... APRIL 9th, 1887. I EASTER HOLIDAYS. . .- - I .l As everyone is fully aware, the word Easter signifies rising, and, quite apart from the solemn religious significance of this chief festival in the year of the Church, the term Easter is curiously appro- ...

... to rise, and that it was given to the day in question because it was the day kept in commemoration of the rising from the dead of Christ. Easter day, according to this interpretation, means resurrection day. Others suppose that the term Easter day was ...

... remein- inbar no similar occasion in the paat which has more gene. 'y rally or mnore heartily been taken advantage of than the 0 Easter of 1578. Favonred with the most delightful LIweatber, ?? thosoewho could not find sufficient, in town wherewith to satisfy ...

... EASTER FESTIVITIES. When the, favour of excellent weather is added to the many ittrhotaton that a holiday season bae for all classes, we loolk forward to seeing the variows meann of enjoyment provdedbeig fllytakn avanageof.Eaetertide lhne thi yar ased ...

... EASTER DEES. GREAT CONFERENCE OF DISSENTERS AT ACCRINGTON. On Thursday ?? On Thursdayafternoon a conference was held in the it: Pool Institution, Acorington, for the purpose of adopting yO messures to resist the payment of Easter dues in the ac. arb of ...

... ultimately it was agreed that tb the receipts from euch source should be handed over to hi the curate's fund. YE R aBcsOaRST .-On Easter Tuesday, service was held in a, the Parish Church of Ribcihestrv. aoa a mnot excellent tr sermon preached by the rector, the ...

... MELTNG ON EASTER VuSs AND | I TITITZES. I On WVednesday evening, in pursuance ofa placard affixed to the WaIlIs a public meeting tonk place at the Lyceum, (late Cock-pit), for the purpose of discussing the question of the payment of Easter Dues or Offerings ...

... sum of 6&d. for Easter-dues; and yet they will go hand in hand with Josep& Gillow and company, and still continua to enforce the payment of this most damnable anomaly-Easter. e ues-(Applause, and Oh, oh.) He protested against l Easter-dues as an uijist ...

... SEASON AT MORECAMBE.-Already the season mnay be said to have commenced at this gradually rising watering-place, the number of visitors being larger, during the Easter holidays, than on any previous occasion. On one day alone, it wes calculated that some- ...

... large has Leon caught in this neighbourhood. EASTER DUE AGITATION.-As will be seen by our re- port of the Accrington petty sessions, on Thursday, the Vicar of Whalley has maintained his right to claim Easter dues from theinhabitants of Accringtonandot ...

... C. Williams. TuEE EASTER DUE QUESTIOwr.-This has been lying dormant to all appearance since the trial at Preston up to this week. The amount of costs r-especting the appeal, allowed on taxation, have been paid; but the lid. for Easter dues, and the 10s ...

... COMMONS, MONDAY. Mr. B UGr appealed tothe Chancellor of the Exchequer to give information, if it be in his power, before the Easter holidays, as to the state of the negotiations, respecting which great anxiety prevails. The House afterwards resumed consideration ...