... THIE MIOORS. Reports received from gamekeepers on the northern moors, and qther persons well-informed, leave little room to doubt that on the whole the prospects held out in the early part of the season will be fully realised, and that the ensuing yearv will bh one of the most favourable, as affording an abundance of well-conditioned grouse, that sportsmen have enjoyed for a number of years. ...

... WESLEYAN CONFERENCE AT HULL, I. _ . ?? I . .. CBusiness was resumed yest erday morning, at balf.pa i nine. The journal was read by thle Rev. J. E. Clapham,' On the motion of the Rev. C. Garrett, seconded by Sir rWP. McArthur, a vote of thanks was passed to the her. T. ?? for Isis sermon onl Sunday morning. A letter was read from the Rev. J.W c,rr Toee WYeseoyan Minister in Naples, referring ...

... -- -111- SINGULAR C(AROLk no AiSO.N.-At the Petty Sessions, yesterdlay-before Mr. T. Muddeman and two other ?? Charles Freeman, a well-known eccentric character, was brought up in custody, charged with btvirng fired a bed, belonging to AIr. Walden, coffee-house keeper, Iegent Street. The prosecutor had been in the habit of giving the defendant a bed out of charity. OC Mllonday morning, shortly ...

... AND JOURNAL.- TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1883. THE WEEKLY POST. T'ie TVE'EKY POST is 1-ow PeCdced in Price to ONE PENNY. The prepaid yearly subscriptions is 6s. 61., -post free. A ROMANTIC STORY, entitled NOBLER THAN REVVNCE, is comnsenced in the New Series. NE! WS OF THE DAY. In the House of Lords last evening, the Agricul- tural Holdings (Scotland) Bill as as read a lirst time. Lord STRATIJEDEN ...

... PARLIAMENT, LAST NIGHT, Ho0 U7SE OF L ORDS. Their Lordehlips met at a quarter past fouiro'clock. THE AGRICULTURAL HOLDINGS (SCOTLAIND) f BILL. The Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Bill weas read a, first tins. GYT Lord SToATIIEDEN and CAMPBELL celled attention- to the further correspondence upon Egypt, and moved for esie of the original concessions to H. de Le~seeps with a readto the ...

... THE DIILITARY OCOUPATION OF, EGYPT. if AFFAIRS IN SOUTE-AFRICAL ] d[SPECIAL TELEGRAMUj HOUSE 0OF COMMONS, Monday Night. i O Mr. Gladstone's statement to-niglht with respect to the t .g military occupation of Egypt must destroy once for all the r hopes of persons who believed that the Government either I a deliberately intended to annex Egypt, or the larger number r ;o whobelieved that even ...

... THE SMALLPOX EPIDEMIC LN BIR- DIUNGIA.M. Although it is too early to be ever sanguine concerning tice abatement of the epidemic of smnallpx vith which the sanitary authorities of Birminglam have at present to deal, itis satisfactory to note that during the last two days there has been a marked decrease in the number of new cases. Time cases last week numbered eight or nine a day. On Sunday ...

... ,LA T 1 ST NE WS.e ?? Tdeglqcms, p~er Press Association.] FRAINCE. PARIS, JoLT 24. mn * The Cbamb~ of D)eputies Og~,ir to-day proceedod with go the dbatber.. b Riailway Convention. il Rayrnal, Pr Dfinister of publit WVorks, and Geperal Thebaudin, -Viniste f ar, declarod thuS thle conventions would ?? suffce for all the Contingent nseeis ofth ationl eene.a K., Isayna5l stated that matters had ...

... The Naples correspondent of the Diacef, describing tin visit of the King, says :-The King was received on lksid ing by Signor Genala, Minister of Public Works, General Mezzacapo, commanding the Army Corps at Neple-, rnl the Duke of San Donato, head of the Provincial Cemneil. With them, assembled on the shore, were also all ihe rer remnants of the population of Casa micciola wvho crol ed round ...

... STRI11E OF WVEAVERS.-Five hundred power- loom towel weavers at Ashton-under-Lyno yesterday struck work against 7¼h per cent. reduction in wages. TiiE NorEn OF ENGLAND IRON TRADE.-The ship- ments of pig-iron from the Tees during August were 84,605 tons, or 213 tons more than were exported during July. TprooPs roB IRELAND.-Tho 2nd Battalion of Scots Guards leave Woolwich to-day, in the trooper ...

... THE STATE OF rELAND, oMR. PARNELL. Mr. Plarnell will ceot pay his promised visit to Cork to-morrow, as originally arranged. It is now quite uncertain when lie will ad(lress lis constituents, and the arrangements must abide his own convenience altogether. THE PARNELL TESTIMONIAL. The treasurers of the Parnell National Tribute yesterday re. ceived a letter from Mr. D. O'Conor, Chicago, enclosing ...

... *on. There has been an explosion of flrc-damp in a mine at ?? Unna, in Westphalia, killing fifteenyiiiers and wounding 0 three. ido an Infantry General von Blunenthal, commander of the of Fourth German Army Corps, has been raised to the rank om o Count. of It is stated by a Lisbon paper that the cultivation and of manufacture of tobacco upon an extensive scale is about the to be attempted by ...