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Colonist, Volume XXVI, Issue 3480, 13 June 1882, Page 3

The London correspondent of the Leeds Mercury says :—An eminent Queen's council, who has found time ia the midst of legal work to amass one of the finest collections of postage stamps in tbe country, has decided to part" with it to a •■French collector even more highly, esteemed in tho postage-stamp world. The price given is £800Q'~a; tiuly marvellous sum for a batch of defaced postage tokens." The Key. H. St. George Edwardi, rector to Stedham -and 7 Heyspott, Busses, waa found dead in bis parish church'belfry by a women who was cleaning tbo church,, and, had entered and found Mr Edwards hanging from o ne of the bell ropes. On April sth, Mr Dominick o\Don> nell, ot Pulathomas, * Belmulleit, was fired at while -returning home within a quarter of a mile of bis residence. He-is a landlord, whose estate adjoins that of Mr Carter, who was shot in the leg some time ago. The bullet pa^od through hia coat-tail