... (Zte pYslm' oullal, ANID SUFFOLK, NORFOLK, ESSEX, AND C&MBRIDGESHIRE ADVERTISER, The Liberals of Stowmarket have done well in trotting out their new candidate and show- ing his paces. If any Conservative had ventured to say that the aim of Liberalism in the Stowmarket Division is to reduce the East of England to the condition of the West of Ireland the allegation would have been treated as a ...

... Dr. J. E. Taylor continued the present course of the lpswich Museum lectures on Friday night, the subject being ¶he Natural History of Reptiles. He had heard, he said, some very good people-people who were so good that they ought to be better-ask what in the world frogs and toads were created for. Depend upon it everything had some place to fill in the Tcheme of creation. Frogs, toads and ...

... AWF'UL FIRE AT COLCHESTER.. A W:OL1 :FAMILY ROASTED. Early on Monday morning a tragedy, which has never been paralleled in the vicinity, ocourred about two miles from Colehester. The scene was in Clay-lane, Myland, and the occasion a fire, by which five persons-an entire family in fact-were burntto death. Cloy-lane, or the portion of it in which the fire took place, is ituated about tbiee ...

... I OUR .AILICULTURAL CORRESPONDEN 1' Two weeks ago I bad occasion to cmeto h fineness of the nutrimin, andl to point ou~t lthat tlhe crue0~t ?? the ,earth was rather hard, owing to its havin g heen beaten down by rpti~ated and hetavy showers. Since Tu then we have had an abundance of rain, and agricul. Fri tuejets in certain parts of the Eastern Counties would now say, Hold, enough. Yes, ...

... MR. STEVENSON, M.P., AND IRISH I AFFAIRS. Mr. F. S. Stevenson, M.P., has published the follow- ing letter in reply to Mr. Balfour's criticism of his speech at Framlingham - MIr. Balfour, through his secretary, endeavours to impugn certain statements which I made at Fram- 1. Ne points out that 16, not 23, Irish members have been imprisoned since the passing of the Crimes Act. What I ought to ...

... THE FEMALE SWINDLER AT COLOHESTER. At the Colchester Town Hall on Moisday, before Messrs. J. B. Harvey (presiding), E. Roberts, J. H. PartrilgeH H. G. E. Green, and MajorTysson Holroyd, Emilia ruonson, a married woman, of Wormingford, was chargel on remand with attempting to obtain by means of false prebeisee the sum of £5 from Hannah Quitney.i The depositions of the boy Sallows having been ...

... e FAeaNHAer.-The harvest thainksgiving service was n held in the parish church on Sunday, October 21, in the e evening, when there was a very large congregation. d Prayers were read by the Vicar (Rev. Enst Aptborp), d and an appropriate sermon preached by the Rev. H. Wright. rector of Blaxhall, on The Bread of Life. The little church was very tastefully decorated by Mrs. Apthorp, the Misses ...

... SHERIFF BALL AT HARDWICK. The High Sheriff of Suffolk (Mr. Gery Milner. Gibson-Cuillum) eutertaiiteeda very large and fashionable, company at at ?? nt Harileviok, Bury St. Edmund's. on -Friday ntighit. Over 800 invitations were issued, and the great majority of these invited were present at the hall. Tibe magnificent lo'pitality that is' dispensed at this mansion has been a trudition of the ...

... THE EDUCATION ESTIMATES. The Education Estimates were introduced on Friday by Sh W. Hart Dyke. He promised that the code should be submitted to the House six weeks prior to any alteration. There was an idea in some quarters, he Raid, that the Government would lead an onslaught all down the line on the present system of educatien. but speaking for his colleagues and himself, he was sure they ...

... ght $0m4 leg ?? AND SUFPFOLK, NORFOLK, ESSEX, AND CAMBRIDGESHIRE ADVERTISER FRBIDAY, NOVEMBER ?? Mr. GLADSTONE has in full and overflowing measure one of the most characteristic attri- butes of English character-incapacity to know when he is beaten. That Birmingham, thecitadelof his polibicalparty should in sj marked a degree have turned against him may have dismayed some of his followers, but ...

... - IEE SHEEP STEALINGT IN ESSEX. The Magistrates at the Dunmow Bench-Rlev. E. F. Gepp (presiding), Rev. G. Maryon Wilson, and Mr. H. Coilings Wells-on Monday, had before them two eases of alleged sheep etealing. The prisoner, SidneyJ Leonard Smith, 27, coat and general dealer, of Stansted Mount- fitchet, was first charged with stealing a sheep, value 4,s., belonging to Mr. Joseph Holland, Rails ...

... A THOUGHfT-READER'S THOUG HTS. BRING THE IMPBESSIONS CONFESSIONS Oip STUART CUMBERLAND. A'VIGcT TO PORTUGAL. Although inhabitants of the same peninsula-and in parts there is a difficulty in telling where Spain ends and Portugal begins-the Portuguese are quite a differ- ent *race from the-Spaniardls. The difference is not only in the laugnage, the physique, and national cos- tume, lent in the ...