... FATAL .FIGHT.—A number of men left a tavern in Pelham-street, Spiral fields, London, at the atternoon closing hour on Sunday, and upon getting outside a quarrel arose between ,¡wo of them—a car- man named Henry Parish and a brother carman. Eventually both men took clx their coats and com- menced fighting, and being powerful, athletic men, some deadly blows were given on either side, and the ...

... FKIPAY Before Mr R. 0 W AND MR G. Bird. SERIOUS WOUNDING CAKV T Greek, was charged with woundin^r ° • r0' a Maltese seaman in Sandon-piafe u,glaJ instant. A certificate was produced W «■? to the effect that the wounded man \v/s unlhfT appear in consequence of a fracture of fibula. The prisoner was remanded for a week. CHARGE^ OF THEFT. —John Leonard, 68, was charged with stealing 4s. from a ...

... MARRIAGE WITFT A DECEASED W fFE'S SISTER. The Bishop of Oxford in his triennial visitation charge said he could not disguise from himself the possibility that succa?8 might attend the persevering efforts of those who sought to alter the law of marriage in a very important particular—to allow of marriage with a deceased wile's sister. It was difficult to hagine a legislative project more ...

... The Cardiff Railway Servants in recently deciding to send a delegate to the Manchester Conference with reference to the short hours' movement, were entertained to a lengthy address by MIL HARFORD, a gentleman who, we believe, was present at the Cardiff meeting of the Amalgamated Railway Servants' Society, some time since. We have already expressed our approval of shorter hours being granted to ...

... SATURDAY. I A board of Trade inquiry was held at the offices of the Bristol Marine Board, on Saturday, 1?1 carS'fis of misconduct against John George Stokoe, chief engineer of the British ship Ibex, oi London. After a delay of an hour the follow- ^bers put in an appearance :—Messrs. C Hill, C. Nash, and Mk Whitwill. Mr. E. E. Salmon prosecuted, aud Mr. Waterhouse appeared to de- fend. charges ...

... OUR LADIES' COLUMN. I By a fashionable fiction, long accepted as having a foundation in fact, no one worth noticing has yet re. turned to town. It is the season of country house hospitality baronial mansions are filled with guest3 gentlemen are hunting and shooting ladies starring it at county balls an 1 local concerts, gladdening the Carious eyes of grateful tenantry (if any such still ...

... DISASTROUS COLLIERY EXPLOSION. GREAT LOSS OF LIFE. About noon on Monday an explosion of gas took place at the Abram Colliery, near Wigan, attended with a losg of between 49 and 50 lives, aid endanger- ing upwards of 200. The scene of the disaster is a mining village, three miles south of Wigan,and about seven from Bolton. The colliery is owned by the Abram Coal Company, and consists of two ...

... THE PREMIER AND FAIR-TRADE. The chairman of a recent Fair-trade demons- tration in Bradford, having caused the resolutions and memorial passed at ihat meeting to be for- warded to Glafistone, Lord Granville and Sir Charies Dil!ce, j\Ir. Gladstone's private secre- tary forwarded the following reply Mr. Glad. stone has had the honour to receive your memorial which communicated the terms of the ...

... /MISS JENNER AND HER SOLICITOR'S v BILL OF COSTS. « I i t I | j .A tier. bfcj I i 1 I ...

... exceptionally complex case, which has been i^Sing the attention of the BirminghamBankruptcy for several months past, has just been fur er ^Plicated by the marriage of the bankrup a few, under somewhat romantic circumstances fcV ,e that constant attendance at the court !?*h her entangled affairs necessitated, the lady O n just over 30 years of ape, and who had carried £ 'he business of her ...

... George Francis Isaac Paul Vanschafen, 64, a shoeing smith, was indicted at the Bedford assizes for attempting to murder his wife Martha, at Luton, in September last. The woman, who is 70 years of age, was still suffering from her injuries, and had to be supported in the witness-box. She stated that on the morning of the crime, the prisoner, having dressed himself, asked her whether there was ...

... THE PRIMATE ON SUNDAY-SCHOOLS. His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury opened on Wednesday the building acquired by the Churoh of England Sunday-school Institute in Serjeants'- inn Fleet-street, London, as its new home. In the' course of his remarks he said everything that had taken place in the last few years with reference to the general education of the country had pointed most distinctly to ...