... THE NEWS BUDGET. The Toulon Fleet.-The Pays gives semi-offi- oially the explanation which common sense had already suggested of the alarming rumours that the Toulon fleet had received sudden orders to arm its gun-boats. The only object was to give the ships more air on account of the cholera, which, according to the latest news, is fast disappearing. Cure for Bite of Mad Dogs.- Take ...

... The Gazette of Tuesaay evening publishes the following cure for the cattle disease, communicated tp Earl Russell by Sir A. Buchanan, her Majesty's Ambassador at St. Petersburg:— St. Petersburg, Oct. 3,1865. My Lord,—A farmer in the interior of the empire has addressed to me a letter, requesting that the greatest possible publicity may be given in England to the treatment for the cure of the ...

... The first intimation the world had of Lord Palmer- ston's illness was through the Morning Star. That paper had on Tuesday the following Much alarm was created in the neighbourhood of Brbckett-hall Herts, where Lord is now staying, by the report on Sunday night that his lordship was danger- ously ill. It appeared that on Friday Lord Palmer- ston took cold when driving out, and thus induced an ...

... N VIENNA, OCT. 10. Rear-Admiral Baron von Wullersdorff-Urbair in assuming his functions as Minister of Commerce addressed the staff of his ministry in a speech, laving particular stress on the necessity for unity of aotion. The minister further said :It is unecessary for Austria that all further commerce should be free, and that labour should receive a better remuneration. All obstacles which ...

... REVIEW OF TROOPS BY THE DUKE CAMBRIDGE. On Saturday morning the whole of the troops bt, garrison at Woolwich, consisting of the Royal Horse Artillery, the Field Batteries and Foot Artillery,, Royal Engineers, and Woolwich Division of Royal Marine Light Infantry, with the bands and colours* the respective corps, assembled on the comraea in heavy marching order, for the annual inspection br his ...

... Sitch weather as we've had this two months past I never know'd in all my life afoor. I wonders how much longer ut ooT last, And when we be to haa some rain once moor. As Scotchy sez in that al e murderun play, I gins to be aweary 0' the zun, As keeps a shinun on vrom day to day, And wishes this here tajus drought was done. The trees be powdered over all wi' dust, As bad almost as livery ...

... BRITISH AND FOREIGN. General Beauregard has taken the oath of allegiance, and sued for pardon. A French paper mentions the death at Orincles, near larbes, of an old artillery soldier, named Tierre Gaubert, at the age of 113. An undoubted case of Asiatic cholera has occurred at Sheffield. A man named Thompson has died there after a few hours' illness, and the symptoms were of the most marked ...

... CHEPSTOW PLOUGHING MATCH. The Annual Ploughing Match in connection with the Chepstow Farmers' Club came off on Tuesday, the 17th inst., by postponement from the previous Tuesday—a step rendered necessary by the dryness of the land, owing to the long-continued, drought,—on Great Dinham farm, in the occupatiun of .M r. Thomas Woodhail, who liberally supplied a substantial luncheon at the house, ...

... EPITOME OF NEWS. Ashton-under-Lyne was threatened, like Black burn, with a. water famine. The greatest economy was enforced on consumers, until the late rain made this neces- sary liquid more plentiful last week. The pile driving for St. IreS new pier has pro- ceeded slowly this summer, although the sea has been un- usually smooth. Only about half a dozen hands are em- ployed, and about one ...

... ANOTHER RAILWAY ACCIDENT. TWO LIVES SACRIFICED. The number of deaths that are continually occurring in this locality from accidents, arising for the most part from carelessness amongst people employed on railways, does not seem to have any effect in causing the survivors to exercise more care and vigilance in the preservation of their lives for no sooner have we reported the particulars of one ...

... On Monday morning, as a bullock, the property of Messrs. Snook and Son, butchers, of Salisbury, was being driven along the Butcher-row, it suddenly turned round and darted into the house of Mr. E. Morris, grocer. Being unable to turn in the narrow passage in which it found itself, the animal proceeded up an equally circumscribed staircase to the top of the house (three storeys high), and then ...

... CHAPTEE, IV.—A CHARACTER. MR. SLAPPER-or, as he was universally called, Tom Slapper-was a character of no common stamp. To my first view he appeared the very incarnation of dirt and slovenliness. He was a man of the middle height, and about forty years of age; his long raven-black hair protruded in separate dusty masses from the wreck of what had once been a white hat with a great rim; his ...