... QuV-ClMwE:W THE LATE DEAN STANLEV.-Various projects are afoot for the perpetuation of the memory of the late Dean of Westminster. It is proposed to erect a statue of him in the Abbey, and to complete the Westminster Nursing Home and Training School for Nurses, founded by Lady Augusta in I874, as a joint memorial of the Dean and his wife. The Dulke of W'estminster is at the head of the ...

... ?? r- - , )- ?? F \- 'TIiE CHRISTMAS SERVICES in the churches and chapel. of London and the suburbs were in most instances attended bv fulf congregations. Dean Church preached at St. Paul's Cathedral, Dean Stanley at Westminster Abbey, the Rev. 11. White at the Chapel Royal, Savoy, the Rev. W. Hulton at the Chapel Royal, Whitehall, and the Rev. F. Garden at the Chapel Royal, St. James's. At ...

... -CIsR OM~ CirY CHURCHES.-A week or two ago it was reckoned that in fifty-seven City churches, with an annual patronage of 40,266?., open for Divine worship, present 571 officials, not including 706 singers (mostly paid), there was only a total congregation of 3,853. Some further details of a somewhat startling nature as to these livings are again published. Among the anomalies (says the ...

... 1ic ?? ENI.GSH AND IRISH CRIMN ALITY.-Mr. T. D. Sullivan, in a recent speech, contrasted the crimes in England and Ireland, and thanked God that such outrages as were committed in England were not known in Ireland. Irish orators of the patriotic sort have often before now said something of this kind, but just at the present moment such statements are especially worthy of consideration. ...

... AFTERNOON TEA IN A DEVONSHIRE ALAISHO USE A STUDY IN THE EAST DEVON DIALECT Dramnatis Personce: i. BETSY PRINGLE . . Joint Tenants of the 2. MARY GRANT ii tchen. 3. REBECCA BASTIN . . . Upstairs Inmate. 4. JEMIMA BRIGHT . , . ?? in another Street, 5. JANE CIHANNON . . . farried daughter of Mary Grant. SCENE: Kitchen of a Devonshire Aiszshouse. Door leading into a bedroom, another door leading ...

... In the House of Commons, on the 20th inst., Mr ROBERTS moved that the Sale of Intoxicating Liquors on Sunday (Wales) Bill be'read a third time. Mhr WAnTON, who spoke from the front Opposition bench, moved to recommend the Bill in order to insert a provision exempting Cardiff from the operation of the Bill. He con- tended that the signatures to the petitions in favour of the Bill hbad been ...

... F RE E M A SO N R YI Lodge of Benevolence. The monthly meeting of the Lodge of Benevolence was held on Wednesday evening at Freemasons' Hall. The three chairs were occupied by Br J. H. CLABON, ?? President; Br JossHuA NUNN, ?? Senior Vice-President; andBrJAMES BRETT, Junior Vice-President. Later in the evening Br James Brett took the place of Br Joshua Nunn, and Br GEORGE LAU- BErT, G.S.B, ...

... Mr. Edward ComptonB Malvolio. TO TIlE EDITOR OF THE ERA. Sir,-Mr Compton is to be congratulated on the number of his defenders, though lie will probably be bewildered by the variety of their arguments. One of them wants to know why I should assumne that Malvolio was an old man, at the same time that he is at the trouble to prove that Mr Compton presents him as a greybeard. They are unanimous ...

... NEWS FROTAI TURKEY. Constantinople: Jani. 26. Dervish Pasha has been received with open arms at the Palace, and the day after his arrival was invested with the Nichani Imlyaz, the highest honorary distinction in the Sultan's gift. It is not quite clear what he has done to deserve this reward, but it would be vain, indeed, to look for sequence of cause and effect in matters which depend on the ...

... A MAN FOeASTED ALIvL 1-A horrible outrage has bc been co-nrnitted in the west. Abailiff, nameri King, was ?? by a eang of men at Clifden, believed to be the same who so oruelly mutilated the consta- d, bulary horses in the early part of the week, and, gi after being rsuede to swear that he would never act hi as a bailiff ngain, he was deliberately held over tb[O ht fire, and t.-lowiy )osted ...

... THE Archbishop of Canterbury hae recently, in Lambeth Palace, admitted five ladies as deaconesses (raised at the Deaconess Home, Maidstone), for work in his diocese. Forty candidates, including five ladies, have been nominated for the eighteen seats on the St. Pancras Board of Guardians. The Dowager Marchioness of Lothian is one of the lady candidates nominated. iA child named George Frank ...

... -- -- ?? - O00 SATURDA1, MIARCHl 19, 1881. | i Dva flOWS of IlIC assassination of the Czar of en rlussia will oxcite a (leep feeling of horror aud lla indignaliofl among all classes. It is said that Bti threatened men live long, and the Czar has Ri passed unscatlled throuiph so many desperate th attempts npon his life ihat the aonnouncemcnt i that the assassins ha ...