Monmouthshire Merlin

I MYSTERIOUS SliOOTING CASE AT CLAP dAM. A report of firearms was heard on Monday morn- !ing, m a house in Lillestiall road, Ciapham, aud on the house being entered a man was founu lying on tne bedroom floor in a pool of blood. There was a re- I volver, two barrels of winch had been discharged, lying by his side. Re was at once placed in a cab and removed to St. Thomas's Hospital, where he was seen by Mr. Mason, one of the senior surgeons. It was i discovered that one bullet had entered below the left nipple, just escaping the heart, ami the other had lodged in his head. It is alleged that the wounds are self-mflicted. In the afternoon the man was Ideutified as Hermann Cannile, aged :£.9 years. He had been staying at the Hotel Francois, Sofco square. Cannile is a commercial tiaveller, and has been some time in England. No reason has been assigned for the act.

AN ENGLISH PILGRIMAGE TO LOURDES. A pilgrimage to Lourdes, which is to leave London on the 21st of May, is being organised among the Roman Catholics throughout the kingdom. The leaders of this movement are nearly all laymen. The Duke of Norfolk, the Earl of Denbigh, Lord Ralph Kerr, and many others more or less well known, are organising the expedition, and statements of what the journey will cost by the different routes are being put forth in the different Catholic papers. It is supDosed that not fewer than 260 will take part in the pilgrimage, and that, with the exceptiou of a few servants who will accompany them, the pilgrims will all belong to the upper and upper middle classes of Catholic society.. The avowed object of the undertaking is said to oe that England may be cleared from the troubles which seem now to threaten her with regard to Ireland.

THE DANGERS OF THE ELECTRIC I LIGHT. According to the Berlin correspondent of the Stan- dard, much surprise and excitement has been caused there by the telegram attributing tne fire in the I ar- liameut House at Quebec to the eiectric light. The Official Telegraph Departineut attaches so much importance to 6Ue news tuat it has communicated tno inteiligence to all parts of the country. Privy Councillor Dr. Werner Siemens, brother to Dr. William Siemens, of Loudon, and equally celebrated as an electrician, has sent to Gite Rational Zeituilg a letter containing the follow nj, remarks on the question of electricity as a source ot danger from fire:—" It is not at all impossible that the fire in the Parliament iiouse at Quebec was caused by the electric light, The steam engines and their boilers, or the ga.s engines necessary for the production of the electric current, may very likely have produced the fire, Hut, besides this possible source, the special apparatus requisite for electric lighting are quite capable of producing fire unless they are constructed with the greatest, care and knowledge. If the strength of the wires has been wrongly calculated they may, under certain contingencies, grow red hot. Tue lamps themselves, too, it impro- perly fixed, are likewise capable of being a source of Sanger. There are numerous companies now engaged in the extension of electric lighting which are without the necessary knowledge or experience. They are only aiming to make electric lighting as cheap as possible, apd are overstepping the limits which are necessary to safely. Still, when the necessary precautions are observed, electricity is certainly much less dangerous than any other mode of illumination."

TRACTION ENGINE CASE AT WAKE. FIELD. On Monday, at the West Riding Police Court, Wake- field, the magistrates were engaged for over a. couple of hours in hearing a traction engine case. lhe defendants were two men named Samuel Lambert and William Walton, the driver and stoker of a traction ancine in the service of Messrs. Pawstn Brothers, quarry-owners, Morley and they were charged with using a locomotive on the highway at West Ardsley which was not constructed on the principle of con- suming its own smoke, or not consuming it as far as practicable. Mr. Child, of Leeds, deiended.-Poiice- constable Hartley, of West Ardsley, said tr.at between ten and eleven o'clock on the fcm;pooD of' I' Monday, the 2nd in;?W.,>« ttle, en",ne in question dense black smoke m a continuous volume for twenty minutes. He went after the engine, on which the defendants sbnt the 8m. ke oft. The engine went at a furious rate, and there was not a man in front of it.—Mr. Child took several objec- tions, all of which were overruled by the Bench. He then called several witnesses, who gave evidence to tue effect that the engine was constructed on the. best principle for consuming its own smoke, and that the men in charge of it on the day in question did consume the smoke as far as practica.ble.-After hearing the witness the Bench said the question was not one of construction of the engine, but of negligence p other- wise on the part of the drivers, and they gave them the benefit of the doubt and dismissed the case.

