... NEW LONDON AND BRAI.I BANK. * The first annual meeting of the sareholders in this bank was hld-yesterday at -the Terminua Hotel, Canxon-s.BtretJ . W. Oax , Esq., the chairmen, pro. siding. The MsAsM (Mr. Beton) having read the notice Convenin the mteting, and the minutes of the extraordi- nary meae~ng held on the Mh January last, the report was, by msaent, taken e read, and . The CO E--A ...

... GREAT ;'FIRE AT CANTERBURY ' , . _ .. . I A A serious fire took place in Canterbury Cathe- dral yesterday morning. It appears that at about halfa past ton a plumber was at work in the roof of'the east end, when from some cause his coke fire got upset and set light to the dry timbers of the roof. Finding his own efforts to extinguish the flames were unavailing, he rushed down to the office of ...

... .NEWS ROM PARIS. . ?? REPUBLICAN CELEBRA`h)ON. (FRoU ouw owN oonan oirDBMr.- PARIS, SUZnAT NIGHTr The 22nd of September has gone off as quietly as the 4th-not only in Paris, but, so far arwe at present iknow, in all Prance. The projected ban- quet in Paris, to which only 160 guests wereb in- vited, having, as I said yesterday, been objeotbd to by General Ladmirmult, and the Governmen6 having ...

... NAVAL AND MILITA.RY. (F'aOU'rUs LONDON OAZE2TM.) WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, SEPr. 24. Royal Artillery-Major-General, wit h the rank of Colonel-Corn- unndant, Sir William Marcus Coghlan, .C.B. (late Bombay), to be colonel-cominandant, vice General J. G. Griffith, deceased; Major Charles Watson Wilson, from the supernumerary list, to be,major, vice W. S. M. Volfe, deceased; Major Campbell Hardy, ...

... NEWS FROM PFARMS. . . - I (rinos ouv orON a Poi4flf5T.)1 PARIS, Smwali NraB,. M. Fournier, the French Ambassador to the Court of Italy, is expected at Versailles. He is e said to be charged with important communications of for M. Thiers. Whether he bears a message from son the Pope, or Victor Emmanuel, or from both, has hei not transpired. From what I have been able to of hear in the course of ...

... I THE OLD CATHOLIC CONGRESS AT COLOGNE. (en eveti~ns TRLEOLA~I'I) (FROM OUrs SPECAL 00BRR51ONDENT.) COlOGNE, FRIDAY NIGHT. The preliminary meeting of the Old Catholic delegates took place last night. There were four hundred present. Among those who attended the sitting were the Bishop of Ely, Dean Stanley, the Bishop of Lincoln, the Bishop of Mary- ] land, the Archbishop of Utrecht, the Abbe ...

... I THE -CONGAESS. OF: TH IT.USA ?? N.TONAL-ASSOCIRION. (rnox OUR sroroA Ceasr.op..) THIHAC*IJD, ItN r !i Mt¢ w T a The fact that: the tague hiab^ehaloated as of thevredidevouas- of the ?? of tbe tpWrk- |w ?? International Msooiatibn s ile ex-fr. Itidf of some' wag amiongqt tht leaders o re GeneralCouncil. Thevery name of heh6 .iqciation ;6i premises the faot that it in composed of men of | hi ...

... TO LIGE _ 0. THE NEW LICENSING ACT. persecutions and prosecutions are at present rife throughout the lid in conllection with the Government abortion known as the 1 EjLicensing Act. The gentlemen invested with magisterial power are making full use of the extra liberties granted them, and pteer~ceeding with a. vengeance to carry out the law in what they eiased to coil its integrity, and to make ...

... SECOND EDITION, 2.30 p.m. AMERICA WASHINGTON, Sept. 12.-President Grant has openly expressed his satis- faction at the result arrived at by the Court of Geneva, not on account of the award, but because principles have been settled and the quarrel has been adjusted impartially and in the interests of peace. NEW YORK, Sept. ?? coalition party in Massachusetts has nominated Mr. Charles Sumner ...

... I The Russian papers announce that a commercial treaty has been con- cluded between Russia and Yakoob Bek, the Badaulet or Khan of Kashgar. A treaty of this kind has long been desired by the Government at St. Peters- burg, but the Khan always refused to agree to one of its stipulations, which provides for the free transit through his country, not only of Russian merchants and caravans, but ...

... lucus a non lacendo. We call it the forest because there are few trees or zone. Only here and there in some sheltered lap of the hills are some battered weather-shattered pines flinging their gaunt roots about the grey rocks where the mountain stream comes leaping from ledge to ledge. Or lower yet, where the stream debouches on the strath, a scattered copse of weeping birches, feathering ...

... 'y IESSON OF THE SAINT BARTHOLOMEW. at Social conflict can come to pass without many premonitory signs. o re ai full of them long beforehand. The importance of the imminent contest between Infallibility and its opponents, or at least the general belief i its imminence, is testified by ominous appearances, small and great. In Arthur KinIeaird's self-imposed mission to Berlin, in order to ...