... ST, STEPHENMS WARD ELECTION PETITION. The trial of the election petition presented by Mr. Lewis Spokies Richards against the return of Mlr. Frank Wright as councillor for St. Stephen's Ward was continued yester- day, in the old Council Chamber, Moor Stroet, by Mr. S. ,Prentice, Q.O., 6i of the barristers appointed for the 'trial of t efquniipal election petitions The petitioner alleged ...

... I, EE ATTACK, . THE . E . E jTX,-, RENEW ATTA.CK-,ON THE QUEN i M Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone arrived at Windsor yesterday ies afternoon at a quarter to six o'clock. With: them in the ed railway carriage were the Earl and Countess of Kenmaro and Sir Henry Punsonby. Two of the Royal carriages were waiting at the stntion, where an immense crowd had °r assembled to see the Premier., Mr. and Mrs. ...

... The death is announced of Mr. T. H. Naylor, recorder I at Sudlbury, Canon Wyiin Williams, tho oldest clergyman in the diocese of Bangor, died on Monday. Mr. Peter Spence has resigned the office of president of the Manchester and Salford Tlemperance Union. It is in contemplation to purchase St. John's Villa, at a Cest of £12,000., as a site for a new hospital at Hastilngs. The bansilon Iloousc ...

... l The hearing of the ?? against the return tf Mr. Frank; Wright as ehunctilor for St. Steplen's Wasrd was coxiin-lue yesterday, before Lit Prentice, Q.U., at the Public Oman, Mioor Strest. Mr. A'frsl L{oung, Mfr. StubbinsJ andl hr. Dorsett (instructed by Mlessrs. Row-- lands, Dagualt, and Cd.) appeared for the pet5!ioner, LIe, I,: S. R.ichards; end Dlr. H~ugo Young and Mr. Htarold W~right ...

... BIRMINGHAM OHURCE OF ENGLAND I | YOUNG IMEN'S ASSOCIATION. Tha annual meeting of this association was held last evening, in the 'Lecture Room, Paradise Street. Mr. E. Gein presided, and amongst those present were the Revds. Canon Bowiby and J. ?? Owen, Messrs. F, 0. Bourne and ?? Reeves. Apologies were received from. the president (Colonel Rat-lif') and the Rev. C. .Y.rLawsou (clerical secre- ...

... In a secret Consistory held at the Vatican on Moela) (as was briefly mentioned in our columns yesterday) the Poe created seven new cardinals-four of the Under of Priests, in the persons of Monsignor Domenico Agostini, Patriarch of Venice; Monignor Lavigerie, Archbishop ol Algf.ria ; Monsignig Lluch y Garriga, Archbisllop of Seville; and Mlonignor Edwvard BM'Calle, Archbishop of Dublin ; and ...

... . ?? . . .. I [euter's Telegrarts, ser Press Association.] FRANCE, PAPIS MA.iRcH 14. The appointment of M. Andricux as French Ambassador It Madrid is gazetted to-day. FRANCE AND TUNIS. PARIS, MARCeL 14 (Evening). DI. Lcon Say, Minister of Finance, submitted to-day to the Chamber of Deputies a demand for a grant of eight million francs for the cxpcnses of the expedition in Tunis during the ...

... I ,- , Pleuro-pneuntoni3hs broken out among a herd of cattle nb Asht~on. 4 ,- R % r ' Hdnimeramitt tridge is 'tobo be leblt at a &6s6 do C I £86,000, - : It is oxpeeted that Mir 1ITher6'the new LUkl'Mihlber of Council, will leave for India early in April, ' Aboat £3,000 iaimage has been eaused, by a fise which C occurred at'the Britahnla MilLs, Middletin. - The Soir states that the Sultan ...

... NEW PATEN'1TS. 7-,-I hi.. Aif, (Omrap. SIhui. I (Contributed by Mr. George Shaeus) Tbe following Patents, nmong others, wore sealed during the thI week ending March 30,1882. 0se Thonilas Warvick, Aston, near Birmingha3n1,bicycles, tricycles, ve andl other velocipedes. October 4, 1881. V Oharles IV. King, Manchester-gas-motor engines. September 30, 1881. Henry Hughes, Loughborougl, Lelcester ...

... The Central News states that a telegram was received at Dover yesterday from Colone)iBurnaby by Mr. T. Wright, the aeroncut, stating that the sender' had descended sarely on, Thursday night, about six o'clock, at the Chateau de hlontigny, Normandy, and will atonce return by train to London. According to the telegrsm, which is brief and aomewhatobscure 'in some partioulars, Colonel'Burnaby ...

... , e. 10 During A STRONG ROOM FOROED. During Tuesday night or Wednesday morning soene 10 burglars gained *rdinrssion into the premises of Messrs. t Grimley asnd Son, anuotioneers and estate agents, Temple ci Street, Birminighaill forced open the door of the strong of room, situate at the far end of the office on the 1, ground floer, and broko open all the drawers in the office. Fortunately ...

... | LONDON LElTT ER. I- at l {FROM OURL OWN CORRESPOa'EnxT.) is- LOND)ON, WsEDNEsDAY NIGIT. ,te Temost ardent lover of Home Rule for. ile Scotland could hardly have complained of the odtimle occupied by and the attention given to- heday to Scotch subjects. This was essentially ill a Scotch Wednesday. In wvhat, having regard t to the nationality of the speakers, might be c ed fairly called a ...