... Dean Stanley was present, last week, at Darlington at the celebration of the first anniversary of the opening of a training college for schoolmistresses, in conueetiou with the British and Foreign School Society, of which he is one of the vice-presidents. In the evening he delivered an address to a crowded audience in the Central Hall. In a short address in the afternoon lie alluded to the ...

... HOUSE OF COMMONS. SATURDAY.—The Speaker took the chair at ten minutes after twelve o'clock. The Consolidated Fund ( £ 9,641,960) Bill was read a third time. The Public Health (Ireland) Bill was read a second time. The Settled Estates Bill, as amended, was considered, and ordered to be read a second time. The IIouee then adjourned at 12.15. ...

... The will of Mr. William Matthew Coulthurst, late of 59, Strand, has been recently proved, the personal estate being sworn under £ 600,000.—The will, dated January 26, 1874, of Peter Wood, M.D., late of Woodbank, Southport, Lancashire, who died on the 15th ult., was proved in London on the 14th instant by James Wood and Peter Frederic Wood, the sons, and William Norris Heald, the executors, the ...

... THE EASTERN QUESTION. ALLEGED FAILURE OF THE NEGOTIA- TIONS BETWEEN THE PORTE AND MONTENEGRO. (Cøntral News Despatch.) Negotiations have, it is believed, been absolutely broken off between the Porte and Montenegro. As peace between these two Powers was a condition of Russia's disarmament, it is feared that the Cabinet of St. Petersburg will withdraw froau its declared intention of ...

... A deputation from Liverpool, consisting of large pro- perty owners in the district, waited upon the Home Sec- retary last week, asking that the clause of the Borough Funds Act which gives ratepayers a vote on expendi- ture of municipal money should not be repealed as was asked by a former deputation, and alleging that the bill had worked in a thoroughly satisfactory manner. Mr. Cross promised ...

... An English tourist asked the brother of Carnova, the sculptor, after the great artist's death, if he in- tended to carry on the business. Mr. Thomas M'Clure declares that the Working Men's Protestant League will never leave St. James's Church, Hatcham, until a service of a truly Protestant nature is established. The remains of Signor Alberto Keller, who left a large sum to found a temple ...

... TWO LOVELY LObT. 1, Myrtle Merlin, can scarcely rcmemhprthe time when I did not know that I tos rea-othed to Charles Grey. It was the wish of our parents that it should be so, and so it was. Charles and I were to be married a^ tOnii as I had replied my eighteenth birthday. 1; was much in love with m#. T never had a doubt-, of that. I felt 1 hat it was his uuty to be so; and I--wen, I liked him ...

... Much dissatisfaction prevails amonj the factory operatives in Dundee, Aberdeen, and other industrial centres in Scotland, at the late deputation to Lord Beaccnsfield being considered a representative one. So far from this being the case most Scotch factory operatives knew nothing of the deputation until the reception was announced in the newspapers at Kirk- caldy. On the 21st inst. a meeting ...

... On Tuesday night Mr. Lloyd Jones delivered at Exeter Hall his second and concluding lecture ou Trade Unions, in reply to those of Professor Leone Levi delivered last year at King's Coliege. Mr. Burt, M.P., presided. Mr. Jones, after speaking of the great importance of trade unions in connection with foreign competition, said employers were constantly asking for more and more, and workmen had a ...

... At Warwickshire assizes, last week, before Lord Justice Amphlett, Frederick Bebbington Beswick, alius Frederick Charles Stanley Bennett, 25, of gentlemanly appearance, described as having no occupation, was indicted for committing bigamy at Brighton, on the Brd of April, 1876. Prisoner married a Miss Read a,, the Manchester Cathedral, and afterwards married a Miss Evered, a young lady of ...

... Hot words are apt to produce a coolness. The class of seers whose predictions as to the good times coming cannot be believed, are the financiers. Happy is the nation which has no political philo- sophy. for sueh a philosophy is generally the offspring of a recent or the symptom of an approaching re vol a- tion.—Leslie Stephen. SPANISH ARROGANCE. — A London correspondent writes:—A curious ...

... THE FXPLOSIVFS ACT. (From the Baity Neivs.) Mr. M Lagan has placed on the paper a question which, in a somewhat cautious manner, is designed to draw attention to the manifest failure of the Explo- sives Act. This piece of legislation was accomplished two years ago, and was the outcome of much laborious inquiry and considerable mental exercise on the part of the Home Office officials, and of ...