... MIDDLE-CLASS COMMIER CIAL VILLANY. The right word has been spoken by Mr. Mac- donald at Longton. 1 Commercial villanies have much more to do with driving the trade from the country tban working men's conmbinations. It is mi old truth, one which we have often endeavoured to illustrate and to confirm, but whick it is diffi- sult to get received, except by the sufferers from ommmercial roguery ...

... A CEUNMSE MS6SIONAnY. The NXcv YorkI q1?iecs says:- We have long fore. seon the posibility of a mis3iouary to our country from the hbathen, and one has at length nrrived in the person of Wong Chin Foo. Alas, yes f.Bitter and humiliating as is the trath, he is a Chinaman-nay, more, a political refugee. He bas recently arrived in Buotnn, and at once begun his lahonrs amoug the sospticel people ...

... TERR~IBLE DISASTER AT WINSFORD. The Warrivgton Uuietrdian of Wednesday states that a terrible fire t ok place on Tnesday evening tit Ove, i: r Winsford, by which the large cotton mill of Messrs. Abraham Haigh and Son was almost burnt to the grouse and nine lives were lost. There now remains of the finl building but a small portion of the outer walls and a con- fused heap of smouldering ddbris ...

... TrHE METROPOLITAN GAS SUPPLy On Tnesday, a deputation on the suibject of the esIP of gas to the metropolis waited upoa Sir C. Adderey, ?? the Board of Trade, Mr. BreLjr said that the object of the visit of hp putation was to invite the Board of Trade to aid whtitb gentlezenbe represented felt was a wiser course ot pm,,. cedure than that suggested by the proposed actiou cf el'e City Corporation ...

... SCRAPS FROM THE CODII JOURNALS. [From Punch.J APPARENT PARADOx.-Mrs. Malaprop is puzzled to understand the proposed substitute for interment. She says she cannot see how a body can be destroyed by creation. A GOoD FOUNDATION.-It is fortunate, in the face of the threatened attacks upon the City, that the municipality of London should next year be headed with Stone. QUESTION AND ANswnER FOR AN ...

... T3HE ALLEGED CAPTUnM OrF NANA SAMEHW- I A corresponent at Morar siends some further par ?? te mn no incusodyat that place, and uppoed o ?? S~ib. n aletter dated Octoher 8la the correspondent says:hat I have s^.en the Mlaharaj~h Scindia, who repeated that he hada the fullest conriotioe of the Nan.'s identty. He wrote to the Viceroy while I was present. Ila also SMYS that in a private ...

... THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OP WALES AT COVENTBY. The Prince and Princees of Wales drove to Coventry from Packington Hall. A correspondent at Coventry thus describes their arrival:- AS a quarter to one four bicycle riders coming at tremendous speed up the road bring news of the Prince's near arrival. They are the vanguard of the party of twenty who went out to meet the carriage at Meriden Hill ...

... ANOTHZU TIC1HBOnNE STORY. The New York World, of the 5th inst., contains a let from Honolulu, dated October 8, stating that an old English sailor has given an apparently truthful statement with reference to the fate of Sir Roger Tichborne, ac- cording to which he was buried in a desert island, Sydney Island, in the South Pasific, in 1855. This old sailor, George Claridge by name, boars the ...

... PUBrIC MEN ON PUBLIC APrAIRS. Sir Francis Goldsmid, M P., vas p'sent at a bigr gathering at the Town Hall, Beading, and took part air the distribution of prizes to the REanifln voilnteer, Wton at their recent annual coinpetition. In reosouding to u vote of thanks for the donation of a sanufier-et prize, Sny Francis spoke upon the character of the Britioh armv as contrasted with other armies, ...

... TIM RBEGE5NT'S PAUE MXPLOSION. On Wednesday Mr. Cross, the Home Secretary, re- ceived a deputation appointed at a public meeting held at St. Pancraq, to impress upon the Government the ne. cessity of amending the laws relating to the keeping and carriage of gunpowder and other explosives in populous places. Air. FORSYTH, M.P., in introducing the deputation, said the recent explosion of ...

... G A B D X N I N B. NOSM WEJU TRUKeilnArG movmrmaui 21s. BY MR. GLENNY, OUR WELY CALMADR TER PLOwzn GsADaEN. Give ar'natione and picotees plenty of air and light. 8lIghI frosts will not injilre thom; but close Confinement, or teo much nursing, will favour the spot, mildew, and a geonad sickly appearance. Plant and train climbing plants against walls, building; arboars, trellises, &c. The most ...

... LAST WEEK'S: LATEST NEWS. The ?? w ~ t7 ag,0 plait -AdW.j SHOOUING CnUhLTY TO A CHILD. Augueta Uaminage, 24, an unmarried woman, Was Charged at the Old Bailey, on Friday, wita the man- slaughter of John Henry Tidy. Mir. Douglas prosecuted; and Mr. MontagufWilliams appeared for the prisoner. The prisoner was a needlewoman residing at Putney, and the child in question, who was absut two years of ...