... It is evident that a very serious crisis is ap- proaching in the history of our parliamentary institutions, and it is not the people who are to blame for the probability of a contingency. The Lords in one direction, the Commons in another but both acting against the people and their rights and liberties, have produced a con- gestion in the public mind, which will only be removed by great ...

... THE nAtEL.WAY ACCIDENT AT MCOnNST,, Major Merindin has issued a report containing the re. sult of his inquiry into the causes of the collision which occurred on January 25 at Hornsey Station, on the Great Northern Railway, during a dense fog. Two passengers in the train were killed upon the spot, and one has since died in consequence of the injuries re- ceived; while fifteen persons were ...

... SCRAPS FROM TNE COMIC JOVRNALS. LFrom PancltJ LIVES AND LT uEN.-MagistratO: Do you know the natnre of an o0ath, my boy P-Wibuess (promptly): Yesa, sir I Must taReit, sir-'ralso I. an'; be memb'r'o' parl'ment, air! PARnIAMENTrRY Pnovzass. - Never do to.day what can possibly be put off till to-morrow. A tax in the hand is worth two in the bush. A remark a day is a speech a year. Where the cry ...

... BAREPACED BACKSLIDNG, TO: TEEN EDITOR OF. PMEYNOLD5WS NEWSBAPE-,. SiR,-AltLhough men.may change, principles -are' immutable.' Because this Iepublican of 'yesterda~y adhets to-day-to discern defects in that system of government he once considered perfiect, and so ardently' admired, hich have changed his views and' altered his opinions, that does not in the least affect Republicanism itself. The ...

... #UMMRY OF LATEST HOME NEWS. Yesterday information was forwarded to Dr. Dan ord ho softe death of Ann Jones, aged itynsof 130, Arlington-road, Camden-town, who di dd , o before medical aid could be procured. e suddnly Yesterday, William Andrews, aged ni e, was playing on a wall with beis schoolmates, when he fell upon hisn arm, breaking it badly. The little fellow, who llves at 1, Clinton-road, ...

... SPAIN. The Spanish Government hare addressed a remon- strance to the British Government against the arrest and imprisonment, at Singapore, of the captain of the Spanish mail-steamer Leon XIII. From the report of the circumsitances of the ease which has reached Madrid, it appears that, while the steamer was on her way to Manila, the engineer, an Englishman, refused to obey the orders of the ...

... A PAUPE WiZISER. The Liverpool parish authorities ?? brought tolight the story of a miter which is revolting in its details. The wretched creature in question, an old woman, who has for a long time occupied a cellar at the south end of the city, was lately taken ilto the workhouse, her dwelling and mode of living having been proclaimed a nuisance. Her removal was found a most an- pleasant task ...

... Mr. George Leeman, late M.P. for YorL-, ex-clhairmau of the North-Eastern Railway, twice Lord Mayor of York, rind the holder of several important public offices, died at Scarborough. The Gazelte of Tuesday night contained the notifica. tion of the return of Michael Davitt as member of per- liamcnt for the county of Meath. He is described as of Portland Prison, Dorsetshire, England, gentleman, ...

... YOREIGN TELEGRAMS. ALLEBGED ARSON BY SAILORS. ATTEMPTED RAILWAY MURDER. THE QUEEN'S JOURNEY. Paris, Wednesday NihtA. The Queen rassed round Paris this evening on her journey from Cherbourg to the South. As her Majesty wished to travel in the strictest privacy, and to receive no ofcial visits, Lord Lyons did not meet the royal train. The Hon. F. B. Plunkett, First Secretary to the British ...

... I LIsT A SPECIAL CONTRIBUTOR.J MR. BEPADLAUGH REAPPEARS. Again all available space in the House of Commons was occupied by an intensely inter, sted gathering; Mr. Bradlaugh had reappeared-2Ir. Bradlaugh, the chosen representative of the working mnen of Noithanrpton. Members fiom bhai the oeunties of England had, for the time. forsaken the blnting.field, or therace-couse, to be present to vote ...

... GMXRAL I NEWS.- A great bicycle meeting is being arranged totake place on Easter Monday at Brigbtonion the pla- of the gatherings at Hampton 6Ourt. The Keutish Miuseum at Maidstore~has gaiaedi some- curious and interesting accessions through finds made-during the-exoavsations at. the new docks and.basias. at Chatham. The TPines of India says that a herd of Bixty-five wild elephants has been ...

... nAILWAY ACCILEN'S AT STAtAT-EED. I St-VE::LAT pI' SONS INJ 0JRJ -- Yesterday morning, shostly after ten o'clock, a serious railway accident occurred just outside the Strat- ford Station on the Great Eastern Railway. The train in question, which was a local one froin Woolwich, left the Stratford Market Station in due coarse, when everything appeared all right, and on reaching the top of the ...