The Conference resumed on Saturday morning, under the presidency of the Rev. S. B. Southerland, D.D., Methodist Protestant Church. paper was read by the Eev. Joseph Wood, M.A., of the Primitive Methodist Church of Great Britain, on the training of children Christian homes so as

THE LAND QUESTION IRELAND The recently.!, rmea committee of Irish landlords to publish a series pamphlets for the purpose diffusing sound information upon the land question. The first of these, now issued, is entitled ''Notes upon the Gorernment Valuation of Land in Ireland." It

coal train on the Great Northern Railway, nea. king's Cross, this morning, ran into an engine standing •* the line. The engines overturned, and the valves scalding the driver and stoker. One has since *ied.

EXHIBITION AT STAFFORD. ♦ The Staffordshire Agricultural Society has existed for years, and now, of Cour c, one ol the established institutions of the com.ty. A recognised rule observed by the committee is to l.o'd the annual exhibition alternately—at town in the centre of a lar

ROOM (furnished or I unfurnished) ; pleasantly situated.—Apply, 84, Hartshill. ARTMENTs, for One or Two Gentiemen.—Address, M., Upper Normacot-road, longton. WANTED, by respectable Man~"a _ good," HOME, in Longton Dresden.—Apply, by ietter, J. P., Sentinel Office, Hauley. a GEWT

be prosecuted.—J. Holdcroft, Sutherland Pottery, Daisy Bank, longton. LOST, large SHEEP DOG; black body, white throat and foot Finder rewarded ; detainer prosecuted. —A pp, y, Mill Bank Colliery, Silverdalo. LOST, on Sunday7~between Turn-tail and bed Bull, LADY'S Black MACINTOSH

MATCH. Gareth beat Starstone. PRINCE OF WALES' CUP. Warren Hastings, 1; Dinna Forget, 2 ; Queensland, 3. Four ran. VICTORIA CUP. Knight of Burghley, 1; King Stephen, 2; Woodreeve, 3. Nine ran. TWO-YEAR-OLD PLATE. Resin the Bow, 1; Nita, 2 ; Ironclad, 3. Four ran. DITTON STAKES.

At Londonderry Assizes, to day, Elizabeth Buchanan was sentenced to death for the murder of her husband in Londonderry last April. The execution takes place on August 23rd. John Richmond will be executed on August Bth Durham, for murdering his wife.

of surveying party, thirteen in number, near Pasco del Norte, Santa Fe. The discovery of the terrible crime was made by a party of Americans going to Chihuahua, who saw on the road near the Saw Hills thirteen dead bodies, ail of men belonging to surveying parties of the Mexican

The Conference assembled half-past nine on Wednesday morning, and proceeded to complete the elections for the Legal Hundred, and the following were elected: The Revs. Frederick Macdonald, George Bornley, Edwin H. Tindall, John Hay, John Shaw Banks ; on behalf of the Irish Confer