... RFMARKABLE ACTION ABOUT A FIDDLE, In the Queen's Benah Division, on Saurday, the cas Hodges v. Cbanot war heard, This was an action to recover £55, the amount paid for a violin on the mis. representation by the defendant that it was by Carlo Bergonzi, The defendant denied the warranty. The plaintiff is a commercial clerk and private dealer in violins at Gateshead-on.Tyne, and the defendant is ...

... [REUTER'S TELEGRBAMIJ3 SATOBDAY.-A seemi-offlciel contradiction is given to the statement published by a London paper thiR morning to the effect that, in the joint communicatione from England and France to the Powers on the Egyptian question, three matters are excepted from fresh negotla- tion, namely, the financial control, the non.intervention of Turkey, and the free navigation of the Saez ...

... VAC CATION. At the monthly conference of the London Society for the Abolition of Compulsory Vaccination, an address was given by Dr. W. B. Carpenter, ?? on the increase of swall-pox mortality in London during the year 1280. Dr. Carpenter pointed out thle inadequacy of the objection that a system of compulsory vaccination outraged the rigbts of individuals, contending that in health, as in ...

... ?? asof the ap. On Saturday the metropolis was visited by the heaviest fog of the winter. Upon road, rail, and river travelling was both difficult and dangerous, On some of the railways running into London the morning trains were hours behind time, and trains on the suburban lines moved almost at a walking pace. In the streets and shops-artifcial light was needed throughout the day. At night ...

... 411% IW*+ I lia. 10 tettig, qltqe+ [BY TELxEG~RAP,j a fi. HOUSE OF LORDS-YESTERDAY. The Lord Chancellor took his seat at five oclck !THE IRISH1 LAND COMflIISSION. The aqIsG ofD ArWpOied ta inhied whether ?? provide nospecial form of oath to be taken by the M Cormmisinesad the Commintsioners as snob bed not take an oat. Jstic O'aganhedof course, taken an oat intir caaciy o a udg oftheSupemeCo ...

... :=t= of th= gap. The boube of Lords sat for half an hour yester- 6 day. A Bill to consolidate and amend the Acts rcutirvg to the property of married women having, on tbe mtotion of the Lord Chancellor, been read a a first time, Lord Delawarr asked for papers relating to ligyptian end T~tnisian aifhirs ; and Lord Oranville, in reply, intlintited that full informa- t tien respecting Bgypt would ...

... WEST GLOUCESTER FARM'ER&' oLUB. The annual meeting of this well known local agricul. tural association was held yesterday, at tha Grand hotel, the chair being taken by Mr. John Yalland, die chair. man of the Committee of Management. Thbeminnte8 of the previous committee mieting were read by Mr. John Gerileh (recretary). The committee for the year was chosen as follows Cbairmab, Mr. John ...

... The weekly meeting of the guardians of this union was held yesterday at the workhouse, Flax Bourton,Mr, Henry Bennett presiding, The clerk's relief statistics for the week ended February 6th were as follows :-In. door paupers, 444, being a deceease of 16 as compared vith the corresponding weel of last year. Out-door poor, 3302, decrease, 72, Out * relief in money, £262 18s, 121d,, decrease, ...

... BRISTOL JUNIOR LIBERAL ASSOCIATIM). I Lngt vpmnan £ Thas A V ?? - Last evening the Rev, A. N. Blatchford delivered a lecture to the members of the Bristol Junior Liberal Association in the arch-roomn of the Colston.hpll, his subject being the Opium Traffic. Mr. W. R. Barker presided, and in opening the proceedings said the question wae one which appealed at once to one's instincts of what ...

... CONSERVATIVE DEMONSTRATION AT ' COLSTON HALL. PRESENTATION TO LORD WIB1BORNE. lest evening there was a great demonstration of Con. servatives at Colston-hall on the occasion of the presenta- tion of a portrait to Lord Wimborns by the Conservatives of Bristol as an acknowledgmesit of the services his lord- ship rendered theparty in twice contostilg the ?? in their behalf. Tbe hall w as deusely ...

... OVER THE WALNUTS- AND WINE. i will I c Tuanni is, I am mire, and can be,..but one feeling about seial Mr. Johnson's loss of his daughter Ain India-a feeling of Ircfei genuine sand sincere sympathy. His ?? India was cue thinks of affection-to tend a sick son striokeia by that terrible Adam climate which ceatse us a Waterloo 'every year, even when hdh there is not awar in hand ; and the journey ...

... HOUSE OF1 LORDS. THURSDAY.-Lord BA~rOVOM put a series of ques tions T] to the Secretary for Foreign Affaire- with re15ard to Mr. Errington's journey to Rome and his communications with S the 'Vatican, which. elicited from Lord GRcANqVILEt the 1 statement that he had nothing to add to, the explanation at which lied been given on the subject in the House of Cons- S neons by the Premier aind Sir ...