... The anceess of the French Atlantic cable may- Dow be taken as accomplished. The success ce the enterprise was secured when she reached the most southerly point of her course, below the beaks of Newfoundland, in 1400 fathoms, and steered up north-wept to where she can now chocse her own water in any depth from 5% to 1uG fathoms. The course laid down for her by Sir James Anderson, however, keeps ...

... Wharton and Fords, solicitors of the descendants and representatives of the late Lady Byron, wrilS to the papers denying that Ners. tidecher Stowei's book The True Story of Lady Byron'a Life is complete or authentic. TIto solicitora ts.y - Inetead of direct evidence, Mrs. Stowc 4id nothing to communicate but her recollectioi JI ot i conversation which took place 13 yeard ago, and 'her ...

... IMMENSE DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY. the LOSS OF LIFE. wee, On Friday night a fire broke out in the well- ,ho known blacking establishment of Messrs. Day and , s)Martin, Holborn, London. These premises con- eed sisted of offices fronting the street, and a manufac- i he tory, which is separated from the fore part by an rith open courtyard. It was in the manufactory that r in the fire broke out, and ...

... LOCAL NEWS -: The Queen has been pleased to approve of Colonel Pedro Coll Font as consul at Liverpool for the United States of Venezuela. Mr. Alfred Milne, chairman of the sessions for the Salford hundred, has resigned. Mr. Higgin, QC., Mr. C. H. Hopwood, and Mr. Cobbett, of the Nosthern Circuit, are stated to be among the candidates for the office thus vacated. BICYCLE RUN FROM MANCHESTER TO ...

... CLAIMANITS FOR A DEAD BODY. I - ?? sch On Tuesday evening, Mr. Bedford resumed, at the Sessions House, Weatminster, the inquest on the bodyof a young woman, unknown. It will be ia remembered that the body of a young woman, aged nd about 25, was foundintheThames,nearVauxhall, on the 5th instant. The body was respectably )tt attired, and several trinkets were found upon it, of but no money, and ...

... 5 _ o At a special meeting of the members of the ?? Chamber of Commerce yesterday, a spaper was read by Mr. Edward Rae on the actual o condition of the Suez Canal, and the probability o of its being opened for general traffic at the time announced by the company. The chair was occu- F pied by Mr. Charles Clark, president of the e chamber. Mr. RAE, after remarking that the facts and s figures ...

... DROWNED WHILE BATHINU. A sad affair occurred at Whitby on Tuesday afternoon. About one o'clock, h young gentlenU3X1 named Wood, about 18 yeare of ago, accumpanied by a friend, went on the sands to bathe. Each of them hired a bathing machine, and commenced to undress. A short time after this MIr. Wood was observed struggling in the water and crying for help. The batbing machine proprietors, ...

... B1RKENHEAD GUARD)IANS 1 The fortnightly meeting of 11ii beard whe held n e ysterday, at the relievixig ofticei. 'lalnpton .& x qt I the rnemberH present being Mlr. ;laxwell Sc*,t (in d the chair), the liev. Mr. (Grahamw, Miesrs. L.-go, f Henderson, Teasdale, and Stpeles.-Mr. Redding, u the master, reported the numhbr of pfenpersit. the tt workhouse on the 21ith ultimo to b.! :125; - du.tt.d t ...

... I Mr. Cbilders, M.P., First Lord of the Admiralty, with Vice-Admiral Sir Sydney Dacres, XC.B., First Sea Lord, accompanied by their staff officers, secretaries, &c., sailed from Plymouth Houndon Monday with a fleet which, although it may be looked upon as small in point of numbers, will stand unrivalled by any fleet previously assembled for ocean service in all that relates to the speed of ...

... THE PEERS ANTD THE IRISH CHURCH. LONDON, TutESDAY MORNING. The event of laet night bronght to a speedY dissolution the hopes of my Lord Clancarty that the Irish Church Bill would be rejected. Not even tbe moet extreme of the obstructive peers could see the wisdom of provoking the just ire of a long-tried people, after they had spent three weeks in bringing themselves and the bill into so ...

... THE GYMNASIARCH AND THE I MERCHANT'S DAUGHTER. SUDDEN PREVENTION OF A MARRIAGE We have heard a strange story of the interrup- tion of a wedding which had been arranged to come off yesterday between a well-known illus- trator of the doctrine of raens seana incroe sano and the only daughter of one of our wealthiest merchant princes. 'The affair hae caused quite a sensation, and the names of ...

... A ROMAN CATHOLIC THANKS- GIVING SERVICI Pursuant to the annoilucement made by his Eminence the Cardinal Archbishop of Ireland (says the Freeman's Journal), the celebration of the solemn Triduum commenced at noon on Sunday, in the pro-cathedral, Marlborough-stroet, Dublin, in the presence of a vast congregation, the greatest that has ever assembled within the walls of the sacred edifice. It was ...