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Mr. OLIVER begs to announce that PROFESSOR DUPREZ, The Famous Prince of Conjurors, The Eminent French Prestidigitateur, And Great Spirit Medium (From the Polytechnic, Paris), Will appear in his astonishing Entertainment, entitled the GREATEST MYSTERY IN THE WORLD! To be followed by a "SPIRITUAL SEANCE la Dr. Slade). A Dark World: A Light And marvellous manifestations with a Living Ghost! Plan of Room now open: Tickets to be obtained of Mr. Oliver.
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THIS DAY (THURSDAY), 29th of November, CORNEILLE'S THEATRE. THURSDAY NEXT, 6th of December, MOLIERE'S THEATRE OLD BOOKS. ST. ANDREW'S: WATERSIDE CHURCH MISSION, GRAVESEND. For Sailors and Emigrants on the Sea.
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Mr. Bright was drawn the other day into an apology and explanation on account of his attack on the Bishop of an Truro. explanation ay He has another since thought it In his advisable to to bishop. recent retort to Mr. Bright, the Bishop of Peterborough happy.
ferred to Mr. Bright's sneer in the House of Commons last session, at the consecration of churchyards. Mr. Bright has now written to the Bishop to say that no sneer was intended that he really had forgotteu what was the proper word to describe the ceremony of setting apart places for burial, and that in turning that those about bim, and saying What do they call it he was honestly asking for information. The nation is tardily given, but it is better it should come late than never.
The reproof will not have been given in vain, if it teach Mr. Bright to be more careful in future in his references to the officers, and to the customs of the Church. Mr. Bright would, alas! have found a better theme for his sarcasm in the lawlessness and disobedience of the beneficed clergy. A correspondence between the Bishop of London and Mr.
Mackonochie, of St. Alban'e, which was published one day before Mr. Bright's letter to Bishop Magee appeared in print, gives a melancholy instance of this lawlessness. The Bishop of London's notice has lately been drawn by his Archdeacon to a picture of the Virgin Mary, and other ornaments, which have been unlawfully erected in St. Alban's Church.
About the illegality there is no dispute, for Mr. Mackonochie does not deny that they were placed there without a faculty, and that they are, thereforeillegal He only replies, when the Bishop courteonsly asks him to remove them, and reminds him of his oath of canonical obedience, that they have been there for five years, and that they are deeply valued by the people as standing witnesses of the two cardinal doctrines of Christianity, and that, therefore, he must decline to obey his Bishop, and will take the consequences of his disobedience. The Bishop's reply is complete. He argues with him kindly as to the presumed value and effect of the ornaments, and then, referring to the cath of canonical obedience taken by every incumbent to his bishop, asks what that oath does bind a clergyman to do, if it does not oblige him to undo, when required, what he has wrongly done. Having waited more than a fortnight without getting any sort of reply to his kind and fatherly letter, the Bishop naturally assumed that he was not to have one, and reluctantly wrote to the disobodient clergyman that he must proceed in the diocesan Court.
Thereupon Mr. Mackonochie writes that he had been too busy to reply, but that as the Bishop has chosen to take legal proceedings, he can only abide the issue. The upshot appears to be this, that Mr. Mackenochie will only obey his Bishop where he agrees with him, and that the oath of canonical obedience means nothing more than that the clergyman may do what he likes is prepared to take the consequences. An oath sotaken and so inter.
preted is, indeed, as the Bishop says, "a nullity and surplusage," and borders on profanity. Mr. Gladstoue has replied to Dr. Forbes's article in the Nineteenth Century by a lecture at lawarden, as if Mr. Forbes had had him and his opinions and actions in view when he penned that remarkable paper.
r. Yet we do not remember that Mr. Forbes ever mentions, or makes even any obvious allusion to, Mr. Gladstone. It would seem as if Mr.
Gladstone felt he could only justify his line of action by asserting that the Turks are all that is bad, the Russians all that is chivalrous and disinterested, and the Bulgarian Christians all that is virtuous; and that any one who attempts to prove the contrary of these assertions must be condemning him. The reader of his lecture cannot help noticing how eager he is to magnify everything that Mr. Forbes has said in favour of the Russians, how anxious to minimize all that the same authority has reported to the credit of the Turks. He will accept Mr. Forbes's facts- -when they can be advanced in support of his thesis; he will have none of his observations and conclusions, when they go, as they generally do, against it.
