... TWO MEN DROWNED. Two men, named Smith and Steward, drowned on Sunday afternoon, at Lowestoft, by the upefctting of a small boat in which they we e sailing down the Waveney. Another man who was with them managed to swim ashore. Thev had recently returned from the mackerel fishery off Penzance, but were not experienced sailors, and their boat was carelessly rigged. One of the bodies has been ...

... THE-iLANCASHIRE RIOTS. At the county police-court Blackburn, on Wednes. day, the magistrates sat upwards of seven hours hearing charges against a number of persons who had taken an active part in the destruction of Colonel Jackson s house at Clayton Grange. A statement was given in evidence which had been made by two of the female prisoners (Burns and Caffrey) to the police describing the ...

... ADJUTANT'S DRIL.L.-On Saturday afternoon, our Volunteers mustered on the parade ground for Adjutant's drill. The Adjutant was on the ground with Captain W. H. Powell, Lieutenants Skinner (brothers), Ivatts, and other officers of the corps. The muster was a strong one, and the men were put through a variety of evolutions, which they appeared to execute with promptitude and precision. The band, ...

... THURSDAYS MARKETS. The Mark L.ne Express says :—Considerable disap- pointment has been felt by agriculturists of date, owing to the untoward change which has taken place in the weather. The growing wheat has become.flsiggy and dis- coloured, and barley appears to have suffered even more. In short the agricultural outlook is decidedly less favour- able than was tho case three weeks ago. On the ...

... A picket of the 82nd^ Militia Regiment wai attacked in Limerick while taking a drunken pri- soner to Barracks by some men of the Royal County Limerick Fusiliers. Stones were thrown, and the picket had to draw their bayonets in defence. Several men were severely handled. The police interfered, and arrested three militiamen and a civilian. ...

... IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (Continued from our 6th Page. HOUSE OF* COMMONS.—WEDNESDAY. The House resumed its labours in committee on the Sunday Closing (Ireland) Bill. Sir J. MCKENNA moved the insertion of a clause pro. viding that all towns in Ireland other than the five towns provided ior in the first clause and which were under the government of a Corporation or of Town Commissioners, should be ...

... PARIS, May 28.-The foreign delegates forming the International Postal Congress were received yesterday at the Elysee by Marshal MacMahon. The President of the Republic, in welcoming the delegates, expressed his wish that the Universal Postal Union might be shortly followed in economic questions by unions of a similar character to cement solidarity and fraternity between nations. Dr. Stephan, ...

... Twenty-three thousand persons left Edinburgh by rail on the Queen's biithday, as against 30,00,) last year. THE SHAH OF PERSIA.—A correspondent of the Journal de Geneve, writing from Teheran, gives the following account of the alleged attempt to assas- sinate the Shah of Persia on the eve of his Majesty's departure from the Persian capital for his proposed tour in Europe. The correspondent ...

... TUESDAY.—The Speaker took the chair at foui o clock. THE RECENT RIOTS IN MALTA. Mr. McIver gave notice that on that day four weeks he would call attention to the recent riots in Malta, and move, That in the opinion of this House the adoption of Mr. Rowsell s recommendations would be injurious to the commerce of Malta, and unnecessarily irritating to the inhabitants: and that it is inexpedient, ...

... NEWPORT TUWN C J UN OIL. The fortnightly meeting of the Watch Contmittee and Board of Health, was held on Tuesday, at the committee-room, Town Hall, when there were present: J. Moses, Esq., Mayor, presiding Aldermen H. J. Davis, C. Lyne, J. Murphy, G. W. Jones, and D. Harrhy; Councillors H. P. Bolt, W. West, J. Mad- dock, W. Oliver, J. Rogers, D. A. Vaughan, J. R. Jacob, A. Blake, Wyndham ...

... Wm. Campbell, the Scottish giant, d on day, at his house, the I'l ke of Wo'I. o n- Newcastle-on-Tyne, after about teu He was only 26 years of age. ...

... The barque Enchanter, which has been letaire^ for some time by the Custom House uthor.tn s at Liverpool, on suspicion that it about to carry a cargo of dynamite to a Russian port ;i3 contraband of war, was on Saturday released, the authorities in London being satisfied that it was a bona fide shipment to the agent of the Dynamic Company in Halifax, Nova Scotia. ...