... it MODEL SCHOOL. Archdeacon SMART was able to speak in very gratulatory terms whilst presiding, at the triennial examinatior of Howell's Female-Orphan School. He did not, however, say more than was de- served. The school had been excellently con- ducted ...

... THE COMMERCIAL DEPRESSION. Mr. Hussey Vivian, M.P., speaking at Swansea on Tuesday on the commercial depression, said that wages iu copper and tin works wore high and the harbour returns showed only a slight diminatiou. ...

... . Mr J. W. Lloyd rose in the audience to speak, but he was met with shouts to go to the platform, and in the end he had to do so. Mr Lloyd's re- marks were inaudable. The audience demanded that he should speak to them, and not to the mayor and Mr Evans ...

... Birmingham last night, for the pur- pose of ascertaining whether in their opinion Mr Bright should be invited to the town, to speak on the Tichborne case. There .was some opposition, bat the majority of thoae present expressed themselves in favour of Mr Bright ...

... another general election the people must be its own House of Commons. It must speak out its mind. The work of last autumn must be done over again. We spoke out then, We must again speak out. That is his note of invitation, and what have Bulgarian agitators ...

... COAL. Mr Macdonaid speaking at Dunfermline, emphatically denied that trade and capital were being driven from the country by combinations of the miners. He gave statistics to show that the number of colliers and th°ir output were far larger thau- they ...

... from the ex-Premier to Mitchell, the ex-ploughman, who is now following the trade of an agitator. In that letter Mr Gladstone speaks of the civil endow- ment of the Church. I want to know what civil endowment the Church has; and, if she has not any, I ...

... that while Ecv Majesty's Inspector states that This is one of the best schools in Denbigh and Flint, the diocesan inspector speaks so highly of the religious knowledge. ...

... approving the convention relative to the introduction of judicial reform in Egypt. The Due -ecazeS, the foreign minister, speaking in support of the bill, said the French Government had an affectionate regard for the Khedive, and he asked the Assembly ...

... SPEAKING OF CHAPMAN'S ENTIRE WHEAT FLOUP. a writer in tho Christian World says— Many of the first physicians of the day are prescribing no other medicine for their little patients, and it is astonishing sometimes how children who have pined 0'1 a diet ...

... Lord Don man complained of the in- j a-liquate and inaccurate reports of Ins ?peechos which .•ippeartd in the newspapers. Speaking with reference to f J it; Peninsula question. Lcnl Stauley of Ald^ri?y objected to Lotd Carnarvon's construction or his remarks ...

... letters which have appeared in a contemporary, that the curates of Wrexham have been complaining of long delayed preferment. Speaking for myself, I have no reason to com- plain. The present Bishop, soon after his consecra- tion to the see, offered me a living ...