... Ike S t4 ? it V - v S1ATIU)AY, MAY S. 1883. PI - RSON A L bR A E r\mY INSTAN-C S of personal bravery have been re- ported wibtin tue last two or three days Ivhliih ought t, be cmmemoralted. in one ease the courage vas shownintlhe cause of philaniihropy and iii the othier of stern duty. On Good Friday a nuumbtler of persons in a lelasure boai at Leicetecr capsized the b-oat alid were plunged ...

... FIVE LWES LOST-EXCI=G SOEN Jacob's Well Public-house-standing partly in New Inn-yard and New inn- roasdway, Curtain. road, Shoreditch-was the scene of a terrible fire yesterday morning. It is only about three yeas since that a destractive outbreak occurred at the same place; but in the present instance, unfortunately, the lives di three perrons have been sacrificed. When the house was closed ...

... NAVAL AND MITARY. (PROM Tun LOmmox GlZAZEBTL) WA, OFICE, FALL-VALL, MAY 26. Rtoyal Axtillery-Coionel C. E. Oldtrsbaw. 0.33., retires ona retired pmy,vk-ith an annuity, aind the hoporary rank of major-.) gewwtsl; 1.ieut.-Colonel and Coloniel W. 7E. Grahamn retiree on t retired pay. with tihe h.,norauy rank of major-geuerl. Major t A. B. Stopford from the seconded lst. to be maor. vice T. a ...

... I Si Bsrasxc.- Mr. Cooper Willis, Q.0., who hadbeen recommended to the partg ?? Committee, has been unanimous y accepted as the Conservative candidate. HcA=Nv (CENTn).-Major Mf. A. Sharp Hume, fo the adopted ?? candidate for Central Hackney, has be wvritten declining the invita~tion to contest the seat. ]CnnnxerOs.-Qn Tuesday night a special meeting of 81 the~enuiagton Liberal and Radical ...

... DR. BARNARDOIS HOMES. Exeter Hall was crowded on Saturday even- . ing ou the occasion of the annual meeting on behalf of in these Homes, which were organized in the East-end of tS London 20 years ago by Dr. Barnardo.-Lord Polwarth at occupied the chair. The work, his lordehiup said, which t they were met to support was in the highest sense a eJ Christ .like work. They must feel that the work ...

... THE DISSOLUTION.-CANDIDATES WANTED. - To THE SDiTOR OF TEM DM. EWS. ,SIR,-Dissolution is in the air. Whether the d general impression which exists that a dissolution will L take place at Whitsauntide be or be not correct, it L behoves all Liberals to prepare for inch an emergency. S The constituencies generally seem to be in favour of S the principle of the creation of an Irish Parliament tl ...

... 0-4- DA NlrVRWS OFFICy, READINGS.TMS MORNOG BY NEGRETI AND ZAHE'S BAROMCETK S I&T, 1. BUN. z. MON. I ZTJSS 4. St 3 31 - i 311 1 S30 30 301 $ I ?? .. 2 Corrected to sea-evel and duced to 32 deg. F The black tines isow toe height of the barometer at I o'dock on this and three prenvus mornings. The dotted lines indicate tte ertremse v sitin urera ansd the two lrsonooa dsyi. The initial tatterS ...

... YE'STERDA Y. -In the Rouse of Commons a Bill to amend the law with regard to the election of Poor Law AGuardiaus in Ireltnd was read a second time. The Railway Regulation Bill, in charge of Mr. Channing, also passed the same stage. - Mr. Glaidstone, in a letter to the Editor of the Baptig, id it was only after the Conserva. tive Governrment announced a course of cqar- cion th.t he ...

... YEBSTERDA Ye In the House of Lords, the Marquis of Ripon informed Lord Sidmoutb that he could not at present grant certain papers respecting naval volunteers, The Poor Belief (Ireland) Bill was advanced a stage. - In the House of Comimons, the Charter- house Bill was, after a short debate, withdrawn. Mr. Gladstone, questioned by Sir M. Hicks- Beach, said that on Monday he would probably make a ...

... THE first result of the Colonial and Ilndian Exhibition. has been to stimulate an active desire among Englishmen to know more of the great Empire in to which they belong. The colonies will them- U selves take m hand the education of the people frn at home in this respect. The Cape Colony has w( set an admirable example in the prearation of co an official handbook, telling the whole story of ...

... | RECEPTION AT THE FOREIGN OFFICR The Coantess of Rosebery held her first Re- ception at the Foreign Office on Saturday nioght. Their Royal Highaesses the Prince and Princess of Wales had expressed their intention of being present, conse- quently the invitation signified that the party was to have the hunour of meeting their. Royal Highnesses. The grand staircase was elaborately decorated by a ...

... I In previous seasons there has been a sense or incompleteness and of loss, owing to the re- tirement of the Queen, which has perhaps been scarcely fully realised until now, when her Majesty is og~ain among us. It is as though the topunost stone of some lofty pinnacle had for long been wanting, and when people had grown accustoiued to its maimed aspect, the crowning touch had then been added, ...