AN IRISH SEDUCTION ACTION. On Monday, before Chief Justice Morris and a special jury, an1 notion was brought by Michael Kinsetin., of Strand road, Saudymount, Dublin, against Mr. R. R. Wingfield, bf Fairy hill, Bray, for £ 300) damages, for the alleged seduction of plaintiff's wife. The defend- ant traversed the action, and contended 'hat any acts committed prior to August last year wet. condoned by the plaintiff. Plaintiff's counsel, in stating the case, said his client was a retired policeman, enjoying a pension. In 1875 bo married a remarkably handsome young widow, named Reddy, for whom, through influence, he obtained a situation in Dublin Castle. join y111 time his mislortunes commenced. His wife bad look after the Lunacy Office-, at a salary of £ 40 a year. The plaintiff's wife afterwards gave birth to a ciiild, and defendant visited her daily, supplying her with delicacies, and sitting by her bed-side. lhe plamtirt ultimately grew suspicious that guilty relations existed between them. The neighbours beginning to talk, he remonstrated with defendant, when an angry scene followed. Plaintiff insisted oil his wife resigning, but through her declarations of innooeucs ahe was permitted to retain her position. Plaintiff's wife afterwards went to live at the seaside, :"11Jd necessaries were supplied by t defendant, who afterwards put her in a stall at the South City Market, winch he fitted up. afterwards found in his wife's drawer letters from the defendant couched in loving terms, and -) cd "Loving Dick," After that she racewed aiiot^or appointment, whijh was to look aft" 4 rooms of the petty sessions clerks depa,:tm.iit, which brought up her salary to ~1°0 a 3 The defendant was a member of the Powiscc urc family, one of the most distinguishedm IreUi.d, a-,a be h< Id an office in the Castle, that 01 registrar of Petty Ses-ions clerks, and it was owing to £ £ 'X'if. «.»* • »'°d fLfZoh T'ti" office over which he presided, that much o, tflo_ c\ 11 that would be detailed in the case arose. ^he t. cn vearsof age, and a married man, ^viwh atTta iv i "» to(.« ti,«vki0;,fr3 wit» 8-' the a large iamiiy. defendant had. counsel 3KmSS3 firA w >»- fl,or and her husband 111 a house. Plaintiff ev'.n PU<)ilv tmned bis wife out of the house; and he a..ber- wards accepted £ 100 as compensation from the deie.nd- S b" the Improper ,i.te,co»r,e bet.vee,, h,» ».!e and defendant continue' and the wife eventual.y le.t the plaintiff, and lived as the defendant s mistress There was no defence, and the jury awarded the plaintiff £ 400 damages.

