... The trial of Mabel Wilberforce, charged under 22 counts with having committed wilful and corrupt per- jury during the hearing the case of Wilberforce V. Philp, in the High Court of Justice, in July last, has taken placa at the Central Criminal Court, before Mr. Justice Hawkins. When the indictment was read the prisoner declined to plead, stating that the court had refused her time to prepare ...

... 1 THE MEMBERS FOR MERTHYR. ON Wednesday the series of addresses which Mr. RICHARD, M.P., and Mr. JAMES, M.P., propose to give their constituents in the Merthyr Borough, was commenced at Mountain Ash. The attendance of electors was not so large on this occasion as was anticipated, and the speeches delivered were not of the highest order. The enthusiasm of the Welsh people, too, did not appear ...

... In anticipation of a threatened measuie of confisca- tion of conventual piopeity by the new French As- sembly, a community of French Nuns, Les Fillea de la Mkre de Ditu, a wealthy educational Order, has arrived from Brest with 20 pupils, and settled at CUftojs ...

... A memorial to the Hum; Secretary is in course of preparation respecting a sentence of 10 days' impri- sonment, and three years' cor.firemcnt in a reforma- tory, which was passed at Stoi noway, on Murdina Maclean, a gii-I of 12, for stealing a pair of stockings, value Is., from the shop of a relative. Intelligence from Appledore states that the Norwe- gian batque Admii al Peter Tordenskjold ...

... A shocking occurrence took place at the Oxford Theatre of Varieties, New-road, Brighton, on Tues- day evening. Ling Look. a Chinaman, who describes himself as the Lord of Fire, Cannon, and Sword, was just completing his entertainment, which con- sists of drinking boiling oil, biting hot lead, swallow- ing swords, and iiriii, a gun and a, cannon balanced upon a sword, which remains in his ...

... MINISTERS AInD WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE. Replies have been received at Bradford from Mr. Gladstone and also from Mr. Forster and Mr. Illingworth, the local members, to a memorial for- warded to them hy a meeting recently held in support of the woman's suffrage movement. Mr^Iadstone saj's that whenever any measure is under consideration of Parliament, extending their suffrage, he has no doubt in that ...

... According to the Pulltifchc Correspoii'knz, the Rus- sian Budget for 1S80 shews a deficit (,f 98,000,000 rClllhle, part of which has been covered by the issue of 30.000,000 in paper money. The expedition to Cen- tral Asia andjth • preparations for war against China. figures for 2(57,000,03) and the fortifications in the military district of nr««v for 700,000 roubles. William M lore, 40, ...

... Cfce ittait about frown. Yes, he thought he would get his bread by loading and so he begged and begged. He wandered into the police-court with the mis- taken idea that it was an alms-house. But Walbridge showed him the door. He came again, and the result was the same. Then he went to the Rose and Crown, and looked thirstily at the customers, and gave them to un- derstand that his appetite ...

... MISB FARNINGHAM has engaged to deliver one of her popular lectures in Wood-street Chapel, Wednesday evening, January 19th, 1881. CHRISTMAS DINNER TO THE POUR OF ST. JOHN'S PARISH.—The annual dinner to the poor of St. John's Parish was given on Monday in the Crockherbtown Schools. In the boys' school places were prepared for 300 adults, and in the girls' school accommodation for 200 children ...

... Lord Chief Justicc Coleridge, in charging- the grand jury at Manchester, on Thursday, ob- served that the crime of perjury was greatly on thp ?ti?rc?p. 1? vra? ? aer?ou? cr??e, po?uHn? the stream of justice at its source. He was not one of those who wished for any increase in the severity of our penal code, but he would not look ill upon a law which increased the possible ainojRit of ...

... The Indian Mirror, the leading native journal of Beogal, says A great disaster has befallen England in the death of Lord Beaconsfield. However strongly we always opposed his policy, wo mutt unhesitatingly eay that flc^land has in bim C:J.-o of her greatest statesmen and ...

... THE RIOTS AT EHAYADEE. The disturbances at Rhayader have been suppressed, and resolutions passed at an impor- tant meeting to the effect that the continued pollution of rivers by refuse from mines still prevails in contravention of the law. Now it is quite certain that Parliament, in passing the River Pollution Prevention Act, had it in contemplation to preserve the public health and a very ...