... [BY SPECIAL TELEGRAM.] Mr. CARDWELL and Mr. VERKON HAKCOCET addressed a crowded meeting of their constituents at the Town- hall, Oxford, lalt evening. The Mayor. (Mr. Robert Pike) presided. Mr. CARDWELL, who was received with loud cheers, said the chief magistrate of the county havinginformed his colleague and himself that the electors were de- sirous of meeting them before the close of the ...

... HEALTH OF THE DUKE OF MARL- BOROUGH. The Duke of Marlborough was pronounced to be OOMewbat better yesterday, and bis medical atten- dants state that the course of the disease is Satisfactory. THREE NEWSPAPERS CONVICTED OF LIBEL. The action for libel brought by the Lord Provost of Glasgow against the proprietor of the North British Qaily Mail and the Glasgow Weekly Mail concluded on Saturday, ...

... BOARD OF GCAHDIAss.-The usual weekly meeting was held on Saturday, Mr G. T. Clark in the chair. The minutes of the last meeting Neere. read and confirmed. The vaccination officer reported the outbreak of three fresh cases of small-pox in the Aberdare district during the past week. The Clerk laid upon the table a pamphlet from Dr. Sheen, Cardiff, from which it appeared there had been 103 cases ...

... Mr. Vernon Harcourt sends a reply to the criticisms of the Times, on his recent proposals for the remedy of the law's delay. He thinks that no one who is not prepared to act resolutely on the principle that lawyers exist for the public, any that the public does not exist for the lawyers, will ever accomplish, much in the work of reforming the law, and accordingly he cannot see the force of the ...

... THE MEMORIAL DIPLOMATIQUE ON PRINCB The Mimorial Diplomatique, in an article on the poliäcal •risia in Germany, cornea to the concluaion that the deda*' tion to be drawn from it is that Prussian initiative yield to that of the Empire:— It is a change in the of gravitation, and it does not seem likely that Hert Bismarck will lose in the long run; that, howevert dOe6 not mean that the monarchy ...

... A house fell in Youghal, Cork, early yesterday morn- ing, killing three children. One child escaped by jump- ing out of a window. ...

... ANOTHER TRAGEDY NEAR LONDON. LATEST PARTICULARS. On Friday night, at about ten o'clock, the usually quiet suburban retreat Ealing was the scene of a frightful tragedy. It appears that a young man named Walter Trinder, aged about 20, residing at Ealing, said to be respectably connected, had for some time past been paying his addresses to a young woman, named Britton, who was living in service ...

... NEWPORT. MELANCHOLY END OF A DRUNKARD. On Saturday night Johanna Betts, the wife of a respectable man, fell down stairs, and received injuries from which she died. Deceased was unfortunately addicted to habits of intem- perance. although for a short time Good Templary appears to have had a chance of obtainingcontrol over her, but at Christ- mas she again .gave way to her old practices, and to ...

... BOROUGH QUARTER SESSIONS.—The quarter sessions for the -borough were held, before Mr. B. T. William*, Recorder, 0:1 Monday. There was n > prisoner for trial. The Recorder pointed out that though this was the facr. it was no guarantee that the town was free of crime, ar l indeed, the records in the police-court, of wifs-beathi petty larcenies, and drunkenness proved otherwise. ft the town was ...

... LETTER IV. I explained to you in my last the utter contempt with which the people of this country, or at least of this town treat the injunctions of their sacred Prophet with respect „o the acquisition of riches indeed, to all outward ap- pearance, nothing else seems thought of, or cared about but the getting of money, and, as a general rule, the es timation in which people are held, seems to ...

... themes for law reform it it from the Bench not egislation for everything are, therefore, not to intro- judicial labour, for though kind of case as it oomes 11 decision, and have to is far more likely thus to resh and healthy state. We id its administration; and TOWS, for so does injustice; .1 conflict between different ■tice, how much more so en that personal peculiari- > scope and sway of ...

... In the following letter to the Times Mr. C. R. M. Talbot, M.P., explains bis views upon the education of the poor:— When the Home Secretary, addressing a public meet- ing, imputes to the Lord-Lieutenant of his county the dissemination of dangerous doctrines, you will, I trust, not think the occasion so unworthy as to induce you to refuse the insertion of a few lines in reply. Mr. Bruce is ...