... NEW ROMNIAN CATH(LIO CHURCH IN BIRMIINGH1.AM. Yesterday morning, the ioulnlation stone of a ?? Catholic church, to be dedicated to St. Caternille of Sic-T'i was laid on a site in the Hlorse Fair, Birmingiai. n r e the present time the Roman Catholics resident in ?? vicinity have attended services held ie the school roteei tlhe Horse Fair, the mission priest being the Rev. E. neas. Efforts have ...

... GLOUCESTER IMPROVEMENT AND EXTENSION BILtL .HOUSE OF COMMONS, Monday. The Select Committee of the House of Commons tp- pointed to consider thes merits of this bill resumed their investigation this morning Sir Wmi. Clowes in the chair. Sir John Duckwbrth sat as referee. Mr. Michael, Q.C., appeared for the promoters. The question of the rights and privileges of the freemen of the Duehy of ...

... CANTON LOCAL GOVERNMRENT I)I A nT~ BOARD. The.rnonthlh'meeting was held on Wednesday ~morning, at the, police-court, Mr. T. V. Yorath in the chair. Messrs. Sandersj Tresedei,, French, and Little were also present. After the minutes had been read and confirmed, 4 The CLEuK reported that there was a balance in 1 ,the bank on the general district account of £63 bs., but on the private improvement ...

... The question of improved dwellings for the London poor is one that is daily growing in importance and in public interest. The sub- jeat comprehends a far wider field than is at first sight apparent to the superficial observer. The material comfort of the work- ing poor is by no means the only result that will be achieved by their installation in healthy homes. The change would operate upon ...

... I RIOTOUS SCENE, AT A NAVVI,' HOTEL. | At the Bolton-by-Bolland petty sessions on Tnes- day, Geo~ge ?? Robert hiisgleton, Jame, Bfesferd, Thotas .Bfeasdele, and Joceph~ Gardner were chargad with robbery and wilful damage. At Whitewdll over i200 narvies in the employ of the Preston Corporation are making a ressrtoir, and huts have been erected for the accommodation of the workmen. The ...

... BARtRY SULLIVAN in Liverpool. Tule almost tropical wcather wihich we are experiocing in tlis usually fickle nirorith of April had, as miight have beco expected, no cffeet oil the brilliancy of the first ilight of the new cigagellenit at the Aniphithcatrc, which was uncomnfortably crowded last nlight by a host of onthusiastic admirers of Mr Barry Sullivan. The great actor appeared in one of his ...

... DYDD SAlDTtPV, JIMA 2, 1874. . >x_ - ._ 1 I ]MI-I rbai fod yr araith ragorol a draddododd Mr. Ro()EI'TS wrth roddi i fyny y gadair yn Sasiwvn y Borth y-n ddigon i greu cyfnod newd - ydd yn hailes Metliodistiaeth yn Ngoagedd Cynvru. Heb fynred mor bell a's cyfeillion briwdrydig byn, y rbai ni wydidant. o bosibl, pa bethan sydd yn debyg o roddi bod i gyfnod- au newyddior, nis gall neb lai na ?? ...

... oppc: iVAKEFIELD. to tI RE TURN OF iffR. T. K~. SA'NDER.SON. ofI k- 27 is The election of a Meinl,,e for tile bosoiighI of Wit~e occef field, to 1111 the vacancy causer2 by thle unseatinig Of Mlr. tioll Edward Green, ironfoander, Fleath Old laill, on the 2.5th thee ult., by Mr. Tustice Grove, oni tin) ground of bribery by leer, his agents, took ?? yesterday. The ,.tnenvi able notoriet har of ...

... I SPECIAL CORIRESPONDENCE. (BY PnmTm TZrL!GRvu.) LoxoDo:, TJ.'hursday Evening. Twelve days of bright fine weather is something to which -we are not often treated in London. However the business of politics may languish in the abseuee of Mr. Gladstone, and in the present placid hanmour of Mr. Disrnaoli, the business of pleasure, if dining out can be regarded as an amusement, appears to be in- ...

... THE QAPRMxi7 WAR. ander THE RELIEF GPe BILB.AO. ft DISPERSIONS ANDt SURRENDER OF St. iSSIOD. ?? May 3, ic tite MarshalConchia,wlthhla;dWorps,etrdBba l was a ~terday evening. Seerasso will enter to-day. Bil4 desof' Wer arlists are~dispersing,.and making their Way, rC' itno fo the most part, through, Gnpuzcoa to Las. slats tAmuescas, full. 5 31st The ?? May 2. js~ r 1t h iver bee been clearedl ...

... A large fire broke out iu a believe manufactory at Bir- mingham hist night, and raged for ten hours. Damkige Was very great. ...

... ^OINX'S BABY. An incident has just occurred at the Hammersmith Police-court illustrates the deplor- able educational destitution of thousands of British Children, for whose education the State has paid so many millions of money to the various religius sects of the kingdom. A poy of the age of 14 was bfrdtight before the .Residing magistrate as a witness. Havmg gone tlhroiigli the form of the ...