... la 3 A meeting of the general committee and subscribers was I ,m held on Tuesday at the Salisbury Hotel, for the reception of ft the executive committee's report in reference to the distribu- t. tion of seed corn to the French peasant-farmers ruined by to war. The Eight Hon., the Lord Vernon presided. The d report of the committee for a copy of which we are indebted 11 to the courtesy of Lord ...

... ymterial varlialutt. S WI HOUSE OF LORDS. oh 55 TUESDAY. Their Lordships met at five o'clock.gi The Bank BILLS Olr EXCHANGE. H ?? Bnktr Hoias(xhne Bill passed ?? of Salisbury, Lor-l Overstone, Lord Colonsay. the Duke of W Richmond, Lord Halifax, the Bishop of Winchester, Lord Cairns, Ac., took part. MEASURES ADVANCED. The Citation Amenament (Scotlond) Bill was read asecondlU time. e The~ ...

... JrAmong the speeches made in the House of Commons on Tuesday night on the proposal to disestablish the English toChurch, Mr. Disraeli's shines conspicuously. The right li0n. ts gentleman -began by declaring that the motion rocommended an ?? there was no precedent in this country, er s there had never been a period, even in the times Qf the Puritans, when the State had not recognised andi ...

... n We learn some interesting and amusing statistics from e the Pall Mfall Gazette:-Clergymen with a small stock of I o sermons frequently speculate too boldly on the shortness i of their hearers' memories, but they probably seldom carry I o the practice so far as the reverend gentleman whose-8er- i if mons have been subjected by one of his congregation, a e great statist and an old reside4t, ...

... FATAL EXPLOSION OF A STEAM THRASHING MACHINE, n5.. .L.u n.#nn a -o thitnwho mre.hinA AM- On Thursday afternoon a steam thrashing machine ex- of ploded at Whitnash, near Leamington, with terrific force. tb £tho cylinder, weighing two hundredweight, was hurled Is over a barn a distance of a hundred yards, and the boiler U was shivered into countless fragments. The driver, Wm. 1ue Mitchel, who ...

... TnB TaENT.-Bright days, with a cloudless sky, are always bad for the angler. The flis do not bite, and are often found basking in the sun for hours together, but such weather about the middle and latter end of the present month could not possibly be better for the fish that are going through the spawning operation. Barbel, chub, bream, and roach have been very busy all the week and will, ...

... SUCH IS THE LAW. PC Mrs. Godricb, whose iname is well known in comment ion with Ci proceedinigs ito the Court of Probate tand Divorce, attended th before Mr. Woolrych, at Westminster, last weok, for his ald- ra ?? said that in June, 1867, sibe was. living with, her re husband at Sidney-plare, Fuihamn-road, and one Morning tit ho took away the whloe of lior wearing apparial, jewellery to- at ...

... - - .. -kl. .1. ?? fatal I-ebis. -. - n:11 Bo THE HEALTHT OF THlE EARL OF HARUtINGTON.-WO Ore B. glad to be able to) report favourlably of the noble Eal's V health. Froni enquiries made yesterday (Tuesday) we learn A that hig Lordship's medical attendant (Mr. Curgetsiel) con- siders hiun to be making steady progress towards recovery. T Tbe Gazelte announces tile elevation of Miss Burdett so ...

... THE, OUTRAGE ON MR. MURPHY. im- The Standard publishes a letter from Mrs. Zfurpby. in .rg, which that lady thanks somebody for a present, and adds ass-1 I fear the doctor's bill will be a heavy one, and being inm ich the midst of strangers I am obliged to pay at once for any of his little thing I get done. I feel deeply grateful to Almighty Sa to God that he hits spared my poor husband's life, ...

... I e ALARMING OCCURlIENOE. du On Thursday afternoon an accident of rather an extraor- l diiary character took place in High-street, Birmingham. tal n About balf-pest three o'clock a private cab belonging to Mr. ts d Tommas, of Spring-bill, was stauding near York-passage, when IL vehicle passing nlong cdme slightly into contact Od 0 with one of the wheels. Thb horse, whicl is a high-spirited to ...

... gattst bidlrivte, ,vn sO [CENTRAL PRESS TELEOGAMS~. toA REPULSE OF THE VERSAILLES ATTACK. 't THE INSURGENTS' NEW LINES OF DEFENCE. ad y. The Versailles attempt on part of Neuilly yesterday we in, unsuccessful. ve The Insurgents are constructing, not barricades, but a II. second etceinte with bastions. !al- r- CONVICTION OF rORPEY, THE JEWEL to ROBBER. Ar Michael Torpey has been sentenced to ...

... TWO VOICES FROM LTUTTrRWORTH. (From the Press.) 0 In the Times, of Friday, a letter from a Roman Catholic ti priest, dated ' Lutterworth, April 21, appears. It is re- TP markable, that this priest should write from that which was 0 the cure of John Wickliffe, to which that learned and truly h Catholic theologian retired after having been deputed in t 1874, a commissioner by Edward III. to ...