... AN ECCENTRIO CLERGYMAN'S WILL. Mr Justice Chitty had before him on Saturday, on further consideration, the will of the late Rev William Wight, of the Arab's Tent, Chislehurst, formerly vicar of Harbury. By his will he desired to found a college for ladies-to train ladies for the important duties of wives, mistresses and mothers. Woman, he asserts in his will, ,-hould be something more useful ...

... LIGHTHOUSE-KEEPERS WITHOUT RELIEF, Owing to the severe and continued storm, the usual fortnightly relief to the keepers of th ...

... THE POET LAUREATE. Lord Tennyson was safely moved from Hasle. mere to the Isle of Wight on Wednesday. It if stated that he is still very ill and prostrate, bnt relapses are now, it is hoped, at an end. ...

... A Farmer Shot. A farmer named Broadley, aged years, was this morning carrying a loaded gun on his farm, bear Dover, wheD it accidentally exploded, killing him on the spot. His skull was partially shat- tered. The Royal party reached London at 11.35, and drove to Marlborough-house, whence they will Proceed later in the day to Sandringham, ...

... At the Westminster police-court yesterday, Sarah Neil (15), a very smartly-dressed little girl, was charged with forging and uttering a cheque for 25. The accused is very well connected. She was in service at Warwick-street, Pimlico, where a Mo Digby La Motte, a classical tutor, lodged. She stole a blank cheque from his book, filled it up for 25, forging his signature, and got it changed by a ...

... PROFESSOR GOLDWIN SMITH AND CANADA. According to the New York Herald, Professor Goldwin Smith made a sensation at a recent chamber of commerce dinner by a declaration, in response to the toast, Our relations with Canada. He declared in most positive and even impassioned terms tbat Canada was eager for union with the United States, and that severance from Great Britain was preveuted only by ...

... YESI ERDA V'S PROCEEDINGS. I Once more tiie of the Seine was crowded, although the Lnal of Prado was not so interesting from the point of vttw of the sensation-seekers as yvas the case on Saturday, faces were to tie seen among the eontineeiits of lemales of Mario AguéLau L' class who flocked to the court m order to be present at tiie development of dU extraordinary judicial drama, with its ...

... A Telephonic Mistake. PARts, November 12t,t,The accident at Montreux last week was due to the telephone. The reservoir which furnished the motive power of tiie Clrillon electric tramway being so full as to came apprehensions, the man in charge was telephoned to in the words, Ne mettez plus d'eau. He did not catch the first two words, and consequently turned on utura water, the result being ...

... SERIOUS DISTURBANCE AT I NEWPORT, I Late on Saturday night the fashionable suburb of Stow Park, Newport, was the theatre of a serious disturbance between a number of men employed at Messrs Nettletolds' branch works at Tydu and several Newport residents. It seems that for several months past the employees who have been brought down from Shropshire and Staffordshire to work at the establishment ...

... A REIGN OF TERROR. The Central News snys :-As has been the case immediately after all the former East End murders the streets and alleys of the ill fated district presented an unusually quiot as- pect during the early hours of this morning. The main streets, which are usually frequented by the wretched unfortu- nates from whom the murderer has selected his victims, were almost csmpletely ...

... A CANADIAN CLERICAL ELOPEMENT. Chronicling the eiupcment IIf a Canadian clergyman with a member of his flock, under the heading Another Wolf iu the Fold, an American contemporary says the rev gentleman preached admirably, sang divinely, and courted deliciously. Ha was, we are told, an Englishman with mutton chop whiskers and faultless in his attire, and rojoiced in the name of Stiles. He ...

... (BY OUR NEWMARKET CORRESPONDENT.) NEWMARKET, Thursday.—A wet morning, and very little has been done in the way of galloping up to the time of sending this report. On the Bury side, Enoch's Caerlaverock, Charlatan, Houndsditch, Whiteboys, Cheroot, and Deception galloped six furlongs Golding's Sage went a mile an(I a quarter, and Carnagt, and Quicksand followed. Jarvis's Longback galloped nearly ...