... The 26 children who perished in the Forest Gate fire on New Year's morning were buried on Monday at B West Ham Cemetery in the presence of a large con- course of relatives and spectators. The scee was most distressing. The 26 coffins, covered with cloth i bi and surmounted byanumberof beautiful floral wreaths ]i and crosses, were first taken in hearses to St. James's Church, adjoining the ...

... The Lancashire County Council met at Preston on t Thursday, the Right Hon. Jf. T. Hibbert in the chair. The revised budget was adopted on the motion of Mr. E. Guthrie, chairman of the Finance Committee. It t provided for the laying of a rate of 6id. in the pound, a an increase of 2d. in the pound compared with last d year. Mr. Guthrie explained that the difference was more apparent than real, ...

... merutal Pftsn. a Serjeant Tindall Atkinson. late County Court judge, died on Tuesday at Wimborne. b, The wife of Thomas Davies collier, Trebort, rs South Wales, has given birth to triplets. She has Bs had twins on two previous occasions. MrMr. John Gibson, senior partner in the firm of J. and H. Gibson, grocers, King William-street .e Blackburn, committed suicide on Monday by cutting r. his ...

... SIKI T C HE -S - -1N T HE E R I B B-L E VALLEY. I S BY O OWN ST. N 0. 5.-POTUWD ABOUT CLITHEROE. We referred last week in our article on ! Clitheroe to the beauty of the district which surrounds the old border town and to the pleasant villages in its neighbourhood; and it is not too much to say that no town in Lahcashire has within the same radius so many pretty rural settlements as those ...

... A FA)MILY ROIMANCE. All the papers have described Sir Richard Wallace ?? as the natural so;n of the fourth Marquis of Hertford, who died in 1870, whereas le was in reality his half- brother, and he was the last survivor of a very strange family drama. The third Lord Hertford (who was the original of Thackeray's Lard Steyne and of Lord Beaconsfield's Lord Monmouth) was married in L793 to Maria ...

... [BY OUR LADY CoNTRIBUTORS.]| Superstition in one form or another is ever rife amongst us, and the dames of society fall victims. to all sorts of folly. Not long ago it I was palmistry which reigned supreme in the i West End, and one professor of the art did not hesitate to acknowledge that she made I :q5OO a year by reading the lines on her patrons' 2 hands. But palmistry is declining, and the ...

... UNITED METHODIST FREE CHURCH I ASSEMBLY. | The ahove Assembly opened on Tuesday morning, I in Lady Lane Chapel, Leeds. The President thevy. Ralph Aberorombie, M.A.) having opened the pro- ceedings,- the Assembly proceeded to the election of president. Mr. Mawson, of Southport, nominated the Rev. ?? T. Myers. There was no othbr nomina- 1 tion, and Mr. Myers was elected. Th. election of . other ...

... CHRISTlAN KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY. The Manchester and Salford Branch of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge and the Nationil Society held their annual meeting yesterday, at the Diocesan Chambers, in this city. The Dean (Dr. Machlre) presided. The annual report wasR presented. The substance of the document was as follows- Atthe Depository there are many encouragements. The amount of ...

... I. FOREIGN TELEG-A-M. I [THEROCGH BEtTME GEE C AN- HOTEL DESTROYED By FT)r SERIOUS LOSS OF LuFz TER|RrIBLE SCE:NEs. thtcnrliy e ?? N wa d ?? T:>s The Leland Hotel at Syrrcuse, tae that centralcity,' Zew York Statev- ds:-e last midnight. An eye witness c t:f opinion that at least 25 Tersons perishe_, utr-i , others were injured. The catastraphe . i by some terrible scenes. In one instn': q, ...

... - ?? -- I THE WEZ.YLY TF-;'ES ' ?? 0D | G GEN TL EESS. Il O RULES. 1. Members must be soetcitil to aD n 1 Ianiuils, and not cnvoe needle s surife:, ?? -.o a fil;- ?? 2. Members must be gentle anl hlnlpful towarjd. . sons, especially the very yonug. the a!ing . and the o d Pi 3. Members must strengthen the Gtuid bv 6, suade their friends to ioin. - t to ' Pei 4. In order to become a nieniber ...

... THE NEW DUTI1ES., a The chinges of duty under the M inley Tariff | Act are numerous .and important, and they cover a h very wide ground. The lines upon which the bill was a drawn are, as a rule, to increase the duties On mann- j a factured goods; to lower or to leave unaltered the duties on raw materials; to substitute for many ! tl ad valorem duties their nominal equivalent in specific C ...

... About two o'clock on Tuesday morning a man was found bh two policemen entering a house in Griffin- street, rork Road, Lambeth. After keeping him under observation for some time the police constables determined to take him into custody. On stopping him and stating their intention, the man drew a revolver, and fired two shots in quick succession at the policemen, but fortunately missed his aim. ...