The Bulgarian excesses in Sistova and other towns north of the Balkans were, he thinks, the natural consequences of Turkish oppression and violence south of those mountains. The absence of any violence on the part of the Turks as they quitted Bulgaria is due, he argues, to terror of the Russians, In other words, when the Bulgarians do evil, it is from a good, or a natural, motive; when the Turks do good, it is from a bad, or a mean, motive. That Mr. Gladatone is consciously unfair W'C certainly do not say but the bias with which he uses Mr. Forbea's material is ridiculously--or, let us rather say, painfully manifest.
But let him say what he will, the testimony of Mr. Forbes, which is the testimony also of the Russian officers, remaina, that in Bulgaria north of the Balkans there was every appearance of comfort, prosperity, and freedom from oppression in the Christian population. The Church, too, was a more conspicuous and prominent object than the Mosque, and everything indicated of toleration on the part of the ruling race to a a spirit which it would be difficult to find a parallel in Servia and Roumabia. Mr. Forbes could see no sign of oppression in the several towns and villages he visited, and the condition of things presented to his eyes seemed to him to have existed for years.
But of all this Mr. Gladstone makes no account. Mr. E. A.
Freeman has also been moved to reply to Mr. Forbes, whose article in the November number of the Contemporary Review; he asserts that he has read. Mr. Freeman, however, is in some slight confusion here. He has certainly read no article by Mr.
Forbes in the Contemporary Review for this best of reasons, that no article by Mr. Forbes has appeared in that serial. There is an article by 1 Mr. Forbes in the November number of the Nineteenth Century, and that doubt is the one to which he has made his characno inaccurate reference. Like Dr.
Gladstone teristically all that Mr. Forbes has said in favour of the he accepts Russians, and like him too, he questions and disparthat Mr. Forbes has written in praise of the ages all the discredit of the Bulgarians. He Turks, and to Mr. Forbes to be a perfectly competent witconsiders the Russiens, and yet he considers the name ness for Forbes an untrustworthy and incompetent witness Mr.
Turks or Bulgarians. In short, as Mr. Mackoabout obeys his Bishop, when he likes his nochie only orders, so Mr. Freeman only gives credence Bishop's Forbes when Mr. Forbes tells him what he to Mr.
wishes to be told. But, to borrow Mr. Freeman's own words-" there is in all this nothing new, nothing wonderful, nothing but what we might have been sure would happen." Mr. Freeman, after all, has his weaknesses, and, like humbler folk, is unwill. human ing to believe he is in error.
It was a truth, long before Butler embodied it in a couplet, that He who complies against hi: will, Is of the same opinion still, most amusing part of Mr. Freeman's reply is that The in which he assures us that Mr. Forbes has told him he was not already aware of. He knew that nothing the Bulgarians north of the Balkans enjoyed a good deal of material prosperity, and 16 were better off than Russians, ard even than many English. He many knew that the Turks bad the virtues as well as the vices of barbarians, and could and would do kind and when not provoked to anger.
He knew that the Bulgarians would take a cruel generous things revenge sometimes on Turks who personally did on the Turks, deserve it." What is there he does not know not since he knew it all before, why has he waited Only, till now to tell us about it. He does himself injustice in assuming that everybody" knew what he knew. Everybody" did not know, for instance, that the Bulgarians were better off than many Russians or Eng. lish. Mr.
Forbes did not know it, and tells us that the Russian officers were just as ignorant as himself, and just as surprised at the signs of material perity which they encountered everywhere north of the Balkans. Marshal MacMahon suffers from a similar inability to recognise facts or admit conclusions which are palatable to him. As Mr. Mackonochie calmly ignores his oath of canonical obedience when he does not want to keep it -as Mr. Freeman roughly sweeps aside the testimony of Mr.
Forbes when he does not like it-90 Marshal MacMabon persists in shutting his eyes and closing his ears to the directions which France has given him in answer to his appeal. He dismisses his Ministry, as our King William IV. dismissed Lord Melbourne and the Whigs in 1834 he appeals to the constituencies as did our King William through his new advisers; but, unlike the English sovereign, he refuses to give heed to the response, when the response is not what he hoped for. It is just as if King William had persisted in retaining Sir Robert Peel and his colleagues in office after the general election of 1835, and the consequent vote of want of confidence, or had taken for his Ministers some obscure followers of Sir Robert, and put a violent soldier at their head, with the design of getting the year's supplies voted, and of then recalling Sir Robert and his old Cabinet. The hypothesis is, we need hardly say, an impossible one.
