... e speaker took the chair at four o'clock. TV! -VI CORRUPT PRACTICES ACT. ask f'i gave notice that on Monday next he would tenri il 'Prime Minister whether the Government in- Session Proceed with the Corrupt Practices Bill this T A DEFAULTING STAMP DISTRIBUTOR. S r«Ply to Mr. RYLANDS, bepn1' Y1ER sai(l it was true that a loss of £ 2,000_ had -buim.00*'i?onei^ by the defalcations of the stamp ...

... STEAM CULTIVATION IN SCOTLAND.—The Scots- man says:—During several years the leading agricul- turists in Aberdeenshire have often considered the practicability of introducing steam cultivation. The smallness of many of the holdings, however, and the uneven surface, combined with the prevelance of earth- fast stones in a large proportion of the county, operated formidably against the movement. ...

... Epps's CHOCOLATIL-LA Situation, in an article entitled France et Angleterre, eays:— Nous n'vons en France qu'une aeule usine oiL la preparation du Cacao emploie un materiel et un personnel aussi considerables que ceux que nous avons vus dans l'usine de Messieurs Epps. C'est une veritable curiotite dans son genre que cette immenso fabrique. The wrapper of each cake of Chocolate pre- pared by ...

... SIR SPENCER ROBINSON ON HIS DEFEAT. Sir Spencer Robinson has issued a farewell address to the electors of Tamworth. in which he says were not successful, but we were not disgra'ced. I believe the freedom and independence of this borough are dear to you ? all. You have struggled for the success of these principles before now you have suSered for them; but through defeat, notwithstanding ...

... NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. The Army and Aaty Gazette says:—The rumour which prevailed in naval circles during the week, to the effect that Rear-Admiral Key, C.B., had refused the appoint- ment of Principal of the Naval University, h unfounded, and we have every reason to believe that he will accept it. —If Rear-Admiral Sir Francis Leopold M'Clintock, F.R.S., is desirous of being employed ...

... | FRAUD AND FORGERY. At the Hammersmith William Hemming, an auctioneer, of Stamford-street, Blackfriars. was brought up in the custody of Mr. Palmer, chief inspector, Scotland-vard, charged with obtaining a cheque-book from the Notting-hill branch of the National Bank by false representations, and with uttering several forged cheques. Mr. Elsie Wyatt, accountant at the Notting-hill branch of ...

... IN^LAYD-AFF CATHEDRAL.- -Holy Communion after morn- vT *ervipe. Services and Anthems.—4th Sunday after ltW -r P-ril 28th.— Morning Best in C Hymns, 142, „1 „V ,fV;'emr»g Hopkins inF Anthem, Awake up my gory, Wise Hymn, 325. Litany Hymns, 185, 320,17. p- ay. Morning Hymn, 4. Tuesday.—Morning: >mn, 182. Wednesday.—Morning Arnold in C d -T1111' 169. Thursday.—Morning Hymn, 183. Satur- }• Morning ...

... (Before Mr. R. O. JûXES, Alderman ALEXANDER, Mr. G. BIRD, and Mr. E. S. HILL.) REFUSING TO PROCEED TO SEA.—John Harrington, Lewis Lewis, John Rowlands, and Thomas Rees, four seamen belonging to the Olive, of Gloucester, were charged with refusing to proceed to sea after signing articles. On the case being called, the men said they were willing to return, and were at once sent on board. — ...

... MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1872. vYE have lately received a large number of letters respecting the spread of what is called Ritualism, and its partial manifestation in connection with Roath Church. Several of these communications have been published in the belief that free trans- mission of thought upon the subject may prove advantageous others, less temperate in tone, and characterised by violent ...

... FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. [REUTER'S AND PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAMS.] FRANCE. PARIS, Saturday.—-In a speccli. at Havre, M. Gam- 13 ta declared his programme to be an educated nation an a national army, and urged that the first reform as the dissolution of the Assembly and the election of a Republican Assembly. ociiAEls' Sunday Evening.—Marguerite Dixblanc is still here. M. Thiers visited Paris ...

... LOCAL BOARD OF HEALTH.—At the usual fortnightly meeting of this Board held in the Town-hall on Saturday, present: Mr. H. J. Howell (chairman), Mr Rees Harries, Mr. John Randell, Mr J. B. Phillips, Mr. David Morris, and Mr. John Bevan, the minutes of the sanitary com- mittee were read and confirmed from which it appeared that the Surveyor reported that the brick water-tables in Burry-street ...

... Correspondence* The publication of letters does not neccs>ariiy imply Editorial concurrence with the views expressed. ...