... SPEECH OF MR. JOHN BRIGHT, M.P. One evening last week an enthuiastlc reform meeting was held in the British Schoolroom, Street. Mr. John Bright having arrived in the village, a desire was at onca expressed that he should attendthe meeting in the eveLing, and a depntatlon of working men was appointed, and waited on him. Mr. Bright acceded to their request, and whenhe appeared met an ...

... 1- %Itw~aa~aus. X The ommiteeof the Nat,.n MUno are said to con template holding - AdmosrtoiM. 8purgeon's Tabernacle. duonstration ia Mr. The Aveenir 2fftO§a 13mys thait a Protestant th vemt ovr fe ~~IMVOLUPOrt ee taklng plsue la Italy, and ta el leal churches are being established in Florence, ,asples, 4ieco*, Venice, Turin, Padua, and Bologna,. In Cedar Comnty, Iowa, ls a young forest of ...

... CENTRAL HALL OP ARTS AND SCIENCES. The Central Hall of Arts and Scieneos. the first stone of which was on Monday laid by her Majasty the Queen, will form an appropriate monument to a Prince who earnestly devoted much of his time and care to the furtheranceof studies by wbicta nation is enlightened and refined. It is, however, well to distinguish a work of this character from a memorial, puro ...

... ILLTRtSEATIN A Cisrt.D.-Richard Bishop, the marker at the Hereford Ride Butts, who was recently charged with gross cruelty to his child, has been had up on rsonaid. It appeared that he had served 2S years in the 36th ?? Ia addition to the evidence ?? t iveu, Fanuy lerniott said she saw the poor child lying o0 the grouud; she complained of her chest and Eaid, O t, it is where father hit me. ...

... THE WAGES QUEbTION IN AMERICA. The New York correspondent of the Times says:- This struggle between employers and employed has fairly begun, and everyone except a philosopher who has preps red unslterable theories about the country will d rive great instruction from watching its progress. The labour party are advancing to fresh ground every day.. Even the New York T-ibuni is obliged to protest ...

... PROTEST AGAINST THEt BISHOP OF SALISBURY'S CHARGW. Dr. Hamilton, Bishop of Salisbury, has made the following reply to the protest of the clergy and lay- men of the Dorchester deanery:- The address which was signed by you and eight other clergymen, and fifteen laymen, reached me on Saturday before I left Dorchester. When I asked my brethren to give my whole charge a calm and patient and dutiful ...

... JPisqttuneou!). f QUEEN VICTORIA. AS AN AUTHOR.—The fact is not ge- nerally known, either here or in America, that her Majesty Queen Victoria has written a work entitled Leaves from a Journal in the Highlands, which consists of about 4 descriptive of her life at Balmoral and the neighbourhood. 1 lie work is illustrated by photographs and woodcuts from her Ma- jesty's sketches. It contains, ...

... MORTALITY AMOHG MOOE GAMK.—About the month of November last the grouse and black game on the moors in Ettrick and Yarrow were attacked by a disease which has thinned the stocks of both kinds of birds to a very great ex- tent, they having died in some places by the hundred. It is chiefly oil largely stocked moors that the disease prevails, having scarcely, if at all, shown itself where the ...

... GAY DOINGS IN PARIS. There was a great gathering of the world's notabili- ties in Paris last Friday night at the English Embassy, in honour of the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Edinburgh, there being a ball at which there were 1,:300 people. The following account is furnished by a Paris correspondent :— The Emperor Xapoleon and the Empress Eugenie were present; the King and Queen of the ...

... A mysterious occurrence is at this moment causing a considerable sensation at 1* ontainebleau. Some excur- sionists in the forest a few days back discovered near Franebart, in the underwood, at a short distance from the road, the body of an elegantly-dressed lady, the face of which had been devoured by some carnivorous animal, probably a wolf. The corpse bore no other signs_ of external ...

... when much discussion, was tak- £ aWt the Merchant Service, a society was ur the exptess purpose of inquiring into the tit and laying the result of its investigations ^ted arc^ °t Trade and the public. The society committee of thirty gentlemen to report to 1 Such chiefly from the professions most conversant rrf uestions. There were naval officers ship- c^6l • ers °f the mercantile marine, ...

... General JUtos. ;^The prineipalsbip of 'be N irtli Wales t^lDg College is about to become vaeai-t it is worth jGJ>er annum, with a house. TOT G 0F A VILLAGE.—'THE little village of Prapic A-lpes) has been almost wholly destroyed _by •is*1 ^Wo °a^ 'birty-nine thatched houses of which p^mposfed now remaining. An eld man of 72 met taw death in the flumes, ^HON BOAT-RACE.—The l)oat race for the ...