... j BSdHOOL BOAIW DOB LONDON,. yesterdaY the weekly public meeting of thisl ror was bold at their offices Thames Elmb~nkment. , RWms, Chairman of tibe 33B , presided. s'ot =8101;AW2 ov 35B. W. IL MU'rTI, X.R q'ba CaLiOz read the foiloloing letter: Edocatlsn Departmient, S.W., N'ov, 3, I1I'4. FIe_ be7 the honour to acksowliedgs the recelipt of your P dated the 2tied Wt. No order for the election ...

... his , 2 _ > v I j 1 2 I L THE EXPILOSMON AND LOSS OF LMIE AT T$T h.IOUSLOW POVMlR MAMIS.. E Yesterday aftemron, Dr. Diplpck, aoroner for Middlesex West, 'hel an inquiry in tho carpenters' depart- mientg ,fthe Works into the ciroumstances attending the deaths of George Todd, 23; John Dnv, 22; Win. henry Archer, ?? andi Stephen 3tlei, 18, who vere killcd in an explosionat the ?? IPowder DMills ...

... Efrid Obtninlttd gtw!o, THE BOMBARDMENT OF IRUN. IC TIMES TELEGRAM.) SC fJItNPAyr, Nov. 4-The bombardment of Irun began this morning at It 5even o'clock. The Carlists opened fire from two batteries. The Republi- w cans have two batteries in detached forts, one gun on the church tower, and p one on Behobia Bridge. The Carlists fired three shots to one fired by the SI Rcpublicans. A priest ...

... |:PUhiIo XEN QN PUBLIC AFFAIRS.J XR,!OI~ 143W UJV., ON ECCLESIA$TICAL (BX T=TPGRIVAP1L Ct'AOM OnUR OWtt Q0UR1POINflNT,) Ufl1DERSFIDLD, WnmenuspAv Nuran. This evening- IMAr. Di. A. Leatheais, X.P., ad- ,dressed'c~pleefing of his constituents in the armoury at .Heiddersdield, Mr. Alderman Sykes pSiding. Ur. LrnAgur~,fsaid whenbhe Leard a distant country at tl6bogilrmig of the year of thiesu~dsn ...

... The Comte de Chambord has returned to Frohsdorff. He arrived there on Tuesday night. The German Emperor has issued a decree dated the 29th of October, and addrcssed to the Chancellor of the Empire, providing for the establishment of f a consultative provincial Assembly for Alsace-Lorraine. This local parliament t will be empowered to express its views upon bills which are not reserved to E Inl ...

... RUSSIA AND SPAIN. (SPECIAL TELEGRAM.) BERLIN, Thursday.-In diplomatic circles the relations between the Russian Cabinet and the Government of Marshal Serrano are stated to have assumed a thoroughly cordial character, and it is expected that the recognition of the Government of Madrid by Russia will be officially proclaimed in a short time. The question has been newly raised at St. Petersburg, ...

... THE RAIL WA Y LIST FOR OCTOBER. TiE Thorpe collision has, it would appear, so far staggered and shocked railway officials that October presents a greatly diminished list of killed and wounded. One man has been killed, another has been so terribly scalded that his recovery is uncertain, thirteen have been seriously injured, and about ?? passengers have been more or less bruised, cut, and shaken ...

... TUE secret history of the ARNIaI affair is gradually leaking out, and the efforts of the official apologists of Prince BISMARCI to represent him merely as the firm statesman executing under a stern sense of duty a task most painful to him must now, we should think, be abandoned as desperate. From the first, the circum- stances of unnecessary violence and harshness with which the arrest and ...

... A LETTER from La Paz in the Cologne Gazette says that after flittering and threatening Bolivia by turns in the negotiations on the frontier question, the Chilian Government has at length adopted a policy of moderation, and a settlement has consequently been arrived at which is still very favourable to Chili, and will doubtless be confirmed by the representative assemblies of both countries. El ...

... CITY OFFICE, CHange-alley, (ornlbill. Thursday, Half-past Tivelve. There is no change in the Bank of England rate. Money continues abundant, with but little demand for it. Short bills are discounted at 3A per cent., and three months' bills at from 3Y2 to 3X. There is a fair amount of business on the Stock Exchange, and prices in the Railway Market are generally maintained, though there has ...

... THlE PRIESTS AND THIE ITALIAN ELECTIONS. . .. I aFRO OUR OWx CORBBSPOIDENX.T ROME, Nov. 1. I have iood reason to believe that the PopG has just forwarded another circular lette r to the lgishops of the Italian dioceses respecting the forthcoming Parliamuentary elections. The old maxim of the Vatican, neither electors nor elected, has been abandoned by the Clericals so far as the local and ...

... TIGER-SLAY[NG IN INDIA. 'THE crusade against man-eating tigers is being actively carried on in South India. The tiger-slayer appointed by the Madras Government is poisoning, trapping, and shooting right and left. Now and then sensational reports of the number of tigers exterminated proceed from his pen; but unfortunately, a good many of these animals, half- killed or half-poisoned, have ...