... At Westminster police-court on Wednesday, the Rev Thomas Harris, vicar of West Drayton, Uxbridge, was charged with committing an in- decent assault on George Postance, a boy aged 17, whilst travelling on the District Railway. The evidence of the complainant was to the effect that defendant, who had previously acted in a similar manner, got in at Temple Station and committed the assault ...

... I Four Persons Drowned. I Four persons have just lost.their lives in Shrop- shire tbrougfc- two ice accidents. At Wellington ten young men dared each other to go on a frozen pool. They got in a cluster, and, the ice giving way, were immersed. Two brothers, Samuel and George Cotton, aged 19 and 21, were drowned, and the others were rescued with difficulty. At Albrigbton, Shropshire, on ...

... i Further Distraints To-day, Mr Peterson, on behalf of the Clergy Defence Association,1 is, with a number of eniergegcy men, tvho arrived from Chester by a special train, to-day destraining upon a number of farms at Amlwch, Anglesea, for titbes claimed by the rector. Large mobs have assembled, and, as on Saturday, police protection has been secured. No disturbance had occurred up to noon, but ...

... THE OLD SLEIGH. coming. There, mother. be old peckled hen has returned tkwk, at last, 1 holding up a plump white egg that would do sredit to any queen of the poultry yard. The forgoing interesting cnv ...

... THE LATE MR LEWIS JENKIN, OF ABERFAN. An Ancient Welsh Family. The representative of an ancimt Welsh family has just passed away in the perscn of Mr Lewis Jenkin, of Aberfan, who died at his residence, Wiilsbrook, Raglan, on Sunday 'last. The deceased was a son of the late Mr Richard Jenkin, of Aberfan, who played a prominent part in the early history of Merthyr, occupying many publio ...

... LARQUIS OF RIPON, L¶V LIVEROOLI .EgSESrATION AT TH R ; CLUB. ?? Manrc of Ripon visited Liverpool yeer- nd drig his stay in this city was the guest 13 & A. Dearthe chairman of the J or Clab, at his residence in Nesh5arn Park. AhOtt tve 'clock in the afternoon, the dis- ~~shed noblenan visited the senior Reform bin nat-street Dand in the library an adress *Wcomn and congratulation was presented ...

... SALUS P0SULI LT.P SuBZ1AA. I In the House of Lords, yesterday, the C tro Cathediai Fabric and Services Bl11 550 reaeared to a Select Committee. - in the House of Commons a new wzit was noved ior Deptford, to fill the vacanvy P =coed by the resignation of Mr. Evely t a reply to Mr. H. IFowler, Sir Henry Hol- °: and saii he had reason to believe that the aersecution of Wesleyna2 in Tonga had now ...

... ~TH NEW RUSOF ? PROCEDUREt Mr. W. H. Samn moved that-the conideratin i of the .proposed rdles of procedure have prowe- deaes of all ordinary ordeas of the day and notces3 of motion on every day on whidc-the consideration of thoe rules might be set down by the Govern- ment. He remiandedtbe House thatthe proposalwas not made alone for the convenience of the Govern- men% but that the matter was ...

... LIBERALISM IN ABEROROMBY DIVISION. A meeting of the Liberals of polling dis- a1 tricts Nos. 35 and 36 of the Abercromby Division, t was held last evening in the New Jerusateun 1 Church Schoolroom, bedford-street. for the pur- s pose of electing district officers as renresentatives s of the divisional council of the Abercrombv b Liberal Association. Dr. Kellett Smith presided, d and was ...

... OUk?, LONDON LETT~ER. I -- fMre= 0U SPECIAL coRRVMarIMHtTwr4 LONDON. TssEsDY NtaGn. Another quiet night in Parliament. The Souse of Lords sat for exactly 35 minutes, during which ,. nothing more excidng occurred than a couverea tion on tho Truro Cathedral Bill, which was even- tually referred to a Select Committee. In the Commons the first business of importance was the issuing, onl the motion ...

... Messrs Shaw and Shrewsbury have chosen three members of the Hawick football team to join the Australian combination and they have accepted, their names beiug A. Laing, captain of r.he Hawick Club, W. Burnett, a half-back, and R. F. Ferguson, one of the leading forwards. ...

... At Pontypridd county-court yester(i .-i y-be fore his Honour Judge Gwilym Williams—an amusing case was heard, in which John Lluyd, showman, Cardiff, sued a horse-slaughterer, named Gash, of Treforest, for the sum of £ 2 10- being the value of two horses, one of which was dead, alleged to have been supplied Co defendant. Mr Rhya appeared f-u- the plaintiff, who valued the live animal at £ 1 15* ...