... A remarkable suit to obtain the annulment of a marriage contract bas occupied seven sittings of the Civil Court of Paris. The defendant was a gentleman named Stern, a Russian subject, formerly a shipbroker in London, and the plaintiff Madame Edouard Houssaye, sister and heir-at law of Madame Stern, now deceased. The marriage between M. and Madame Stern was solemnised in 1862 after a very ...

... I MTUM IN PARVO. The sot asued in the lat seoito Stspend ti, t0 Habeas 0orpus Act it Ireland will expire on the 25th of next month. A.- A woman lving at Bradford, who was cans- Ue tomed to take laudanuum for the relief of asthoa d killed herself on Thursday, by taking an overdos,' Ake On Thursday night, a crowded meeting of th arod inhabitalts of Leeds was held, in favour of the t release of ...

... STRATFORD-ON- AVON RAILWAY. The half-yearly meeting of the sharelsolders of this undertaking was held yesterday, in the Town HaU, Strat- ford-on-Avon. Mr. Richard Greaves, chairman of direc- tors, presided ; a small number of shareholders only were present. The report has already been published. The Chairman made a few remarks explanatory of the increase of capital which had arisen from their ...

... LEAMINGTON. Tna VAGRANCY QoasvIoN.-EOUABLOEGIENI' OF A ILNDeICITY SocsTrrv.-A public mooting, convened by the Rev. T. 3, lyhitchurst, Chairman of the Warwick Boird of Guardians, was held on Tuesday afternoon, in the Board Room, at the Town Hall, for tied purposo of discuss- ingthc subject of vagranoy, andadopting soens moans for the effectual supprcssion of the scaus in this district. Tho Lev. ...

... IBEUTEB'S THLEGBAMS.1 AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND. MLLBOtURtNE Ftsc. 2,-Severe drought prevails, and live stock are perishing for want of foader. 'lihe harvest is nevertheless goou, aud the revenue returns are satisfactory. The voo market is flrsib -nd tile yield of gold good. ?? JAN. 31. T1ho r port of the Parliamentary Coinurtte5 appointed to investigiate thse alleged Feniun olganisatlon ha8 ...

... ADD{RESS FROM ARCIII)EACONS & CLERGY I TO THIE BISHOP OF LICHIFIELD. ' U I. 1111 DLO5UL UJ' BL',.alii.c. Wi Trle following is a copy of .ain address wvhiclh has just g been presented to the Lortl Bishop of Lichficld on his n retlrn from New Zealand:- w TO TIIE LORtD liISIIOP OF LICni'IEiLD. h Alv Lord Bislop-lu the liallie of tile clergy, ?? nlilljad g wi have asceltailled through the ...

... NEWTON SOLNEY. ' A sermon in aid of the British and Foreign Bible Society I was preached in the parish church, on Sunday morning, Jan. 31st, by the Rev. J. Clay. M.A., vicar of Stapenhill. A: liberal collection was made after the sermon. r. BRETBY. it On Wednesday morning last, a fatal accident occurred to a young man named George Blow, employed at the Bretby colliery. It appears that he was ...

... THE ATfACK ON THE IRISH CHURCH. I MEETING IN ARMAGH. I A lurrETIcG has been held in Armagh pursuant to notice, Rev. Dr. RUTLEDG.E was called to the chair. Rev. Mr. Murphy opened the meeting by reading a prayer. Wm. Paton, Esq, J. P., moved the first resolution- That, in the present critical position of the Protestant interests in Ireland, it is incumbent on us, the laity of the parish of ...

... An influential meeting in furtherance of this movement was held on Thursday, at the Westminster Palace Hotel, London, under the chairmanship of Mr Osborne Morgan, M.P. Amongst others present were-Mr Watkin Wil- liams, M.P., Mr Morgan Lloyd, Mr Hugh Owen, Mr John Matthews (Mayor of Aberystwyth), Rev. D. Charles (secretary), Rev. Owen Evans, Rev. M. D. Jones, Rev. Robert Jones, Rev. W. Lloyd, ...

... Wk ABERDOVEY. Pif, Mary and Alice, James, London, sundries PvLv^rry, Belfast, potatoes Velocity, Davies, Aber; ballast; i^iiow Drop, Walter, Barmouth, ditto |Vlv°n, Jones, St. John's, N. America, timber. K^ia —ane Owens, Williams, London, slates; Jane > Lewis, London, slates Seven Brothers, Davies, (W1' slates; Kathrina, Tliuder, Newport, slates; fa^th Margaret, Williams, Chester, lead ore ...

... STEALING A SHIRT. Thomas John Davies (16), imperfectly instructed, bank-book dealer, Swansea, was charged with stealing one flannel shirt, of the value of 9s. Gll., the property of one Griffith Phillips, at Llangefelach, on the 16th February, 1869, and with receiving the same knowing it to have been stolen. Mr. Bowen prosecuted. Verdict: Guilty. Sentence Two months' imprisonment in the House ...

... pairingly for him, anticipates difficulty in dealing with it, owing to the great number of clauses. This is a matter of necessity, for what is wanted is a Consoli- dation Act, to include all those at present in force, ex- cepting, of course, the obsolete and inutile, and adding any that the wisdom of Parliament may deem ne- cessary. We have much to be thankful for in what has been already ...