... THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1872. It is notified that the French Treasury has commenced the repayment of the surplus subscriptions to the new French Loan. A Spanish frigate has arrived at Madrid from New York with yellow fever on board. Eight deaths from that malignant disease are reported, one account says 32. The woman, Lydia Venables, who recently killed her child at Barnsbury, was yesterday ...

... THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1872. At Pontefract to-day we are to have the first vote by ballot in the election of a member of Parliament. It has not been very usnal to oppose the election of a Minister who has had resign his seat only in consequence of his appointment to office, except when some question of public policy has been at issue. In the Pontefract election there is such question. The only ...

... THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1872. The destruqtion by fire of the petroleum works at Hunter's Point, opposite New York, has taken place, involving loss of one million dollars. Five ships were also destroyed by the conflagration. Mr Sumner, in his intense dislike to Grant, has thrown his whole weight against him and in for Greeley, and has addressed a letter to the coloured citizens of the United States ...