... A meeting of the working classes was held on Sunday morning on Clerkenwell-green, in London, under the auspices of the Holborn branch of the Reform League, for the purpose of hearing a lecture from Mr. C. Bradlaugh on The Land and the People. There were about 1,000 persons present, Mr. Osborne being In the chair. The lecturer commenced by saying that to obtain life and happiness from the ...

... A number of gipsies have been encamped outside the walls of York, between Walmgate liar and the Red Tower, and near to the Foss Islands. The lads attending the Walmgate Church I fistrict Schools are in the habit of going on to this wall, which bounds the school grounds, and overlooks the camp of the gipsies. Shortly after one o'clock last Friday several boys went on to the wall, as usual, and ...

... lVHERE ONCE I LIVED. There is the church spire, tall and straight, and dwindling into nought, The landmark many a weary eye from distant heights has sought; There are the houses, great and small (I hneio who lived in each), The time-bleached rocks, the trees, the meads, the river s winding reach And there's the school, the bell rings out, just as it used, at two, But there's a different master ...

... On Friday evening in last week a well-attended public meeting of working men resident in the district of St. Margaret's and St. John's, Westminster, London, was held inSt. Margaret's Schoolroom, Tothill-street, for the purpose of forming a working men's branch of the Lord's Day Observance Society. The Right Hon. Lord Hatheiley (the Lord Chan- cellor) occupied the chair, and in the course of ...

... FATAL ACCIDENT AT MONMOUTH. On Tuesday an inquiry was held at Troy House, Monmouth, before E. D. Batt, Esq., coroner, respecting the death of William Cecil, son of Osmond Wyatt, Esq., of Troy House, who eamc by his death under the following distressing circumstances :—The deceased was playing at Troy House with his two brothers, Geoffrey and another, on Saturday last, and during the play the ...

... WRECK OF THE HERMANN AND LOSS OF 250 LIVES. By the arrival oi the China Mail we have par ticulars of the wreck of the Pacific Mail Com- pany's ship Hermann, (already reported by telegraph), which struck on a reef about 75 miles from Yokohama. She was on her way to Sugar Straits, which divide Yezo from the mainlaud. The imperial troops have begun to move northwards, and the Hermann had board ...

... A year and a half ago a blacksmith, named Richard Jackson, became landlord of the Black Horse public. house at Atherstone, in Warwickshire. He had not been in the house many days when one morning he told his wife that he would go out and see if he could get work at a colliery in the neighbourhood. He never returned, and great anxiety was, of course, felt as to his fate. The ponds in the ...

... The Chinese colour with mineral powder much of the tea sent to England this enables them to pass off the worthless brown leaves as fine tea, to the great loss and disappointment of the consumer: Horniman's Tea being se- lected from the choice spring gathering, and without the usual facing powder, is strong and delicious. Sold only in packets. Local Agents advertised in our columns. ...

... BOROUGH POLICE, MONDAY.—(Before the Mayor, W. Evans, C. Lyne, and W. Morgan, Esqs.)—John Hodgkiss, a private of the 23rd Royal Welsh Fusiliers, was charged with being drunk and disorderly in Friar's fields. Ordered to be banded over to the military au- thorities.—Mr Wybert Rousby applied for a renewal of the theatrical license for the Victoria-hall. The bouse having been properly conducted and ...

... Here are two more instructive chapters of criminal bi(,gr,LI)I)v :-III London last week W illiam Sumun rs, aged thirty, was convicted of an attempt at burglary, and a ferocious attack on the police, and sentenced to five years' penal servitude. From the age of seventeen he has, with the exception of 1,157-8, never passed a single year without spending a portion of it in gaol. Since 18.).) he ...

... +1 VISIT TO THE PLYMOUTH I RON W OllKS. VISIT JFO. 2, There are traces of aaou-nt wori-ngo. in and arouqd Plymouth, but'lutle is known of t}iem. All tPLit we know for certain is that the place becn:r>e identified with some abortive ctforts of Mr Wii kinson, who started a furnace there and continued it fbr a time, but. it was soon given up, and eventually disposed of to Mr Bacon, who b: i\; ht ...

... The following confession was made by Sheward, which sets at rest the doubts previously entertained by a few as to the certainty of his guilt :— City Gaol, Norwich, April 13, 1869, 2.45 p.m. THE VOLUNTARY CONFESSION OF WILLIAM SHEWARD, UNDKR. SENTENCE OF DEATH IN THE ABOVE PRISON. In the year 1849, November, I placed a box of money, having £100 in it, in Mr. Christie's possession, for him to ...