... 1 RIuE A CALAM EAR - -ONDo- PIER:, AT AN )USTRIAL SCHOOL. TWENTY-SIX BOYS SUFFOoATED. In l early hoirs of the first day of the New Year a fire broke out in the Industrial School at Forest Gate, in the eastern suburbs of London, and although the ?? were quickly subdued, no fewer than 25 boys Ist their lives by suffocatioe In some respects, although not of course in its fatal magi- tude, the. ...

... ITO READERS AND CORRESPOnDENTS. C. Cwixsow.-No prize was offered. M. de Lesseps is indisposed, but his con- dition does not occasion any anxiety. A Guildford telegram states that a blacksmith named Barber, living at 41bury, near that town, has just received £10,000. The bodies of two boys named Lamb and Mawdesley were found yesterday in the canal at Appley Bridge, IUpholland, near Wigan. ...

... I ~ Gencral bA.S I dMr. W. L. Bright, 5AP., is confined to his bed with a cold. The death is announced of Colonel Sir Henry d Yule, the geographical expert. The English Catholic pilgrimage to the Holy a Land will take place in the spring. Mr. Thomas E. Ellis, M.P., for Merionetts- k ine, lies dangerously ill of malarial fever at Luxor. e Mr John William Phillips, of Burnley, has a been placed ...

... I I-M.$TQ(YNB AXP TEIE iiGO~T~? i . IE A TU' 1f ?? ?? X'4 E Ww'o .$three9 1emwthaego (the al Mall Oas4j a r. drw Cregie, ti Amerian arilclonre con2 Atributed to the NGorth AlmeriaReiw a remarrlaei artidce on the Duities or Wealth. The arice at- ?? the attention of Mr. Gladstone, iii whose- Esuggestion it was republished in this cou~ntry; TVa linonth Mr. Carnegie followed ulp his first article ...

... - ' I ~. VZP 'BY A BARRISTER AT LAW, ja No. CCXL di ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENT. [so `EXOXORL..You hare not ?? us which was the eldeste .grrbut we presume that it was the one mentioned in ISWsi5 being mzrried. It that is the case, according to the F 'It nterpret ation of the will, the surviving_ daughte r has ath .e Intees~t in one half as she bad before, while the other half I Oes to the ...

... I GASWORKERS OP A CHESTER AND_SALFORD. - - .DISTRIBUTION OF ELIEF.- The CentraI Committee of ministers for the relief of the unemployed _rasworkers of Manchester- and Salford met on M onday in the Central Hall, Oldhami-street. They decided that Ss. per week i should be the maxim-um grant of each family, and that at present no relief should be given to single men. It was-reported that donations ...

... l The Queen has been pleased to approve of the t appointment of Sir John Lubbock, Bart,, MYP., andh Sir John Gorst, QC0., M.P., to be members of her ti Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council. tl The' Queen has conferred baronetcies 'of the United Kingdom upon J. T. Davies Llewelyn, of u Pinllergan; James Thompson Mackenzie, of Glen- r' muick; and William Scovell Savory, President of the SE ...

... TH - AJII-illl 1AT: -AT--I I ; E : -- ?? D C , V-~ , S V 1. M - I - MEETING' QI'WORKMEN.th : ?? an. DISORDERLY SCENES. Ow A public meeting was held in the Town 31B1,W Cmwe, on ,Saturday'e~iug, to'bid famwell to kXr.2 a Joseph Jones, the Liste President of the Crewe Gladatonian Liber*l Association, who is leaving Crewe aO railway works, after 33 years' service, on account, as he aeged in a ...

... I MR. PARNELL A UU-K] SPOD ?? INTERVIEW WITH TRE PETITIONER- STATEMENT BY MR PARNELL. A petition for divorce was filed on the 24th inst., bv William Henry O'Shea, of 12*, Victotreet, bfesmiuster, and justiceof the peace in county Clare, against his wife, Mr. Charles Stewart Parnell, M.P., being correspondent. The grounds alleged are the infidelity of Mrs. O'Shea during the period from April, ...

... ST. MARYTS CHURCH, MANHESTER,- These illustrations are from Thursday's issue of the Blfanchester Exa7niner Clu Times. To pass under the auctioneer's hammer seems perhaps the last indignity that can be suffered by an institution that has long been set to high uses, yet such a fate threatens the venerable and stately, the whilom fashionable Manchester church of St. Mary, a sketch of which heads ...

... I BY WTuTjAM HuGGiNs, ?? LL.D., PF.R.S. I IN TWO PARTS. PART I. It is difficult for those for whom these lines are more particularly written to realise how completely a new branch of astronomy-21 had almost said a new astronomy-has been created by the now familiar spectroscope, which some 30 years ago had no place among the astronomical instruments of an observatory. Even so short a time back ...

... I The poultry keeper who has ample shed accommoda- tion need not trouble himself much about his chicken coops. Any contrivance that will confine the hen and allow the young birds to run in and out will answer his purpose. The shed protectsthem from the weather, and with proper management they can always have dry ground beneath them. But many have to get along without these advantages. The ...