... I SALE OF THE MU RIETTA COLLEOTION. I Tho ~rai Ad,'e9 sell of th4 Murriatta ealleetion of modern taintings vld ?? drawings awxqiced va crowd of dealers and collectors to, Messrs. Chri~tie's saleroom, London, on Saturday afternoon. The first lot, a, fine 'exampla of Sir Frederick Buxton's work in waler loua ?? airl-2Oin. by H~im. went for 70gs. ; but a pendlant picture, ' Taormiua, fetched Wis ...

... THE HOSPITAL SATUDAYHOMbE. C FURTHER GIFT il FROM THE MIWSES STOKES. SC The formal inauguration of Tyn-y-coed, near Ulan- St dudno, as a Convalescent Home in connection with and f managed by tb6 Birmingham Hospital Saturday Associa- P tion, took placeo-a Saturday, in a visit of inspection by a A large company of delegates from the contributors to the n fund, andbytheforal acceptanes of the ...

... MING IN MANCHURIA. V According to the Pakin Gacette, the rich deposits of v silver ore in the neighbourhood of Kirin are shortly to be worked after the Western method, and the Y Governor of the province reports that the foreign. av appairtus aidd chemicals necessiry for reducing the a silver: from the galena ore biave arrived. The Kirin e mine will be the first in Manchuria worked on the f ...

... 1 A demonstration ?? unionists, arranged for by the Building Trades Committee of the Birmingbam Trades CounciL was held on Saturday afternoon. The object of the gathering was to call attention to the strike now going on amongst the bricklayers and labourer, and to obtain some pecuniary assistanicfrom working men on-behalf of the unskilled labourers who had ceased work, A. pveession was formed ...

... SHOCKiING BRUTALITY OF - Al ..GFlAN DOCTOR - | HOR OWEIPpG A LADY PATIENT. [ [eyfer ' 4 c2Z &rre. ] Bunn, Ma-y 1 1&-Dr. Oscar Wletrbol. the p Pitorhel ot ah - home for nervons patintei-.at l fhohe, a healthresort near eassel, was to. f day convicted of the systemati2 and wilful ill- I treatment of a lady patient. an d .sentenced to throe months' imprisonment. The patient 'in qu eston is the ...

... ?? ffailg T Doit AND JOURNA0. TUJESDAY, MAY 24, 1892. LOCaL WUTHMB rORAST.-StherlY Vinds, frehen- .is; cloudy, unscttled, 8o rain, thunder 7TbeaUly. The House of Lords had again yesterday a brief and unimportant sitting. Progress was made with some bills, and on the motion of Earl SPFNczn papers were ordered with reference to endowed charities in Northamptonshire. The Marquis of SALISBURY ...

... WESLEYAN METHODIST DISTRICT I ZESTtNGS IN N0LVEEHA3MON. The ministers of the Birmingham and Shrewabury districtassembledyesterday morning for their annual committee meeting, in the lecture hall of the Darlington Street Wesleyan chapel, Wolverhampton. There were present all the ministers of the district, with the excep- tion of a few whose absence was consequent on ill-health or the weakness of ...

... GLiANINGS. Mr. Justin MceArthy is confined to his ram with severe attba;k of wsitica. The- Mayf Horse Show opened atthe Hi Hall,'London, on Thursday. . Captain G. R Paul has been appointed adjuntref the Army Service Corps at Woolwich. Prinoets Louise (Marchioness of Lorne) distributed the prizes to the Blooishury Rifles, London, on Thurs- day. The Dukb of St. Albans is prgressing favourably, ...

... FOREIGN NEWS, [Reuze,-' Tekgiuma] DEATH OF 4GENERAL GRESSER. ST. PzImxuo, May 11 (6 ?? Gresserdied this afternoon at balf-past five. A Onr was current yesterday that M. Gatch- kowsky, the inventor of the new remedy vitaline, 1ad been arrested, but the report has proved to be incorrect. It is, however, a fact tbat the police, accompanied by law officials and medical men, made a Bjomwfliary ...

... At the Brownhills Police Court, yesterday-before Colonel 'Webb and Messrs. J. T. Godfrey Fausssett, A. 0. Worthington, and G. Brawn-John and Joseph ,Hampton, miners, the former of Brownhills and the latter of Handsworth, were brought up on remand charged with doing grievous bodily harm to Police- constable Horlock. Mr. Dorsett (instructed by Messrs. East and Smith) appeared for the defence. ...

... IPARLIAMENTARTY OTES.- HOi.S OF C KOoNs, Monday Night. A Polemical Statistician was the distinguish- ing appellation with which Mr. Goschen honoured . Sir William Harcourt to-night at the cloie of his very elaborate reply to that right hon. gentleman's indictment of his financial policy, and when it comes to be read and studied carefully it really does seem as though Sir William Harcourt's ...

... | I Houss OF CoMmoNs, Wednesday. To last night's excitement succeeded a compara- tively quiet day, when Mr. Stansfeld, who had secured the first place on the Orders, moved the second reading of his Electors' Disqualification Removal Bill. Premising that the present system of registration ought to be rendered less cumbrous and costly than it is, the right hon. gentleman laid it down in his ...