... (from our later editions b last week.) PLEADING POIR FAIriES AND GOBLINS. A number of London and provincial theatre managers visited the Home office on Friday, to interview ?? Henry Matthews upon the question of the employment of young children in theatres. Ml~r. Dixon iiartland, ME.P., introduced the deputa-I tion, which consisted of Mr. Henrv Irving, Mr. Augustus Harris, Mr. Brain Stoker, Mr ...

... WH}EAT is BIGAMY? The difficulty of decision when doctors disagree is proverbial, but when a bench of fourteen judges are all at loggerheads over a simule question of com- Mon law it rather goes to show that the statutes are not so simple as thev were intended to be. Two ladies named Tolson and Strippewere recently prose- cuted for bigamy, and in each case the defence was that they had been ...

... (From our later editions of last week.) -4e 31. JULES FERRY ON GENERAL BOULANGBtR PARIS, Saturday.-31. Jules Ferry has made ano- ther vehement attack upon General Boulanger. Speaking at an ?? meeting at St. Di6, in the Vosges, M. Ferry expressed his views upon the agitation carried on in the interest of the gene- ral in the most vigorous terms, and concluded by declaring that he could not ...

... TRE COUNCIL AND THE GUILDS. On an early day the County Council will begin to make war on the City, by discussing a report of the Corporate Property, Charities, and ?? Committee on the Livery Companies of London. This points out that a Royal Commission of Inquiry was issued in 1880, with the main conclusions of which the Committee agree. It was found that the seventy-four companies possessed ...

... | During a short but severe thunderstorm which passed over Suffoli on Thursday afternoon, a man and two horses at work in a field at Weybread were killed instantly. LONDON COFFEE House KEiEPcre' Asso- ciArIoN.-Mr. Lawson, M.P., was the chair- man on Wednesday of the 52nd anniversary festival of the London Coffee and Eating House Keepers' association, held in the Roval Venetian chamber of the ...

... THE LEASEHOLD SYSTEM DOOMED. After the vote of the House of Commons the other day even the agents of the London around landlords, who, for the last two years, have made a strenuous fight before the Town Holdings Committee, must see that the days ot the London leasehold system are numbered. The Government opposed Mr. Lawson's bill, yet it was only defeated by a narrow majority of twenty-nine. ...

... President Carnot and his Ministers drove from Paris to Versailles, on Sunday, to take part in the celebration of the Centenaryof the Revolution. Just as the President was leaving the Elys6e, an exciting incident tcok place. When the Presidents carriage had left the Elysde, a tall and powerfully-built man stepped from the crowd. He was very dark, had a neatly-trimmed bl;ck beard and a military ...

... SSTORY OF A WVHITECHAPEL VICTIM. In his speech at the Presbyterian Synod on Tues- 3ay evening the Rev. John Mac3Ieill told the follow- ing tale: He was speaking of temperance, and said that on Sunday (when he preached a temperance sermon at the Tabernacle) he received a letter that had been written by a lady on the danger of the use at communion of fermented wine. The lady in her letter told a ...

... At Ieempton Park on Fridaytherewas a large colnp.'ny to witness the race for the great ?? Jbi~e Stakes, a banficap of 3.000 gulneas. The following was the result:-Amphion, 3vrs. 7ist jib (1);i Screech Owl. 3y'r5, tat l2ib (2); h Jlejected, flvrs, Bst 311s (3). Sixteen ran; Amplifo. ait 100 to8, winning very easily by three lengths- An equal distance sepal ated Screech owl (100 to 8) and The ...

... Mr. J. Harrison, jun., coroner, held an Inquest at Tile Kiln farm, Finchingfield, near Braintree on Monday, on the bodies of David 'Wakeling, farmer and carrier, who was shot bv his son on Saturday night, and Ernest Wakeling. the murderer, who afterwards committed ?? Wakeling, the widow of David Wakeling, identified the bodies as her husband and son. There had been no ill-feeling between them. ...

... £25 13OX.S FOR ABOU1 T WTOPEPiX RTACtH. The frst meeting of the Creditors of the Marquis of Donegall, whnl lis described in the proceedings as the Hllon. George Augus- tus Hamilton Chichester (commOnly known as the Earl of Belfast), but who, since the date of the receiving order, has, by reason of the death of his father, succeeded to the title of the Marquis of Donegail, was held on Tuesday.- ...

... IT has been decided to start a newspaper in Lon- don in the interest of General Boulanger. THE Supreme court has affirmed the validity of the act exclnding Chinese labourers from the United States. THE Italian Government has decided to recognise King Menelek of Shoa, as successor of King John of Abyssinia, if England takes the same course. THEL Dix-Neuvmiee Siecle understands that the pro- ...