... THE explosion which took place in Woolwich Arsenal on Saturday occurred in a building set apart for the filling and finishing of the blank amnmunition for the Snider ride. The building is one of a nest of single-storied brick sheds, known as the Composition buildings, in which various operations connected with combustible compositions are carried on. These buildings occupy an enclosed place ...

... To predict with surety the issue of a few cognate events may be impossible; but when a sufficiently large number are taken into account the total upshot can be often forecast with great precision. Some of the proceedings in our courts of justice exhibit a constancy of ratio in little accord with popular notions of the law's uncertainty. The returns made by the superior courts of common law-the ...

... THE BEGINNING OF THE END AT ROME. W Thle .nimcs observes that among Garibaldi's many natural advantages must be numbered apparently the gift of prophecy. He told his country- men that the first cool days in autumn would bring them to Rome; the very earliest in the vintage month have brought his red shirts within sight of St. Peter's dome. The insurrection, which had hitherto been limited to ...

... THE DE IV A SPECT OF FENIANISM. THE affray in H-olborn the other night, when (according to the present aspect of the case) a man was shot for declaiming against Fenianism, has sensibly increased the alarm created by the Manchester outrage. Far less important in itself, it seems to indicate, with other circumstances which constantly arise to perplex the police and harass Mr. GATHORNE HARDY, ...

... IF the telegrams are to be trusted, the insurrection which has been so long expected has at length actually broken out in the Papal States, and the advantage so far has been on the side of the insurgents. Of course, it is still uncertain whether or not the news is true, or if true what is the degree of its importance. The course of events lately has much diminished the interest of a matter of ...

... CORRIESPOND ENCI. FENIANISv. To ?? EDITOR of ?? PALL MALL GAZETTE. SIR,-Having become acquainted, during several visits to the United States, with something of the Fenian feeling from its o'vn point of view, I venture to trouble you with a few lines on one point in your excellent article in this evening's PAll lak/. You are of opinion that the secondary object of Fenianismn, in waging a ...

... A lawsuit of great importance to many persons in the Southern States has just been decided in a United States court of South Carolina. It related to debts incurred by the purchase of slaves before emancipation, and ruled that such debts are good. In a branch of the same case it was decided that the sequestration of debts by the Confederate Government, and their payment to a receiver, does not ...

... WRITING from Biarritz on the 4th of October, a correspondent sends us word of a disaster which nearly proved fatal to the Ermpress of the French and the Prince Imperial :- During their stay at their favourite marine residence, the Emperor and Empress of the French have been almost daily making excursions in the neighbourhood, sometimes by water and some- times by land. One day they went to ...

... ST. MICHAEL AT ST. MICHAEL'S. To ?? EDITOR of thre PALL MALL GAZETTE SIR,-Attention has lately been directed to Ritualism, and amongst Ritualists the clergy and congregation of St. Michael's, Brighton, are supposed to be about as high as they can conveniently be without meeting with such a fate as is said to await vaulting ambition; and it may, there- fore, be interesting to your readers, ...

... During the last week the Daily Telegraph signalized its determination to put down a trade which it has denounced as infamoas-namely, baby farming-by giving circulation, every day without exception, to advertise- ments of the following kind TEMPORARY RETIREMENT FOR LADIES.-Seven miles from T town. A superior home and strict privacy secured. All requisites found.- Address, Mrs. Powis, Post ...

... There was a panic on the French Bourse yesterday afternoon, and all sorts of rumours were in circulation both in Paris and in London. Here the rtirour was that a revolution had broken out in Rome, and this was to some extent credited in the City, though nobody could trace it to any trustworthy source. It was ascertained, however, that the transmission of telegrams in cipher to Italy had been ...

... The foreign telegrams this morning contain nothing of interest additional to what was published yesterday afternoon. The Paris correspondent of the Times, writing yesterday morning, says:- The rumour some time ago current that M. Drouyn de Lhuys was to replace the Marquis de Moustier as Minister of Foreign Affairs, has been revived within the last day or two, and although it has probably no ...