It is not merely that Sir Robert Peel could not have lent himself to such a flagrant outrage on constitutional custom and the rights of the majority, but no man in England would have consented to play the part which is now being played by General Rochebouet and his colleagues, But constitutional government is one of the things which are not so well ordered, or, indeed, understood, in France; though if the Republicans (of whom we can hardly speak as a party, seeing that they constitute the bulk of the nation) continue to show the same -control which they have exhibited throughout the crisis, they will have proved their capacity and their right to administer it. Certainly they have a difficult task before them for to grant supplies to the Govern. ment is to dispossess themselves of the constitutional weapon with which they can encounter the enemies of their peace while to withhold them entirely is not only to stop the machine of State, but to deprive the State servants, the army, and public creditor of their just dues. Meanwhile trade languishes, industry is kept idle, the nation suffers. Delirant regea, plectuntur Achivi.
The rulers of France are gone mad, and France herself is the victim. The Senate has yet the power to end the mischief, but it must be prompt to act. The Marshal, too, may end the crisis, by shaking himself free of his evil advisers, and recognizing the rights of the majority. To-day is their own; but who aball assure them of to-morrow? Plevna has not yet suffered the fate of Kars, though there are those who believe its fall cannot be far off, while even people least anxious for its capture are obliged to admit the probability of such a disaster. One by one the roads have been seized and occupied by the Russians, and starvation will do the reat, if the Russiars can guard themselves against a similar misfortune.
For it must not be forgotten that they, too, are liable to the risk of being cut off from their sup. plies, whether by the Turks or by the weather, and may have to face a similar alternative. The capture of Etropol on Saturday has put even in jeopardy the relieving force no now being collected by Mehemet Ali at Orkhanie, and may compel it to retreat to Sofia, towards which the Russians will certainly press when the way is open. The situation of Turkey will be made more desperate, if Servia fulfil the threat so often made by, or for, her, and join in the war. Her cooperation is daily expected.
On the Lom there have been several encounters between the troops of Suleiman Pasha and the Czarewitch, but no advantage seems to have accrued from them to either combatant. From Asia there is no decisive news. Mukhtar Pasha is posed to be still at Erezroum, though there is a report that he has abandoned it to its fate, and fallen back on his supports but winter is more likely than be, or any of the Turkish commauders, to arrest the progress of the Russians. As to to the newspapers of St. Peters.
burg have already spoken. Twice before it has been captured, and surrendered at the close of the war. Its third capture, it is argued, ought to be the last, and the stronghold ought henceforth to belong to Russia. Nov. 19, at The Cedars, Stroud, the wife of J.
Albin Roberta, prematurely. twin Nov. 19, at Cheltenham, the wife of E. Durant, L.R.C.P., M. R.
C.S., and L.S.A., a son. Nov. 21, at Home-lodge, Tyndall's-park, Clifton, the wife of I. W. Beloe, a son.
Nov. 22 at Ringwood House, Pembroke-road, Clifton, the wife of C. Edward A. George, a daughter. Nov.
22, at Clifton, Bristol, the wife of Charles A. H. Montague, a son. Nov. 26, at 18, Alexandra- road, the wife of Adolphus Edward Stafford, a daughter.
Nov. 27, at Bridge-place, Holloway, the wife of Jan.es Sargent, a son. Marriages. Oct. IS, at the Cathedral, Neucbatel, William Ellis Metiord, Redland.
Bristol, to Constantia Odella, youngest daughter of the late George Wallis, M.D., Clifton, Bristol. Nov. 13 at The Shad Church, Painswick, Gloucestershire, Peter Hughes, only son of Augustus Mathews, Pitchcombo to Euma, younger daughter of George Holloway, Stroud. Nov. 21, at Dorrisnafarner Church, Frederick Coore Mein, Lieutenant and Adjutant H.
V. 53rd (Shropshire) Regiment, elder son of Colonel George Mein, Commanding 36th Brigade Depot, to Jane, elder daughter of Major Frend, I. M. 73rd Regiment. and of Rutha, county Limerick.
Nov. 22, 25 St. Leonard's, Newland. by the Rev. (.
C. White, the Rev. Henry James Rees- Mogg, M.A., second son of William Reeg-Mogg, of Cholwell, Somerset, to Charlotte Elizabeth Sarah, widow of the late Captain Mitchell, King's Dragoon Guards. Nov. 22, at Ash-cliff, Bonchurch, Isle of Wizht, Eliza Isabella, widow of Robert Burleigh Sewell.
and eldest daughter of the late Rev. C.lingwood Foster Fenwick, Rector of Brooke. Isle of Wight. Nov. 20, at All Saints' Church.
(heltenham, Edward George, only son of the late J. Frederick Woolhouse. of M. Glet Neat, to Emma Elizabeth, second daughter of the late Major Sutherland G. G.
