... HES CORUM1O ORSIS. 'PETITION TO TEE QUM. ,t! meeting conuened by the National Pro- testant Church ?Unio was held at West- inmister on Wedrresday night to consider the mprefelt crisis clu the Church of England. Viscount Midleton presided, and a resolution was adopted approving of a memorial to the: Queen, praying ber 'Majesty to take such measures as in her wisdom might seem~ necessary to ...

... of ___APPY MARRIAGE, I ?nARAULT .iT EXE~T5R. WIFI ASSAULT AT EXETER. ATTERCATION WITH A LODGER. Vixeter Police Court on Wednesday At tbe gertn Tlabourer, of Clifton.-treet, pine ,s'a,8n on w rarrant with assaultag 13 C sarah Clapperton, on the 1st inst. be fifl remenbered that the prisloner bound ver about a weok ago to keep Ibr3 forn n allegeda.ssault oo bis wife. P A rCO n appeared on his ...

... BELTLE VuFt, Friday Night. Wd e. had three drills yesterday, the first and othird under the direction -if Captain Laurie, s, and the second under Colonel Walcott, C.B., Y the principal items being the Marih past, General salute and Review, preparatory y for the inspection by Colonel Kinder (of the ;e 11th Regimental district) to-day. The d drills were not of long daration, and a no ...

... -SELECTIONS FOR LAD1Fz. AUSEFUL HIMTS, W Whitewash, that will work smoothi ' can be made by mixing a lump of lard thv nize of a hen's egg in a joali of the white- wash while itie warm. Avery simple and efficient disinfectant for a kitchen sink is a small quantity of charcoal mixed with clear water. Pournit 80 that it will drain slowly through the pip).. C~ommion salt rubbed into thle stains on ...

... IHOW lUISH EMECTIONS ARE WofKlJEiD. PEllIND 'HR SCENES. At Dablin City Sessioas a man named Dotibine sued aenthor mi cna-eld Crimnins to recover £2 or work done in connection JXJD with the r1ecpet election. His advocate said :hi client wlas employed to eanva8s for Ot ¢ certmoll caiididates and he charged 5s for a Bari rpeech lie untide ;shich lasted hali-nn-hour. an The resuir, was that one ...

... WT. THOMAS ELECTION, MEETING AT IEXWICK. A. largely attended meeting of ratepayers of the Exwick Ward wai held on Mondav at al the Schoolroom in the village for the purpese of supporting the candidature of Mr. A. J. bi King. M -r. R. Mallet presided, and there LI were is few, lady electors present. bi The Chairman, in opening the meeting, re- I marked thit the reason that an election had T. ...

... SIXPENNY EDITION @F FCHARaLES Zf. SHELDON'S tr }WORKS e, We have pleasure in announcing that we have made arrangements for supply- ing to the public a Sixpenny Edition of tbe works of Char'es M. Sheldon, whose happy combination of the novelist and the religious thinker have made him so famous. 4 The edition is well printed, and each 'H volume has an illustrated cover. e The first three books ...

... CHILD -.FOUND READ IN 'BED. Woolwieh Arsenal, with its sixteen thousand skilful workers, has none more intelligent or iespected than Mr Flooo, work-taker in, She lowal C(axriaigeDepartment,at whois homethe K Kentish Independent reports an interesting conversatian. Mrs. Flood, a thrifty and industriops house- wife, teads her family at 54, Richmond-place, Plinntead. as She has a rosy checked ...

... ,|MI. TENNYi'SONT SMIT'H' AND 11'I l1 wV.1 s II EY AIN'. | nginu 'I t1im VWI S'[LEYAPN ,. 3rayber The Ttev. 11. B. Worklmanv, l7esleyan The minister, arld lr. Tennyson Snmiti thle well- ,alvar known temperance iu.issione1, ntet on tlhe f the platform ot tile Friends' Institute, M0oselee- mouy road, Birnminilusiin, before a large meeting on Molley Monday evenit g to eiscuss several points of ...

... I THE MAN WVE KNOW. No0. IX:. 1MR. P. C. M. VEITCHi. _t must be a satisfying and gratifying thing to be Mfr. P. C. P1. Veitch, for the gentleman iwho holds a. monopoly of that name is possessed of a record and an experience equalled by few and excelled by none. Indeed, so far as Eieter is ccncarned, he may be said to be withjut a iival in these respects. The story of his life is a ...

... Z,,, he liping vat. in ?z t- rL In Ir Id 5 SATURDAY. MAY 20TX, 189 BOLl? BLUJT. THE sensation of the week has been the arrest of seven British subjects at Johannesburg on a charge of high treason. Although the arrests were iuade on Monday night there is even at the present moment a lack of such full information as would enable the British public to form an opinion on the incident, the Boers ...

... A DUTMB COUNCIL. TRIRTY-FIVE MINUTES' SLLENCE.. The Town Council of Stratford-on-Avon indulged on Tuesday night in a meeting which must be one of the most extraordinary in their long history as a Corporation. The meeting was specially convened to consider a letter from the Charity Commission. and also the draft of their scheme as to the Grammar School and the Guild and Colleae Estates. The ...