... THE ENGLISH SUNDAY CLOSING BlLL DEBATE IN THE HOUSE OF . ~COMMIONtS. IMPORTANT SPEECH BY THE HOME SECRETARY. fiE BILL TALKED OUT, LSPECOAL TrLLaAGIA.3 LFRo1M OUR OGLLERY COflE5MDOM T.] WESTMINSTER, WznmNEsDsAx. This was essentially acold water dayandthough thedisciples of anational coldwaterbeveragecould .not score, they at any rate occupied one whole sitting. After the preliminary stages had ...

... DAi PRICE NOT A DRUID. ,; ?? V-c; ..I A VDA roll;^l W.-~ I-ll xnY -tt i I the- 'bin A PROTEST PROM1, THE ARCHDRUlA Iay No one will believe for a moment that in sub- d it witting to the public that Dr. Price is not the ,Pour- Archdruid and not even a Druid of the minor Ling degree of Ovate I am actuated by any ether interest than that of truth. I would not say a 'ith- word in disparagement of ...

... FATALITIES THROUGH DRINK AT I CARDIFF. SCANDALOUS SCENE OUTSIDE A MORTUARY. s At Cardiff Town-hall on Friday Mr. E. B. Reece, coroner, held an inquest upon the body of James ap M'Sherrin. The deceased we a fireman belonging M to the steamship Ida, which was on Thursday even- a5 o ing lying in the Roath Basin at a distance of about fo 11 four feet from the quay wall, Deceased was in Li r liquor ...

... I - 4 ]as! fF5104 OULt OWN CORltSPON3S'DEBrr1s ] 1fo ThURSDAY NcIGHT J th Lord Randolph Churchill, the newivy-1E elected president of the M:idland Conservative } th Club, at the commencement of his inaugural Id address at Birmingham last night paid hc a graceful and well-earned tribute to his of predecessor, Lord Windsor. In describing his lordship as a nobleman ardently devoted to the cause ...

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... EXTRlAUDINARI Y SWINDLING TR ANSACTI ONS. A man namned Dauiel P. Stanley, formerly aF traveller for a firm near Stroud, has, with the aid of aL cleque-book on the Birmingrigham, Dudley, and District Hank, bees perpetrot-injg a series of somne- whatv remurkable frauds in the rigligbo-uhood of Hull, Grimeby, and other places. In Hull Stanley called upon an oil merchant, and described himself as ...

... TXIPERIAL PARLIAMENT. ?? * ~ _HOUSE OF LOED&.-TUXSDAY. Their Lordships met at a quarter-pest four o'clck. MISCELLANEOUS. The Ear] of CAMPERDOWN 1lad on the table ai N.Bill imposing, certain regulations in the case of water companies. The B~Ill was read a firer time. Thle Commissionsrs' Regulation Provisional i Order Hill passed through Committee.I led Tato hiettled Leand Bill was read it third ...

... 1 11FOI OUR OW1f COORUSPONDUNT8.3 ) THU SsDA Nrorr, thi The House of Commons, which re-assembled GI this afternoon after the Whitsuntide recess, by 1 did not appear to great advantage. The at- ha tebdance was emall,, and in its, demesnour no h lethargic. To Mr. Ashmead-Bartlett belongs no e whatever honour there may exist in being the pa first to take his seat. The hon. member for BtC Eye was ...

... At0INDON AND LOCAL NOTES. SC' [FROV &U&, OWN COERESPODENTS, I Dc TUESDAY NIGHT. iL The understanding that the Foot-and- Is 'Mouth 1ill of the Government would be con- n( 'sidered upon the question of the retention 1o of the Lords' Amendments brought down to as the House 'to-dav a large following of the °l squires, together with an equally formidable { ar force of the aposties of cheap beef and ...

... THE UOWBRIDGE FARMERS' CLUB.I A laripr qni nlnrn -rOmi -piqnr -nna.. A larger and more enthusiastic annual meeting the influential body of agriculta- es ralists known as the Gowbridge Farmers' bE Club has not bad for years than that which on took place yesterday. she mnembers present VI mnade an admirable start by the passage of a o& resolution virtually providing for the imme- diate ...

... ° Profesor hysn, of Osford, has this %week issued his repori or, tihe results of The unuwsi WVelsh Y extnmi nation recently beld at St. DIavid's College:- Y FLST Yzss.-Uct Gni r. - t'le paper set for the S first ye r men was a reretartliig (One, a-r deleiiarided a minute Iitowledge of a enriey of details, 'iliais could only have teett inxlleeredby the aid of careiil teachling 1 nid constanitb ...

... MILFORD DOCKS AND RAILWAYS II.LI or On Wednesday this Bill was before a Select 00] to Committee of the House of Commons, Colonel a al, Egerton presiding. stc ily Mr. Pembroke Stephens, Q.C. (who appeared s1 'he with Mr. J. W. Batten for the promoters), in open- of he ing the case, said he need riot trouble the Com- thi ira mittee with many preliminary observations. Hon. trE of members would ...