The Warwickshire Herald. — 1887-01-27 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

THE CHILDREN'S BALL.-A FUNNY LITTLE CHIP.  THE new College of Preceptors building in Bloomsbury-square is nearly completed, and will be opened by the Prince of Wales before the year is much older.  THE attempt to form a Labourers' Club at Faversham has been afa lure. A third meeting was held on Monday, but it was not even so well attended as those which have preceded it.  AN express car on the Texas• Pacific Railway has been robbed near Gordon by a gang of eight masked men. They got away with ten thousand dollars and twenty-eight registered letters. THE living of Lamborne, near Romford, Essex. of the value of £556 a-year, has fallen to the gift of Christ Church, Cambridge, by the death of the Rev. Henry A. Goodwin, in his 66th year.  A WOMAN, giving the name of Mrs. Adams, started on Monday morning from Crieff to work a wheelbarrow to London and back. Gordon, who went from Dundee to London and back with a barrow, is lying ill in Dundee from rheumatism.  CONSIDERABLE sensation has been caused in all artistic circles in rit. Petersburg by the sudden resignation, probably from unpleasant causes, of the director of the Conservatory of Music, who has gone abroad. The famous pianist, Rubenstein, has consented to take his place. THE death is announced as having taken place at his residence in Florence, on the 18th inst., of Admiral Sir Henry Smith, at the age of 84 year.. The deceased knight, who entered the Royal Navy in 1814, commanded in 1839 a highly-successful expedition against the town of Aden, in Arabia, where the fortifications were destroyed and the enemy completely subdued. He likewise distinguished himself in the China War of 1840._  AFTER sentencing to six months' hard labour a young man named Crouch for various thefts of clothing, the Bromley magistrates called up the assistant to a pawnbroker at St. Mary Cray, and the chairman said they did not consider he had exercised suilicient discretion in taking two new coats from the prisoner, especially as he pawned them in two different names. They then ordered him to lose half the money which be advanced on the articles. A CROWDED meeting was held in Blackburn Town Hall on Monday night to welcome home the Rev. R. P. Aslie, returned missionary from Uganda, who escaped soon after the murder of Bishop Hannington. A resolution was passed to write to the Foreign Office, urging upon the Government the duty of appointing a commission or inquiry into the murder and maltreatment of British subjects by native rulers in equatorial Africa. THE Norwich socialists have decided to memorialise the Prime Minister and the Home Secretary to remit the sentences passed on Charles Wilfred Morbray and Frederick Henderson, who were sentenced on Friday to nine and four months' imprisonment respectively tor being implicated in the late Socialist riots in the Norfolk county town. THIS Rev. J R. Diggle, the Chairman of the London School Board, presided on Monday evening, over the proceedings in connection with thezopening ,f a new school which has just been erected by the Board in Gill-street, Limehouse. The school possesses accommodation for 796 children, and has been built at a cost, including the land, of £15,000. THE Bishop of Exeter is on a visit to Plymouth for several days for the purpose of making hinise!; acquainted with the religious work of the town. Monday his Lordship laid the memorial-stone of :t ntw habitation for the Yoang Men's Christian SAV sociation, which is to cost about £7,500.  1, I, (3:.. ) / -,, 0  THE  PROVIDENT ASSOCIATION OF LONDON,  LIMITED,  39, Lombard-street, London, E.C.  pstabl6hed to enable the Working Classes to purchase their Houses and become their own Landlords.  Members may enter at any time. No entrance fees. No fines. Lowest scale of repayments. Bonds drawn monthly. Prospectus, Forms of Application, and all parfielders, maybe had on application to the Agent, MR J. B. DAVIES, 14, Cannon-street, Birmingham.  "Thrift is the foundation of independence."