... SOME INTERESTING PREMINISCENCES. Good progress is being made in the execution of % the scheme arranged by the City Council with the Bishop of Coventry for widening the thoroughfares on three sides of St. Philip's by the curtailment of the area of the churchyard. This is not the first time the churchyard has suffered in like manner, but it is satisfactory to know that whenever a small portion ...

... MORNING EXPRESS ED!TIOKJ crwS FROMMACDONALD, I TNSTERS STILL SAFE. pRO--,MPT RELIEF NEEDED. CORF1iN rOFFICE REPLY. pELIEF -FORCE'S ADVANCE. REPORTED AT PEKIN. £EiREAT OF TIE ENEMY, OFFITI IAL MESSAGKES. -Secr. -aarv of the Admiralty stated yester- ;tRir- ?? Bruc~,- tulegrauhing from -. -s t'hatle has recesved the fullowina f--nra the General at Ho-Si-Wu A.gusc.- Troop s distant from FPekin , ...

... It appears to be generally supposed that the Strh abandoned his visit to England in consaequeiln of the death of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and at the request. of our Court. As a matter of fact, the Quent was fully prepared to receive the Shah at Osborne last Friday, as a function of public duty, and it vas by his own partioular wish that his visit to England was abandoned. Tihe London ...

... .CORRESPONDENG1 I NOrrcz T0 CB2. SPOHD&TST-AiI -tWttJ OIttudet fre PUN ohticn 'Mt be ecapaaiai by ?? %mme and eddis,, ftle -,itsr.; wet Wmieeps'jfyjbrpe4tieoeN, but-fee the ineymreioe of the iti. W s a-s to re 2on Ore ?t giotw in : CaWtef ft om p or , thesrs I ldqza to d4etaend that tp 6r vsiue to siir ut infeneeiuced .f. We annoet itum rejected oraircS 5l.f JK F. -lt is impossisle to say. ...

... IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT .h CURIOT(:US ANSD U.NUJShI:A SCE: iE. Trs session bids fair to end eas it began, with ques- ticns of armv moriisalion occupying a foremost plae. Yeaterday the Volunteers Biil came on for second reading, and the Stage was obsv obtained after Mr. Wvndiaan had withdrawn the sub-section which authoisees the War Office to accept offers front Volunteers to serve abroad. rhbo-ld ...

... BIRMINGHA3M BOARD OF GUARDIAN&S A meeting of the Birminglham Board of Guardians was held yesterday, at the Parish Offices, EdmuLd Street; Mr. J. :. Forrester presiding.-Mr. T. E. Soith, chairman of, the Workhouse Management Committee, drew attention to the cormplasints in the newspapers that the weekly returns o M the Medical Oficer- of Health on the health of the city were some- times ...

... LONDON CORRESPONDENCE- LONDON, Sunday Night. CIXRCUtLAR letters are being sent out by Midland firms drawing the attention of their customers to the fact that the pressure of Government contracts I is now relaxed, and that the general trade may now come forward with their enquiries. This is well enough in its wvay, but an influential Eastern merchant points out to me that Birmingham and Walsail ...

... THREATENED FLOODING OF COLLIERIES. Yesterday afternoon a meeting of the South Staffordslnire Mines Drainage Commissioners was, held at D;udley, L-olonel Cocarane presiding. * The Chairman, in moving the adoption of the engineers reports, said experience had snown that the present auxiliary plant at Rough i-lay pound was incapable of keeping down the w-ater during the winter months. In the ...

... SHARP RECONNAISSANCE. BOERS FOUND IN FORCE. THEIR POSTS SHELLED. SLIGHT CASUALTIES. FIGHT NEAR LINDLEt. The following message was yesterday posted at the War Office :- From. General SirFRedversBunllr to-tbe Secre- tary of State for 1Wrar. SwTrNnro, Juoy 1.-General Talbot - Coke, with the Tenth Brigade, made a reconnaissance on the 29th June towards Amersfoort. He found 2,000 of the enemy there ...

... FOREIGN AND COLONIAL MALILS. letters, &tc., may be posted at Head Office. Birmingham, Tais DAkY (TUZSDAY). 'To Java and Sumatra, per Netherlands packet-to 1.3O p.m. To Canada, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, ?? per Lake Superior, via London- derry-to 9.20 p.m. *To United States. &c., per Kaiserin MXaria Theresa, via :Southampton.; and ToEgypt, by Freach packet-to l2 20 ao. ...

... THE SO U£TR AFRICAN WAR. ?? OABUALUTIE The War Office last evening issued thhe following list cf casualties from the General of Commu'nications, Capetown. July 1:- DA~NGEROUSLY IL The following are reported dangerously ill:- DsiwrtsnasP-lst Battalion Royal Scots, PFrivate J. Alarishall; Mounted Infantry Derby Regiment, Private XV. Bra-lhe'; BALezrrPC'TEcs.-2nd Battalion Berkshire Regiment, ;ri ...

... NEW MINISTERS FOR THE BrRMINGHAM IDISTRIUi''. This week will be one of considerable disturbance among Wesleyan ministers and circuit officials. Ti'e changes made in the ministerial staff of the differesit circuits by the recently-held Conference in li-ru :em wvii come into operation. Officially. the appointments are complete as soon as the stations are confirmed by the vote of the Conference, ...