The Warwickshire Herald. — 1894-04-19 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

CONVICT'S WEDDING.  At the Maine of Le Mans an extraordinary marriage has just taken place. There was a total absence of anything in the shape of festivities. On the contrary, the bridegroom vias conducted to the spot from the neighbouring prison with handcuffs, which were removed during the ceremony,while the bride stood at the door of the Town Hall, awaiting his arrival, with a child at her side, and another in her arms. The trio greeted the prisoner with lively demonstrations of affection, and the ceremony was performed, with three hsi.'siea and an official of the Maine as witnesses. The couple had already been married, but had been divorced some years ago, the second child—which was owned by the husband— having been born at a later date. All the necessary steps to legalise the situation having been taken the handcuffs were replaced, and the man was escorted back to the gaol, to the door of which his wife hurried, that she might catch a last glimpse of him. The husband, who is 30 years of age, was sentenced in the autumn to five years' hard labour for murder, and will soon be on his way to New Caledonia, where his wife hopes to join him at the end of the summer  Here is an example ot the humour of Parliament. Mr. T. H. Bolton, M.P., whose resemblance to the "Little Corporal " is almost a freak of nature, was in his place quite alone on the L. U. Bench. He sat arms folded, big hat shading heavy chin. "Look at Bolton," said an Irish member over the way. “Verj Napoleonic attitude, eh ? What does it mean, Corsica or Moscow ?" "Neither," put in Mr. Sexton, "Elba." "Yes," chipped John Burns, "out-atElba." And Mr. Bolton slept on. —Echo.  Speaking in St Pancras on Sunday night, Mr. Justin NUCarthy, M.P., said that shortly after his resignation Mr. Gladstone sent for him and expressed his absolute confidence in the fidelity of the preent Government to the cause of Horne Rule, and his belief in Lord Rosebery's devotion to that cause. Kr. M'Carthy went on to any that the Irish had a Liberal Government and the democracies of England, Scotland, and Wales on their side, and he was confident that they wouid ultimately have their own Parliament. The Metropolitan Board Teachers' Association, at their quarterly meeting on Saturday, received from the Executive of the National Union of Teachers a resolution pronitsing strenuous support to the movement against the Board's religious circular. D!. Bridge, organist of Westminster Abbey, gave an address on his system ot teething music by gestures. The meeting resolved to call the attention of the Board to the dissatisfaction of teaches with the present system of promotion to headships in schools. A motion was also passed asking Gm the appoint. ment of "baby-minders" in infant sehools.  A woodpigeon has built her nest in a tree in the churchyard of St. Botolph, Aldersgate, and inszert seen on the nest in a tree at the Alders entrance to the churchyard. A curioae=re Is that the branches of the tree are in close proximity to the windows of the new post-eflice building which has been erected on the southern side of the churchyard, and, as the tree is at present leafless, the nest and Its occupant are fully displayed to view. The City Prais says that the bird is supposed to have migrated from a park outside London, but it is a singular nesting-place for one of a naturally timid species. Mr. Barry Farms' new shillingeworth, "The Grand Old Mystery," describes in prose and verse the effect of Mr. Gladstone's return to the Howie of Commons. It contains a number of sketches of the G.0.M., eight of which are descriptive of him in various stages of a great speech. The gross receipts of Mr. Max O'Rell's lecturing WV/ in the United States, Canada, Australia, New &Wand, and South Africa were over twent7-eigjak thousand pounds. In Johannesburg elan he iteek more than a thousand pounds in a week. His books have also brought him in a very handsome sum.