... THE COURT. SINCE the arrival of the Court at Windsor Castle, her Majesty and the Royal children have enjoyed their daily rambles in the slopes and Royal gardens in the Home-park and at Frogmore. ON Saturday a detachment of the Ceylon Rifle Regiment -non-commissioned officers and soldiers- were inspected by her Majesty the Queen, previous to their return to Ceylon. The party have been some ...

... One cannot but regret, says the London and China Telegraph, when such valuable lives as those of Captains Josling and Wilmot, with eleven British seamen have been sacrinced also 180,000 harmless people burned out of house and. home in Kagosima, that the cause should have originated in the arrogance and disregard for national customs of a party of our countrymen, who we may say deliberately ...

... THE DISTRESS IN BLACKBURN. In consequence of some dissatisfaction the out-of- door labourers employed by the Blackburn Relief Committee in making some improvements, which can be accomplished by the employment of unskilled labour in the Corporation-park, ceased working on Wednes- day morning, and a slight disturbance ensued. The origin of this dissatisfaction appears to be in the dis- charge of ...

... UAo UALTlES. SHIPWRECK IN THE THAMES—A fine barque, called the Benlida, which has recently discharged a cargo from China in St. Katherine's Dock, was wrecked on Thursday while being towed down the river from those docks. On getting abreast of the Wappmg entrance of the London Docks, a sudden and heavy squall of wind from the southward and west- ward caught the ship, and being light, having not ...

... DISTRICT INTELLIGENCE. MONMOrTHSHIRE ENGLISH BAPTIST ASSOCIATION. The half-yearly meeting of the above-named Association was held in the Baptist Chapel, Caerleon, on Tuesday and Wednesday, the 3rd and 4th of November. Notwith- standing the unfavorable state of the weather, there was a good attendance of ministers and messengers. The services commenced on Tuesday evening, when sermons were ...

... Money Market. CITY, NOVEMBER 3.-The stock markets at the resumption- of business this morning, after yesterday's holiday, were a gocC deal prejudiced by the rise in the Bank rate of discount, aiid by the generally uncertain prospects of the money market. Prices opened at a general and rather severe fall. From this there has since been a partial recovery, and the markets are now steadier than ...

... ADDRESS OF THE NATIONAL GOVERN- MENT OF WARSAW TO THE FRENCH NATION. The subjoined address to the French nation has just been issued by the National Government of Warsaw:— For a long time past Europe contemplated, with a feeling of melancholy regret, Poland fallen from her former power, and looked upon a body from which the soul appeared to have departed. To sadness succeeded forgetfulness, ...

... The long vacation (says the Observer of Sunday) is at an end, and to-morrow the courts open for the dispatch of business. Those who owed money three months ago, and deferred payment because it could not be enforced during the holidays, now find it ad- visable to cash up, and those who for the past three months have treated their creditors with supercilious- ness and contempt, now find it ...

... RUSSIAN RULE IN POLAND. The Government of Augustow has now been defi- nitively united to Lithuania, and General Mouravieff has begun to style himself Chief of the countries of Lithuania and Augustow. Preparations are being made for the incorporation of the remainder of the kingdom of Poland with the Russian Empire, by dis- missing all the Polish employes in the kingdom, and replacing them ...

... FRIGHTFUL STARVATION OF A FAMILY. Another shocking case of death from starvation has taken place in the Fast-end of London. It appears that a respectable family, carrying on a school at No. 45 De Bean voir-s quar e, West Hackney, have been plunged into a state of the greatest destitution through the failure of the school, and that recently an execu- tion was put into the house and all the ...

... A LIVELY IDEA. The following letter was addressed to the editor of In J* T j ^'7° met with an announce- ment which absolutely horrifies me. My pen, although f 'prembl?.s as I write to put you and the Society liue—nv M1 °f 9ruelty to Allimals on the qui ZoLi ■\ lr mmsection. Some dreadful secict society has, for some time past—it is too evident -been torturing some unhappy living creature ...

... THE NEWS BUDGET. Neapolitan Brigandage—Caruso's band last week entered the farmhouse of one Picciuti, and after exacting a quantity of fodder and five lambs, the chief seized the man's hand, and told him that if by the following day he did not find at least 500 fr. to give him he would be murdered and to prove that he was in earnest he drew his cutlass, forcibly laid the man's hand on the ...