... On Thursday evening, in last week, Dr. Lankester, the coroner for Central Middlesex, delivered a lecture on this subject, to a large audience, in the Freemasons'-hall, ever which Mr. Charles Reed, M.P., presided, in the absence of the Earl of Shaftesbury. Dr. Lankester, after a scriptural and historic retro- spect, proceeded to deal with the question as it ad- dressed itself to the Christian ...

... lltistcllaiiiOMs HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL. THE SURGERY OF BICYCLES.-Human sorrows, it is seen on all hands, keep pace with human progress, the new mode of transit being no exception to the uni- versal law (says the Lancet). Within the last few months, both in this country and in France, surgeons have had to treat a great variety of injuries, the results of accidents from the bicycle some of ...

... SATURDAY. Before Col. Byrde and the Rev J. C. Llewellin. BEGGING. Elizabeth Jenkins was charged with begging at Pontypool. P.c. Curtis gave evidence. Defendant pleaded guilty, and said that she came from Newport with her husband, in the hope that ho would find employment as a col- lier in the neighbourhood. She was discharged, with a caution that she must not repeat such an offence. ...

... A VICTIM TO REVENGE! The quiet locality of Newchurch, about eight miles from Chepstow, was, on Saturday morning last, the scene of the following shocking occurrence:— A man named John Lane, son of a farmer residing at Llanvihangel, appears to have cherished a feeling of animosity against his brother-in-law, Richards, of Kilgwrrwg, a homestead, surrounded by woods, hills, and dales, but ...

... A New York paper says that nearly all the brilliant complexions seen among the females of New York are the result of arsenic eating. Since the introduction of the blonde fashion arsenic eating has become almost t ...

... In the House of Lords, .Tune 7, the Earl of Devon presented jJ)etition from the cler_ of Exeter against the Bill lor the westa^lishruent and Disendowment of the Irish Church, and aid it would be disingenuous on his part If he did not de- lare that he did not concur in the prayer of the petition, so as regards the rejection of the bill upon the second read- NT was in favour of letting the ...

... BRITISH AND FOREIGN. A gun is being exhibited in San Francisco that is said to fire 500 shots a minute. A tradesman of Zurich publishes the following adver- tisement in a Journal of that town :—Wishing to put an end to my life, which is a burden to me, and being determined to die as soon as possible, I shall sell my goods at such low rates as have never been heard of. It is stated that the ...

... letter of your correspondent, Fred Firkin, has given great satiafactu-n in Blaena- afon, as it cannot fail to direct the atirntior of jhe authorities to the baneful practice of beer at Shops and lo the rumour that at Blaen- afon Shop a large room is to be built for the pur- pose of enabling the poor icorkmcn to get drunk on the premises and swa'low what should come in good and lawful money to ...

... A meeting of members of the Upper House-140 in number-was held at the Duke of Marlborough's re- sidence in London, on Saturday, to consider the course to be taken by the Lords as to the Irish Church BilL It was almost exclusively a meeting of lay Peers, and the large majority were strongly in favour of throwing out the bill on the second reading. This course was vigorously supported by Lord ...

... Last Saturday, James Walter M'Alpine, a well- drestsed man of middle age, who had at first persisted in refusing his name and address, was charged, on remand, before Mr. Alderman Causton, and Alderman Sir Hobert Carden, at the Justice-room of the Mansion- house, in LondoD, with obtaining on the 12th of May, from a lady at the Bath and Cheltenham Hotel, Pad- dington, a cheque for IYJJ7, drawn ...

... Killarney.—I love you. You are good. I am un- happy, and wish to see you. Write.—June 5th.—Advertise- ment in Tht Tivm. ...

... Wtfrnpnlifan OWN eORRESP01mENT. 'I'fhe remarks unàer this head are to be regarded as the ex- pression oi independent opinÜm, from the pen of agentleman wÍ10m tn havc the greatest confidence, but for which we ,vortheles3 do not hold ourselves responsible.] The attitude of the House of Lords in regard to the Irish Church Bill has for some time past been a theme for gossip, speculation, rumour, ...