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Evening Star, Issue 3223, 19 June 1873, Page 3

time. ________ The Jersey judge, who has been committed for trial on several charges of financial indirection, has been repulsed in his application to be admitted to bail. 1 ord Eomillyhas taken an impressive leave of the Rolls Court, over which he has presided for twenty-two years. Sir Richard

Baggallav, the leader of the Court, assured his lordship, on behalf of the bar generally, that in closing his judicial career he would carry with him their respect and esteem. Since the decease of the Bight Hon. Henry Corry, the title of the “ Father” of the House of Commons passes of right to Gen., Forester, the member for Wenlock, who has sat lor that borough continuously ever since 1828, nearly five-and-forty years, and who is the only member of the Lower House of Parliament who has held the same seat without interruption from the date of the first Beform Bill. The Dover Chronicle states that a steamer is being built having six keels, placed at equal distances on her flat bottom, intended as a Channel steamer, her sides being perpendicular without any curvation. Being of light draught, the keels being only two feet deep, and rolling under such circumstances impossible, Sea sickness will be obviated. It is confidently predicted, under sail and steam, the passage will be accomplished in little more than half an hour. Bossini’s Guillaume Tell is about to be produced for the first time at Rome, where the subject of the opera could not but render it ineligible for representation under the Papal Government. It is to be remarked that this insurrectionary work has been longer finding its way to Borne than to St Petersburg, where, absolutely proscribed by the Emperer Nicholas, it has been performed many times during the present reign.