... [ET OUK ANTIQUARY.] The beautiful custom of placing flowers on the graves of the departed, will be observed to-morrow through- out this locality, and it will not, perhaps, prove unin- teresting to the readers of this journal, if I produce a few historical facts relating to Palm Sunday. Palm Sunday has had other titles such as Dominica Capihliivuim, from the ceremony of washing the head on this ...

... THE BIRTHPLACE or BURNS. Burns's cottage, the birthplace of the (amou. Scotch hard, has parsed into the hands of the trustees o Bu ...

... GREAT STORM AT CARDIFF. The storm which broke over Cardiff on Tuesday was one of an unprecedented violence. The cold was intense, and a blinding snow fell—or, rather, was blown about. Here and there snow drifts were formed, to the great inconvenience of pedestrians. The shopkeepers closed their doors, and almost appeared to be frozen np. Trade was at a standstill, and the extraordinary weather ...

... The body of Captain Dangerfield, who was recently drowned in the Severn, near to Lydney Docks, has been picked up in the Bristol River, and on Tuesday it awaited the coroner's inquiry at Framilode, near Gloucester, whither it was taken by the crew of the Reliance, a Stroud coal vessel trading from Bristol. The deceased was a married man, and very much respected. ...

... FRAUD BY A STAMP DISTRIBUTOR. Extensive frauds are found to have been committed by Mr. Colelougb, late stamp diktributer for the Queen a Benca Division, Dublin, amounting, so far as ascertained, to several thousand pounds. Mr. 001- clough has been fullv committed for trial at the next commission by Mr. O'Donel, police magistrate, before whom he was brought up on remand. Mr. Murphy, Q.C., who ...

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... HEALTH OF LONDON. In London last week 2533 births and 1816 deaths Were registered. Allowing for increase of populat.ion, the birtl-s exeteded by 41, and the deaths by no less than 304, the average numbers in the corresponding week of the last ten ye-irs. Trie annual death-rare from all causes, which had been equal to 191, nd 19 6, and 21-6 per 1000 in the three preceding weeks, further rose ...

... SACERDOTALISM AND APOSTOLIC SUCCESSION. BY A PURITAN PEtfST. [We do not necessarily hold ourselves responsible ior me opinions which our correspondent expresses -Ed. S.lV.B.] (Continued.) We endeavoured to show in our previous paper the fallacy of construing what is mentioned in Acts xiii, 1-3, as an act of ordination in the now accepted sense of the word. Admitting episcopal ordination to be ...

... Mrs. HigSins observed, at Rome, the other day, eagerly intent on the statue of the Apollo Belvidere, panning; with the air of a connoisseur each detail of un- draped ^contour, lurmng to a hy-stander, she introduced herself, and asked, Is this the Apollo lielvidere ? A young lady artist, well-known in Rome, replied in the affirmative. Considered a great statue P queried Mrs. H.,and was answered ...

... No WONDER IT WAS HUSHRD Up.-The St. Petersburg correspondent of the New York Sun writes: As I am telling stories, here is another in which this same Count Adierberg figures. The hero is no lees a person than the Prince of Wales. The tiling happened during one of the Prince's visits to the capital of the Czar. Adlerberg bad given the Prince a supper which lasted till daybrehk. About four ...

... from Dirban contain the intelli- gence that General Evelyn Wood has gono into Zulnland with three H{iiadron3 of cavalry, not For the purpose of dOlr, anything in the way of fighting, but of holding a consultation with the ihiefs among whom the land was divided at the 3nd of the late war. At the time the arrange- ment was made by Sir Garnet Wolseley, grave doubts were entertained if the chiefs ...

... A NEW ATLANTIC STEAMER. On Thursday the Alaska, the latest addition to the Guion Mail fleet, arrived in the Mersey from the Clyde, where she wm constructed by Messrs. Elder and Co. This vessel will probably fulfil a prediction made two or three years ago by the builders of the Arizona, a sister ship in some lesser degree to the Alaska, that Liverpool and New York could be reached in seven days ...