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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3584, 22 June 1880, Page 3

Lord Rosebery, in addition to paying Mr Gladstone's expenses, whatever, they may be, for Midlothian, contributed £5,000 towards the election for Sonthwark of Mr Cohen, a very able Hebrew barrister, who is. a relative of Lady The old question of the Bible^in the! public schools which was raised some time ago in Illinois, has just been decided iVthelupreme Court ofthat State. The School directors of a certain.town Bhip directed fifteen minutes' reading;of^the Bible at the' opening of evefj school session, and ordered all scholars during its reading to refrain from other studies. A Roman Catholic citizen, regarding the reading as religious instruction, and not contemplated by the public school system, directed his son not to refrain from studying during the reading of the .Bible, whereupon he was expelled from school. The case was carried t?~ a local court, wnich sustained the Bdhool authorities, and this decision is now, on appeal, pflß^med by the Supreme Court. Mr Matthew Burnett, the temperance lecturer, is st?U drawing immense crowds in Adelaide. Since Mr Burnett began his temperance ciasade, over 3,000 persons have signed the pledge; Oni^ of the recent mass meetings .was presided over by Mr Robb, formerly of -Victoria; and at the subsequent meeting, at the Tovia Hall tue Minister of Education presided. One week up., wards of -1,700. joined the crusade, the largest number Mr Burnett ever had in a like period during his career. A club man's hard-times confession: " I used to think it was mean/ to invite a friend f > dinner without asking him what kind of champagne he would have; but now I ask him whether he prefers, beer or water.". I .