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More than a hundred literary men competed for a vacancy on a London morning journal. This is hardly to be wondered at, for salaries of £1,000 a year are not met with every day. Among the miscellaneous array of competitors were several members of Parliament, barristers, half -pay officers, and a " noble army of martyrs " m the form of professors of literature. Captain King Harman was returned unopposed for Sligo. Mr Smith, M.P. for Tynemouth, referring to the elementary schools m America, said we should not arrive at a satisfactory ed u cat i6nal position m England until we had elementary schools to which all classes of society would send their children. At a meeting presided over by Lord Carnarvon, held at the Newbury Corn Exchange, it was resolved to raise funds for the erection of a monument to Lord Falkland. Obituary : Lord Boston, Lord Milton, Lieut-General Wesley ; Lord Neaves, one o£ the Judges of the Court of Session ; Sir Richard Cobden, author of " Margaret Catchpole," aged eighty ; Mr Lewis, barrister ; Alfred Spec, inventor of the present mode of printing Bank of England notes ; Robert Landells, artist, of the " Illustrated London News "; Prince Charles of Prussia.