Orr, Madras Army. Nov. 22. at the Church of SS. Philip and James, Oxford, John Haddon, of Cheltenham, to Isabella, elder daughter of the late Charles Harbidga, Deaths.
Nov. 13, at Cheltenham, Martha Maria Hilliard, the widow of Captain Thomas Holyoake Hilliard, H.E.I.C aged 51. Nov. 13, at Weston- Mare, John Gimblett, M.D., of Lydney, Gloucestershire, aged 20, 37. Nov.
22, at his residence, Lambridge place, Grosvenor, Bath. Mr. Joseph Colban. aged 77. Nov.
21, at the residence of her father, Mr. John Smith, Cote house, Tyndall's park, Clifton, Clara Agnes, the wife of B. Tucker, of Gatcombe. Long Ashton, aged 26. Nov.
21, at Sundiwell park, near Cheltenham, Sir Hungerford Hoskyns, aged 73. Nov. 21, at 6. Bladnd-buildings, Elizabeth widow of the late John Scovell, aged 68. Nov 22, at 17, Paragon, Miss Charlotte Rutland, aged 67.
Nov. at Beechwood House, Cheltenham, John Entwisle Peel, aged 67, and of Llaustinan, brief Pembrokeshire. Nov. 23. at Yeovil, after a very illness.
in his 45th year, Thomas Davis Manning, surviving his wife only nine dare. Nov. 23, at 7. James-street, Path, Thomas Robert, eldest son of Mr. Thomas Basey, aged 18.
Nov. 20, at 7. South Clifton, Bristol, John Machin Burder, aged Arrira's, Mrs. Chowne and Miss Braddon, at 17, Green-park-buildinge, Bath HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. DUKE OF BEAUFORT'9.
Friday, Nov. 30th, at Newnton-lodge; Saturday, Dec. 1st, at Cross lands -at 11. CATTISTOCK. Nov.
30th, at Buckland Pipers--at 10.45. COTSWOLD, NORTH. -Thursday, Nov. 29th, at Guiting Wood Saturday, Dec. 1st, at Spring hill 11.
DULVERTON-Saturday, Dec. let, at 29th, Northmoor-lodge-at Woodford- 11. LORD FITZHARDINGE'S. -Thursday, Nov. at green; Saturday, Dec.
1st. at The Be 10.45. MR. LUTTRELL'S. -Friday, Nov.
30th, at Haddon Crowcombe -at 10.45. EARL OF RADNOR'S. --Friday, Nov. 30th, -at 10.45. DIR.
RAYER'S. Thursday, Nov. 29th, at Crubys, Morchard Mill--at 11. STARS OF THE WEST--Thursday, Nov. 29th, at Bratton Fleming--at 10.45.
V. W. H. Nov. 29th, at Red-lodge; Saturday, Dec.
1st, at Burdcross-park-at 11. COTLEY -Friday, Nov. 30th, at 10.30. LEIGHTON. Friday, Nov.
30th, at Railway Bridge, Bremeridge--at 11.30. THE SOUTH AND WEST WILTS FOX- -HOUNDS. -Thursday, Nov. 29th, at Cowridge Copse: Friday, Nov. 30th, at Fisherton Delamere Monday, Dec.
3rd. at Wyncombe-park Tuesday Dec. 4th, at Witham: Thursday, Dec. 6th, at Ham Cross Friday, Dec. 7th, at Heytesbury -at 10.45.
To-morrow evening Mr. Charles Moore, F.G.S., will read, at the Bath Literary and Philosophical Association, a paper On the Extinct Mammalia and Reptilia of the Moore BECHSTEIN'S PIANOFORTES appear to be the latest in pianofortes, and if we may judge from the 66 novelty by this maker, which Messrs. Milsom and Son exhibiting at their place of business, there can Cottage" are be no doubt they are very fine, full, and powerful toned instruments. Indeed, it is a sufficient guaranty of their excellence that such eminent men have as Von written Bulow, in superior highest praise of them, Rubinstein giving it as his opinion Liszt, Rubinstein, and Dreyschock that the manufacturer has attained the utmost degree in the art of instrument One of of perfection features of this pianoforte is the action of the pedal, by which the desired result is obtained without tie special sifting the action, as in the old manufactures, or by the soft ore modern contrivance of intervening felt. By an ingenious arrangement, the striking powers of the hammer is simply lessened.
