... On Monday, Mrs. Clegg, a widow lady of inde- pendent means, was inspecting a new villa resi- dence at Rochdale, intending to purchase it, when she missed her footing at the top of a flight of stairs, and fell headlong. She was picked up dead, having fractured her skull. Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. L. H. \illiers, Grena- dier Guards, Captain Stuart, lith Hussars, and Captain Cooper, 4 ...

... Much excitement was caused on Saturday, in Exeter, by the discovery of the horribly-mutilaced trunk of a child in the Bonhay Mill-leat. A man named Edward Stokes, employed at Mr. Edmund Brown's Powhay Flour Mills, went to clear the tenders, when his attention was attracted by something white in the water, which proved to be the remains of the body of a child six to nine months old. The head, ...

... SUBSTITUTE FOR MILK.—The Editor of the Medical Mirror has called the notice of the medical profession to Cadbury's Cocoa Essence which he calls Cadbury's Concentrated Vegetable Milk, and remarks:—The excess of fatty matter has been carefully eminated and juss a compound remains which conveys in at mini- mum bulka maximum amount of nutriment. We strongly recommpnd it ps a diet for children. ...

... The American papers contain accounts of a fearful colliery explosion in Indiana, on the 21st November. The accident was caused through an accumulation of gas in the workings, which took tire tll: ongh the carelessness of one ot the miners u-ing a naked light. There were several kegs oi gunpowder in the place, and these caught lire, the names increasing the destruction to » vast ex- tent. Eight ...

... At the Eurydice court martial, on Wednesday, Cap- tain Keith Hudson gave evidence as to the suddeness j of the squall whLii struck the t arydice, aud the pe- culiar atmospheric appearances which accompanied it. The harbour master at Portsmouth was also examined, The harbour master at Portsmouth was also examined, and he said that from observations made on board the wreck he found the captain ...

... ALLEGED FRAUDS BY A COLLIERY MANAGER. At the Birmingham Police Court, on Saturday, Jas. Hutchinson Balmain, 29, ex-colliery manager, Moseley, was charged with stealing Z1075 belong- ing to the Wimblebury and Cannock Colliery Company, Hednesford and Birmingham. Mr. Underbill appeared for the prosecutioa, and in ap- plying for a remand stated that evidence would be given showing that prisoner ...

... f MONMOUTHSHIRE AND SOUTH | WALES BUILDING SOCIETY. The ninth annu S.1 meeting in connection with this society was held on Monday evening, at the court- ROOM, Town-had, Newport. Mr. H. J. Parnall in the chair. Tners was a fair representative attendance of j shareholders. Mr. Harse, the secretary, read the notice convening the meeting, and also the minutes, which were confirmed. The ninth ...

... In Tuesday's sitting of the Chamber of Depu- ties, the bill authorising the prolongation of existing treaties of commerce was adopted. In the course of the debate, M. Tirard, the Minister of Commerce, spoke warmly in favour of free trade, the effects of which, he said, had been to augment national prosperity. ...

... (Before His Honour JUDGE HERBERT.) MONDAY. THE SILICATE PAINT CASE. His Honour now delivered judgment in the case of Hagward v. Batchellor, an action heard at the last and the previous Courts, in which the plaintiff sought to recover X5 for the painting of defendant's house with silicate paint.—His Honour said he had gone through the prospectus of the makers of this paint, and, as he ...

... MONDAY.—Their lordships met at four o'clock. ROYAL COMMISSION. The Royal assent was given, by commission, to the Dispensary Houses (Ireland) Bill, the Salmon Fishery Law (Amendment) Bill, the Convents (Ireland) Act Repeal, the Public Health Act Amendment (Interments) Bill, the Sale of Food and Drugs Amendment Bill, the Confirmation of Marriage (Her Majesty's Ships) Bill, the Lan- caster Gas ...

... TERRIBLE PRIZE FIGHT NEAR OXFORD.—A terrible prize fight, in which >0 rounds were fought, and both combatants were so severely punished that their faces were quite unrecognisable, occurred at Culliam, on the 7th instant, between a. labourer named William Henry Kandall. who assumed the name of Daddy H ttuhd! and Charles Summerfield, who hails from London, and was styled The Little Londoner, ...

... The Clergyman in a certain town, as the custom is, having published the banns of matrimony between two persons, was followed by the clerk's reading the hymn beginning with these words Mistaken souls, who dream of Heavem We regret having to announce the death of Dean Alford, of Canterbury, after two days' illness. The census will probably be taken on the 3rd April. The naval stewards arrested ...