... TERMINATION OF A STRIKE. Two thousand miners in Bolton, Farn-worth. and Kearsley. Wearsley, Little I,ever, and Bulwood Dis- tricts, who struck last week against a reduction of wages, resumed work on Tuesday. A meeting -will be held on Friday, when representatives of Wearsley, Farmwortii. and Koarsley Districts will consider the advisability of restricting the output of coal. ...

... The memben: of the Geographical Club enter- tained Major-General Sir Garnet Wolseley, Colonel Sir Francis Festing, and Captain Sir John Glover, R.N., at dinner on Monday evening, at Willis's Rooms, King-street, St. James's. The Right Hon. Sir Bartle Frere presided, and many eminent members of the club were present. Afterwards a meeting was held at the Royal Geo- graphical Society, to hear from ...

... In the Divorce Court, on Saturday, the case of Dallai v. Dallas came before Sir James Hannen. It was a suit instituted by Mrs. Dallas (Miss Glyn), the emi- nent tragedienne,-for dissolution oft her marriage with Eneas Sweetland Dallas, a gentleman of literary celebrity, on the ground of adultery and desertion. The respondent ^denied .the :allegllotions aet out in the petition. Dr. Spinks ...

... KA y' COMPOUND ESSENCE OF LINSEED, for Coughs and Colds, surprising cures are being effected by it. Instant relief in Asthma, Bronchitis, etc.—Sold by most Chemists. 64N ...

... The total number of men who have received Xatlenal Labourers' Union pay in East Suffolk last week Is 1,250. Several meetings have been held lately. At Botesdale a slight disturbance took place. A hun^* dred qiore are locked oat round Btawnufcrket than reported, ...

... THE BRITISH RULE IN INDIA. A conference of gentlemen interested in the affairs ef India was held under the auspices of the East India Association at Westminster Palace Hotel on Saturday for the purpose of considering some of the difficulties associated with the English Government of India. Mr. E. B. Eastwick, C.B., occupied the chair, and referred to the growing interest which the people of ...

... An exchange relates that in Mount Vernon. Ohio, the women have now got things reduced to a system. Instead of being at the trouble to go around in thenmJ to pray and sing, they iust put up a sentry box in front of each saloon, and station a lady in it to take down the name and note the condition of everv who enters or leaves it. It is said to work like a charm. The fair sentries delight in ...

... POLICE C k) U it T. SATURDAY .—(Before A. De Rutzen, Esq.) AN ACTIVE CRIPPLE.—WilHam Davies, a man hold- ing a pedlar's certificate, and said to be a native of Cardiff, was brought up in custody charged with assaulting P.S. Hopkins in the execution of his duty, and also with damaging eleven panes of glass in the window of a cell at the police station, in which be had been locked up. It ...

... THE DOUBLE SUICIDE IN PARIS. There is not now the slightest room to doubt that the suicide of an English lady and gentleman w] ich has caused so much excitement in Paris has be-in committed by natives of Bath, who some months sii ce obtained considerable notoriety by an attempt at self-destruction at Ilfracombe, the result of which was that they were both prosecuted, the husband, whose name is ...

... THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS. The Mark Lane Express says :—After the rain of the previous week, the sudden outburst of summer ex- perienced during the past few days has had an almost magical effect on vegetation. The hedges, merely tingfcd with green, have expanded their foliage the pears and plums have become loaded with blossom, and the meadows have been clothed with a verdure more abundant ...

... GARDENING OPERATIONS. (From the Gardener's Magazine.) KITCHEN GARDEN. Vegetables in season comprise asparagus, broceolL cabbages, lettuce, leeks, onions, radishes, spinach, ana turnips from the open ground; French beans, carrots, cucumbers, mushrooms, potatoes, and tomatoes from the forcing houses. High culture should be aimed at now with all vege- table crops, frequent stirrings between the ...

... HOUSE OF LOIIDS, FRIDAY, MAY 8th. The Duke of Beaufort moved that an address be pre- sented praying her Majesty to refuse her assent to the scheme of the Endowed School Commissioners for the management of the foundation of Edward Lewis for a schjof at Gelligaer, in Glamorgan. The noble duke said that at the time he gave notice of his motion for an address, he had it represented to him that the ...