... I B 1BY T=EGRAH. | The Right Ron. B. Disraeli and Mrs. Disraeli are on o visit at Baby Castle. Another death of a veterinary aurgeon, Mr. Plumbly, Sudbury, Suffolk, has occurred througb dissecting a diseased beast. The Atlantic Telegraph Company have given orders for the manufacture of a near cable, to be laid early next year. THE QUEEN. The Morning Herald nays- We are informed that the ...

... CHESHIRE RIFLE ASSOCIATION ii ANNUAL PRIZZ MEETING. The fifth annual prize meeting of tbe Ch Rifle Aesociation eommeneed yesCerdhy. OD ea wick sands-the finest range, perhsp t- country.. At an early hour in the I t tb weather had a very unpromising appe'.tisg tbe at intervals rain fell heavily, reedern theOce, and to Shotwick exceedingly unpleasant. I Gurney seems as if the element. had ...

... LATEST AND T, IEGR1APH1C NEWS. COMMERCIAL. LONDON, WEDNESDAY. > f It oy mwere the sales reported on the WOck exccisgo urp to one o'clock to-day:_ i itiUTISH AND FORIEIGI RAILWAYS. 9 - s~rent Nbtthera A-.* * 14d1 xn Off dWzbersterrndthr 1l23 aIddie and Yo~bsIIIO 1214 21 I onion and Black wall .. 02 3 lo4don, BrightoO, and South Coast . 108 LondonD Chbtb Oh and Dover . 4i I ...

... ILANCASHIRE UNITED PRES- j BYTERIAN PRESBYTERY. Yesterday the Lancashire United Presbytorian Presbytery held their usual monthly' meeting in Trinity Church, Birkenhead, Rev. Dr. M'Leod, moderator. After the usual devotional exercises, tbe clerk (Rev. R. S. Soott, M. A., of Manchbeter) reported that he had opened the new station at' Barrow-in-Furness on the 27th of August leat, and that the ...

... I The annual meeting of this society was held last evening, at the Clarendon-roome, South John- street. Mr. Tyermas presided, and there was a good attendance. The seoretary (Mr. R. W. Ker) read the report, as follows.- At the close of the second year of the society's exist- ence, your committee have great pleasure in being able to refer with so much satisfaction to the exhibitions held durlng ...

... SALUS POPULI LEX SUPREMA. DOMESTIC. The Cabinet's holidays are rapidly drawing to a clo¢e. The first Ministerial council of the new year is fixed for Thursday, the 19th instant, between which date and that fixed for the re-assembling of Parliament, February 7, her Majesty's advisers will have plenty of occupation in disposing of the many questions which have accumulated since the last council ...

... The following are extraots from a private letter written immediately after a conversation with Lieutenant Stirling, who brought, home Admiral Elliot's despatch :-The Bombay left Monte Video on the morning of the 14th December, for target practice. She was about 14 miles away, when a man handing shela in the shellroom per- ceived a little jet of steam coming up from the afterhold, and ...

... WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, EIGHT O'CLOCK, A.M. PLACES B. T. W. FE D. 1. IR. S. Nairn . 29.4862 s. W 4 2 S.W. a 1 Aberdeen.. 29B6461 s.s. w 7s. s.w r o0,19 2 Lv tb . 29,433 62 S.W.4 41 s. bol.. 8 Aidroasma. 20.84 50 s. i 8 .. .. r 0 0.io 8 Greeuc'tle 29.0G 50 W.S.W. ...

... MERCA1 2!IL C IMhERCAMTILB CIRCULAIS I __ (From 2. and H. Littled~ai wrid Coa.'e f,.,L The American war may no be sdee ~ en3d. The Soutbern artuita cass of the Miti~ have oee by one surrendered to the auer - of the North; the rigbts vf bellitgerentav, ,ha ''- withdrawn from the South bv this euUtry the portsafea lcaeoforyase.* to-etperteu to foreign cnonserce on tho'l,t . Bunt though tho ...

... I~, - - THE' RI RPE FATC OPBRTSHTAATI, To raise the enormous sum ,of sixty-fire to to trade and inc'Jvenience to -the taxpayers' is the'qdeation' whiih' the - Chancellor of the Exchequer'hai to s'o ve'n :his present a-ad in: all hisfothir budgets.- -In 'former times, little was thouhitof the*'eifeots of taxation on the convenience of the taxpayers or the prosperity, of trade, so long as -the, ...

... MPMEY DOCKS & HMRBaU) BOARD. The weekly meoting of the Mersey Docks anl p., bour Board was hel yesterday, at the dock o' e Revenue-buildisgs. Mr. R Brocklebenkpreidi,4 nr the other members present were -3fassm Fer;, Farnworth, Anderson, Hubback. Beazzle. lik Steel, Bold, B. Turner. rletcher, Bolt, Tobin, ArrZ Forwood, Busholl~and Littledalo. WOR8S COXMITTEF. The proceedings of the works ...

... THE CANADIAN MUDDFE. | The public mind is becoming conscious of a very unpleasant sort of confusion and mysti- fication about the Canadian defence question. The more it is discussed the less we seem to know about it. A few weeks ago we were led to believe that everything was ripe for a permanently satisfactory adjustment of respon- sibilitiea and burdens between our North American colonies and ...