... On Monday Miss 'Helen Tayler (member ef the School Beard for London) addressed a large meet- ing of her constituents at the South London Temperance Hall, Blaekfriars road. Having alluded to some difficulties and drawbaoks with reference to the business of the beard, Miss Taylor said the greatest of all the difficulties they had to contend with was the matter of corporal punishment. This, more ...

... The following appeared in Tuesday's Da ily Sir,Dr. Kenealy asks for the letter he wrote to roe. I send you a copy of it, which I will thank you to publish with this note. I have abstained from quoting much that Dr. Kenealy said to me fa the couversatiEm he refers to, and I will not go into the reason why he came to the conclusion never again to think of the sub- ject,—but the reason, I suspect ...

... POLICE COURT. TPESDAT. (Before Dr. COATKS, Dr. BROWN, and the Rev. WM. HUGHES. ) CHEATING THE SWEEP.—Thomas George, a resi- dent in Augustus-street, Victoria, was cited by P.C. Baker for firing his house chimney, on the night of the 21st itist.-The case was proved by Beker, and defendant was fined 6d and costs. DAMAGE AND TRESPASS.—Mary Driscoll and Maggie Reardon, girls, were charged by ...

... Gloucestershire has long been in the very front agricultural rank. The late Lord Ducie did some- thing to give it this position. His example farm, directed by his agent, the late Mr John Morton, was one of the moat definite and efficient bits of leaven ever inserted in the English agricultural lamp. This was a Gloucestershire institution. Since then there have not been wanting individuals ...

... FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT ROUND- WOOD. TWO MEN KILLED AND A WOMAN INJURED. During a dense fog which prevailed on Tuesday morning, two men, who have loug been in the service of the Midland Railway Company as plate- layers, were killed on a siding at Roundwood, near Rawmarsh, and a woman, one of their wives, was also badly injured about the head and face, but sot sufficiently so to oause ...

... GREAT FIXD OF COAL.—On Saturday, the inhabi- tants of Pontypridd and neighbourhood were pleasantly surprised to laarn that a dicovery of coal had been made at the Marine Rhondda Colliery, formerly known is Fowler's Pit, voir the town. The seam struck is at a depth of 310 yards from the sur- face. It is supposed to be the celebrated four feet vein, worked during so many years at Aberdare. It is ...

... ANOTHER JEWEL ROBBERY. Lord and Lady Rosebery have boen robbed while travelling from London to Scotland. It i3 said that during the stoppage of the mail train at York station last week, they left the carriage a few minutes for refreshment, and on returning to' their compartment, which had not been locked, Lady Rosebery missed from her wraps a hand-bag containing jewels valued at £ 500, and a ...

... The 5th Company of Engineers. having been augmented to its fnll strength, is ordered to leave Chatham, and embark for the Cape of Good Hope. Reinforcements from regiments of the line, the Royal Artillery, and Royal Engineers, will em- bark on December 2nd for the Cape. It is an- nounced that officers of infantry regiments are required to volunteer for service at the Cape. ...

... Jed 1rAIL STEAMER RUN DOWN. ifiii great LOSS OF LIFE. A SPBCJlXi COBBKSPONDENT.) •OOP' HI DOVEB, Tuesday Night. tb1 kjj^y after midnight on Monday a fatal occurred off tho Foreland between the 11 tlrg and American Steam Packet Company's teamship Pomerania and tks Welsh !*ock this morning it waa reported hew c°llUion had occurred in the Channel, l8 a sacrifice of life which equalled, if it ...

... E T S. NEWPORT CORN MARKET—W4ifyaaD.vr Tho attendance was very small, and business lan- guished. What little trade there was, was done at about the following prices :-Rad American (old), 4511 to 46s; ditto (spring), 393 to 41s; white American, 47s to 50s. English wheat —white, 40s to 42:1; rod, 36s to 33s. Barley malting, 32a 6d to 443 grinding, 21fi. Nlaize-Ainericiii, 24s 6d to 25s 6J. Oatj- ...

... J. W. Quambusch, trading as W. Quambusch and Co., wool merchants, Russell street, Leeds., has filed a petition for liquidation. The liabili- ties, which are principally irortgH' cs, are about £ 60,000. The assets, including mortgaged estates, are estimated to be worth between £ 70,000 and f 76,000. Messrs. Middleton and Sons are the solicitors, and Mr. John Routh, accountant, has been ...

... The Midland Railway Company have given notice to their station porters of a reduction amounting to one shilling per week, to take effect after the 18th Pecember. The Manchester, Shef- field, and Lincolnshire's servants have been re- duced, the reduction taking effect for the first time on Saturday last. The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company have also just re- duced the wages of their ...