... HURST CASTLE, Saturday.—The North German Lloyd steamer, Strasbourg passed at 7.35 this morning. SOUTHAMPTON, Saturday.—The North German Lloyd Strasbourg, from New Orleans and Havannah, arrived '• here to-day, CM route to Bremen. ...

... Mr. better and is expected to le.ve town to-morrow. ...

... TECHNICAL EDUCATION. The Feltmakers' Company, following t',c example of the Turners', Clothworkers'. and other r ...

... CANINE PROCLIVITIES AT MERTHYR. At the Merthyr police-court on Saturday, before Mr A. de Rutzea and Mr Thomas Williaui6, «, lodging-hous» keeper named Pearce, living at Ynysyga„ was ^har^ed with assauitins another man named McDonald. Durin ...

... Early Saturdnv morning the Crompton Mill Company's premises near Oldham v.vre partially destroyed by fire, and damage done to the extent of £ 5,000. ...

... On Saturday evening, in a bye street, called Burton- place, near the Alexandria Concert Hall, Hanley, the Dody of a collier named George Chadderton, was dis- covered by his father lying across the road in a pool of blood. Deceased had been stabbed in several places. A labourer named Rowe is in custody. ...

... Land and Water has received from a correspondent In Gippsland, Australia, a communication of which the following is an extract. Our contemporary does not attach much importance to it, but, if correct, it eayg it would certainly solve many difficulties m tha.t extra- ordinary case, explaining, as it would, the desultory and incomplete knowledge of various minute circumstanoea in Sir Roger's ...

... ACCIDENT TO A SCREW STEAMER.The screw steamer Galilee (Durst, master), from Houen for Swansea, has been towed into Dartmouth by the steam-tug Pilot, hay- ing lost leasts, &c., and had her propellor entaDgled by the wreckage when off the Stark. PUT IN FOR SifELTEP,.&TIIIJZ,FORD. -Charles, Ellaway, master, from YoughaL STEAMERS' BOATS DAMAGED.—The screw steamer Black Watch, of and from Cardiff ...

... The announcement to which we referred in a re- cent number that the Government centemplate to introduce a Bill next Session giving powers to managers of denominational schools to enforce the compulsory attendance of children at these schools is quickening sectarian zeal, and animating with fresh vigour the clerical promoters of denomina- tional education. The country is threatened with a fresh ...

... THE MAYOR OP lhe Mayor and town councillors, in accordance with custom, attended divine service at St John's Church yesterday morning. The procession was headed by mace bearers and a body of police. SUDDEN DEATH.—On Saturday evening, Mrs Roberts, of 31, Louisa-street, died suddenly. She had been ailing for some time previously, and had been attended by Dr Pratt, but lately she seemed better, ...

... rn, a u-un nf Santiago has ex-communicated the the law prohibiting the promulgation of Papal bulls. ...

... FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT. LONDON, SATURDAY EVBUISTO. We are promised a pretty sight next year, the Liberals quarrelling in public throughout the length and breadth of the land. The recent con- ference of the Reform Association is the cause of it all. Then the Radicals carried the day against the Moderates, but the committee of the Association reversed the decision of the public, to whom ...