| LITERARY EXTRACTS. LnVmr is the law of the world, and he who lives Vy other men's means Is of less value to the world that) the bu/zing, b' sy lrsec-t Love kok Ciuldkev.—Tbe little ones must have love ins de the house, and fresh air, and good play, and mine good companionship outside, otherwise the young life runs the greatest Han-er in the world of withering (•r growing stunted, or at least prematurely old and turned inward on itself. Cause OF CATTLE Plagub IN England.—So far well; England is awakened to the peril at last, and we c"n only wait and hope, whie meantime the Veterinary Department under its new organisation is doing, and doing- well, all that can probably now be done. Yet it would be a breach of duty to allow these facts to hinder us from pointing out the faults of the Poist, and the fatal errors of delay from which the pret-entond un- known future evil has flowed. It has already bepn proved that the plague marched from these 'th-east of Germany to the north-west. We did not need any assurance that bad the Castor's cargo been known I beforehand to have been plague stricken, not a beast would have landed; and we gladly h 'il the hint of Professor Brown and the resolution cf the council, reported elsewhere, that attention will be given In future to thelandingof persons or things which may serve as other media of contagion. But had not Go- vernment waited for plague to be reported at Hamburg —the port of shipment and north-west point-before prohibiting imports from a country already known to be infected in its south-east corner; bad it in fact adapted in 'his respect that very preventive'' policy Pnneseor Brown st iustly urted before the Royal Council as respects internal measures, we might have been free now. Tne broad and simple fact stares us In the face, whatever be said in reply, that the two main outbreaks, ii north and south, originated respec- tively in a northern and southern port of entry. Surely we may hope that the simple fesson will be learnt at last.-From the Live Stock Journal and Fan- cier's Gazette." THE PRESS IN Parliament.—Mr. Hutchinson adds another to the list of gentlemen of the press in the House of Commons. In addition to the editor and chief proprietor of the HaUfax Courier, there are now Dr. Cameron, proprietor and editor of the Isorth British Daily Mail; Mr. Joseph Cowen, proprietor of that influential paper in the North of England" to I which Mr. Gladstone alluded the other night; Pro- fessor Smyth, proprietor of the p^rry Sentinel; Mr. P. A. Tnylor, proprietor of the Kxa»nncr • Mr. Beres- ford Hope, founder and proprietor of the Saturday Review Mr. S. Morley, ot the Contemporary liev 'ew; Mr. Walter, of the Times; and Mr. Ingram, of the Illustiated London News, Mr. A. M. Sullivan might last session have been included in the list as proprietor and editor of the Nation but the h^n- member, in disposing of his newspaper property, has absolutely severed himself from journalism, and does not even write an occasional paragraph for the Nation. There is an hon. member who once occupied another position in the House-a more elevated one, I may say, inasmuch as it was an appointment in the Press Gallery, he being on the reporting staff of one of the London daily papers, Mr. Lowe is, or was, a famous journalist, and so is Mr. Leonard Courtney, the new member for Lisbeard. I need not mention Mr. Gladstone, or include other names of hon. and right bon. members accustomed to write for the journal?, to indicate the increasing measure of direct representation o; the press which is one of the features of the Parliament, that throned 'n power tba1; well-known "gentleman of the press," Mr. Disraeli. —May fair. THE POST Office Half A Century Ar;o.