... Mrs Chamberlain has not yet made much progress with the task of softening the asperity of Mr Chamberlain's political manner. Here, for instance, is bis letter about the Welsh Noncon- formists, in which Mr Chamberlain wails aloud before a derisive audience over the way in which they have treated him. They also covered with obloquy and personal abuse long-tried friends of their cause, who, like ...

... A strong feeling seems to be rising in Middles- brough acrainst the adoption of cremation in the town. The vicar of All Saints' addressed a meeting on Christian Burial v. Cremation, after which a resolution condemning cremation as an anti-Christian and an unnatural practice, and calling upon the town council to rescind its declaration in favour of cremation, which was an outrage on the ...

... I THE CHURCH IN WALES. I Letter from Mr Chamberlain. In answer to a request to speak and vote ia favour of Welsh Disestablishment, Mr Chamber- lain has addressed, under date May lltb, tba following letter to Mr' Hughes, a student at the Universitv C!r.lies:a of Wales, Aberystwyth 40, Princes Gardens, S.W., May lltb, 1889. Dear Mr Hughes,-I intend to vote according to my conviction in favour of ...

... NONCONFORMISTS AND THE I PARIS EXHIBITION. Sunday Opening Condemned. I says iu most of the SfonconiormiRt Churches of England special reference was made by preacln-rs yesterday to the P.tris Exhibition, the Nonconformist pastorate having amalgamated for the purpose ot congratulating American and British exhibitors for discountenancing the irreligious practice of opening the exhibition to the ...

... NEWPORT BOARD OF GUARDIANS. At the weekly meeting on Saturday, the chair- man (Colonel Lyne) presiding, a discussion arose as to the enforcement of compulsory vaccination. The Chairman mentioned that four caseii of non- vaccination were reported, and that the relieving officer asked what steps should be taken. — Mr W. H. Browu strongly objected to summonses being against parents, and said that ...

... ANARCHIST PLOT IN SPAIN. I [Ci £ N'TKAR, NENVS TELILGRAMS. I MADRID, Saturday.—An alarming conspiracy, which is clearly traceable to Anarchical and Republican instigators, has just been brought to light at the little town of Sueca, in the province of Valencia. The conspirators, the majority of whom wera peasants, headed by the leading local Republicans and Anarchists, intended to take ...

... News has just been received of the murder of the Rev C. S. Hobson, Baptist missionary in the Island of Ruatean, Spanish Honduras, together with his wife and a little girl who resided with them. The murderer, a native of Jamaica, was on friendly terms with t/¡;1 Hobsons, and took tea with them a few hours 're the ghastly deed was perpetrated. Towards midnight he stealthily entered the mission ...

... HOW THE EVIL SPIRIT WAS LAID. Ere closing this letter, I would put my whole heart into an entreaty that you wiil come and spend September with me. My parents will then be absent on a long visit, and I shall be left with the care of the house. Brother Will has promised to come home tor a whole fortnight, and you must kuow Will be is ouiy two years my senior, and my masculinized counterpai r. So ...

... THE BIRCHGROVE COLLIERY I ACCIDENT. Application for a Summons. I [SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE KOBO, I I At the Swansea police-court to-day, Mr Henry Davis applied on behalf of Mr Robson, her Majesty's inspector of mines, for a summons against Phillip George, manager of the Birchgrove Colliery, for committing a breach of the Mines Regulation Act. Mr Davia said the bench would remember that a few ...

... AN AUTOMATIC GAS-METER. At the annual meeting of the Liverpool Gasfittings Company, held on Tuesday, it was stated that the company were about to try the experiment of uaing an automatic gas-meter. It was an apparatus of recent invention, and had been successfully tried in Birmingham. The consumers, by putting a penny in a slit in the apparatus, could obtain a supply of 25 cubic feet of Ras ...

... Tiie will of the late Mr Heury Wat,kins, of the city of Hereford, brewer, wuo died at Lugwardine, on December 30 last, has been proved by the executors, his brothers Charles and Alfred. The testator bequeaths the furniture aud household effects at Bewell House to his mother, and certain tfther specific legacies. He devises and bequeaths all his real estate aud the residue of his personal ...

... I YANKEE YARNS. I MARK TWAIN'S STORT. No, said Mark Twain a week or two ago as he sat in his room at the Murray Hill Hotel and dreamily watched the smoke from the pipe which he WAS puffing, No; I would not say that it was the best thing that I ever wrote, but I remember that I was pretty proud of it at the time and was decidedly disappointed when it didn't come out tha npxt day; I didn't ...