We are requested to state that the Lord Bishop of Path and Wells will hold a confirmation in the Palace Wednesday, December the 19th, at 11.30 Chapel on a.m., desirous of being confirmed before the close of the at which candidates, who for special reasons are year, may be presented, on seven days' previous notice being given to the Bishop. Col. Hayter, M.P., has taken 11, Lansdown Crescent, for a short season. OHRISTMAS PRESENTS. RICHARD KING SON ARE NOW SHOWING THEIR NOVELTIES FOB CHRISTMAS PRESENTS.
MANY OF WHICH CAN BE SEEN ONLY AT THEIR SHOPS, Milsom Street and John Street. 43 BALL AND DINNER DRESSES. RICHARD KING SON ARE NOW MAKING THEIR SECOND DISPLAY OF BALL and DINNER DRESSES FLOWERS HEAD DRESSES. Milsom Street, John Street. RICHARD KING AND SON INVITE SPECIAL ATTENTION FO DE MOLIN'S HAND-SPUN BLACK SILKS.
GOODS are Made in the OLD-FASHIONED TEaSE LOOMS, of PURR SILK, and are therefore ENTIRELY PREB from the DESTRUCTIVE DYES which are so generally used, and which are now being so strongly written against. RICHARD KING SON, SOLE AGENTS FOR BATH. RICHARD KING SON Solioit an Inspection of their Stock of LYONS SILK VELVETS, Made of PURE SILK, and therefore FREE FROM ANY OF THE DESTRUCTIVE DYE 50 much complained of. RICHARD KING SON, MILSOM STREET JOHN STREET, BATH. THE PUMP ROOM CONCERTS.
-The season at the Pump Room commences on Saturday next, when, in addition to performances by the full band, Madame Gilliess Corri and Mr. H. A. Taylor will sing some favourite pieces. This year an alteration has been made, by which subscribers will have the privilege of attending musical performances daily--there being on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays the full band, as last year, and on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, a quintette or septette band.
Mr. W. E. Salmon is the musical director. Political.
The whole of the 500 tickets for the banquet to Mr. W. H. Smith, at Westminster, this evening, have been disposed of. Mr.
Bright has written to the Bishop of Peterborough stating that in his speech on the Burials Bill in the House of Commons he did not use the word consecrated in 6 6 sneering Mr. Caspar Clark, who has not long returned from journey through the whole of Armenia and Persia, has been requested by the Foreign Office to write a report on the state of British influence in Armenia, from an outsider's point of view. A complimentary dinner was given to the Earl of Carnarvon by the agriculturists of the neighbourhood of Dulverton, Somerset, on Friday evening, when a turret clock, which has been purchased by subscription and erected in the market which his lordship has established at Dulverton, was formally presented to him. Responding to the toast of Her Majesty's Ministers," Lord Carnarvon said we had now reached a critical juncturecritical as regarded the war; critical, no doubt, 88 regarded the position of this country; critical, also, as regarded the attitude of the great European Powers that were interested in it. We might have, of course, on one side or the other sympathies or antipathies, but the one feeling which, he thought, we had in this country was that, assuming honour and duty to be maintained, whilst there were many interests all round us, the greatest interest of all was the honourable maintenance of peace as regarded ourselves (cheers).
We have authority to contradict in the most distinct and positive manner the assertions which have recently been made by several weekly contemporaries of the approaching retirement of Lord Beaconsfield from office. Such a notion was never less entertained by the Prime Minister than at the present moment. It is much to be regretted that sprightly writers, in their eagerness to retail gossip, are more keen in giving to society what may startle, than in verifying the truth of that which they put forth. This is the more lamentable, because idle rumours such as this which we are dismissing, when once in print, find their way abroad, and thus statements, in themselves merely careless or foolish, gain foreign currency, and tend to lessen the affective strength of the Government in the counsels of other nations, which are repeatedly assured that the administration lacks stability and is about to lose its chief. A simple inquiry would have satisfied our contemporaries is no foundation for the story they have so thoughtlessly set afloat.
Morning Post. Music, Art, Science, and Literature. The International Telegraph Congress will meet on the 1st of July, 1878, in London. Prof. A.
Liversidge has been elected Secretary of the Royal Society of New South Wales. Senor having quite recovered from his slight attack of bronchitis, sang at the Italian Opera, Madrid, last week. Mdlle. Blanche Edwards, an English young, lady, has passed a successful examination at the 3 Professor Alleyne Nicholson, St. Andrew's University, has been appointed Swiney lecturer on Geology by the trustees of the British Museum.