—As to the safety and secrecy of letters, our ancestors were greatly to be commiserated, even down 10 tbe begin- ningof the present century. In 180r Lord Melville writes to William Piit; "I shall continue to address you through Alexander Hope's conveyance, as I re- member our friend Ba'burst very strongly hinted to me last year, to beware of the Post Otiice, when you and I had ocoasion to correspond on critical points, or in dritical times." In 1783 William Pitt, writes to Lady Chatham "I am afraid it will not. be easy for me, by the post, to be any hiug else than a fashion- able correspondent, it I believe the fashion which pre- vails, of opening almost £ very let'er that is sent, making It almost impossible to write anything worth reading." And Mr. Beresford, writing in the same year (to Lord Temple), remarks—"The shameful ) ib-rtiep taken with my letters, both sent, and received (for even the Speaker's letter to me hath been opened) iiitke me cautious in poli;ics." In earlier times this custom of opening letters prevailed still more generally, and it seems without any attempt at concealing t,be practice. In 1H88, when not, oily but parcel* of all kinds were rent hj of the "shameful con- rfoct 6T "tbe Postmas'er-General." lie doth stop, under spetious pretences, most parcells that ar" taken in, which is great dumage to tradesmen hy losing their customers or spoiling their goods; and many times, hazards the life of the patient when phisick is sent by a doctor or a,pothecary." Earlier still (U;4:2) we read of the alarming munner in which a mail was stopped on its way to London—" The Chester mail Was met ay the foot of Hijrbgate Hill by five persons on great horses, with pistols, and babited like troopers, who demanded, Who hath the tetters ? and saying they must have them and (adds the chronicler) they kept their word.8t. James't Mauazine, Haddon HALL and Dorothy Yehnon.—Every great English home—as we shall find in our gradual pro- greiie-is chiefly memorable, is surpassingly dear to the imagination, for the sake of one person, or of some one romantic incident; and all Haddou is fragrant with the memory of one fair woman—Dorothy Vernon. You have her postern, her walk, her room, her ter- race. Her beauty beautifies the whole beautiful place. Men love women, and women love Love; hence the charm and the romance of the fair heiress lirieer vet round every part of Haddon. She was the daughfer of that Sir George Vernon the "Eng of the Peak" who died in the year in which M irv Queen of Scots married the ill-fated lout, Dar) lev. In the fulness of time Dorothy loved, but her father did not approve. She determined to elop"; and now we must fill, in fancy, the Long Gallery with the splendour of a revel and the stately joy of a great, ball in the time of Elizabeth. In the midst of the noise imd excitement, the fair yoime daughter of the house steals unobservid away. >i,Pi issues from her door, and her light feet, fly wirf' tremulous speed along the darkling terrace, fleck^ with lIght from the blazing ball-room, till iieN, reacn a postern in the wall, which opens upon 'ho void of night outside dancing Haddon. At that postern s<'i»" one is waiting eagerly for her; waiiinjy with swift, horses. That some one is voiiiiz Sir John Manners, second son of the house of Rut1 ann. and her o vn true love. The anxious lovers mount, and ride r-ipidly a' d silently away; and so Dorothy Vernon tran-feis Haddon to the owners of Belvoir; and the boar's head of Vernon becomes mingled at H»ddon with the peacoek of Manners. We fancy with sympathetic pleasure that nisbt-ride, and the hurried marriage r-nd-forgetting that the thing happened *2e< long agone "we wish, with full hearts, all happine-s to the dear and charming Dorothy I-Prom Pio'urcs/ur Europe" for March. GALILEE. You have ridden through Ga:ilee ? You have sailed on the take? You have se,n the Citv of N-iZ:»reth, ar.d the sites of M&gdala, Gr-rasa, and Capernaum? You have been on the spit of the marriage feast? You have stood on the slope from which He preached the sermon on the .lflilllt.? Is Cana known ? Where is Capernaum ? Has the spot been identified, and what kind of place is it now Such questions break in cataracts on every pilgrim from the Holy Land. Jerusalem may have a denier and sterner interest, for a Christian Frank than ',nv place in Galilee; yet Galilee is properly the counry of Our Lord. Here His early life was spent; here His chief companions lived; here His most important words were spoken, and His most important work was done. The whole province of Galilee was called (be country of Our Lord. Whence comes this name of Galilee, so closely connected with the sacred history, and so sweetly sounding in all Christians'ears. It is not sacred to a Jew, nor sweetly sounding in Jewisa ear! The first name under which we know the coun- try Is Gelil haggoyim-land of the heathen. In the midst of Israel a Gentile people clung to the soil, and could