... RITUALISTS AND THE ARCH- BISHOPS' DECISION, The Rev. F. M. Bell (formerly a curate of St. Mary Magdalene, Munster-sjuare), vicar of St. Catherine's, Ahercromby-square. London, the Bishop of Liverpool's parish church, has decided much against his will to give up the use of incense. The Rev. S. H. Bennett, vicar of St. Mary, Bishopshill Junior, York. has taken the same course. He has told his ...

... Alleged Theft of a Dog Collar.—At the Swan- sea Police Court on Monday Edward Harris, a hawker, of Vaughan's lodging-house, was charged with stealing a dog's collar, the property of Mr J. Parry. The case was adjourned for the production of evidence. ...

... MILITIAMAN ARRESTED. Private Tilburn was taken from the Sucks Militia at Buckingham by two detectives from Uxbridge yesterday afternoon in connection with the mysterions drowning of his wife at Uxbridge Tilburn bad leave from bi8 regiment last Saturday and went home to Oxbridge, re- turning to camp on Wednesday He is said to have admitted quarrelling with his wife, but lie denies all knowledge ...

... SLEEP FOR SKIN-TORTURED BABIES and rest for Tired Mothers in a warm bath with Cuticuba Soap, and a single anointing with Cutictjba, purest of emollient skin cures. This treatment will afford instant relief, permit rest and sleep to both parent and child, and point t* a speedy, permanent, and economical cure in the most distressing forms of itching, burning, scaly, and crusted skin and scalp ...

... The appointment of Sir John Madden. K.C.M.G., as Lieut -Governor of the Colony of Victoria and its dependencies, has given great satisfac tion in the Colony, and particularly in Melbourne, where Sir John is well-known and is very popular among all classes of the commun- ity. The new Lieut.-Governor was born in 1844, and was educated at the Melbourne University, where he graduated P. in 1863, ...

... A MORAL SEDAN. ZOLA ON THE SENTENCE. BRITISH FIRMS AND THE EXHIBITION. THE PROPOSED BOYCOTT. FEELING IN AMERICA AND GERMANY. THE PRISONER'S HEALTH., AN ALARMING REPORT. Paris, Tuesday.—Dr. Pozzi, who saw Dreyfus daily at Rennes, says he cannot possibly live f. more than a1 few months. His condition is hope- less. Milk is the only form of nourishment his atomach can take, and during the whole ...

... NOT FOOD FOR BABES. Lodwig John, of a wholesale beerhouse at Senghenydd, known as the Park Hotel, was pro- ceeded against at Caerphilly Petty Sessions on Tuesday on a charge of selling retail without a re- tail iicence on September 2nd. The magistrates on the Benoh were Mr David Davies, Mr Jonathan Williams, Councillor Thomas, and Mr E. Edwards, the first named presiding. Mr Joseph Henry ...

... UTILITY OF THE TELEPHONE. The utility of the telephone was demonstrated at Cardiff Police Court on Taesday in a case in which a coloured seaman named Samuel Brown (23) was sent for trial for stealing a suit of clothes, worth Y,4, belonging to another coloured seaman named Joseph Henry Cornish. The two men bad shared a bedroom in South Church-street, and on Monday morning Brown got up in good ...

... SOLDIERS IN DISGRACE. Rangoon, Friasy.-Six soldiers of the West Kent Regiment have been committed for trial at the Sessions on a charge of having outraged a Burmese woman.—Renter. ...

... THE ROYALIST PLOT. THE BELEAGUERED GUERIN. THE NEGOTIATIONS FOR SURRENDER. INSISTS ON HIS OWN TERMS. Paris, Friday, 1.30 p.m.—M. Lasicc: this morn- ing had an interview with M. Demagni, Secretary- General of the Ministry of the Interior. He informed M. Demagni that he renounced the conduct of negotiations for the surrender of M. Guerin. M. Lasies, nevertheless, asked for a continuance of his ...

... WELSH GOSSIP. The proceeds of the Newcastle Emlyn Eistedd- fod and concert this week amounted to neady JE500. Mr William Jones, M. p will shortly sail to America, in response to an invitation to deliver a series of lectures in some of the scholastic centres of the United States. The Welsh novel an which Elwyn and Watcyo Wyn have collaborated will finish its course as a serial in the'Diwygitor ...

... YOUNG LADY SERIOUSLY INJURED. Miss Florence Adams (19), the young woman who had such a narrow escape on Sunday after- noon on the occasion of the 'bus accident in Castle-road, seems to have been more seriously injured than was at first reported. It will be remembered that when the horses bolted she jumped off the tail board and received a severe shaking, bruising her knee and shoulder. She was ...