... (From the Spectator.) This week we have reported another Indian victory. That isto say, astrongplace, Gwalior, hasbeen stormed, the regulation number of rebels killed, and the great I majority have escaped to carry confusion into other districts. If this is victory it is certainly not that sort of victory which is likely to be decisive of the main contest and issue, which it cannot be too ...

... TEE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. I ?? 'Jn-4 ,J12 ?? Lfl-J.-J~. ?? ji ?? the Times.) thn f Bytearvlo h omnw ave received our files of wli Cape paper to the 20h June. Wetake the following from th( - Te Roal Mil seame PlibeCaptain Clark, with h - the English mail f the 6th May, arrved in Table Bay on La the 10t June, ight dys and our hors before her time, and qu thereturn steamer, th Nomn Caictain Boxer, ...

... l,. f,DA-.rn~TtA7 - , ?? ?? R .- ; HERALD OFFICE, Friday Mllorw 1iug. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. INDIA. The Indianiletters]have arrived. The Times' correspon- dent, under (late Bomlbay, July 19, writes :- Operations on any considerable scale seemn to have come to an end, owing either to the rainy season new generally set in throughout India, or to the exhaustion and dispersion of the mutineers ...

... - ?? - ?? _ rv-0- 11t moo ?? MID-LOTsiIAN.-The weather since Thursday has been favourable for harvest work, and almost all the white crbp is now cut in the early districts, while this week will, with I dry weather, see the most of it in stook to the hill-foots. The leading home began again in a small way on Friday I afternoon, and has been prosecuted since without interrup- ' tion. The wind ...

... CLIMNT'' OF NEWi7 ZLW 'LAND. n- r -a- l- ,]M1.r ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? C A - ?? The coaist Climate of New Zealand, from Stewart's Island el a to the North Cape, ma~y h0 described ats the most changeable Con iii tule world, anti at the Caine trime the wosot strictly tempe- I rate. For between thiese two niinte, including a space of (iof 8100 miles in .latitde, calmsg, raiin, and windls, clouids and api ...

... To the Editor of. the Times. 3 Sir,-The Friend of India of the 20th of May last contains t the following remarks:- The.Indian Eiepire states that-the young lady we men- tioned some time since as having escaped from the rebels: (at Cawnpore) was taken captive by the same Sowar who car- ried off Miss' Wheeler. For the' truth of this we cannot vouch, but it is certain that thereis onesurvivor of ...

... V __ _ - . - I A3ERaaEN.-The rains that prevailed recently have been E a succeeded by bright sunshine, whose mellowing influence t V has begun to tell very manifestly on the fields. Cereal orops - are now fast ripening for scythe and sickle, with the promise f of a good yield both of grain a straw. The hay' crop has t been secured, with a better result than was at one time anti- e cipated. ...

... PICKINGS FRO3I PUNCH. i -LN- 0 . V1fU!1 rUJN U11. A RAsin Hisrr oF P ?? is not every man who can laugh up bis. sleeve when he ?? to be out-at- elbows. DIFFERENCE BET'2WEEHN DUTY AND PlASURN.-If there is a row, it is the duty of a policeman to be present; but it is more frequently his pleasure to be absent. MEFTTERNICHu OUTDONE.-The Machiavelli of Vienna de- lighted in saying Apr-4A nzoi, la ...

... (From the Daily News.) In continuation of a series of statistics given at various periods in these columns, we subjoin an ac- count of the imports of the precious metals into the United Kingdom for the first six months of each of the last four years. The figures for the present year are taken from the official returns, the publication of which, in response to the repeated representations of ...

... NORTHERN CnCUrIT.-LIVEi troOL, AUGUST 26. (Before Mir. ?? INIARlTIN.) I SCOTT AND ANOTHER 3. DiXON.-TiE LIVERPOOL BOROUGH BANK AcvioN AGAINST THE MANAGING D1IRCTOR. This trial, on which a large amount of commercial interest has concentrated, came on to-day, and the court was crowded at an early hour. The counsel for the plaintiffs were Mir. Wilde, Q.C., Mr. I Edward James, Q. C., and Mr. Brown ...

... EDEDYONN, -S 1. WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 18. noI.v;AAE t-na: d.m: _ ?? of in- occupied the attention of the Police Board on Monday nay last, and it was eventually resolved that a conimuittee ,h '_be appointed to consider and report upon the whole Cass, matte. Upon a question which has excited so nmich 0d0on interest, and from which complications of such a orities iry in painful naturer have ...

... I Viscount. Grey de Wiltoni eldest moz of the Earl ?? t Countess of Wilton, asid the Lady Elizabeth-. Charlotte' T Louisa Craven, eldest daughter of the Earl -and Countess of. d( Craven, were married on the 11th instant at St. James's Ii ] d Churih, Piccadilly, London. The Loudoncorrespondent of; y I the 11onth sler ?? ?? inarriage of-theyouth- l ful Princess Royal has made youthful allianes- ...