... SiLvgRnowN, in the far East-end of London, was on Fridayt morning, at ten o'clock, the scene of a tragedy. Mr. Christian Gray, one of the three brothers who manage the great works of the Indiarubber, Gant4- percha, and Telegraph Works Company (Limited), at Silvertown, where some 2,000 men are employed, was met in a street close to the factories by a man named Henry Reed. The man, after a few ...

... toughOiO Ws (Cotrimn,. TEri bodies of the two young men lost a week ago by the ly boating accident at Saltaire, near Bradford, have been ye recovered, one on Saturday aind the other on Sunday. le There are some 75,000 Icelanders still left in their te native island, notwithstanding the fact that tire emigra- lhe tion epidempic has been raging there for nearly tweiity fil years. ,to A telegram ...

... passing NoteSs ?? * ~under La TuE Omnibus and Tram Workers' TUnio, lias juist issued havin, id an importsnt manifeato~to the 'bustren, carmen, cabinen, fraudi s. carters, tram-men, and teamsters in the U~nited Kingdom, -for ir ;h wherein some. startling facts are brought toe light. liven or to the uninitiated the unsatisfactory condition of the 'M5-A of trade may ho at once grasped when it ...

... BlOW A LAWSUIT WAS ENDED, is~J le MR. POPKINS was a bachelor. I mention this fact with e. all its due reverence for the name-and sympathy for the Afcondition. He was well-to-do in the world, if owning a e- fine farm end being plaintiff in a lawsuit is any criterion. le Aside from Mr. Popkins' misfortune in being a bachelor, ts he had one fault-3 general aversion to female society r- and a ...

... WEE CEOLZRA EPWE!MU0 or - -w b A .A1lG A AAv - _AAA A- . dtA A GRAVESEND correspondent telegrapbs :-Tsvo of the alien immigrants who were received from the steamur Gamma on Thursday, at the Port of London Sanitary Hospital, near the Ship and Lobster, Gravesend, suffer. o igfrom.symptoms of cholera, have since died, one ex- piring on Thursday and the other on Saturday. They were both women, The ...

... St7Pft9tk') VWtVPkMAlUKM-l AM IFIVLU ---I A vrAE brhki oteb in thie' extet ?? ywd e of the Victorsi Rl&oic adii UIt&el e Aflvl'b , l1;-I, ?? after four aoddclk ots Sh'iad!y' afrii'cow0 o tneein 01 at a single startk of dea[,, which, it is, htblevdb'b t some persons, was set on fire by incendiaries among the strikers as a meant of wreaking revenue on Messrs. Joseph Wade acsd Co. and other ...

... WAS it not Pascal who said that if Cleo- patra's nose had- been- andinch longer or shorter it might' have changedr . the course of history? Very likel, inasmuch Gas history is nothing under the sun but 'a tale about vast numnbers of people. And *hat alters the directiofn of one life 'may'easily affect millions..' You.have no'dou t'heard the storylabout the Earl of Wil'th4ie's dog. It wasat the ...

... ; BRIGADIER-GENERAL MACDONALD ( FIGHTING. MAC ) TO SUCCEED GENERAL WAUCHOPE : THIS popular officer, at ?? India, is : ordered to South' Africz to take command of the Highland Brigade, and is welcomed on' every side as the best possible'appoint- ?? thiat ' could be made, since the gallant Highlander, quite apart from the high and conspicuous merits wbich qualify him for th&: post, is' ordered ...

... FOREIGN PRAISE. OF BRITAIN. THE special' .correspondent of,the Daily Telegraph at Vlienna ,sends the following extracts from Austrian papers, which are strong in their sympathy with the Boers: It is, noticeablethat: all the papers pro- fessedly Angiophobe express admiration of the, courageous attitude of the English nation. A. paper which is au strong friend of the Boers, nvrites:., ?? ...

... ,STRONG CONFIRMATION,: OF THE HORRIBLE TALES OF7 BOER TREACHERY.:- TItR special correspondent of the Daily. Telograph at Maritzburg, in his article, Bond or Briton, dated October 27,;speaks in no uncertain tone as to the tales of cruelty and treachery on the part of the Boers, which have aiready reached us. He says:- The Boers are accused in many cases of killing the wounded. I was ...

... WHIT XO 4DAY -CART-HORSE IN; no other city'o f'the world, probably, co.uld such a. display of horseflesh-cart- horse flesh,- to be precise - have been witnessed as that which turned out on Whit Monday'for the annual pardde. in' Rlegent's Patk, And in no other city of the world Would shch an enormous' crobd have stgoo .'fo hours. aikle deep ,i nmud, and wvith adrizzling rain soaking through ...

... Fon the lasi week or more Cronje's name has been in everyone's mouth, and below we give an excellent sketch of him from a por- trait. He is a remarkable man in many ways. Mr. A. Kinnear, in his book, just yublished, With Methuen to the Modder, gives an interesting description of the lion of Africa : He is masterful before all things. The man is absolutely fearless, and is as full of ...