... HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL. SHOCKING OUTRAGE IN LONDON.—A shockirg outraaehas been committed in the neighbourhood of the Old Kent-road, London. At the house, No. 82, Trafalgar-road, there resides a lady named Peake, who is between seventy and eighty years of age. Between three and four o'clock on Monday afternoon two men entered the house, with a view to robbery, undoubtedly, and-whether from ...

... The Schumacker family in Paris will, no doubt, be remembered, with its law suits and criminal trials. The father, a cabman, suing the daughter, a woman of the delJJl monde who had become the Marquise d'Orvault, for alimony, and the son condemned to the Bagne, from which he subseouently escaped, for shooting at his sister to extort money from her. The parents have now just appeared again in ...

... BRITISH AND FOREIGN. A terrible hurricane has swept over the eastern part of the arondissement of Pau, rooting up trees, levelling the maize crops and vines, tearing off roofs, and spreading general consternation. The storm took the direction of the Hautes-Pyrcnees, rather increasing in violence as it went along. In the commune of Larreule the devastation is said to be extraordinary. An Act of ...

... THE BURG COLLIERY EXPLOSION. The opinion that the unfortunate miners in the Bury Colliery in Saxony were all immediately killed by the explosion proves incorrect. In the note book of the miner Bahr the following entry has been found:— This is the last place where we have taken refuge I have given up all hope, because the ventilation in the Sc^engottes fchfift and the Hoflnungs shaft has been ...

... Mr Harris, the station-master at Pontypool- road station, met with a sad accident on Tues- day morning last, by which his foot was taken off. Mr Harris had taken advantage of an ear- ly train to accompany some friends off as far as Penpergwm station, about three miles this side of Abergavenny, intending to get back in time for the first up passenger train from Newport. A goods train being due ...

... At the meeting of the British Association at Exeter, on Monday, the above subject was discussed-Sir Stafford Northcote in the chair. The Rev. J. E. Thorold Rogers said that to doubt that the wages of the agricultural labourer had fallen within the last twenty or thirty years would be to fl in the face of facts. In considering this question of wages it was important to take into account the ...

... This association is the chief of several organ. isations established of late years in various con- tinental countries, on a basIs resembling- that of the Loudon Peace Society, the parent of many pacific ageucies. The Paris League, under the leadership of M. Michael Chevalier, M. Frederic Passy, M. Doilfus, M. Leroi-Boaulieu, and other eminent Frenchmen, has been peculiarly suc- cessful in its ...

... The Adelaide Observer says:— In accordance with an arrangement which has session by session been recognised by the House of A8semb:y in pa8f-iug an amount for colonial chaplain, the office will cease with the death of the late Vtlry Rev. Dean Farrell, and the next elitfmates will not con- tain the usual line under the head ecclesiastical. Prior to his departure from the colony, the Dean made ...

... DISGRACEFUL CONDUCT OF MINERS. On Monday a mass meeting of S uth Yorkshire miners was held at Sheffield. The gathering com- prised from 4,000 to 5,000 miners, many of whom are either locked on or on strike. The president was Mr. Moore, of Sh, ffild, who, as mayor of that town, ha.1 taken an active part in trying to bring about a settle- ment of the disputes in the distiict by means of arbi- ...

... JURORS IN TRALEE. The first stage of a coroner's inqury at Tralee into the circumstances of the death of John Almau, who, in the words of a local reporter, was struck on the head with a stick at Ar. ifert far, closed with an amusing scene. After certain evidence had been given, the coroner (Mr. Harnett, of Listowel, announced the inquest adjourned, and directed the jury not to sepa- rate ...

... The following account of the operations In changing the broad to the narrow gauge between Gloucester and Hereford will be read with interest:— The Great Western Railway Company, having de- termined several months since to render perfect its communication between Bristol and the North, via Hereford, commenced at once the works necessary to that end. These works were :— 1. The mixing of the ...

... Much as the Crimean war crippled Russia and hu- miliated her statesmen, Russians have good reason to be proud of their gallant defence of Sehastopol; and we are not surprised to learn that they are anxious to preserve even the minutest memory of the war. On the 15th of the present month they opened at Sebasto- pol a great Museum wholly devoted to reminiscences of the famous siege. First of all ...