... THE ABYSSINIMA CupAIGND Since the Abyssinian campaign appears to be inevitable, It would have been satisfactory to leari that our forces are not likely to meet with so many perils and obstacles in pushing to their destination as was at first supposed. The Topographical Department of the War-office has collected a mass of information concerning practicable routes in Abyssinia, in the hope, ...

... I ENSDOWMENT OIw T111 01jaLM Go ROME utia1aD. fs -We are assured, on the authority of the leading organ au of Catholic opinion in Ireland, that bishops, priests, and th laymen of the prevailing creed, concur almost unanimously no in deprecating any and every suggestion, whenoesciever in emanating, for Catholic endowment in that country. Tbis Pi is the more significant and remarkable, because ...

... THE TRADE UNIONS COMMIESION IN I MANCHESTER. The examination into the cirewasfauces attending th6 ourage at bimpson's was proceeded with on Friday. George Holland. said be had been a member of the Stookport Brickniakers' Society fouraeen years and about .eight years ago he was treasurer. He was a member of the council in 1,86, when it was resolmed to deatrqy Simp- son's property. This was ...

... Second Edition Lar ERMITW AND IRt8IE RAILWAY AFFD B The traftic receipts of raihways in tb for tby week ending Septer; ber 7th bhm all .iD £C51,205overtheeorrespondinwekols ?? ?? DiyNs ableyt itteis~ hstae pthlat t , tyk5. Ittwy Company iB about to ras 4- e ERast T4 ealitto complete the undertaking Q'° ?? workingorder. a d brifg it utl THRE ABYSSINIAN EXPE ; The riva says that according to ...

... AMERICA. (By Atlantic Telegraph.) New York, 6th Sept.-The democratic party have arried the elections in California. COMMERCIAL.-CLOSING PRICES. Gold, 140k; sterling exchange on London. 1091 ; 5-20's United States bonds, 114_; Illinois, 120A, ErdeS, 69k. Cotton: Middling upland, 27. Philadelphia, 6th Sept. -Petroleum, standard white, 32. ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF ANT WERP. The Liverpool, New ...

... i3orroxonB Grftez. A rbetorical schoolmaster calls his pupils buds of prouise en the) branches of education. What is It that people wish to have, and then wish to get rid of7-A good appetite. What is the difference between a spendthrift and a feather bed ?-One is bard up, and the ether is soft down. a ?? did Adamn bi te the apple ? said a schoolmaster to a couutry lad.- Because he had no ...

... MISCELLiANEOUS NEWS. l rlte e-chancellor of Ireland, remains abI5 Yr pearius estate. eval la To reitof railways in the United Kingdom fave l' he trsk ending August 1Slt, show an increase of 289 whi ?? £f 41,498 over the corresponding week of last altop ncileg, 0 ?? ,eer. 1,4ewun states that the Queen's book will shortly goa Thl G bed Her Majesty describes a series of journeys beP I adI and ...

... MAGsas OF CRIMINAL ASSAULT NEAR E00LErTON.- On Monday afternoon, J. Rigby, Esq., investigated a csarge brought by a, young woman, Jane Holmes, a coal screener, at a colliery at Skelmeradale, against a butcher boy, named John Seddon, aged 16, also living at Skelmersdale. Prosecutrix was going with her father to see an aunt at Ecoleston, but was taken ill when near her destination, and seeing ...

... THE HoN. FREDER0IC STANLEY, M.P., and Lady Constance Stanley are staying with the Earl and Countess of Derby at Know?ley. Colonel the Hon. W. P. and Lady Emma Talbot are visiting the Earl and Countess of Derby at Knowaley before they go to Cannes for the SouTa LANCASIRE CoAL.-A number of Lancashire and Cheshire coal owners, who have formed themselves into an association called the South ...

... PLATFORM IN THE PARK. TO TUE EDITOR OF THE PRSTION oaaONICLU. SIR,-As public attention has been drawn to the un- suightly appearance of the platform in the park, and having read the remarks that were made at the last Council mleeting concerning it, I beg to offer a suggestion which, in my opinion, would meet the case satisfaotorily. I do not quite agree with a correspondent who would dispense ...

... I -, MAIUCHSOTRn BAsKRUPTO? CoUvR.-At this court, on 1. Wednesday, before Mr. Commissioner Jemmett, James b Robertson, described as of Overton, near Lancaster, out of a business, came up for his discbarge.-Mr. Clark, of Lan. t caster, opposed on bebaif of a creditor, on the ground that f the bankrupt had incurred debts without having a reason- c able expectation of being able to pay Iben. He ...

... A BATTLE IN BUKREIAA. The Invelidg RwsC publishes the following report on the fight at Yaci-Kourgane between the Russians ard the Bnkharians. The report is dated Yani-Kourgane, July, 5 (171:- During the first days Of the month of July, the troops of the Emir of Bukhara, who had remained quietly encamped at 20 versta from Yaui-Kourgane since the affair of the 7th of June, reassumed hostilities, ...