... TOWN AND VILLAGE SKETCHES I ?? No. 17.-WINTERTON (PART I). Being situate on the eastern side and 'neavr the bi termination of the oolite range of hills, locally known as a The Cliff, a mile or two on the southern aide of the * Humber,'Winterton enjoys the salubrity of the breezesti which sweep over that fine river, or arm of the sea, but i usually'spared the- fogs and dampness which the ...

... The weekly meeting of this committee was held yester- day at the Town Hall, Air Stuart ?? Symons asked when the return as to a steam fire-engine would be placed in the hands of the ?? Chairman said the return had been circulated amongst the members at least six ?? Symons remarked that he had not received a copy. -The Chairman observed that the purchase of a steam fire-engine involved a place ...

... jALL RIGHTS RBESTED.] T;HE LOCK- KEEXPER'S SECRE T .I , ?? HENRY FRITH. Author of the 'Mystery of the Moor parm, Dr G'-esetein's Ghost Story, &a., sc. OHAPTER XXIX. TiHS INQIEST-WHO DID IT. When the inquest took place, and the vicar was called'upon for his evidence, the feeling became strong against the.ex-tutor, and even extended to Mr Vigors himself. Tom, the pedlar, had been known to ...

... Jv T ?? ?? ?? . Lo.nDON, Saturday. s's, Rlichard Cross does not mlean to hint that ho 5oultl be guilty of obstruction, but there was no 0,e)ut that the Egyptian question would occupy a tcnsiderp.ble part of the time of the session. This Is whlt Sir William Harcourt's predecessor at the 1orio Offico told the Conservatives of Hull last lit, Fndl he thus plitinly expresses an intention 'hilh ...

... (From theKSpevtafor,.) i It is not ats a poipular orator that Mr. Chamberlain's in characteristic power really shows itself. It is in such a III speech as lie mnade on Wednesday to the shipewners of the Tyne, Tees, end Wear that we see lMr. Chambejrlain at his pi best. There lie was dealing with a considerable group of ti rather hiostile ' critics, thoroughly versed in their own pis subject, ...

... MR. G. IV. HASTINGS, M.P., AT SELLY OAK. Yesterday evening Mr. G. W. Hastings, Y.P., addressed a, meeting of hsis constituents in the W~orkmen's H~all, Selly Oak. Councillor Deakin presided, and there were also p ?? Middlornore, and Messrs. IV. Rolason, H,.Blliott,WV. Mrartin, T. Hugh>s, J. Crurp, T.Hughes, jffss, Brook Smith, and Joseph Smith. There wise a good attend- ansce.-Mr. Hastings, H ...

... IhijiERALISMf AT NEWCASTLE. 1 pUBLIC MIEETING LAST NIGHT, SPEECH BY MIR. CHAMBERLAIN. Mr Cliamberlain, whoe, at the invitation of thle ?iceastfle ?? Liberal Association and Liberal Club, ~navisit to that city, arrived in Newcastle from *rnisgham at 5.14 yesterday afternootl, Ild is the guest iDr.Speiwe W iatoet, the president of the club. The ett1rcarranlged for his visit eonwriees utot only ...

... EXTRAORDINARY PROCEEDINGS AT A SCHOOL BOARD MrEETUTG. A. monthly meeting of the Foleshill Sohool Board was held on Mondaky night; Mir. W. Lloyd ?? the 1 minutes being read the Chairmin took exception to that t portion relating to the advertising for assiitant female teachers, contenrding that the clerk ought to have inserted the advertisements in other papers than those in which they had ...

... PRI ATrf CORRESPONDENCE. LoNDnoN, Saturday. c T nservltivO party is adopting the tactics of it, oppentei in more wvays thai ono0. Mr. Glad- ] its MlP idlothiian speeches in November and l)ccenibcr, 1879, were contemptuously dismissed t l am cartoon inl 'Punch, describing the right lion. a 1,,n cartlon°ll ''iO Colossus of Words, and no q o'e 0''took lithel troublo to answver the indictment iI ...

... The Prince and Princess of WALES left Marl- , borough House yesterday afternoon, for Crichel, c Dorset, whero their Royal HIighnesses are visiting Lord ATINUTOr. At the request of Sir Mosrs MONTEFrIRxom, the proposal to commemorate his centenary will not I be proceeded with at present. The career of the National Liberal Club is so far an illustration of the woll-known axiom that , nothing ...

... LOPD CARIPI.CFOilD AT THE i1EI l 0 'AU _tLu-B. T C o 'r.;rn'-crd1 wvas a guest of th-' mernxlors of I t' ;iverpool rieform Cl ii at a dinner which wa; h Td last r.tht, in thz Clu'vi'uildinr, Dale-street. The h.iner -.vs 'riI eu the Co-Iee-room, which lssa a c-In- ehrately dlecorated for theoccionc It ian see' el' w;:hl eeg Wice and ta-,te under ?? CeirEOti1 *I!f M. Cadil, the e1w C6.b Mir IL. ...

... I LORDLY AND CONISERYATIVE [I . CRITICISM. TO TR? EDVITOS OF THUE LUVY POOL MERCOURY. Gentlemen,- I defy any man to listen to Mr. Gladstone in the House of Commons for five minutes without saying, 'That man is a humbug. ' So Lord Brooke, M.F., J.P., D.L., and eldest son of an earl, is reported to have expressed himself recently at a Conservative meeting in Ba:th. C01i the same night, it ...