... WHITCHURCH. BLuR RIBBON MOVEMENT.—One of the most successful meetings in connection with this move- ment since its inauguration was held at the Tabarnacle Chapel on Tuesday evening. The Rev. D. Evans presided. Messrs Huigs, Lemon, and Barton deliveled addresses, and at the close 60 donned the blue ribbon. The attendance was large. ...

... The funeral of the Rev. John Morgan Evans, who for many years past had held the office of of the Ebenezer Welsh Congregational Church, at Cardiff, and death we had to announce last week, took place 011 Tuesday, at the New Cemetery, Cardiff, amidst marked tokens of esteem for the deceased gret at his loss. The funeral ceremonies were at- tended by a large number of friends, and were witnessed ...

... WILLS AND BEQUESTS. The will (dated May 18, 1881) of the Right Hon. Sir Robert Lush, one of the Lords Jus- tices of her Majesty s Court of Appeal late of No. 60, Avenue-road, Regent's Park, who died on December 27 last, was proved on the 26th ult. by Charles Montague Lush and Percy John Fre- derick Lush, the sons, and Miss Florence Jane Lush, the daughter, the executors, the value of the ...

... THE ALLEGED MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE. A PETITION TO RELEASE THE PRISONER. The memorial to the Home Secretary, which is being signed by the inhabitants of Hastings and Eastbourne, urging that an official inquiry should be held into the circumstances attending the trial and convietioa of Amelia Jordan, now undergoing a sentence of 14 years' penal servitude on a charge of stealing the jewels of ...

... THE CHILDREN'S HOUR COLUMN FOR GJRLS AND BOYS. BY MAGGIE SYMINGTON. Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupation, That is known as the Children's Hour. Longfellow. A GOOD KING AND QUEEN—A GOOD WOMAN'S IN- FLUENCE—PRINCESS EUGENIE-PRINCE GUSTAV'S DIARY-HIS EARLY DEATH A LASTING SORROW —THE PJBINCESS AND HER DIAMONDS—ON THE ...

... THE SWANSEA WILL CASE. In the Probate Division of the High Court of Justice on Saturday, the Right Hon. the Presi- dent, Sir James Hannen, had again Mfore him the part heard case of Thomas and another v. Jen- kins and others. The jury late on Friday night found for the defendants upon all the issues, the learned president having gone home before the finding. Mr Smallman Smith, on behalf of the ...

... The Earl of Fife and Sir Albert Woods, Garter Kh)j of Arms, will leave London on the 2nd proximo to invest hia Majesty the -King of Saxony with the Order of the Garter. A banquet to the representatives of West- minster, Mr W. H. Smith and Sir Charles Rus- sell, will be on the 17th instant by tlie Working Men s Constitutional Association. A sculling match for J3100 stake took place on Wednesday ...

... ASSAULTINGA SALVA- TIONIST AT BRYNMAWR. At the Brynmawr petty-sessions on Wednesday, Thomas Thomas, collier, Brynmawr, was charged by William Clarke, Lieutenant of the Salvation Army at Brynmawr, with assaulting him on the night of Monday, the 26th, at Beau- fort-street. The facts of the case are as follows: —Complainant was walking up Beaufort street in front of the army, when two men ...

... COLLAPSE OF A BOILER. On Ttiesdax morning large boiler belonging to Messrs Kill and Smith, fence manufacturers, Brierley Hill, near Dudley, collapsed and drowned the fires. Four men, who were warming them- oelves at the firehole, were scalded and mjurect by the flying brickwork. One man, Stephen Mallm, was scalded all,over the body, and he is iia a dying state at the hospital. The damage to ...

... THE PUOCEQUliE RULES. Mr GLADSTONE gave notice that to-morrow, at half-past four, he will move that the orders, after the termination of the debate on the Ad- dress, be postponed till after the resolutions to alter the rules of procedure. The House adjourned at 5.55 p.m. ...

... THE ACCIDENT TO THE QUEEN. The Marquis of HARTINGTON (Indian Secre. tary), replying to Mr Warton's question, said that neither himself nor either of his colleagues had received any information as to the rumour of an accident to her Majesty, and he had no reason to think there was the slightest foundation for it. (Hear, hear.) ...

... THE CHESHIRE POACHING AFFRAY. THE SENTENCES. At the Chester assizes on Saturday, the three poachers who were convicted on Wednesday of unlawfully wounding, were sentenced to eighteen months' hard labour. William Percival, Walter Meach, and Charles Wellesley Ricketts, who had been convicted of perjury in connection with the case, were also sentenced to eighteen months' hard labour. In passing ...