... r The following is a copy of a bill introduced d the House of Lords by the Lord Chancellor, entitled ia e, Act for the Regulation of Agricultural Gangs e t Whereas in certain counties in England certain per i- sons known as gangmnasters hire children, young per n and women, with a view to contracting with farners azt others for the execution, on their lands, of arious and I of agricultural ...

... T/gIrsaday, 2 0'clock. - i I :E ' e RE UTER'S TELEGRAMS. FRANCE. I' ~sw-, Az7st ?? Auoni/cur of to-day publishes an article on General IY'mcnt's mission to Rome, in which it says:- 'T1e aorinals ame discussing the mission to Rome wahich had been entrusted to General LDunrut, and rlulish a speech alleged to have been delivered by him. It is necessary to state the exact truth of the afair. The ...

... THE LORDS' AMENDMENTS. The fivwms apprehends that the Cabinet can have arrived at but one conclusion upon Lord Cairns's motion. The House of Lords has accepted it by a combination of intellectual power and political experience more striking even than its vast numerical majority. The House of Coanflons would hav e accepted the same proposal had not the Ministry obstinately with- stcod it. If ...

... M4NCHESTEJR, SHEJLFFIELD, AD LLYCOLZD L B~~iBE 1~~4ThWY. 1 . The ?? mpeting aa held' yesterday afternon at t'he Lndon-road station, Blanchester. Mr. *W~v~nc, MP., in tlchair.,,. T r'.reitor satd emeht of acooints have appeareclintlsis jqurnal. ,f. a* The' dtnlcasniT moved the adoptiog of the report. H3.ot rcinded the shareholders that in ?? arrangement wan proposed, inder which this company's ...

... THE REPRESENTA TION OF MINORITIES. THOSE who, like ourselves, are anxious that the representation of minorities should not be adopted, whether experimentally or other- wise, without a full knowledge of the motives of its advocates, and a fair view of the prospect of its working, have been very much embarrassed by the various and conflicting ways in which its merits have been argued. At first ...

... RowiE, Jflo> 26. GREAT excitement has been produced in Italy by the arrival at Rome of General Dumont, for the purpose of inspecting the Antibes Legion, though he is entrusted also with another mission, which may detain him here some time. The Roman Liberal party has been further agitated by the manner in which the inspection was carried out, the General appearing on the Piazza de Quirinal in ...

... NATIONAL ARTittlERFd ASOCIATION. . - _ . SHOBBRYNEO 11 OAMP, WznwaDAI EVENIMG. The officersand ?? ofthe,2ndd Middlesezx WO reasons bo coigrsnlate ?? 'on having, forih te . sccond time, ,baomPqa the ' suecessful competitordfor the Prince of WaIeti'sPaze-anid 'beyed that, of htaing mado the highest tooni'ee'er~obtaised atb l tbfs meetbing., ,T~erte! _ were some doubts 4xpiessed ad to the secondl ...

... PLAIN as the teaching of the recent experiment at Shoeburyness with the big American gun may seem to be, more than one of our contemporaries has contrived to miss it. The confusion of thought which is implied in the argument that because the gun succeeded in making holes of so many inches deep on the target, therefore the American ordnance is more powerful than we have supposed it to be, is so ...

... I, rut) ' N TO THE KING , .1~1,77OR UuI B ?? d from the Commit- i tee'ihtiti' -anFor ?? Society and s' ?? dis tpati dn was received by the K'sgeff ' Jit9l6 1h ?? Marsan, at the Tuile-I r, ries, whel address from' each society was presented to him. The Coilt Frangais was represented by its Presi- dent, M. Edaitard Laboulaye, member of the Institute;, e f - -~ Esg~ae'Yesng,: of' the :,Jouiem ...

... The Cretan insurrection yet survives, at least in the Greek telegrams. The Athens journals of the 25th ult. publish the followingdespatch, alleged to have been addressed to their Governments by foreign Consuls in Candia :-The Turks are massacring women and children. The Turkish authorities. are neither able to subdue the insurrection nor to put a stop to these massacres. Humanity demands the ...

... TELEGRAPHIC INTIELLIGERM ?? r 7 j. - r I i (moTEans TMliMMAS.) :TE CAXtIAN INSURRECTION, MARSEILLES, JULY 31. Intelligence has been received here from Athens dated 25th instant. The Athens journals publish thefollowingtelegam, alleged to have been ad. f dressed to their governmenets by foreign consuls in Candisa:- The Turks are massacring women and children. T he- Turkish authorities are ...

... There is good reason to believe, notwithstanding the statements in the icuitcui-, that a despatch hias been sent to Berlin by the French Govern- ment on the subject of North Sleswick. This despatch, however, merely contained instructions to M. Lefebvre, the Charge ?? at Berlin in the absence of M. Benedetti, relative to the attitude which the French Govern- ment wished to maintain in the ...