... ANARTIST'S WAR DIARY SAVERNE, Seaft. 17 WE started at vofture for Saverne, where we were told the course was clear of Prussians, but, as usual, we were mis- informed. Saverne was crammed with them. Having pulled up to bait our horses at an inn, the driver refused to go on again, so we had to look for other horses. Our host, however, did not care to help us, and we were obliged to stay in his ...

... DISTRICT ENEWS. COSELEY. 'Ilie Rev. T. Slater begs to acknowledge with thanks £1. received trom Anonymous, for the 6outh Staffordshire S Hocspital. 111BRO3ISGROVE. G CA-rrl DisIAsm-At the meeting of the local sub. committee, for carrying out the contaious Diisease, (Animals) Act, held on Tuiesday afternoon, it was reported that more sheep were exposed for sale that day in Bromas- grove ...

... The amendments on the Irish Land Bill, which are to be moved in committee of the House of Lords, were issued on Saturday. The Duke of Richmond has given notice of many amend- ments. He proposes to amend the clause which provides that a tenant of a holding not claiming under the Ulster tenant-right custom shall not be barred from making a claim for compensation, by adding the words, if the ...

... ILOCAL AND DISTRIOT PEDESTRIANISM. BowIrN GuEIim Geuoou4S,- BU3CHFIELDS. - A numercus company attended yet erdav to witnesa the fievl heats of the two miles walking handicap (th-i winrers of their hopate O(n Saturday we gave in our edltion of Mlonday.) Tho following apreared in the deciding heat: B. Thomasr, atscratoh, 1; Willets, of Ooker Hill, liOyarda; J. Beckett, att eeratoh. Thomias veut ...

... DISTRICT NE' WS. tX{OM8lG~tO VE j SINUM1-IthA CAI r ciOF SUICIDE, -Mr. tl Dooker, Coroner held au inqseaqt, on 8,t,&rday afternoon, at the Crab Atilt lin, touohing the death of Joseph. Harris, an inmate of the Union lWorkhouse, who omeiintteod ueldo by hr-nging on the previous morningr. Decoeaed had been an inmate of the Workhouse ever srince 1S86, and hoe was :.bout 64 years of age. Ho wa ...

... WOLVERHAMPTON. ST. GEOltGR'S CHuRCH.-It was generally rumoure l at the end of last week that the main points in dispute be- tween the congregation of St. George's and the vicar (the Rev. A. B. Prior) were settled and that one of the ques- tions would be set at rest by the vicar's resumption of the black gown on Easter Sunday. Upon inquiry, we find that-the vicar has expressed hlis willingness ...

... GENE R A.L NESW. [rimSAt ~A&900IUTIOX{ TitLrGASit,] TI R- IIOYAL SOITY CONVSERAZIONE,, The annual 0onvereasione of the Royal Society waa 6hld on Saturday night, a-; Buxiiniegllo Eouso, Thee was not Eo large an attendance anH usual. T'he oeimpany iueindoi the names of many tnembers of the Royal Society and othemhdiirtingstikehdin cieniee- Agreautnuanberofobjeet3r of ?? wete exhibited in varioun ...

... NEWS or THE DAY. e Both Houses sat in the morning of Saturday door am hour, but in both Houses the business was sirply ,t Y a formal and unimportant character. It is expected that Parliament will be proroguetl o, Wednesday. s The yawning space of valuable ground purchased AX r the site for the new Law Courts, will shortly he a occupied by builders. For two years this valuable e piece of land ...

... :TARFOBDSHRE AGRICULTURAL g BOO~~80IET!Y, The prizo lint of particulars of the exhibition of Stock at the above show will be found in en Inalde page. THE DINNER took place In the Agricultural Hal, yesterday evening, the Bight Hon. Lord Hatherton presiding, supported by Mr. J. Hartley (High Sheriff of tie County), the Right Hon. the Earl of Harrowby, Ur. Charles Forseter, M.P., Air. J BI ...

... SOCETY AND POLITICS. [Prom our London orrespondent.] _ ?? *TnE Presidential speech on the opening of the Session r of Science, eonfined to a single point of a single que. st tien, has no doubt proved disappointing to mcle than c general readers *who expected so much from the philo- c sepher -who this year presides over the British A Iso-0 eiation, as a master of scientific survey and desrip-f ...

... General Oamabdia, -who was wounded at liedlan, ba~ arrived at Tours. Gti~Rs ?? Fuua.,qp&-Tbe g Eont20011o TXuoazfi 5ay5 that several cases ofgum s destined far Francs haxe been GuAuwn(o ThETn i3. Aseilbatlz o pad.the Ministry of Finpee Is b~noeted. it' will' Consist 46f mjilopids of the eefa cnnitalfa4 wil be armed with Wnders ?? Iodlfied.' ES6 AFED FROM Soim.v;:~The'Courrie2 de Zo Fr6it says ...

... ' BIRMINGHAM EVIDENCE BEFORE THE BEGERO 0MM .TrEZ Several witnesaes were examined.,before 'Io House of ?? Committee on Local Tazatlen, whose report we have already published. Ur- Alderman Avery'was the only witness examined from Birmingham, end as ihls evidence contains much interesting ?? information , with respect to local rating, we reprint it from the, blue book:- . I , .I Mr. Thomas Avtiy ...