not be expelled by fire and sword. They were a remnant of the ancient dwellers, but a hardy and un- conquerable remnant, occupying the stony hiilg and thickets, much as the Druses ding to the hill- sides in Lebanon, and the Waldenses to the valleys of Piedmont. Joshua ravaged their towns, Solomon tossed them as a fee to Hiram; but the leader of Israel and the King of Tyre were qually b^led by the passive tenacity and endu- rance of these ancient tribes. In the language of Jewish scribes, the country remained a land of strangers and heathens—Galilee of the Gentiles. Many Hebrews .ived m mis heathen province, but tbe b.gh priests looked 0U Buch Hebrews as low rabble who were not unwilling to live among strangers for the sake of gatn. The feelir.g was not unlike that whicn Lnghsh country squires used to express for peop e who sought their bread and salt in Yan lneman s Land or Botany Bay. Gali^e never ceased a term of reproach. To be called a Galilean in tbe Court of Annas and Caiaphas w«s to be called a rogue and churl. Joseph us frequently speaks of the Galileans as brigands. Hence the saying of a Btrict Jew like Nathaniel, Can any good thing come out of Nazareth ? Hence the opprobrium attaching in the minds of strict metropolitan Jews to such epithets afe Jesua of Nazareth and Jesus the Nazarene.—#ei>- worth Ptxon, in the Gentleman's Jfagontt ;■ ;■ y -,1,

!>"•( sirr'SttvrTVF^ r:!l We never knew a man tOMtffK the evening, without his WHtbipg tbftt it "been placed ia abler hands,

f F A C E T I M. the thermometer, like a ntan, rio,es by degrees The earth i* exceedingly dirty, but the sea is very tidy. How to procure an eclipse of ths 30n. -Cut him off with a shilling. The shrouds ot a ship are not to enclose the persons deceased. The young man of the period is one whose career has come to a fall stop* Never insult a milkman by asking him what watering pi ice he is going to. "Paying dear for good company," as the rook said when he was put into a pigeon pie. Boots blacked inside is posted on a doorway. But who wants his boots blacked inside? Anybody can tell you what to put in a news- paper; but the real problem is what to leave oat. A lawyer who climbs upon a chair after a law- book gets a little higher in order that ha may get a little lore. When one drowns a litter of kitieua. it is of no use for him to pretend that it does not hurt the old cat's felines. When Mr. Fish had his children's portraits painted, they were spoken of as sardines—little Fishea done up in oil. »" Does poultry pay?" asked a strangei of a city dealer. "Of course," was the reply, "even tht little chickens shell out." THE LAW OF GREVY-TATION.—In default of any way to bridge over the Cabinet difficultv, M. Grevy was compelk-d to resort to a Fei-,y! I wish you would pay a little attention, sir," said a stage-manager to a careless actor. Well, I am paying as little as I can," was the calm reply. A country debating society is nerving itself up to wrestle with the question: "When a woman and a mouse meet, which is the more frigbtened." Can you tell me how the word saloon is spelt?" was asked a eockney. Certainly," said the Lon- doner with a look of triumph; "there's a hess, and a hay, and a hell, and two hoes, and a hen." Mike to Patrick; Did yez ever see a flying fish, Pat?" Pa-trick (with a look of wonder): "I've seen illustrations of 'em. but never an original." Mike (earnestly): Oh, I ve seen one alive, but it was stuffed." A young man fresh from Cornwall, and rather green, seeing a placard with "Bill stickers will be prosecuted," innocently asked: "Who is Bill Stickers; and what are they going to prosecute him for?" The Due <3e Yivonne being indisposed, his friend* sent tor a Physician. When the Due hoard he was in attendance in the antechatnoer, he said: "Tell him 1 cannot see him, because I am not well; let him call again another time. A poet has written a song called "Bury Me near the Old Home." If he ha.a accomodating neighbours, his request will be granted without waiting for him to go through the usual formula of dying; especially if he sings his own songs. While a party was visiting the Natural Bridge in Virginia the story was told that George Wash- ington had once stood there and thrown a silver dollar completely over the bridge. Some of the party pooh-poohed this assertion, but the narrator gravely