... SUNDAY L ECTURB. ?? stchuld reacish oheaofce net later than Sat.rday N l-Dr. Perfitt, Co.operative Hall, 18.9, Copenhagen-street, Caledoniu..road, at 7, lecture, Reformation ia England; R~eligious and Political Cauee.-Clhremoout Hall, Penton. street, Pentonvillo, at 11.30 r.m., discassion; at 7 p.m., Mr. Corris B. Grant, John B:a^mpdsn.-Clalreuldon ritlb, an, High-streot, linyton, at 11.30 ...

... MEGGARS IN BOA'naCOTH. The Lord Mayor's fund for the defence of property in Ireland, or, in other words, for iilling the purses of high-class beggars at the peopfe's expense, has proven a miserable failure. Only about twelve thousand pounds has been subscribed. That is as little, comparatively, as the few barley loaves and small fishes which Scripture tells us were the only provision for ...

... DXSASTE3S AT SEA. .,A _ anL A . - . ?? -P An Vn Tuesday the crew ofthe brig Princesis, of Sunder- land, fronl Seahava efor Rtocehesater writ~h coal wnnere e ceived at the Great Yarmouth Sailors' Home, having lost their vessel on Hasborough Sand on Monday. When the vessel struck the sand a dense fog prevailed, and the sea broke ever her heavily'. The crew remained by the brig in their boat for ...

... R2rOM OP Tab LUNACY LAWS. At a meeting held by the members of the Law Amend. ment Society, Mr. Aar:x. E.MIoanEc, Q.C., read a paper on the Reform of the Lunacy Laws, Mr. JosaPr DODDS, M.P., presiding. In opening the proceedings, that gentleman said it was evidently considered by many persons that our lunacy laws were in an unsatisfactory eondition, as, during the last Fession, when there ...

... MXOITING SCONE AT A. In=. Aln e;nerteus, on Wednesday morning, there was a terrible scene at a fire which broke out at the West. end, and gutted a large brick dwelling-house, occupied by Mr. Peter Tnrner, woollen draper. The house, which is four storeys high, is one of a block formerly used as private residences. One of the rooms was used as a clothes warehonse, and contained a very valuable ...

... 'United Ireland, 10,000 copies of which were seized on their arrival in Dublin, is no longer to. be published in London. It has been determined by the proprietors, the financial agents of the Land League, to remove the journal toe Paris, where it will in fature be edited, printed, anL published. Considerable alarm has been caused in Limerick by the discovery that the dynamite magazine of ...

... a TO THE EDITORI 0Y 3ICYNOLDS'8 NEWSPAP:LP, Sin,-In a very few hours now parliament meets, and the lauour party of the realm will be again, of course, highly satisfied by the l magnicent position which its two represents. tives take! I'he assembled hundreds of capital, - and class, and caste; the equally numerous representatives of the fighting and expensive interests, of the law, and of the ...

... G A R D E N I NS WINUER PFrAnooNsrUhs.-No more brillant floral display is to he seen in ally English garden or nursery auet now thanI is the grand show of zonal pelargtniums in bloom in Mr. Cannell's nureory at Swauloy, and which we were privileged to see but the other day. We avor not been at all accustomed hitherto to regard the pelargonium, or, as it is usually sailed, the geranium, as a ...

... THE PRISON IN LAW A:ND LEGISLATION. Sir William Harcourt deserves great credit for the robust character of his refusal to let the bribers out of prison. These men were duly convicted after trial by j ries of-corrupting their fellw-towfnamefl in. Macclestield and beal. It was pleaded in their behalf that everybody did it, which is quite true, but that would be -no defence for fraud, although ...

... articlalas sitould reas thc ofao net ?? S thes usday mnorniay.] N.-Alliance Club, 05, Shaftheibury.street, Nlow Northi-road, at 8.-0 p.m., Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Julian, popular recitals and sketches -Claremont Hall, Penton-street, Pentonville, at 1l.:iO a.m., discussion; at 7 p.m., Mr. Cbarles Watts, A Review of 1881 ; dramatic recitations, Mr. T. Mead. ES-The Eleusis Club, 180, King's-road, ...

... After unceasing efforts, Sic Charles Dilke and his colleagues came to the conclusion that they could not hope to conclude a satisfactory treaty with France. The principal difficulties were those that affected the duties on cotton and woollen goods; but speaking generally, it may be said that the obstacles to an ac- ceptable arrangement were insurmountable from the first, and for many reasons. ...

... TWIM nZLEASED nummns. ?? 4 -1 - - - . -- - - , - 15i representaclve ot the Press Association saw one of the released mlen, who declared that at Holloway espe- cilly they were treated with the most rigid adherence to prison rules, and, as he thought, with even undue harshness. He states frankly that he did pay sums of money in order to secure votes-a practice which, he declared, had been going ...