The December number of the Nineteenth Century will contain an article by the Rev. Malcolm MacColl, On some Current Fallacies about the Turks, Bulgarians, and A Dutch Arctic expedition will sail in May next, a meeting having been deld recently to consider the matter. Sir Allen Young was present, and expressed himself in favour of the scheme. By order of the Emperor himself, La Patti is not to appear in Berlin. has declared that the price charged per night by the late Marquise de Caux is something monstrous, and that he will not allow such absurd A prize of 150 marks has been awarded to Otto Hehner, F.C.9., Public Analyst for the Isle of Wight, and Arthur Angell, F.R.M.S., Public Analyst, county of Hanta, for their es-ay on butter analysis, by the Pharmaceutical Association, Leipsic.
Lady Rothschild has discovered a young lady with a marvellous voice, whom she intends to educate at her own expense, in Italy, with a view to her public appearance at some future date- -not far distant, let us hope. I trust that the reenlt will be more satisfactory than former attempts in this Measures are afoot for supplementing the researches of the Challenger expedition by a series of deep-sea dredgings in the Indian Seas. These seas were purposely omitted from the scope of the Challenger's investigations, as it was then hoped that the establishment of a marine surveying agency would enable the Indian Government to carry on deep sea dredgings and sounding pari puss with coast surveying. But although the Duke of Argyll warmly approved of the project, it has hithertoo been impossible to do anything, owing to the want of a good steamer and all necessary equipment. A new steamer is now being built in India, and an officer of the Coast Survey Department, Lieutenant Jarrad, R.N., has been commissioned to see after the fittings and dredging appliances in England.
Full information has been obtained from the old staff of the Challenger, and it is hoped that operations may be started next cold season (1878-79). In that case, it is probable that the first steps will be to run one or more lines of soundings across the Bay of Bengal in such directions as may seem best, taking advantage of the vessel's destination for local surveying service.Athenceum. Court, fashion, The Countess of Donoughmore gave birth to a daughter in town on Tuesday. The Prince of Wales, with Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, and other guests, shot through the preserves at Sandringham, on Tuesday, and had excellent sport. Countess Schouvaloff and family left Chesham House on Friday for Russia.
The Queen has presented to the town of Heywood 20 acres of land for the purpose of a public park. The wife of Lord Kilmarnock (eldest son of the Earl of Erroll) gave birth to a son on Sunday in town. Owing to the indi-position of Prince Leopold, the Queen will def her departure from Balmoral for a few days. Mr. John Welsh.
the new American Minister to England, sails from New York for Liverpool on the 1st prox. The Polo and Hunt Ball, at Brighton, to-day, is expected to be the largest and most brilliant fancy -dress hall ever held in England. It is said that Prince Leopold is ahont to receive A dukedom, an English title being chosen a this time by the Queen for her youngest son. Tatter believes that Her Majesty will appoint three judges in the persons of Sir J. Fitzjames Stephen, Q.C., Mr.
J. R. Bulwer, Q.C., and Mr. Charles S. C.
Bowen. At the meeting of Her Majesty's staghounds on Tuesday week, accidents occurred to Lord Hardwicke and Mr. Tom Talbot, of London, the latter having his collarbone and some ribs broken. The Prince of Wales returned to London on Friday from visiting Lord and Lady Londesborough, and the Princess of Wales and Miss Knollys arrived from Scotland at Clarence House the same morning. Miss Knollys bore the journey well, and is in a most hopeful condition.
The Prince and Princess, and their daughters, arrived at Sandringham on Monday, from London. The following is a brief account of the dresses of the bride and bridesmaids at the wedding of the Duke of Norfolk and La ly Flora Hastings, which our lady readers may te glad to see. The bride's attire was of rich white satin, trimmed with point lace of the finest quality, and with drooping chatelaines and bouquets of orange blossoms. Her vell also was of fine Brussels lace (which took a prize at the Exhibition of 1874) sprinkled over with sprays of orange blossoms. The bridesmaids wore dresses cemposed of rich ivory-coloured poule-de-soie, draped with ivory-coloured brocaded silk, and trimmed with Cardinal velvet.
They wore also Rubens hats of creamcoloured felt, trimmed with Cardinal velvet and with cream and Cardinal feathers alternately. The Princess Louise, who was piesent, wore a costume such as might be designated symphony in blue," cunningly and artistically designed in two shades of lightblue silk and of garter blue velvet, with hat and feathers to match. The dress of her Royal Highness, however, was not only the remarkable one present. Several ladies occupying the front rows of sittings were blue quaintly and richly attired in flowered velvets of dark and green, so slashed with white and yellow satin, SO sage puffed, carved and pinched, as to give their wearers the air of family portraits, the colours of which had been miraculously preserved. The ground round St.
