... I A HTORICAL CONSCIENCE CLAUSE. There baa just emerged a new educational difi- culty. As if it were not enough that the schoimg of generations has been delayed in England through the acrimonious coipetitions of rival catechisms. the battle of histories has now- begun -The Lone don School Board appointed a committee to decide on the historical teaching in the not yet built elementary schools; ...

... THE RESTORATION OF SEBASTOPOL I The Saturday Revi4 t thinks that after the rap- ture of the Treaty of Paris it was easy to foresee that the fortifications of Eebastopol would, at the convenience of the Russian Government, be recon. structed. 'It is fortunately not now necessary to repeat the submission of the English Government or the repudiation of the Russian engagements. The Conference of ...

... E.ASTIETI S-0uHOL I DDXYv. r~LEE DS. di It in) not olbin hatL thefirat grea. holida 01 thisvionr1 i Mairre~d by .-i'lern pre-emniiontiy nioiief~hie as wIG to exPenlellfd. eterday. The promise of thie etely xlmorning. small au it was, did ilideed. tempt many to avatil theraselvre, 30 of the railway facilities f or visiting distant places with which are associated ideas of beauty or health. If, ...

... ?? - o~~wbi .* . r 1+I * 1X .. USDYMRNNjA,PRI Vi., o - A SPEC1AL MEBTING of the Oourt-House Commiseionlera -was held yesterday, for the purpose of considering a report of the pro- c ceedings in Parliamient conectgd, with the Court-Houses Bill, as well as the position I o4f Clerk or Secretary to the CommissiOn After the report was read, Baflie Sharp moved ft that tile appointment of Mr Angus ...

... The rapid increase of Shipley is fast obliterating the old landmarks by which the place was known, and its beau- tiful situation, in one of the most charming spots in Airedale, has not saved it from the inroads of manufac- turing prosperity. Shielded on the north by Hope Hill, on the east by Wrose Hill, on the west and south-west by the heights of Heaton, and in the midst of scenery of a ...

... LOCAL AND GENERAL* Ai LEEDS, APRIL 2, 1872. y )f Mr. IT. W. Greenwood, B.A., Trinity College, is Cambridge, has been appointed Vice-Principal of the is South Wales Training College at Carmarthen. 6 MORLEY B3APTIST O1IAPHL.-A bazaar wag held a on Friday and Saturday towards a new chapel, which ~e realised about £60. The movement was only commenced is last May, and the friends are highly pleased ...

... A report of the trial of Shere Allee at the Andamane has been published, but it contains very little that was not embodied in the account already published. The following are the only passages of any particular in- torest:- Before his commitment the prisoner said:—'This man (Urjun, a convict Peon) seized me, whereupon a thousand men set on me. If the Sahibs will say they saw me do the deed, ...

... A TENANT FARMER ON THE LABOURERS' QUESTION, To the SDITOR of the DALy Pos. 5lr.-A relation of mine, a tenant farmer, In a county only two removes from Warwickehire, seems to have read the accounts of the labourers' union movement with Interest, and in a letter which he wrote to me a few days ago he unbosoma himself upon the subject as follows: It appears that a strike of agricultural ...

... WORK AND' WAGES. Notfees of meetings and other trade movements are again being sent to. us without. authentication bythe names and addresses of the senders.' We must repeat that unless these ?? are farnished, wo cannot publish the commnunications. THE FILE1 GRINDERS. At a general meeting of journeymen filegrinders, hold at the Saracen'a Head, Summer Lane, -yesterday, It was resolved not to ...

... WEST BROMWTOH BOARD: GUARDIANS. . . The ordinary weekly meeting 6f the members of this Board was held yesterday, at the Workhouse, under the presidency of Mr. J. 'Bssell.-At a prevlous meeting Ur. Lloyd had called the attention of the Board to a oase which had come under his notice, and in which there ieeimed to have been a little neglect on the part of one of the medical. officers, and ...

... DISORDERLY. — At the petty sessions, on' Monday, before the Rev. H. T. Lee and Mr. J. S. Corbett, Mar- garet Barry, Grangetown, was charged with being drunk and riotous at Lower Grangetown. Ordered to pay 5s., including costs. COUNTER CHARGES OF AsSAULT.-P.C. Kinston sum- moned John Garrett and Maria Wiggins, of St. Andrews, for being drunk and riotous on the road on the 20th ult. This case ...

... RENFRUEW TOWN COUNCIL. The usual monthly meeting was held in the Masonic Hall last ?? Gallocher in the chair. Mr James Gray, Blawarthill, was appointed to represent the Council at the ensuing tieneral Assembly. A memorial from the labourers in the employmentof the burghwaslaid on the table. The men requested thatan increasesboud bemadeto their pay, or else that the hours of labour ...