... TUB Rev. Alfred Poole has addressed a letter to the Times, dated from St. Barnaba3 College, in which he makes a statement agreeing with Mr. Liddell's remarks and in which he says also I most solemnly and emphatically declare that the whole of the filthy and disgusting statements which the Hon. and Rev. F. Baring has thought it right to make public are, as far as I am concerned, entire and ...

... CHURCH RATES.-At the close of last week a Vestry Meeting was held in pursuance to notice, for the purpose of levying a rate for the repairs and necessary expenses of the parish church for the present year. As it was decided last year that no rate should be levied, and the necessary funds should be raised by voluntary subscriptions, and as £ 7 more than was required had been so collected on the ...

... A grand banquet was given in the evening by Sir John Ratcliffe, Mayor of Birmingham, in the Town-hall. Nearly 300 gentlemen were present, and the galleries were filled with ladies. The health of her Majesty was drunk with the utmost enthusiasm, and Sir John Ratcliffe, by his townsmen, was toasted with every demonstration of gratification at the honour of which he had been found worthy by his ...

... A PRECENTOR'S SALARY.-There is a shoe- maker living in Rothesay who is, and has been, officiating as precentor in a parish church some seven miles distant during the last sixteen years. Besides his vocal dudes, be ha.s to travel seven miles every Sunday to the church, and another seven miles back again. This Sunday pedes- trian exercise amounts to 728 miles of ground to be walked over every ...

... SCOTLAND DEATH OF THE LORD JUSTICE CLERK.—WE hava to make the painful and unexpected announcement of the death of Lord Justice Clerk Hope, which took place at a late hour on Monday. His lordship, when finishing a letter to a relative, about seven o'clock, was seized with paralysis, and never rallied from the attack, expiring about half-past eleven. His lordship was in his sixty- fourth year. ...

... REAL INDEPENDENCE.—A Western editor lately' offered his hat for the best essay on independence. The following obtained the prize i .National independence is easier imagined than described personal independence consists emphatically in being situated in a clean shire, drawers, socks, and a nicely blacked pair of boots, wit-1} at least a dollar and a. half and a flelq cambric in you? pocket, ...

... On leaving Gosta-green, and entering the Aston-road, a very touching spectacle attracted her Majesty's notice. Some 40,000 little children of both sexes, belonging to the schools of all denominations of Christians, and also to those of the Jews, lined the road for some distance on both sides, and as Her Majesty passed they sang in a low, gentle manner, almost seraphic-which moved many to tears ...

... The county of .Stafford has again been the scene of a brutal murder. The particular spot at which the tragedy occurred is called Brockmoor. It is an outlying district in the parish of Kingswinford, on the confines of Wor- cestershire, a few yaras within the Staffordshire boundary, and about three miles from Dudley. It is a populous locality within the South Stafford mining district. Toe ...

... Hub MURDER OF AN ENGLISHMAN IN SPAIN.—The following is extracted from a private letter dated Malaga the 1st instant:—At two a.m. yesterday, ari officer of the cavalry regiment stationed in this city, of the name of Vivian Butler, cousin of the family of Butler, of Cadiz, was barbarously assassinated at a place called Guadal- medina in the suburbs. The deceased was about twenty- two years of ...

... A most painful scene occurred at Hertford, on Tuesday last. Towards the close of the proceedings of the Hert- fordshire election, just after Sir Edward bad concluded his address with a fervent tribute of admiration to the womanly beauty exhibited in the long line of open car- riages, chaises, and vans, drawn up in front of the hustings, there was an unwonted stir in the crowd, which parted to ...

... BANKRUPTS.—FRIDAY, JUNE 11. J. WEIR, Albert-square, Commercial-road East, merchant, J. PARSONS and J. HARTLAND, Dudley, Worcestershire, and Tipton, Staffordshire, coal masters, H..DICKINSO Nottingham, stonemason, P. PHILLIPS, Crowland, Lincoln-Hi e, merchant. E. jun., Tonyrafail, Glamorganshire, draper- G. KNIGHT, Stroud, Glouce.terdlire. brazier. R. BBIGGS, Burgh in the. Marsh, Lincolnshire, ...

... DESTRUCTION OF HAY. On Monday last, at mid-day about seven tons of hay was consumed, as is supposed by the ashes of a pipe falling on it, and igniting it, as it WM being removed. Mrs. DQrin, of Mount house, had recently purchased it of Mr. Jones, butcher, and had previously removed a portion of it. The damage has been estimated at £21. ACCIDENT,—On Saturday morning last, an accident of a ...