... We are awaiting the new week's work with some interest, for have we not the hero of a hundred Parlia. mentary fights once more at the head of affairs, and what presumptuous mortal can be sure what line it may please him to take on any of the multifarious sub- jects put aside for his consideration On one point, indeed, we have all pretty well made up our minds. He is not likely to revoke Lord ...

... The Northampton. Church Mission, which closed on Tuesday, has proved a great stimulus to religiois work there. During the past 10 days special services have been held in the morning, during the dinner hour, and in the evening. An encouraging feature of the mission has been the thronged attendance day after day at the noon- day services conducted at St. Sepulchre's for men only, by Canon Hole, ...

... The tragedy in so many acts, now known as the conspiracy to murder in Ireland, becomes of yet deeper interest at each examination of the prisoners charged with complicity in the shocking crimes which have disgraced and darkened the annals of Ireland in the last few months. The prisoners were brought up on Saturday. and the further examination had been as usual preceded with exciting rumours of ...

... WRECK OF THE BARQUE' LCVELy.-The fine weather of Friday terminated very abrubtly towards midnight, and on Saturday Aldeburgh beach and the sea presented a very different aspect. With a strong wind from S.W., huge running seas broke over the barque Lovely, the immense weight of water occasionally taking sleepers and staves oxvt of her, and breaking away the remaining bulwarks, &c., whilst the ...

... THE IP8WICH JOURNAL. BIRMINGHA[ BOASTINGS. Can anyone conceive a state of things which Mr. Chamberlain would acknowledge to be evil and the result of the policy of himself and col- leagues? Such a conception would do honour to the imagination of any poet. Indeed, self- complacency leas seldom been exhibited in a more marked degree than by the members of the present Cabinet, and by Mr. ...

... Although the effects of the terrible catastrophe at Sunderlaud have over-reached the horror of the sudden- uses with which they startled the country in all quarters, the utmost sympathy is felt for the bereaved parents and for the serrow int, which Sunderland has been plunged. In Sunderland itself the mourning is not such as leads itself to the demonstrations of ordinary grief; itis too pro- ...

... I LATVST INTELLIGENCE. THE 'POOT-AND-XOUTH DISEAS Y3 IN NORFOLK. Last evening's official return exhibits a highly satig. factory decline in the foot-and-mouth disease in Norfolk. The number of cattle affected by the disease being given at 65, as compared with 174 in the immediate preceeding statement. The number of sheep attacked during the past week was also only 76, as compared with 240 in ...

... CTBRENT TOPICS. -CETswATo has had a coo.l reception onlaudihg in his. own country. He-was disappointed and susicious. He expected a fervid greeting, but the onlyr voices heard were those of his subjects who protested againt his re- tun and departed at once. The King. js* experiencing the truth of the wise saw which tells us that what is done cannot be undone. He was king,,, and. was de feated ...

... at COLOISTR:. i- TEai ELECTRIC LIGUT.-At the Town Council meet- a ing on Wednesday, the Mayor in the chair, the applica- er tion of the South-Eastern (Brush) Electric Light and Power Company was under consideration, The Lighting 'y Committee presented a long report on the subject, and ed recommended that the necessary authority should be g, given the Company. Mr. Marriage proposed that the re ...

... The Rev. Walter Goodliffe, M.A., of Corpus Christi | College, has vithdrawn from the contest for the rectory of Ovington. There are now three candidates: the Rev. I A. T. Crisford, M.A., of Trinity College, vicar of Great 1 Shelford, near Cambridge; the Rev. G. W. Fisher, M.A., of Christ's College, Cambridge; and the Rev. J. B. Matthews, M.A., of Trinity College, vicar of Rushaden. The poll ...

... OUR LONDON 'CORRESPONDEN T. The latest betting, if it is proper to use such ani epres- - O' on the Ministerial majority over the Affirmation t 'iso'ewhat varies according to the political proclivi- of those who make the estimate. It seems io be Pety generally thought that there will be a Majority. a5reN eakmiation and comparison enabl the Minis- t'l iP to fix it saonewbere between fifteen and ...

... Lord Walsinghana's Royal Reading first prize Southdown ram, in the two-year-old class, at the Royal Agricultural Society's Exhibition in 1882, has just been sold for 100 guineas, to Mr. John Hobart Warren, of Hoosick Falls, New York, America. The ram has been used for two seasons in the Merton flock, and has leftt excellent produce. His pedigree is a good one, and it. goes back in a direct ...