... MJMM At the election (or on this sooiety, which took plan the London Tim the 10th, the followmm were the suooessfui candidates, and the votes eaoh reoeived liant, 1,179; Pheebe Prioe, 1,071; Daniel Sargent, 1,064; Kliaabeth Champness, 1,000 ; and 9. A. Powell, 1,002. There were eleven unsuccessful oandi-jltfll On Wednesday evening last, the annual general meeting waa held in the name place, ...

... DIE B MMMHAN TRIENIAL. UOI&CAL FESTIVAL, BYRUIGHIW, TudAY. Bright sunshine ushered in the first day of the Festival, and seems likely to last during its con-!, tinuance. Before 10 o'clook throngs of peo le lined the principal approach to the Town-hall; some merely to watch the arrival of visitors, but the majority with the more enduring purpose of remaining as external listeners, much of the ...

... Thursday Eveking. Notwithstanding that the reply of Earl Gran- ville to the circular of Prince Gortscßakoff has been received with great satisfaction, and it is ho' Kid that tho difficulty which has arisen will not lead to any serious consequences, the markets have bean in a most excited state. Shortly after the opening the quotations of foreign stocks gene- rail v droppeJ 2 to 3 per cent., ...

... RURAL SANITARY AUTHORITY' AND THE PUBLIC HEALTH ACT, 1572. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STANDARD. Sir,— Your leading article of to-day invites the inquiry how far this act (pushed through parliament by the late government during the last days of the session) bas im- proved hous Its chief feature was the transfer to boa: ans of duties theretofore done by more local bodies. In my district the comm ttee, ...

... Tuesday the Bishop of London consecrated the church of All Hallows, Bromley-by-Bow. The new building, which is early English, if anything particular, in its order of architecture, has been erected by Mr. William Brass, of Silverstreet, from designs by Mr. Ewan Christian, the London diocesan architect, with a view to accommodate nearly a thousand persons, at a cost of something like £7,500. The ...

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... THE ONE nUNMBT) MILES BICYCLE RACE. Bicycling a few years since was all the rage. All sort* of people, from the slim active youth like tbat sprightly Scot of Scots, Douglas, that runs o' horseback up a hill !**.*»• dicnlar, to tbe podgy ancient to whom, aa to Falsta'., eight yarda of uneven ground ia threescore and ten miles afoot, all alike seemed to. think the bicycle the readiest means ...

... •-([- P - „ - St. Paul's Cathedral. R«v. J. H. Coward, > Residentiary—Tho Rev. P. Liddon, Afternoon ttotttaUu*iSiiuion-street.— Early Morning Service byßev. *• The Epistle to the Philippians, fJO a.m. Bi. iTakt* IterfnuMKH'n r'n' 1 Choral hervioea.a(. 11 a.m. and •» pun. fTiira air at the Royal Exchange, at p.m. „ _ _ jewin-atewfc Chapel.—Annual Sermons, by Rev. T. and ttev. W. I). Track. ...