... THE HOUSE OF LORDS ON THE QUESTION OF EDUCATION. The Times hopes the premature attempt of Monday might to make a vantage ground of education will do no injury to the cause. There are some subjects so important that the efforts of politicians to appropriate them must prove unavailing, and education is such a subject. No ene can pretend that there is any single department of i #ur national ...

... SEIZURE OF FIREARMS IN MANCHESTER. Late last evening at Manchester, the police appre- hended a suspected person who arrived at the Loudon- road railway station, with forty-live revolvers, packed in *^arPfcn ers tool baskets. He will be brought before 1 alstrat.es 'his morning. The number of strangers have arrived at Manchester by railway the last day wo has excited some appreheusion, as it is ...

... We understand that tho estates of Failih, Inverernie and Wester Gask in the district of Strathnairn, have been purchased bv J. Smithson, Esq., Ileighington, Darlington, for £ 20,500.—Inverness Courier. At a meeting of the Atlantic Telegraph Company on Monday, it was announced that the cables are now earn. ing £ 1,000 a day. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke ofNernours, the D'.ikeT d'Alencon, and ...

... FURTHER EXAMINATION OF BURKE AND CASEY. The prisoners Burke and Casey were again brought before Sir Thomas Henry, at Bow-street Police Court, on Saturday morning. — Mr. Giffard and Mr. Poland, instructed by the Treasury solicitor, appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Merryman for the prisoners.— William Greening said I live in Steelhouse Lane, Birmingham. In December, 1S65, I was in lhc ...

... SUSPECTED MURDER IN SHADWELL. A strange affair occurred on Sunday morning in Phadwell. Between the hours of one and two o'clock the police on duty in Gravel-lane, Shadwell, heard a great disturbance on the drawbridge over the little ranalleiding from The river to the Shadwell basin of the London docks. Upon going thither they saw some men hurrying away from the spot, and they found evi- dent ...

... Jittelligcitijt THE LATE BISHOP LONSDALE.—At a very influen- ti.d!y-,¡ttended meeting held at Lichfield, on Mond¡¡y, Lord Lichfield in the chair, it was resolved to erect in the cathedral a memorial to the late Bishop Lonsdale. CHURCH CONGRESS.—At a preliminary meeting in Trinity Coliege, Dublin, on Monday, the Provost occupying the chair, it was agreed, on the motion of the Lord Primate of ...

... CONSERVATISM IN HUI.L.—The first general meet- insr of the UolderneKs Ward Conservative Associatiol1 has just bren held in the Dawson-lane Schoolroom, Hull, under the presidency of Mr. J J. Field. Up to the time of the meeting 110 fewer than 120 members had lieen enrolled. Letters of apology from Litut.-Colonel Pease and Mr. H. J. Atkinson, J.P., were read. The chairman lmide a very stirring ...

... [FROM OtTR OWN REPOBTERS 3 MONDAY.—TRIAL OF HUNTERS. On Monday the trial of Weight-carrying hunters, prior to their exhibition at the show of Tuesday, came off on the splendid turf land adjoining Tredegar Park. The morning set in rather hazy, and a dulness pre- vailed up to noon, when the clouds in the horizon cleared off, giving way to pleasant sunshine which lasted up to about three o'clock ...

... This being the great cattle-market af the year, or Christ- mas supply, the number of stock sent up from the country for sale was large. The quality was undoubtedly fine, with, in some instances, remarkably good specimens of both breed and feeding which ought to have been exhibited at the Smithfield Club Show. The Aberdeenshire beasts were especially good, and the number large. West country ...

... THURSDAY. The inquiry was resumed at 12 o'clock. William Jones, a lad employed in the Ferndale colliery, was at work at the time of the explosion in James Rees's heading. Jast before the explosion he left the working be. cause there was fire in the stall. The top was also bid and wanted repairs. He had often complained to Harris, the fireman. Spoke to Mr. Williams about the top and he told him ...

... IRISH POLITICS. At a meeting held at Newcastle to protest against the continuance of the Established Church in Ireland, a letter was read from Mr. Headlam, M.P., in which, after de- claring that the government of Ireland is a hopeless and most unsatisfactory matter, he declines to commit him- self to any scheme for the removal of existing grievances' The right hon. gentleman would rather wait ...

... The following are extracts from letters written on board the French mail steamer Panama I have to report my arrival here (St. Nazaire) by the French steamer Panama. Having had yellow fever on board, I expect we shall be quarantined for five or seven days. On the 18th of November, at 3.50 p.m., St. Thomas was visited by a severe shock of earthquake, followed by heavy rollers from the sea, the ...