... I MME. BIANCHI -NI'S TRIAL. The trial of Mme. Bianchini, who had ordered some atropine for her dog, and it is alleged, administered it to her husband, has aroused in- tense interest in fashionable and theatrical cir- cles in Paris. There is a greater rush to obtain tickets for admission to the court than there was even for the Zola trial, and the restrictions im- posed by the officials are ...

... THE QUEENS JOURNEY. The Portsmouth Destroyer Flotilla, consisting of the Star, Crane, Ranger, Teaser, Flying Fish, Hunter, Chamois, and Violet, left Portsmouth to- day for Folkestone in order to be ready to convoy the Queen across the Channel to-morrow. The flotilla will to-night anchor at Dover. ...

... I Wycliffe Preacher Assaulted. To-day at Yarmouth the Vicar of Gorleston the Rev. Forbes Phillips, was charged with assaulting a Wycliffe preacher named Charles Edmund Wincott at a recent Kensit meeting, which was broken up amid uproarious scenes. A local boatman was also charged with assaulting the chairman. Wincott stated that the vicar first interrupted the meeting, and Catling then changed ...

... DROWNED WBILK DRUNK AT LONGFORD. Mr. Reginald Whiston, the deputy County Coroner, held an inquest at tllf Longford Inn, Longford, on Thursday, respecting the death of James Smith, a groom, lately iii the employ of the Hon. II. J. Coke, who was found dead in a brook on Tuesday last. On Sunday night the Accessed ind two farm servants, named -John ?? and Arthur Baier, both of Alhmonton, were ...

... A CHILD CRUSHED TO DEATH. Mr. John Close held several inquests at the Town Hall on Saturday morning, the first one being on the body of Mabel Pearson, aged ten years, adopted child of Alfred Morris, foreman maltster at Messrs. Wheeidon's, and residing in Wood Street The child was killed through her head being crashed between tae buffers of some waggons in Messrs. Wheeidon's yard on Thursday ...

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... MEi'TERitOLtMG1AL REPORT. I PaADIN DA-ILY NEwg OMJI I i F.r.ADTVINS 1mfS BARNTN W BY SE.AP3F:FM A.N- ZAMXBRA'S BARtOVE ?? I (7trree1 to -koct redcuce- to 32 dret. F : Th. baek :in 3.5W tile h~eeilt of 11,5 bumnezer ~* I o'oc - an less and ?? erioeu enornlnnis The dotted ho l s dessetU ,%treyale uee-iatk. .,riu; ,at~qda, e th two peeviou days. 'rw nist ie Ietteeo erew etw6 dirren oS tb th ...

... At Liverpool on Tuesday Henry James Legge, a partner in the firm of Eskrigge, Pooled, and Gladstone, cotton brokers, wus committed for trial on a charge of obtaining by false pretences from the Bank of England a delivery note for a number of bales of cotton. ...

... COMPLICATIONS AT PONTARDULAIS The 28 days' notice given the workmen at Tello, Cambria, and Clayton Works, Pontar- dulais, terminated on Saturday, but before that day closed arrangements had been ma de by which work was to proceed as usual on Monday, and this was the case as far as the men were concerned. But all this was without taking into consideration the grievance of the girl plate openers ...

... Increase of Corporation Officials' Salaries.— The Water and Sewers Committee of the poration on Tuesday afternoon decided to in* crease the salaries of Mr Hutton by Mr Perkins by £20, and Mr Oborn by £15. The Streets Committee also dealt with the question of salaries of officials. Alderman Harris moved that the General Pur- poses Committae appoint a sub-committea to consider all questions of ...

... Sequel to a Colliery Accident.—Thos. Rowlands (48), collier, died at the MerthyrGeneral Hospital on Monda,y Dight. Deceased met with an acci- dent at the No. 1 South Pit, Plymouth, about 15 months ago, and fractured one of his legs. He never recovered, and on the 7th of February he was admitted into the hospital, and the injured limb was amputated by Dr. Ward. The poor fellow lingered, for ...

... MEETING IN THE CH4AMBER OF COM- MERCE. V a; A meeting, convened for the purpose of con- r sidering what steps were necessary to take for the preservation of the Ulster Hall for the use of the s citizens of Belfast, was held yesterday in the Chamnber of Commerce, under the presidency of d the Lord Mayor (Mr. Otto Jaffd, ?? The at- t tendance, which was small, included Professor ei John Purser, ...