Paul's Cathedral is to be nicely laid out, and thrown open to the people. The will of Commodore Vanderbilt, who recently died in America, leaving a fortune of £20.000,000, is being tested in the New York courts, by one of his sons, who is cut off" with only a million sterling. In the action "Swann 2'. Vines," the Common Pleas Division, last week, the jury have found for the plaintiff, in reference to some trust property which was in the settlement, and for the rest of the claims for the defendant. They valued the trust property at £220, and upoa the counter claim awarded the defendant £220 for money lent to the plaintiff.
Lord Newborough's charge of political jobbery against a section of the Carnarvonshire magistrates, and his resignation of the chairmanship as a practical protest, were again discussed at an adjourned quarter sessions on Saturday. The court was crowded, and to avoid a public discussion the magistrates privately met in the grand jury room, the business being delayed above an hour. On their return to court Colonel Wynne Finch moved a resolution rescinding that passed three weeks before, directing that the matter shoull be referred to the Lord Chancellor, there being legal doubt as to the authority of the Court, and proposed that a direct communication be made to the Lord Chancellor through the Lord-Lieutenant. The motion was adopted, several magistrates abstaining from voting. An extraordinary occurrence took place yesterday week, at Mart near Boroughbridge.
A child, whose father is a farmer, of Marton-cumGrafton, was born. About an hour and a half afterwards the father went upstairs and asked whether it was a boy or a girl, and when he was told that it was a boy it is said that he took up the child and threw it to the floor. It breathed twice and then died. The only person in the room besides the husband and wife was a nurse. A doctor went to the house shortly after, and on his asking for the child, the father is alleged to have said, Oh, it was a girl I wanted; this was a boy, so I killed He had, it is said, been for a long time a teetotaller, but it is understood that on Wednesday morning he had taken four or five glasses of whisky.
He was apprehended. and since he has been in custody he has denied that be was drunk, Last Blight's Telegrams. THE MASON'S STRIKE IN LONDON. Another batch of German masons, numbering 130, arrived at the New Law Courts this morning. All these men were selected by the contractor, Mr.
Bull, in Germany. Three additional American masons commenced work at the Temple Buildings to-day. All the other Canadians and Americans are working. THE CAROLINA CORRUPTION CASE. In this case Francis Cardola, of the State Treasury, has been sentenced to two years' imprisonment, and four housand dollars fine Robert Small to three years, and "ass Carpenter to two years' imprisonment.
THE LATE JEWEL ROBBERY. At Sevenoaks, to-day, William Tood, alias Hovenden' as again remanded on a charge of complicity in the robbery of Lady Aberdeen's jewels. LATEST WAR NEWS. THE PORTE AND SERVIA. BELGRADE, Wedne day---The collision between the Turks and Servians, at Wratomitza, originated in the illtreatment of some Eulgarian fugitives by the Turks.
The Servian battalions crossed the frontier, and rescued far as the boundary line. There were killed a and wounded the fugitives. not The Turks then pursued the Servians as on both sides. FIGHTING ON THE SHUMLA ROAD. REPULSE OF THE TURKS.
RUSSIAN HEAD-QUARTERS, BOGOT, Tuesday. -On Sunday, a Turkish force attacked the Russian outposts at Kowatschiza, on the Shumla Road, but was repulsed with great loss. A telegram from Bucharest says that a strong detachment of Turks, which made an attack on the eastern front of the Russian positions before Plevna, was defeated with heavy loss. Shelling between Rustchuk and Giurgevo has recommenced. THE WAR IN ASIA.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Tuesday. -Ghazi Mukhtar Pasha telegraphs from Erzeroum as follows enemy still remains in his former positions. A portion of his troops on the Nebi advanced within seven hours' march of Erzeroum. The remainder withdrew in the direction of Passinsefelo. Everything indicates that the Russians seek to establish themselves in winter quarters.
On account of their enormous losses and the severity of the weather, the Russians are compelled to suspend operations. Snow has fallen nearly three feet. RUSSIA AND TUNIS. TUNIS, Tuesday. Diplomatic relations have been broken off between Russia and Tunis.
The Russian Consul has taken his departure. ANOTHER TURKISH DEFEAT AT TROSTENIK. RUSSIAN HEAD-QUARTERS, BOGOT, Tuesday Morning.The Turks, with a large force, attacked the fortified positions at Trostenik and Metschka. After six hours' engagement, the Russian troops, under the Grand Duke Wladimer Alexandrowitsch, repulsed the enemy, and pursued the Turks until dark, notwithstanding the artillery covered their retreat. An official account states that the Turks suffered great loss, advancing within a hundred yards of the Russian batteries.
