... I - i In the Bail Court on Wednesday, before Justioes Blackburn, Mellor, and Lush, an appeal was heard from a conviction by the stipendiary magistrate of Sheffield against the proprietor of a cricket ground for having permitted betting. The information was laid by the Town Council of Sheffield against the appellant, under the act for the suppression of betting, for that he, being the occupier ...

... The following is the text of a new canon against Ritualism adopted on the 27th of Ootober, after a long debate, by the General Convention of the Protestant I Episcopal Church of the United States:- Resolved (the House of Bishops concnrrinr) That the following additional section be added to Canon 20, Title I., Of the use of the Book of Common Prayer. See. 2. (1). If any bishop have reason to ...

... The colliers' strike in the Wigan district has terminated, it having been agreed on Wednesday to return to work on the ten per cent. reduction. In a letter excusing himself from attending a Tichborne meeting at Loughborough last night, Dr. Kenealy stated that lie has been debarred by Gray's Inn. The difficulty of identifying the Gwalior pri- soner seems to increase. A Cawnpore telegraph says ...

... I I SPAIN. THE CARLIST DEFEAT BEFORE IRUN. BAYONNE, FRIDAY. The Republican troops are actively pursuing the Carlists, and burning on their way all the houses belonging to Carlist partisans. About B00 have been thus destroyed. The Carlist army appears to be concentrated between Vera and Losaca, in which direction the Republican forces are marching. SANTANDER, FRIDAY. No foreign mail arrived ...

... PRESTON BOARD OF GUARDIANS The weekly meeting of this Hoard was held at tie Board-room, Lancaster-road, on Tuesday, when tiere Sroinsonn, H.eSttoLngt, an naptte, ide Tt.~ son, Lud, 3. Ky, M~i Perastons, Cames Cst Inceas ?? er ons.. Caes ce0 Decrese ?? 24512 6 Larnsrlee:Petn 8 ast week,6111288 .. crae77orresponding week last year.. 4 , 1424. In :r'ti 63;dcrease, 47 corresponding week last ...

... MR. DISRAELI ON CONSERVATISM AND I THE PRESENT SITUATION. ' . _ _ _ . . . . I - _ . Speaking at the Lord Mayor's banquet in London, on Monday night, Mr. Disraeli ?? is not the first occasion on which I have had the honour of returning thanks on behalf of Her Majesty's Government for the distinction just offered to us in this hall. Six years have elapsed since I had the proud office to fulfil, ...

... : R NATIONAL bys0s SUFFRAGE. ' g of the Manohester Na. fo, NVmgons s Suffrage was held in the Ito ' t the Manchester Town Hall, yeste3 - N Btight presidd, and there were also Oct jIJ~T orsyth, Q.C., k.P.r, Mirs. Jacob 'Berl, Mliss L. Ashworth, Miss Beedy, si Pri~gg, DMrs. J. T. Thomasson, Miss Tv ffi MoD~fore, Mtiss Gaskel], Miss Ashworth, M9s- Edmunds, Mrs. Dancan, Mrs. S. A. det. S A. ...

... - - - - - ?? ?? I. -- ?? U- r-llrl- , ?p , , rx ?, '; ? , ?- ;? ?- - - -- 6. , F . . i% . Alzallaucauz. I -- I StHMT.DLAND RAILWAY-Mr. Edward Baines I resided at. a meeting of shareholders of the Midland ; Wailwa'j, hold on Wednesday, at Leeds, to consider the h recent, proposal of the directors as to the alteration of pasewenger fares.. The chairman having minutely criti- cie'jid the details ...

... I- ' ml - . . The annual tea meeting in connection with the Boat- Min's Bethel, ?? Mil. was hold on Monday at the institution. There was a large attendance. After tea, the chair was taken by the Earl of Ellesmere. There were also on the platform the Rev. Earl Mulgrave, Mr. C. E. Cawley, M.P., Mr. Alderman Booth, Mr. Coun- cillor Batty, the Rev. J. S. Balmer, and Mr. J. H. Raper. The Rev. J. ...

... I MB. GLADSTONE ON BOMANISM. Mr. Gladstone's pamphlet on The Vatican decrees in their bearing on civil allegiance; a political expostulation, : is just published. Mr. Gladstone states that he writes on i account of the alarm at the aggressive activity and imagined growth of the Roman Church in this country, x and that, believing this alarm to be groundless,-he desires to show what ...

... IRACAS BETWEEN MANCHESTER COTTON | - MERCHANTS. OnMonday in the Court of Exchequer, sittinginbanco, before the Lord Chief Baron and Barons Cleasby, FPllock, and Amphlett, Mr. Herschell, Q.C., in moving in the case of Fielding v. Fitt,- stated that it w as an action brought to recover compensation for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff in an assault com- mitted upon him by the ...

... ANNUAL SHOOTING CONTEST OF THE 6Ta ADMINISTRATIVE BATTALION OF LANCASHIRERBIFLE VOLIUNTEEBS. The aunn1al shooting contest of the 6t ?? Battalion of the ?? was continued at their ran ge, Longridge, on Saturday. There was a goodly humber of membereof' the corps present, the competition being for the completion of'the first series of tradesmen's prizes, and twvo cups, namely, Mrs. ,Rawstorne's ...