... The average number of prisoners In the county and borough prisons of England and Walen In the year ending last Mlchaelmae was 18,806 (nearly 1,000 of theme however, only in custody for debt or for military offences), and the average number of convicts in convict prisons was 8,055, These persons came from a criminal and suspected class estimated at above 150,O00, and every one of them while In ...

... The Royal train arrived in the general station, Perth, ou Tuesday morning. Her Majesty was received by the Earl of Mansieeld, Viscount Strathmore, Viscount Dupplin, Lord Kinnaird, M.P., Sir John Richardeoo, Sberiff Gordon, the Rev Dr DuffiD.D., Provost Ross, of Perth, Lord Provost Lawson, of Edinburgh, &o., &ac. 13er Majesty proceeded to inaugurate the statue of the late Prince Consort. The ...

... J- The following. yindieatiopt of the political Dis- theE senters of Exeter hasJbee published, in the form are ef ijdacard,'in'that ityOp we ,The. heat and: excitement incident to. the. 'recent .hotly . on1ested electionlhaving subsided, thei and the storm having, been succeeded by.: a sepa .'alin, it.may now be hopied that tbe. minds of all sha whw'took an interest in the struggle have so ...

... A G QE, NTS. Aberdeena.John Daffnu. iLawick -R. Black. Do A . c R. Milne. Do. --F. Deans. Do. _Thos. Menzies, Do. J. Daiglelsb. Castle St. rnnerleithien.Rebert Small; Da. --L. & J. Smlith. Invergordon.Hugh Graham. Do. .-D.Wyliie&Son. inverkeirhingMiss CampbeL Aberdonr_31r Goodsir. lnvcresk J. GordoL. Aberlady --F. MitchelU Inverness--C. Kcith. Abernethy--A..Peddie. Jedburgla-._A & NY. Eastoe ...

... HOW COBL. JACQUES AND EDMUND KIRKE (J. RZ. UIL MORE) GOT INTO RlICIMUOND. The following account, from the Adosdic MIic'f/, tells how the above gentlemen got into Richmond, I and got introduced to the Presidena, We hav e I already given at length their conversation with Mr, 1 Davis:- 0 We went there in an ambulance, and we went I together-the colonel and I. That we got in was t owing. perhps ...

... EXTRAORDtNlINARy RECOVERY OF A ST1OLE N INF ANT. --I- At Greenwich Police Court, on Monday, Sarah WVeaver, a respectably dtesed young woman, de. seribiug herself as the wife of a seaman, retsiding at 5 Sackville Street, Sonthsea, Portsrnouth, wds' placcd in the dock before Mr. Traill, char'ged (on suspicion of intending to desert a female infant,' three weeks old, in the public streets.' Thc ...

... The International Congress, which has been sit. tiv g at Geneva with a view to regulate the position of hospitals and woundedin time of war, has terminated ,itB labours. Ten resolutions havo DOOR adoptod fnd signLd, 3under rest rve of ratification, by the representatives of Belgium, Baden, Denmark, Spain, :France, Hesse, 5 Italy, the Nethetlands, Portugal, Prussia, Switzer. land, and ...

... Verdict ot Wilful Murder. The inquiry before the coroner into the death of Oathsriiie' Gailivsr was resumed on Thursday after- noon, at Holt Fleet. It will be remembered that the deceased was house- keeper to an old man named Batler, the keeper of the Holt Fleet lock on the River Severn, five miles from Worcester; that on the night of the 13th August they auarrelled; that a noise like the ...

... On Tuesday the Times had a leader on a portion of the Registrar General's Report., on the subject of Poisoning, in which they remark To what extent the administration of poison causes death or disease in England is not even approximately known. Such is the disagreeable intimation with which the Medical Officer of the Privy Council intro- duces a section of his present Report. If we could be ...

... Onl Monday, tile Queen, Princess Helens, Princess Louise, Princiss Beatrice, and Princc Leopold, with the Duke and Duchess of Saxe-Coburg, left Windsor Cas- tle at ten minutes before seven p.m. for Bahnoral. Lord Brouighimn has consented to preside over n meet. ing of the wvorking men of York. which is fixed to be held in that city during the tie of hollding the coming Social Science Congress. ...

... I WINDSOR CASTLE, SATURDAY. Yesterday being the anniversary of the birth-day of the l late Prince Consort, the Queen and all the Royal family , repaired early to Frogmore. E Their Royal Highneeses the Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse took leave of her Majesty to-day, and, with the a Infant Princess Victoria, left the Castle, on their return to the Continent. l The Queen to day held a Council ...

... AFFAM OF TUNIS. The accounts from Ttunis come down to the 20th of August, and they report that, after the now governor, who had been esont toS9ax, had landed tbere and bad, read the Bey'e amnesty, a riot occurred originating ia a quarrel between a drunken Mloor and the boat'a crew 61 the Bry's steamer, which obliged the governor to retire to' jis houee. On tbae 1th the governor's house was ...