... The anceess of the French Atlantic cable may- Dow be taken as accomplished. The success ce the enterprise was secured when she reached the most southerly point of her course, below the beaks of Newfoundland, in 1400 fathoms, and steered up north-wept to where she can now chocse her own water in any depth from 5% to 1uG fathoms. The course laid down for her by Sir James Anderson, however, keeps ...

... 5 _ o At a special meeting of the members of the ?? Chamber of Commerce yesterday, a spaper was read by Mr. Edward Rae on the actual o condition of the Suez Canal, and the probability o of its being opened for general traffic at the time announced by the company. The chair was occu- F pied by Mr. Charles Clark, president of the e chamber. Mr. RAE, after remarking that the facts and s figures ...

... THE PEERS ANTD THE IRISH CHURCH. LONDON, TutESDAY MORNING. The event of laet night bronght to a speedY dissolution the hopes of my Lord Clancarty that the Irish Church Bill would be rejected. Not even tbe moet extreme of the obstructive peers could see the wisdom of provoking the just ire of a long-tried people, after they had spent three weeks in bringing themselves and the bill into so ...

... THE GYMNASIARCH AND THE I MERCHANT'S DAUGHTER. SUDDEN PREVENTION OF A MARRIAGE We have heard a strange story of the interrup- tion of a wedding which had been arranged to come off yesterday between a well-known illus- trator of the doctrine of raens seana incroe sano and the only daughter of one of our wealthiest merchant princes. 'The affair hae caused quite a sensation, and the names of ...

... THE SHOOTING OF A, HIGH SHERIFF IN IRELAND. The Dublin papers supply some details of tbis occurrence. Atr. Warburton, who is high sheriff of Queen's county, left his residence, which in situate three miles outside Portarlington, to go to Maryborough, for the purpose of swearing in the grand jury for the discharge of the fiwsal busingss of the assizee about to open. He left home a little after ...

... In the House of Lords, yesterday, the second read- ing of the University Tests Bill was moved by Earl RUSSELL. The Earl of CARNARVON, in ?? the previous question, said he did so from no want of courtesy or conciliation, but chiefly because he ob- jected to the bill being introduced at the close of a session, when the attention of Parliament was en- grossed with another and all-absorbing ...

... A STROLL THROURH THE NAIL DISrRICTS OF EAST WORCESTERSHIRE. IFronm a Corraspondtnt.] Alighting in the centre of the nailhaking country a (lay or two ago, we set out, in company with a friend, for the purpose of seeing and hearing for ouaselves the facts of the present strike of the nailers of East Worcestershire. A walk of two hundred yards from the Oldhill railway station, on the Birmingham ...

... Lord Rtavensworth is busy with at translation Cf Homer. It is stated that Mr. Agnew, of Manchester, bag becorn the proprietor of Puench. On Sunday last Richard, third Lord Castlemnaiue, lied after a short illness, in his 76th year. The Viceroy of Egypt is said to intend creating a ford',0 legion to be recruited in Europe, but principally in Frat,, This corps will be in garrison at Suez and ...

... I - . V - D ?? 1 ?? oer Special Reporter.] Wimbledon has just witnessed its annual gathering of volunteers; the notabilities of the racing world are once more at Goodwood; end che National Archery Society, representing the toxophilites of Great Britain, will this day (Wednesday) commence theirtwenty-sixth competition in the Lower Grounds, Aston. This is an event for which many of our local ...

... CoRBESPONDENCE. arJ EDUOATION AND RB-GISTIZATION. blDG 20 IAC EDI1|01; of the DLILY PO.;T. 1IU Younpression of this day, I see that the above si- OXata, which has assumed so many Proteam t:11, been so frequently brought before the public, it is troe, iln a somewhat different garb ou this OT loss again cropped up. It appears, after PAgDr tenlcngyeas the effect of the Medical Aot of ?? with ...

... FPRINCE'S END, WuflT ?? u r,.v, -. , -rT PnlsA I~~rlsls m ?? tiAt). DROWNED WHILST BATHIJNU IN THE CANAL, - Oil Sunday evening, a miner, named James Viner, aged seventeen, was drowned In the canal whilst bathing. The deceased, who resided at GoldsR Green, stripped himself, with two othoas, while warm, and was almost immediately seized with cramp. 13A1:LY Cr.OSI~,-A meeting of drapers' ...

... THE NAILERS' STRIKE: In despite of all that has been done and said, this strike diags its slow leugth along, and, in appearance, is now uo. nearer the end than it was at the commensomeet, nearly seven weeks ago. No real efforts have been made to settle the matters in dispute by arbitration. The- men still show a determined front. the masters make no sign of Conoes- sion, and in the mncantime, ...