... A large fire broke out iu a believe manufactory at Bir- mingham hist night, and raged for ten hours. Damkige Was very great. ...

... At a recent meeting of the Alpine Club, Mr. Watts, of the Middle Temple, addressed the audience on the subjoct of a proposed exploration of the VlIotna Jokull, Iceland. An exploration devoted to this purpose would, he observed, possess peculiar interest, since the vast area known asthe Vatna Jokull, situated on the south-eastern side of the island, is at present wholly unexplored. Almost ...

... FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT. LONDON. FRIDAY EVENING. Mr. Anderson deserves credit for his speech last night in moving a vote of censure on Lord Sandhurst. Its only fault was that it did not quite agres with the terms of the resolution. The resolution did, io the minds of most members, raise a charge of fraud. It said that Lord Sand- hurst had had to refund money obtained by misleading the ...

... ACCEPTANCE OF THE 10 PER CENT REDUCTION AT [FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDFNT 1 On Saturday afternoon an open air meeting of the colliers otthe Lougnor (LlaneUy) district was held, to consider tne proposed reduction of 10 per cent. The place at meeting was Hcn-pen-Castell field, placed at their disposal by Sir John Stepney. Mr. Halliday was unfortunately prevented from attending by an attack of ...

... ^OINX'S BABY. An incident has just occurred at the Hammersmith Police-court illustrates the deplor- able educational destitution of thousands of British Children, for whose education the State has paid so many millions of money to the various religius sects of the kingdom. A poy of the age of 14 was bfrdtight before the .Residing magistrate as a witness. Havmg gone tlhroiigli the form of the ...

... A corijespoiident, WRITES ;—Ever sinca tlie notice has been PUT NP AT the collieries here, (TH^ tradU, whi ...

... The pas6engf ship Ethiopia, witti '-g^ven passen- is putting backto Glasgow under sai ■, jnfr taken to gers arereturr-ng with the remainder ° New York, peithe Pennsylvania. ...

... T0LTNTEERS STRUC BY LIGHTNING, .twc volunteers were struck down by lightning near yesterday. One, it is feared, has lost his ...

... I LONDON, MONDAY. English Bailway Stocks did not hold the improve- ment of Saturday, and in mosi cases there was a decline in quotations. North Eastern Stock was 1 lower, Mid- Great Northern A and London and Norlli Western, j Great Eastern, London and Brighton, and *ouih Eastern Deferred, § London, Chatham, and Dover, and Manchester ana Sbtffield, J. United Spates Government Bonds were all ...

... FOREIGN TELEGRAMS. &ETJTPiR'S AND CENTRAL NEWS TELEGRAMS. THE FRENCH BOURSE. Tuesclay. per cent. Rentcs, YF'50 Five per cents Rentes, 9442. THE POLITICAL SITUATION IN FRANCE VERSAILLES, Tuesday. — '{HC statement that 1q. de Goulard has abandoned his attempt to form A Ministry is untrue. NATT THE MEDITERRANEAN BQLADRON. CAGLUN, Monday.-TLIC English Mediterranean ^Uadron has arrived from Palermo. ...

... LEGAL. -Mr J. P. M. George, who is now under articles of clerkship to Mr William Griffith George, solicitor, of Cardigan, has successfully passed his intermediate exami- tion at the Incorporated Lav Society. ...

... THE DISPUTED PROPERTY IN WATER STREET,-At the County Court, yesterday (Tuesday), before Judge Ter- rell, Phillip Rees, the claimant to the property so long held in dispute in Water-street, and which has been the subject of several law suits, appeared in answer to a judgment summons which had been taJken out by a former tenant of one of the houses (David Griffiths). The amount in dispute was ...