The Russian loss was about three hundred, including many officers. On the same day the Turks advanced upon Polomarca, but the Russian troops assumed the offensive, and they retreated behind the Lom without giving battle. The Czar has conferred the Order of St. George of the third class on the Grand Duke in recognition of this affair. ROUMANIA AND INDEPENDENCE.
BUCHAREST, Tuesday evening. The Roumanian Chambers were opened to-day, by Prince Charles, who expressed his belief that Plevna once taken, all Europe would recognize the independence of Romania. A TURKISH RAID. A despatch from Silistria states that, on Monday, fifty irregulars, under the Circassian Ejountl Bey, crossed the Danube, seized a work recently constructed by the Russians, surrounded the troops who occupied it, and carried off sixty horses and a quantity of arms and provisions. The Turks suffered no loss.
FEAR OF DISTURBANCES IN CONSTANTINOPLE. CONSTANTINOPLE, Wednesday. -Revolutionary placards are being continually posted on the street corners, demanding the deposition of the Sultan. Disturbances are feared, and the Government has begun to adopt precautionary measures. SILISTRIA.
VARNA, Tuesday. -The Russians have evacuated the country south of Medgidi. The Governor of Silistria has sent a quantity of provisions to Shumla and Bazardjik, 33 Silistria is sufficiently provisioned for a year and a half. CORN MARKET. Market steady.
Wheat is firmly held at Monday's advance, but business is limited. Flour and oats remain steady, and other articles are firm, but not dearer. British and foreign wheat, barley, oats, maize, flour, 1,420 sacks, 4,300 barrels. FROME MARKET. Our November Fair was held to-day, and with fine weather was very largely attended.
The supply of stock was larger than we ever remember before, and most of the beasts were in good condition trade ruled unusually brisk, large numbers of animals being bought up for the London markets. Barreners made £12 to £18 fat cows, £18 to £25 bulls, £8 to £15 heifers, £10 to £12. Messrs. Harding and Sons sold over a hundred head of cattle by auction, barren cows made £13 to £20; two ditto heifers, £13 to £18 cows in calf, £13 to £20 ditto, £14 to £17; fat heifers, £17 to £24; heifers with calves, £17 to 420; two steers, £9 10s. A small supply of sheep and pigs, with a slow trade.
A good many horses on offer, and some long prices were made. About 80 tons of cheese were pitched, all in good condition, and including some prime lots of Cheddar. Trade opened dull, but prices were rather better than at the last monthly market. Eventually trade improved, and a clearance was effected. Cheddar made 65s.
to 74s. (two very superior lots sold for more money) Somersete, 60s. to 659. Doubles 56s. to 60s.
Half-skims, to £54. In the corn market, wheat made 1s. per qr. more money. The pleasure fair is very large.
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE. Moderate inquiry for money at previous rates Egyptians, dull; 524 Unified, 32 4. Russian 80. French Fives, 105 4. Rails, generally steady; Brighton South Eastern weaker, 20 Chatham 81 Districts, 33 American and Canadian Lines, unchanged.
Anglo receipts, yesterday, 1920. Consols, Money 96 964 Caledonian 1214 1214 Great Eastern 474 484 Great Northern, A 1114 Great Western 908 London and Chatham 21. 213 London and North Western 144, 1413 Metropolitan 116; 116g Midland 1248 1214 Manchester, Sheffield Lincoln 814 North British 874 874 North Eastern 1494 149, Italian 71. 71; Spanish 12 123 Turkish 10 Anglo 57 574 Births, CHORAL UNION. BATH ASSEMBLY ROOMS, BATH.
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JOHN EMERY. Recently of Weston, near Batk.) Terms and References on Application. Fees to commence from Time of Entrance. TRINITY COLLEGE, LONDON. LOCAL EXAMINATIONS IN MUSIC.
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Wesley and Hon, Mem. Trinity Coll. Load.) TEACHER OF MUSIC, 20, HENRIETTA STREET. Lessons continued from September 17th. Also, Classes for the Study of Music, Theoretical and Historical.
The Rev. Thomas James has been licensed to the curacy of Winterslow, Wilts. On Monday the Rev. W. H.
Bathurst died at the New Mansion, Lydney Park, aged 80. During the passage from Folkestone to Boulogne of eleven brood mares belonging to the Stud Company, on Saturday, one of them dropped down dead -Alcestes, by Touchstone, cut of Sacrifice, by Voltaire. IMPORTANT TO ALL WHO SHAVE. -In order to practically demonstrate the great comfort and advantage derived from the constant use of F. S.
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