... 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 ...

... THE D DEDIRISIH PARTY. MR. PARNELL. Mr. Parnell, addressing a meeting in Tralee on Sunday, said the question as to the concurrent solu- tion of Home Rule and the land question bad come to the front recently, and had been forced upon the attention of the Liberal leaders. They wanted to know what was going to be the Liberal policy, and re- quired a definite answer. The land question was theone ...

... [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 ...

... E[FROM TE LOYNDON CORRESPONIDENCE OF TE MANCHESTER EXAMINVER AND TlDES.] An unusually large proportion of the bills and motions of which notice has been given in the House of Commons this session have a more or less direct bearing on the great labour controversies of the day. Mr. Bradlaugh has tabled a resolution disapproving the doctrine of common employment in regard to I employers' ...

... 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 ...

... 'Etv el Du-at I LI - An epidemic of measles prevails in Blackbuirn, and it is estimated that there are at least 500 cases. The Bishop of Liverpool on Monday after- noon consecrated the new church of St. Peter, at Warrington. The Waterloo Cup went last week for the third time to Colonel North. His dog Fullerton won, I taking the prize for the second time. A railway shunter at Haslingden sidings ...

... The special correspondent of the Press Association, telegraphing from West Hartlepool on Wednesday, said: As the polingidaygraduallyapproaches within a reasonable distance, the parties are redoubling their efforts. The difficulties of gauging the probable issue of the contest are very great. Both sides are, or profess themselves to be, confident,whilst any attempt to forecast the result by ...