... E. The Birmingham Post says :-Perhaps the most extraordinary discovery made during the season ; 1884-5 was that, whereas the food given in a penny dinner cost more than the sum charged, the half- o penny dinner was, if anything, a more satisfactory iese meal, and cost less than a halfpenny. It was, how- d as ever, soon found that there were large numbers of cirstchildren to whom the ...

... if ~~- __. a en Board was held in the Board Room, Castle Street, ar yesterday - Baillie Pyper, chairman of the ay Board, presiding. T S )W THE LA.TE 31R WVILLI AMIS. r'e~ The Chairman, in alluding to the death of Mr w is, Williams, said that the Board had sustained a great C ef loss by his removal. Mr Williams had been for a he long time a member of that Board, and although an b of ...

... A NUR1SE ACCUSED OF SETTING M; HOUSE ON FIRE. i I ~ ~ . I At the Marylebone Police Court, London, Alice Hopknls, 19, a nursemaid, was brought up on remand charged with llaing unlawfully and. maliciously set i fire to the dwelling-house of her master, Mr King, Westbiourne Park. The evidence for the prosecution I was that shortly after five o'clock on the afternoon of the 2nd Dec mber Mrs King ...

... THE EXTENSION OF LOCAL SELF- GOVERNMENT IN IRELAND. Mr Painell, in his speech on the Address on Thursday last, is reported to have said :- I believe that the feeling in this country upon the matter, a feeling which I believe to be general, and which un- doubtedly exists, that trusting Ireland might result in danger to the Empire, simply results to a large extent from the want of knowledge ...

... h On Mfonday evening a lecture, Paris as an Historic City, .was -delivered by .Mr Frederic Harrison at the London Institution before a large a audience. Dear Harrison said that of historic cities in Europe in the very first rank he could count but a four-Rome, Constantinople, Paris, and London. } Of all these London had the most complete monu- a mental record, and hadt suffered least from ...

... ABERDEN UN\IVERSTTY CONSERVd I ATirVE ASSOCIATION. i AINN U AL DINNER. The first annual dinner in connection with the Aberdeen University Conservative Association was held last night within Mratson's Dining Rooms, Aberdeen. The chair was occupied by Colonel Innes f of Learney, and the croupiers were Mr Cresswell White and Mr W. Middleton. On the right of the t chairman, as guests, were Mr Alex ...

... XBERDEEN ART GALLERPLY. C NYERS A2ON i AT .T 1 E WINTER | EXEIBITION. t t .loe splendid. rooms of the Aberdeen Art i ,.allery and Industrial Museum were last nig ht Wai w ell filled, for the first time since the i-ner E -hihition opened, by a fashionable t / Nbiae. The wealthier Portion of the cow.- ,nitv have Iot hitherto been over profuse in | s p z tronage of the Exhibition, much to the I - ...

... AN ELEGANTT EXTRACT. a I--the UnThited Ireland has a descriptive account of the a ,kopening of Parliament which abounds with expres- the: sMns of a grossly disloyal character. It says :- Tlief the p~lunder of the world glittered in diamonds around 1 ~n the Queen, and the scenle in the.Lords wals a crystal whx 11 mairror in which the fate of many 'murdered nations Itha- .o was 'visible to ...

... FOREIGN ANSD COLO1NIA^L MAILS. -' '. ?-JflS.L?.* a.n.a? .&XJ.flJ.LflS* °'DESPATCH OF NETt MAILS DESTINTIN-S. FROM LONDO. MAIL DuS Ascension . i Plymouth .. .Ap.r. I :E Apr. 2 Australia. viz.: Vrictoria, N~ew South Wales, Q}ueensland, Soutzh Atrstraiia and Tasmania, via 3rindisi . ..MBar. 19 :E Mar. Western Australiavia BridisiMar. I93. Mr.23 B3erinudas.:. vi..ara New York . ...

... LELDEEN, IMOTSDAY, JUNE 28, 18S36. Tovd -Rando1ph Churchill commenced his . *aii,,dtlatre for SouthPaddington by aLddressing ,-oinrw 9:f.r].s -Al+~ ;.. +IQ AT;1;4--s Ie * iiU Ltc, 4 eL Ut li.VU1LX ULULLMlILUII uy ituurttsulig --e a rieet'gn on Saturday night in the Military COr 2 wig tchool, Gloucester Crescent. fle ex- hir nrcse.&d regre at being so soon called on to seli si. -it re-election, ...

... L - LONDON I ;he --- ----- -A nd [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTg-].I to liit LONDuox, Sunday night. ice I don't believe it would bo possible at this nL moment to put one's hand onl a countrymembl~e th, no of Parliament unless it be a Parnellite. Withi an the prorogation the-re has been a complete ha ice exodus of hon. gentlemen who are not Metro-ti ~ed politan members, but who represent consti- ...

... AGRICULTURBr, - -~~~~. A CU .I ;, MA~lETINQr p fPRI gjBE;F.p . h IfErMr'Co0mbie of.Tillyidiii had beeii nqowalive z (says -an Aberdeenshire correspondent of the Live! Stork JounraZe) one would have much liked to see his a sonewhat rugged countenance lightedsup with wonder and satisfaction as he looked at the wide dispersion ! in recent years of Aberdeen-Angus polled cattle and iE the formation ...