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... A novel institution in the shape of a brigade of lady dusters and charwomen for church duty, has been established at Aylesbury. Lieutenant Durnford, torpedo officer of the School of Torpedoes, at Portsmouth, has been directed by the Admiralty to carry out a plan he has suggested for the removal of the masts of the Vanguard by blowing them out of the ship. The operations are to be undertaken ...

... The statesman who can create a new Irish Univer- sity that will satisfy the Roman Catholic hierarchy without offending Protestants- English, Scotch, or Irish—need not despair of being able to square the circle. There is, there can be no doubt, a demand I for another University for the bishops and priests of the Romish community have been importunately de- manding it for years, during which ...

... At Walsall, near Birmingham, on Saturday night, a ooach furniture fitter, named Lines, furiously: sttacked his wife with a cleaver and poker. She escaped into a neighbour's house, and he thereupon beat out the brains of a child she had given birth to on the previous day, which he alleged w&s not his. They had been married six months. The woman has been severely injured, but is.expected to ...

... FBIDAY.—The Speaker took the chair at four o'clock. GOVERNMENT AND THE TELEGRAPHS. In answer to Mr. F. H. Harrison, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER stated that a memorial had been presented to the Treasury containing grave charges against certain persons in connection with the acquisition by the Govern- ment of the United Kingdom Electric Telegraph Company in 1869, and asserting that by the ...

... On Wednesday the Bishop of Bath and Wells, dfnonnced the Engligh Church Union as a menace to the authority of the Chuch. 1 ...

... The spring Assizes for the six counties of South Wales were opened at Swansea on Wednesday. There were six prisoners for ...

... On Monday, Mrs. Clegg, a widow lady of inde- pendent means, was inspecting a new villa resi- dence at Rochdale, intending to purchase it, when she missed her footing at the top of a flight of stairs, and fell headlong. She was picked up dead, having fractured her skull. Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. L. H. \illiers, Grena- dier Guards, Captain Stuart, lith Hussars, and Captain Cooper, 4 ...

... Much excitement was caused on Saturday, in Exeter, by the discovery of the horribly-mutilaced trunk of a child in the Bonhay Mill-leat. A man named Edward Stokes, employed at Mr. Edmund Brown's Powhay Flour Mills, went to clear the tenders, when his attention was attracted by something white in the water, which proved to be the remains of the body of a child six to nine months old. The head, ...

... SUBSTITUTE FOR MILK.—The Editor of the Medical Mirror has called the notice of the medical profession to Cadbury's Cocoa Essence which he calls Cadbury's Concentrated Vegetable Milk, and remarks:—The excess of fatty matter has been carefully eminated and juss a compound remains which conveys in at mini- mum bulka maximum amount of nutriment. We strongly recommpnd it ps a diet for children. ...

... MARRIAGE OF HOBART PASHA. | The Viennese paporft-amioaace ilic ill&rii&gO of Hobart Pasha with Miss Rosa Horn, of Wel- lington, England. It was solemnised at St. Stephen's Church, Vienna. ...

... To secure a lasting preference Horniman's Tea is selected only from the choice spring gathering, and im- ported free from facing powder ;-tea distinctively strong and delicious in flavour is thus obtained; the Dure Green is the natural olive hue, (not bluish), the B Ctck is not intensely black. To ensure its reaching the consumer uniformly good in quality, it is secured in sealed packets. ...