... BY 8PECrATok. Thanlks to able speakers, thanks to the religious as well as the loyal fervour of Churchmen and Church- women, and, last tho sgh not leas, thanks to the efficient arrangements and excellent management of the Rev. A. 0. Cherrington rand sir laguley, the secretaries, and the willing members of the corm- mittee associated with them, thle Chaurh of England Institute Soiree in ...

... Mr Laing has retired from the contest for Wiic. Sir Chrishtopher Nevilo has finally retired from hi candidature in North Nottinghamshire. The Sheffield scavengers have struck for increase wages. It is stated that a branch of the International ha, been formed at Waterford. The rule for a trial in the Firebrace divorce cas has been refused. The census, which has just been taken, shows thi ...

... Teri PRovlnCE OF YORK.-The Convocation of the. t Province of York will mleet on Dlonday, the l9th of, February, at two o'clock. The principal business will I be to consider the recommendations of tbe Ritual i Commission. iA e. TRIPLE BIRTH. -Oji the 20th ult., Sarah Wyatt, S wife of George Wyatt, police-constable, 280 A, xc- I siding at 84, Woodchester Street, Harrow Road, was c confifed of ...

... THE GAR DEN. I ?? ?? ?? . -. .- . W OIc FOR THE WrEEI. -As has beLeI before stated, spare ground should ?? be dug and r id ged ; indeed trenched. if tirie permit. Where a sy.stematic rota- tion of crops is carried out, it is sin excellent plusli to trench all the kitchen garden successively in tile course of three years. The trenching to be perfos-riil in each year, shouldl be on the ground ...

... If thle Legislature should not sooner or later succeed in auriving at a Nviae and sdisfaeatory solution of the Gaule-Laws problem, it w'ill not be, no one can alli-dge, from al'Y want of \vOlun- tary and wvo daresay, wvell-intenrooed advice it tihe natter. As to the CoUnSelloiS, thleir number, though alreadytle'iun .pomises to go oon increasing u1til evcry 0U1L'1 at all addicted to tlhe ...

... FOREIGN MIAILS. Calendar, showing the days and hours of departure from Newcastle-on-Tyne of the principal colonial and foreigna malls, not of daily dcspatch. JANUARY. 19.-Brazil, Buenos Ayres, Alonte Video. Rio do Janeiro, &c., via Liverpool, 6'20 and 10 p.m. 20.-Unitcd States and Canada, via Cork and New Yor k, 3 30 p.m. 21.-Malta, via Italy, 10 p.m. ; Brazil. Monte Video, Buenos Ayres, and ...

... I THREE CHILDREN AT A BIBTH.-On Friday morning the wife of John Brady, i brickmaker of Corton, near Lowestofto was delivered of three chil- dren, two boys and a girl. The mother and infants iar. doing *vell T11E VACA\ PRIB\I D OF ST. PATRiCK. -Lord Calreow has received the iiband of St. Patrnck, which the death of Lord Dunraven left at the disposal of i tile Crowen. Lord Carew's father was a ...

... ECCLESIASTECAL INUELLIGENgE. I ~_ The Roman correspondent of the Pall MatllGazette says the Pope is again indisposed, although 'he con- tinuc;- his audienoes. Tou NEW CANON or Worentarnt.-The Rev. Dr. Barry, the newly-appointed Canon Residentiary of Woreester Cathedral, has -been instituted 'by the Bishop of Worcester and fornally installed in Wor- cester Cathedral. Dr Barry -will still remain ...

... . [PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM8.1 ANOTHEIR COLLIERY EX- PLOSION. ELEVEN LIVES LOST. A fearful explosiou of fire-lamp took place late on ?? night, at Oakwood Colliery, Aaesteg, South Wales. Eleven men were killed. Three bodies have already been got out. A further explosion is i expected. THE BRIGHTON POISONING CASE. The Brighton poisoning case will be tried at Old Bailey on Monday next. THE ...

... UECEN'T PAPURS ON THlE LAND LAWVS. I . . .. . I . I . I . . 'lhe tenaut's interest in the lad is miuch more tangibie than the people's; and therceore when we uppnroareh tbe considerat;.ou of this part of the land question We fiull ourselves lace to fice with soinething else than ?? rhie- toric arid blrobrst. 'ime people, we oWn, are justly. entitled to demimnd that th4 land, either Item oi ...

... ?? C0onic Papers and other sources.1 Howv to get a roaring trade --Buy n menligerie. WIhy is lirtllaion like plate-powder ?-Because it brightens up s8,Lwls. Wlhat two colours are undiscernible '-Invisible gree n anid blind- iana's buff. i ctor, how can I expand my chest?- By con- stantly varrying a large heart in it. 'Why arc free sittings in church very immnoral?- I'ecause yvu are by them ...

... 1-- _ I- a_ ?? I ca c _ _ _ _. 'The advocates of Women's Suffrage are wonderfully well satisfied with their past achievements and in pretty good spirits in their ai.ticipations of the future. On a review ot the year that has gone by, we are told in the aunual report, a copy of wvaich has just reached l's, your comlittee have confidence in con- gratulating their friends on the steady ...