... On Thursday week the children attending Church Sunday school had their annual summer tr&t About mid-day the children, with their teachers,. at the school-room, aud, forming into a process^! marched to Penrhiwdarran Farm, whera a plenty* supply of tea and cake was provided. ...

... A Times despatch from Odessa contains the fol- lowing:—Count Loris Melikoff has commuted the death sentence passed upon a Socialist named Evraymoff at Kharkoff the other day. That makes four death sentences-two for political, and two for non-political offences-which, to knowledge, have been commuted in South Russia during the last few weeks. The second of the political instances was that of ...

... Mary Ann Smith, 20, a married woman, of 5S, Huntingdon street, Hoxton, was charged before Mr. Bushby, at the Worship street Police Court, on Saturday, with wounding Alfred Smith, by stabbing him in the back with a shoemaker's knife. Alfred Smith deposed that he was the husband of the prisoner, and that on July 25, when he came home from work, his wife accused him of being drunk. lie sat down ...

... MONMOUTHSHIRE SUMMER ASSIZES. The Summer Assizes for the County of Monmouth fi? T,,a week> at the county town of Monmouth, before the Right Hon. Sir Fitzroy Kelly, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and the Hon. Sir Henry Hawkins, Knight, Justice' of the High Court of Jus. The Commission was opened on Monday by Baron Kelly. His Lordship arrived in Monmouth from Hereford at 2.30 n ra and was ...

... At Croydon Assizes on Saturday, before Mr. Justice Denman, Alfred Spratley, a young man, surrendered to take his trial, upon the coroner's inquisition, for the manslaughter of Charles Cootes by having negligently caused him to be scalded to death.—Mr. Thompson conducted the prosecu- tion. and Mr. Ribton was counsel for the prisoner. -This was a prosecution instituted by the magistrates of the ...

... In a letter read at a meeting of the Anti- Flogging League, Lord Derbv declares he does not think the punishment of flogging in the army either can or ought to be maintained after all that has passed; but, he continues, it is useless to attempt to do away with it by action in the House of Lords. The question will have to stand over to a new Parliament. ...

... The demolition of the Palace in the Camp do Mars will be commenced next month. The park will be transformed into a large square, in the midst of which the Pavilion of the City of Paris, forming a museum, and the Chinese Pavilion, changed into a refreshment room, will be placed. The cost of laying out thib square and its annexes is estimated to be at least 80,000fr. The Manchester Guardian ...

... MR. GLADSTONE AND THE GREEK QUESTION. Some time ago, I (says the London corre- spondent of the Scotsman) announced that a work entitled Mr. Gladstone and the Greek Question was in course of preparation. This volume is now passing through the press, aud will shortly be published. It will contain a review of the principal events in modern Greek history, and will do ample justice to Mr. Glad- ...

... A COMPLAINT FROM BOARDS OF GUARDIANS CLERKS. On Monday afternoon a deputation, consisting of clerks to boards of guardians, representing the Metropolis, Leicester, Chesterfield, Derby, Not- tingham, and other places, had an interview with the President of the Local Government Board, at Whitehall, on the subject of obtaining compensa. tion for the loss of income as returning officers at ...

... DEAN STANLEY AND PRAYER BOOK REFORM. Preaching on Sunday afternoan ia Westminster Abbey on tha- Book of Common Prayer, Dean Stanley, after giving a learned history of its compilation, sioke on the question, Is the Prayer Book. woith reforming? Everything, he said, woath preserving was was capable of improvement. The Prayer Bock had been revised twice under Edward VI., once under Queen ...

... SELLING A WIFE BY AUCTION. It is only a few months since that a paragraph went the round of the papers relating how a cer- tain stonemason at Rawtenstall, in Rossendale, sold his wife to another man for the sum of £ 10; but it would seem from certain proceedings which took place last week at Stacksteads, a Rossendale village, that the money value of wives has sadly declined since that event. A ...

... Major-General Turner, commanding at Wool- wich, issued the following order on Tuesday:- The Major-General commanding feels confident that the whole of the troops who took part in the sad ceremony on the occasion of the funeral of tiie late Prince Imperial of France, will learn with satisfaction that he has been requested by her Majesty the Empress to convey to the officers and men her thanks ...