Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1870-05-20 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

OUTRAGE AT OXFORD.—On Tuesday week, the library at Christ Church, Oxford, was forcibly entered from the windows by some persons, who removed the statutes of Dean Gaisford and other notabilities which adorn the interior of the building, and, having conveyed them into Peckwater Quadrangle, a bonfire built of faggots and door mats was kindled, and the statutes, being placed in the middle, were completely destroyed. A rigid investigation into the outrage has been instituted by the dean, and there is no doubt that, if discovered, the perpetrators in it will he severely punished. MURDER OF AN INFANT IN A WAITING ROOM: —An unknown child, about a month old, was found on Thursday afternoon week in the ladies' waiiing•room of the Great Western Railway Station, at Wolverhampton, murdered by strangulation. Marks of violence, as by a cord, were visible shout the head and neck, and blood was upon the neck and face. It was wrapped in a portion of a woman's under garments. The police have the case in hand, but at present there is no clue The supposition is that the body was placed where it was found by a through passenger, who alighted for the purpose.  The Birmingham Gazette relates how a passenger front Wolverhampton to Billiton, after having he, n drawn into conversation by a couple of respectable. looking fellow travellers, was ilfeien by one of them a pinch of snuff Though not a "snuffer," the B lamnian aucepted out of politeness, and almost immediately felt a peculiar sensation in his bead. Fortunately, Bilston was soon reached and he got out ot the train, but soon became so dizzy that he had to repair to the house of the nearest acquaintance, where he remained in a semiinsensible state 14 a considerable tine. He suspect. that the designs of his new-found friends were nefarious.  A paragraph in the Maidstone Telegraph illustrates the working of the so called Contagions Diseases Acts. We learn that on Saturday last, a young woman in tears was taken before the local magistrates, in a private room, for declining to submit to examination, and sentenced to ten days' imprisonment, upon which she cried piteously for her child, and was led out in hysterics. The victim of the law in this ease had no legal ossistance, and it was clear that she knew nothing whatever of the Act of Parliament under which she was convicted.  THE WESLEYANS AND THE EDUCATION QUESTION,—The United Committees, appointed by the last Wesleyan Conference to consider the question cf national education, have come to an almost unanimous agreement in re-assertion of the principle that religious instruction must form an essential part of notional education. The question as to whether such instruction should be given by the elerey of the dfferent denominations, or whether ministers should be prohibited from dealing with religious instruction, leaving it solely in the hands of the teachers in the rate-aided schools, was also decided in favour of leaving the religious instruction entirely in the hands of the teacher. It was further agreed that no clergyman, minister, or member of any religious order should be eligible to the office of teacher.  Loss