PROrE IT NEXT WASHING DAY. BEWARE OF ANY NOVEL IMITATION.

Some monks recently expelled from their monasteritis in France having landed et Barcelona, met with .such a hostile reception from the populace that they re-embatked on board the vessel in whfcl. they had arrived. The debate raised in the French t'enate M. Buffet on the policy o

Mr.•IDROMGOOLE proposed. that Mr. H. R. Lacey be appointed chairman for the ensuing year. He had showed himself to be a most snital& chairman, and he would move that he be re-elected. Mr. A. briefly seconded the motion, which was carried unanimously. Mr. H. R. LACEY was very muc

Mr. CHAMBERS reported that when anything of the nature of a meeting, ball, dm., was going on in the Town Hall, the gas in the reading room was not sufficient to light the place properly. _ _ Mr. SIN - CLAIII thought the reason of it was that they had slot a large enough main. Mr

i• • r ; ; • TH 1-41 nAIIINER. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1880. • ST. HELENS LITERARY AND SCIEN- I ITARRIN6TON PARLIAMENTARY TIFIC ASSOCIATION. DEBITING SOCIETY. LECTURE ON BEER. On Tuesday night, an excellent paper on " Beer : Some varieties and their effects" was read before the me

TEMPERANCE SERMONS AT OIJGIITRINGTON.-011 Sunday special sermons were preached morning and evening in Oughtrington church, by the Rev. T. Storey Bates, on behalf of the Church of England Temperance Society. On Monday evening a public meeting was held in the Boys' school, when ad

Xfttrry to iibitsr. RUNCORN MERSEY MISSION TO SEAMEN. Sir, —1 beg to acknowledge through your columns my grateful thanks to the ladies who have kindly sent me paacels of clothes for the boat children, which were soon made use of, to the great joy and delight of the recipitents ;

of members 533.520. The total capital of the Unity was £4,709.10e95. lid., making an average for each member of £8 17s. 4 1 ,t1. The district funeral fund had paid £98,249 Os. 7d. The. St. Helens district was composed of 22 , odtt,es, and at their last quarterly meeting they,mus