... AN OBSTREPEROUS PIG BEFORE THE FOOTLIGHTS. During the pertormance of Land Ahead, by Mr. Wilson Barrett's company at the Old Theatre Royal, Bristol, some nights ago, an unrehearsed scene created roars of merriment amongst the audience, and so upset the gravity of the per- formers that it threatened for a time to suspend the legitimate action of the drama. In the first act Biddy Roonev, a ...

... At the Wandsworth Police Court, on Saturday, William Watson, landlord of the Gloucester beer- house, Larkhall lane, Clapham, was summoned for indecently assaulting Emma Stein, the wife of a carpenter, living at 4, New street. The com- plainant stated that on the evening of the inst. she was alone in Union Grove, when she met the defendant, who caught her by the waist, kissed her, and behaved ...

... BELGIAN COMPETITION IN THE IRON TRADE.- The Preston Guardian understands that the iron- work required to rebulld the works recently destroyed by tire at the Hartford Mills is being sent from Belgiom. Although the amount reo quired is only 20 tons, it can be laid down in Preston at a |ess C08t than iron of English manu- facture, the lower wages now paid notwithstand- ing. The guders for the new ...

... We are requested by Sir Robert Peel to state that the Prince of Wales has informed him that the assertion which appeared in a weekly paper on April 12, that in consequence of Sir Robert Peel's recent speech in the House of Commons, several members of the Royal family have de- olared their intention never to take any notice of Sir Robert Peel ior the future, was inserted neither by his Royal ...

... An American Committee has been formed in aid of M. Loyson's (Pere Hyacinthe's) new chapel at Paris, of which the Hon. John Jay, of New York, is the treasurer. Bishop Herzog, the Old Catholic Bishop of Switzerland, has written to M. Loyson expressing his warm sympathy. He offeret to ordain for him such candidates for the ministry as shall recommend, and approves his applying to mxe Anglican ...

... Dean Stanley was present, last week, at Darlington at the celebration of the first anniversary of the opening of a training college for schoolmistresses, in conueetiou with the British and Foreign School Society, of which he is one of the vice-presidents. In the evening he delivered an address to a crowded audience in the Central Hall. In a short address in the afternoon lie alluded to the ...

... HOUSE OF COMMONS. SATURDAY.—The Speaker took the chair at ten minutes after twelve o'clock. The Consolidated Fund ( £ 9,641,960) Bill was read a third time. The Public Health (Ireland) Bill was read a second time. The Settled Estates Bill, as amended, was considered, and ordered to be read a second time. The IIouee then adjourned at 12.15. ...

... The Duke of Portland has intimated his resolve to remit the whole of the half-year's rents due at Michaelmas. This applies to the whole of his estates in Notts and Derbyshire. We believe this favour extends only to those farmers who have not sent in notices to give up their farms. At the present time the Duke has upwards of thirty farms on his hands. In connection with this subject we might ...

... Lady Truro died on Sunday night, at Falcon- hurst, Shooter's Hill, Kent, the residence of Lord Truro. ...

... At Walsall, near Birmingham, on Saturday night, a ooach furniture fitter, named Lines, furiously: sttacked his wife with a cleaver and poker. She escaped into a neighbour's house, and he thereupon beat out the brains of a child she had given birth to on the previous day, which he alleged w&s not his. They had been married six months. The woman has been severely injured, but is.expected to ...

... FBIDAY.—The Speaker took the chair at four o'clock. GOVERNMENT AND THE TELEGRAPHS. In answer to Mr. F. H. Harrison, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER stated that a memorial had been presented to the Treasury containing grave charges against certain persons in connection with the acquisition by the Govern- ment of the United Kingdom Electric Telegraph Company in 1869, and asserting that by the ...

... On Wednesday the Bishop of Bath and Wells, dfnonnced the Engligh Church Union as a menace to the authority of the Chuch. 1 ...