... DOGGETT'S COAT. AND BAD,(E. Most of our readen will in. all ptlability ask the question, 1 Who was Doggett It and What is his Coat and Bade P 1 and, in answer to these questions, we will give them. m few partieu1ars concerning 4he 'oliginator of the prize, and of the prize itselK f'.homas Deggst was born in Castle- street, Dulin, iome time during the latter end of thebl7theentury, and ...

... 1, ! EEWSFROM PARIS (moiz oam OwNr 0oeRonaro .1 ;PARPUS, SiiT(aDsA*XVZM. Captain Cerfbeer, sentenced to' deatf bya a Court-martial for desertion to the' eteiny, has been let off by M. Thiors with onliy diasgrime. HEU story has been already told, but it niuwt beshfortly recapitulated on this occasion., He was 'one of the Emperor's carpet officers. Possessed of large property in Lorraine, he ...

... ITH ARTILLERY EiETING AT SHOEBURYINESS, t Solt ova frtko= 6olsanoerMI)A.) SIOEBU1IYNESS, FHo.DA NIOrr. The business to-day-the last of active work -has been of peouliar interest. The great prizes had already been won, and the hundred and odd detachments had been tested by a succession of competitions, by which the relative position of each was ascertained. To-day it remained for the winning ...

... I In the House of Lords, yesterday, Lord Redes- dale, having moved an address praying her Majesty to direct an audit of the accounts between the Crown and Mr. Leonard Edmunds, the Lord t Chancellor, after describing the proceedings which Lave taken place in reference to this matter, said that the case had already been sufficiently inquired c into. The Motion was withdrawn. The Appro- i ...

... TUE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF IRE LAND. (BY TELEOGRAP.) (Pnon OUR ?? OnCORnEsONWNT.) BELFAST, WEDNESDAY EVENWNO. To-day the joint show of the Royal Agricul- tural Society of Ireland and the North-East Agricultural Association opened in Belfast, in;Ormeau-park, which wee kindly lent for the occasion by the Town Council. The park was admirably adapted for the purpose. It contains about 170 ...

... LIBERALISM IN YORKSMlE. G thoIO A GooRnIsroNDrIsr.) i HALIFAX, MYoDAY. N tc The late eleotion for the North-West Dlivisiont 'of Yorkshire has no doubt given an impetus to the Liberal cause in this portion of the county. That it caught many, asleep and some wavering, there is no use disputing; but tho residue were at their posts, as the loss of a sterling Libeial' candidate by only aioihs two ...

... Y I' NAAL AXDM'ILI.TA.Rl. - I . .~ . . , ~ _ . . . .. ?? WOOLWIbH, AuJuft 18. The funeral of Major Wolfe, Royal Arti]erys'. lt3 'Brigado-Major at the School of Gunnery Shoebury- hnes toa6 pladeat d oolwdih to-dny with full milita honurs . ?? 'Wood, commnmudantadnal the officers of the garrison, attended, besides ae considers able portion of the Staff from Shoeburyneess. The pall. bearers ...

... AN OFF? DAY WITH THE INVADERS. I , : (Bar rTnaGnA.) BLANDFORD, WzNrAsTsn NIexv. To-day hbs been one of rest in the FirstJiivision, 'vith the exception of a little of the new 'kirmish- ing drill in the morning. Nothing has been done since didiler, as it is considered that the force on Racecourse Down has fairly earned a half-holi- day, after its steady marohing and Japanese parade of yesterday. ...

... THE ST.REE. The erpenters tuid ,eheek paid ;b dividri d of 11s. to the T rhr~xe~hand e sad lie. to thbi Iot lut iiavd , being le. to eacrih leSE thaln ILt vaekr. It V'lle etled thati owirp to rcirrnaietanecui lbvyofna the oacritil ot: th1 coatkmitten, cor. tnain mioney which i6hoald hava oome to r.aid hlad notl R Qrrived, but th. dividend nest fonday would, the men a were acscrd, be ivy tar ...

... M. Thiers appears to be working almost as hard at Trouville as if he were at Versailles. The telegrams inform us that he worked yesterday with the Minister of the Interior, afterwards had an interview with the Minister of War and the colonels of Artillery Saint Ouen and De Reffye, and then went to visit the battery in course of construction for the experiments which are to begin to-day. ...

... THE break-down of French Communism, the horrors which attended it, the suspension of political progress in Germany under the influence of military excitement, and many other subsidiary phenomena with which we need not now concern ourselves, have had this effect among others -they have given historical study a tendency in the reactionary or codino direction-have re-established the pig-tail ...

... It was stated yesterday that the arbitrators under the Treaty of Washington lad suspenided their sittings till to-morrow. The Philadelphia correspondent of the 7iz7: oa ,uotes a semi-official announcement on the part of the American Govetcmernt that it has official information from Geneva of a satisfactory character in relation to the American Claims. This (the writer observes) is verv vague ...