rebuked them, saying, "You forget how much further a dollar went in those days." An old man picked up half-a-crown in the street. Old man, that's mine, said a keen-looking little rascal, "so hand it over." "Did thine have a hole in it?" asked the old man. "Yes." replied the other smartly. Then it is not tbine," mildly replied the old man; "thou must learn to be a little sharper next time, my boy." A native of Oldham went to the Art Treasury Exhibition at Manchester, and seated himself on one of the settees, where he sat patiently for a length, of time. At last he beckoned a policeman to him, and then addressed that functionary: Aw say, owd chap, when's this exhibition to begin. Aw've waited here a heawr and a h&uf o'nt." When Mr. Thelwall was on hie trial at the Old Bailey; for trtgb treason, during the evidence for. the prosecution he wrote the following note and sent to his counsel: illr. Erskine, 1 am deter- mined to plead my cause mvself." Mr. Er»kine wrote under it: If you do you will be bunged." To which Thelwall immediately returned this reply: I'll be hanged if I do." A bad-tempered judge was annoyed by an old gentleman who bad a very bad chronic cough, and after repeatedly desiring the crier to keep the court quiet, at length angrily told the offending gentleman he would fine him ten pounds if be did not cease coughing, when he was met with the reply, I will give your Honour twenty pounds if you will stop it for me.' Rossini was one day discovered at the piano with a copy of Tannhiiuser'' before him, only the music stood on the raok upside down. What are you doing there, maestro? asked his visitor. Don't you see? I am trying to understand Wag- ner, and I can't manage it." "But you have got the music the wrong way up." "Oh I I tried it the other way and it was no better." A French definition of a Whig and Tory "Pray, Monsieur de Yergennes," said a king of France one day at his levee, "What do you take to be the difference between a Whig and a Tory?'' "Please your majesty," replied the minister, "I consider the difference to be merely nominal; the Tories are Wbigs when they want places, and the Whigs are Tories when they have got tbem." A grave and dignified D.D., after listening to the recitation of the catechism by a class of chil- dren, was asked to make a few remarks to them. Whereupon he said: I desire, my young friends, to express an unqualified approbation of this ex- ercise. I regard the catechism as the most ad- mirable epitome of religious belief extü.nt." The superintendent pulled his bleeve, and. a.-kcd him to explain the word epitcuie, which he elucidated as follows: By epitome, my children, I mean— that is—it is synonymous with synopsis." The following story is told of a college professor, the author oi an article on Ancient .Ueihods of Filtration." By a misprint, his subject was an- nounced in the advertisements as Ancient Me- thods of Flirtatlou," much to tile amusement of his friends, one of whom, at a social party, said to hi in "Professor, do give us your u-osure on "Ancient Methods of I'jit-tt Lion." Tl:e Pro:-is»or, who is a bachelor and a social favouri'e, instantly replied: Miss X. that lecture can be deuvered only to a single auditor at a time, ami must be illustrated with experiments." An Italian or-;an grinder recently epcansd a fine by a very ingenious excuse. He had bee" playing before the bouse of a very irascible old gentleman, who furiously and with wild gestiro'ations, ordered him to "move on." The organ grinder Btolidly ground on. and was arrested lor in, dis- turbance. At the police-court the magistrate asked him why he did not leave when :• ,'K-r-ted. 44 No spik Iugliss," was the reply. '• v,- cn, said, the magistrate, "bur, you must, have understood his gestures—his motions. 