... w1 Young tolhs Columno _nt It is a pretty custom, this new one, of giving East&e eggFs said a friend to me the other day. I could not, of course, contradict her, but I expect many of you North Country children are ready to smile, as Idid, at the thought of the custom being a new one. Still, there are many people who believe with her that the exchange of eggs at Easter is a recent importation ...

... 1 AILWAYSBILVANT6' GATHEIRING ATL DARIiNGTON. Yesterday afternoon, a railway servants' tea and social gathering took place ia the Friends' Schoolroom, Skiunergate, Darlington. Upwards of 200 people sat down to tea, and the tables were presided over by the following ladies:- Mesdames Beeton, Savage, Anderson, Sander- son, Appleby.l Hopper, Day, Robson, Mosmanu, Breckon, Scott, Cail, Barker, ...

... Street perils are on the increase. Civilisation multiplies dangers. On Monday, ihe Salvation Army went roaring along the main thoroughfares, adding to the Easter Mon- day excitement as they filed away from the Central Station to the scare of horses, and the discomfiture of hurrying pe- destians. Tuesday brought relays of brakes for Gosforth tRaces, and :the scene around the Catholic Church, ...

... DECISION OF THE HOME SECRETARY. The Horne Secretary has, we are informed, after due con. sideration of the latest affidavits submitted to him on be. half of the convict lamson, decided that they contain no ground justifying any further delay in the execution of the sentence passed upon him, and bshe convict will therefore be hanged on Friday morning. Notifications to this effect have been sent ...

... ) EDITION| -?n -- ?? SE00NI TR9 EATIES WITH JAPAN, ElsluTa WE ^ LEGI.IM.) BERiNE, TaURmDAY. A conference wvil] shortly be held between representatives o' ?? ?? the v 12nit::Fropealt Stat.:: ts decide upon a common ?? for tec rev-nion of the eotnmercial treaties bj d which tley are at present bound. J BURNING OF A NEWCASTLE t SHIP. I ?? S6 TELEGRAMT.) NEVW YORK, TrgppSDvY. The ship Movarda from ...

... itutu u Nam- -0- Ayoub Khan lias arrived at Teheran. 'ale 1'errtland Hills are covered with snow. TAe EMPress Eugeenie has left London for the south ot France. Princess Beatrice completed her twenty-fifth year on Friday. Geueral Garibaldi and his family have arrived safely at Caprera. Tire labour strikes are multiplying in various parts of the 'United States. Prince Baranoff, the Russian ...

... PH ESEN'L'AL''T N '10 IU ?? G1tKES. v : 1 -- -- - A -- A - Aff ?? Yesterdav afternoon, there was a large muster of the officials and workmen of the Teesside Iroou and Engine Works Company, in the bridge-yard at the Tees Engine Works, Commercial-street, Middlesbrough, the occasion being to present Mr E. CGlkes, the late general maueger, with au illuminated address. Mr ISAAC WILSON, M.P., who ...

... SHE IORTHERN ECHO. MoNDlr, APr-L', 10, 18S2. TAm TITHE AND THE TENANT. 1 '& ?? 'msnl scene of violence at Tieeharst in jistraiiinug for extraordinary tithe, and the vitatio, against the tithe by the farmers TrHE eE that ncighbourhood, will exercise a con- Dl siklerable ?? far beyond the counties of Icut aiid Sussex. This tithe question is forcing itself more and more upon the hI attention of ...

... RALWAY BB iMI NTS' MEE TNGS I MIDDLESBROUGH. -Testerday afternoon, a meeting of railway ser- tic vants was held in the Tempereace- Hall, Middles- 8, brough, in support of the nine hours' movement. yv Tue Mayor (Alderman Archibald) presided, and B, there were also oa the platform the Rev. W. pr Whale, Mdessrs Purcell, Cotton, Smith (of the- Mliddlesabrough Trades Council), Harford (one of Wb ...

... TuHE '{ORTHERN `CHO. II, 17 'D 4Y. APIIt, 8, 1882. FI,11URATION ANDP.AUPERISM. uni, axiom that the real wealth of a 1; agtion is increase of population has an g ijnassai!able foundation in fact, but we a ale apt to forget that it has boundaries b bcyond which it cannot go-beyoud which P it ivotild cease to be true. Nations have n risen in ipower as their population has in- v creased: nations ...

... THE NORTHERN iCHO. THU iJASI)b. ?? APliff 0, 1S32. SPREAD THE LIGHT. ALL honest men who reatl the stor; of the Irish Land League, which we notice in another column, twill read it with pain and sorrow. Patriotic Irishmen, who valnc the reputation of their countrv, -ust feel deeply ashamied of the cidwitial teaching, by alleged lenders of the Irish peopil, which is now fully exposed to public ...

... ECEOES OF THE WEES, PARLIAMENT has not made a good start after the holidays. There is no really earnest discussion on any subject brought forward; and it is with some difficulty that a house has been on certain nights kept together. On Tuesday night the House was counted out for the sixth time this Session. Oa Monday night the Government was not allowed to reach its business until ten o'clock, ...