... ' EVE'NING SCHOOLS AND) CIMSSE; OF, - UE2IS34N!IESTEIt SCHOOL BOAIRD.| THE MANCHES ?? Thebe Technical Instruction Act, 1889, Sir Wilham ?? new code, and th Elementary Education Act, 1890, have given an impectn' in many vays to the development of evening instruction. Parliament has now recognised the importance of aid being. given. from Icol!l and Imperial sources towards the -givring of ...

... Already spring voices lure and beckon us. She herself is only hiding away somewhere round the corner. She tarries on her way, and disappoints us often, but she is coming nearer hourly, and we hasten with eager steps to meet her. Her presence is suspected more than seen, for the changes from day to day are but slight, yet there is a certain freshness on the tender grass, and sometimes for a ...

... In the County Court of Manchester, on Tuesday, a receiving order was made against Mr. Edward Garcia, described as of Mount-street, the Comedy Theatre, the Mosley Hotel, and 3, Oxford Terrace, Old Trafford, Mancbester. MAr. Garcia is also connected with the Princess's Palace of Varieties, Leeds, and the Folly Theatre, Manchester, is carried on under his direction and supervision. The ...

... I SQSOCITY AND THE STAGE. I . I PROM TSE LONDON CORESPOSDEN4E OF TEI ANC9ESE ErXAISNR AND innS. Dean Hole, of Rochester, who has been mentioned as a candidate for the vacant deanery of Manchester, would not, Iaam told, accept the appointment if it were offered to him. The Hon. and Rev. Augustus Legge, rector of Lewisham, and brother of the Earl of Dartmouth, is spoken of as the most likely ...

... --AWSW~RT t'CHIJRCH AND THE: FiroN I ~~~MONUMENTS. ? - L - - I . z - - MARY FITTON. I : ( Ih;To :L__ o_ ?? LB tiaWsAWrth, a, pretily little village some four ~miles from Macclesfield, has recently berome known, by name a any rate, to a wide, public by Mr. Tyler's volume on theheroine of Shakspsri's sonuets. Mr. Tyler's theory is that the black beauty of the sonnets was Mary Fitton, a ...

... SUM-AARY OF PARLIATMENT. r.I HOUSE OF LORDS.I THURSDAY. PtoTncrrz0o O' sUaLDRuaX: GoVsRaNns'T BrLL.- The Lord Chancellor, in requesting Lord Meath to postpone Lis miotion for the second reading of the Protection of Children Bill, stated that be had given directions for a bill on the subject to be prepared- for the Government. Lord Meath postponed his motion accordingly.- HOUSE OF COMMONS. ...

... I AMA MTE SOCIETY OF TAILORS _ AND THEIR HOURS AND PAY. ' Themembers of the Amalgamated Society of Tailors have for some months past been agitating for a new timelog,'and the neoitosthey have been carry. fallen through, in consequence of a division of opinion among the employers, the men drewr up an ultimatum and presented it to each employer. Mr. John Williams, secretary of the Amalgamated ...

... GUNPOWDER PLOT AND HARRISON AINSWORTH'S ; GUY FAWKES. It is not easy at first sight to understand how the popular festival, and other reasons might also the fifth of November came to be kept all over be brought forward. Now, however, we venture England as the most general of holidays with to say that the holiday has almost entirely lost its the exception of the first day of the year and old ...

... THE AFFAIRS OF G. H. STEWART A-ND 1 CO., OF_ BLACKBURN. I OVER FIVE HUNDRED WRITS. George H. Stewart, fonnerly trading in Ainswvorth- street, B~lackburn, as cStewart and Co. , was brought up in custody at the Blackburn Bankruptcy Court, 021n Wednesday morning, fourthe continuation of his pub] ic examnination. Mir. Addlesisaw (Addieshaw and War-1 burton, Manchester) appeared for the trustee ...

... THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY NIAE BAZAR The Rome in Manchester bazaar at St. James's Hall, was formally opened for the third time yester- day at noon. The Mfayor of Salford (Mr. B. PRobinson) presided: and with him in the neighbour- hood of the platform were Lord and Lady \V. Nevill, Lady (wendolme Petre. MIiss Petre, Lady Sykes, Mrils. Bowman, Lady de TrafFord, the Misses de Trafford. Mrs. and ...

... , A-tot an6t utritef ANSWERSAN COMMENTS. J FAMILIAR PHRASES, &6. w (Qery No. 330; A. and C Nc-5 370,376, and 380.) tl {s37] There are few ssyi;3gs so often misquoted as C the familiar one which eec-urs in I. Timothy, vi.,10, a For the love of money is the root of all evil. In b the article on old Eiglish coins which appears in the ti Week7y Times of the 10th inst., the writer begins by i ...

... THE PROGRESS OF .EILE SM BU- E SHIP CANAL PORT. Ellesmere NAp M iI litW it t thsirhd~ Sf A change such at has ?? befbtd happened in all the sleepy eentury tif its thitesnce; tel@s miere Bay Will Moon lid lthgei Cenforn to that geographical term. Straighb across its sands there has been flung the gigantic wooden framework seen in the above picture. Hundreds of men swarm upon it like clusters of ...