11 i tink;Li come to dauce," was the rejoinder. That e^u-ied the j magistrate to laugh heartily aud let the musician go. 11 Driving along a roa.d in Staffordshire, a corres- pondent met a pedlar and his donkov. The ped- lar wore a aome-made can of calf skin, with the hair outside, and was a. queer-looking man all round. His donkey wore a bag containing seme* thing or otber-rags and bones, we presume. The cou ten ts of the bag were all one side of him. and were balanced on the other by a big iumj) ot stone, lie made no remark to the man, and toe do nkej, poor beggar, knew not how to complain 1)nt b* thought the rags and bones might just us well have been equally divided on tLe do^K«y s-two sides, and the stone left behind. Dilieivnt folk have different ways of doing things, it seems. When a young and ■ rassot hit on an ingenious plan to say* i.Umt-2lt the walk from the theatre alter rehe**&e^ to ,outings, which were situated near clet.ery. He dressed in black, and if he espied a, funeral procession with a vacant seat iu any of the coaches promptly pulled out a handkerchief, and hid his face in it while hailing the vehicle. Vnder the impression that be was one of the i £ oui ners ar- rived late, he was, of course, immediately installed in the vacant seat. This went on for i'orae time; till one unlucky day Grassot attempted to talk to hiscompaniODs. "Poor thing, I weep for her," he said from the folds of the handkercnief. He is dead, not she," replied his opposite neighbour. "I know, I know; but so voting." "Our good. friend was Bixty-eight last birthday, objected another. "I alluded to his children, 'monsieur, said the unhappy Grassot. *4 Dot tie bad none," cried the mourners in chorat», aid Grassot waa thankful that the coach halted 4t this m-rtueut at the cemetery, thus enabling hira to escape. In the future he Resolved that his J^ole of smpathy should ha "pea de p*rok« 4f bfea^acoup Je moa- -choir." ":v; • A creenhbrii, who W&6 on hoard a or the firtt tithe, fen <ftt> lmte**ay I into the hciM; frheiTbrf** he. Wljr ex- pressed his shrprpifc WeU" tfr* dwtwl tilW| 'Sw»W!#r

dONS OF THE POOR CLEIiGY. At Willis' Rooms, on Monday, the Duke of Albctny presided at the. anuiversaiy dinner at SIi. JoUti'a (Leatherhead) Foundation School tor sons of the poor clergy. In propo&mt; the tousi of the evening, hia Royal Highness said no class of men were more 1 kely to appreciate the adv.aai.ages 1 i a sound seh iol traftiini. or more 1 Ueiy to feei acutely j the lo.-s to iheir sons of such training than clergymen ot the Church of Eugiand. Owin;* to a«ricuUuutl de- pression, many clergymen whose lucernes neie chiefly derived from the letting of their glebe farms, had re- cently either been compelled to accept greatly reduced rents or bad failed to let them at all. Five years ago the average incomes of the fathers of the school boys I amounted to JE200. Last year the average was scarcely JE175. During the evening £ 2200 subscriptions weie ) announced.

In the London Bankruptcy Court, on Monday the further bearing of the case, ex parte Becky.t Dem- si n and Co. and others, re Wilkinson, came on. It wm an appeal by Messrs. Beckett Denison and Company, the bankers, of Sheffield, ISO. i^ham and elsewhere, and others, against the deci- gjon of the Judge of the Lincoln County Court, m the matter of Thomas Wilkinson, ot ^reeu Mile and Babworth, Notts.—Mr. Wmslow, Q.O., on behalf of the bankers, said his Lordship would rememoer that there were several questions involved in the appeal. One was, whether the debtor was properly described in the bill of sale; another was, whether the bill of sale was good as against the general body of the creditors; and another was, as to whether the pay, ent in of a cheque to the bankers and the division of the proceeds of 1t-£2486-among the appebauts was an im. proper payment.—The arguments of the learned counsel not being concluded when the Court rose, the further hearing of the appeal was adjourned to Monday next. The annual spring session of tbe Baptist Unioir of Great Britain and Ireland was commenced at Blooms- bury Chapel, London, on Monday. The Rev. J. P. Chown, the new president, delivered' an inaugural address, his subject being Christ in Christians. Leicester was selected for holding the autumnal meei- ing. The Rev. A. Tilley, Cardiff, moved, this assembly, representing a denomination jh { uniformly and earnestly pledged fcfc £ etests ale making » "•>*»' w'bl/Wwy s olWiance, has been lnttodncea by ne j y Goternment," ,After an animated discussion. re- Jtion was carried by a larKe majority. About ,250 ministers and delegates were present, only a lit half a dbzen of whom voted against the reaolution.

WpffflTANT Ta li AUN DRfJSSES.—K your trades- n,^o«tM>t 8611 B^itt's Paris Bins, se&d a post card fn the uJakT?. I50, Qufcea Vietjoria-atreet, London, r and J they sen! JOU thf pm* Ql sqmew« who aelk it in I [47t8.