noon in the Town Hall, in order to; the opening -of a fund for the relief of the widows and orphans of soldiers who fail in the Traneveal -War, and ...

... I SERIOUS CHARGES BY THE GOVERN- I ME1NT INSPECTOR. The report of LieutenantColonel IL A. Yarke, BE., to the Board of Trade, respecting the fatal collision that occurred on September 16th at TyIweh Station, on the Cambrian Railway, was issued yesterday morning. In this case the 510 am. up excursion train from Builth Wells, when approaching Tylwch, over-ran the up home signal, whoh was at ...