... Lord Beaconsfield stayed at Calais on Saturday night, and went on to Brussels by the midday mail yesterday. He arrived at Brussels at five o'clock yesterday afternoon, and was received at the railway station by Baron Prisse, commandant of the Palace; Mr. J. Savile Lumley, the British Minister to the Belgian Court; and Caratheodory Effendi, the Turkish representative. Lord Beaconsfield ...

... A YEAR'S MININNG ATACDNqI'S. wDING to the reports of the ?? of rr ACCORDING to tl:o reports of the inspect )os of rniUeg' there were 1208 deatbs last year from accidents in mines in Great Britain classed under the Coal 31ines Regulation Act-in other words, there waa tine death by accident for every 123,217 tons of rniiuerals raised. This, though a more unsatisfactory return than that for the ...

... THE SALT TAX IN INDIA,' A Correspondent writes to us: Allow' me to call the attention of Liberal states- mnei and thouglhtful men of every class to somne iclhemesqnow lurking under the surfaceiin India, not r 'eotripefor unnouincement and fraught, as I believe, P with much discredit and danoger. It snusktbave been a r lserrvcd that Viceroys and Financo Ministers, as li vell as overy ...

... TlHE SENT ISCE ON MR. MACKONOCHIE. Lord Penzance, Dean of Arches, held a court at Lambeth Palaco on Saturday, attended by Mr. Hassard, the rolistrar of the province, and Mr. Waddilove, the re istrar of the court, Dnd gave judgment in the Mac- konoil is cuse. He said -When this case was before the Court in March last it was proved, and not disputed, that the defendant, ths RoN. Alexander Heriot ...

... SPORTING INTEhLLGENICE a~t - - I oli TM EPSOM MEETING. TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY NEWS. 1 Smn,-Early visitors to Epdomi were not pleased *n at the prospect beforo theni when they turned out Dr to see the Derby horses on the spot do their final 3 exercise gallops. Raine fell heavily for two or ? three hours, and eventually Osborne's did not id appear until seven o'clock. Then Castlercagh ts ...

... AFRICAN EXPLOIATION. A meeting of the subscriberp to the African Exploration Fund, in connection ?? Gao- gvruhical Society, was held yosterday afternoon at the, Ila of thc Unuiversity of London. Ilurlington-gardensi, to coneider the report of tho committco. Sir .RUIrnIR tOUD ALcoox, chairman of the committee, presided . 'I he repoet, which was taken as read, and on the motion of Mr. GrA'LON, ...

... THE Mitcham lavender fields and the Essex flower farms are a pretty sight on a summer's day, but they can give us only a very faint conception of the environs of Grasse, Cannes, and Nice, which are entirely devoted to the cultivation of flowers for the purposes of perfumery. How enchantingimust be the prospect of thickets of roses and orange blossoms and jasmine, with purple and white ...

... NLEOTZON ITZXLLIGENOM. MIDDLEssOROUoH.-A vacancy has been caused in the representation of the newly-created borough of M iddesborough by the death of Mr. Henry 'Wllhiam Ferdinand Bolckow, of Marton Hall, Yorkshire, which happened on Tuesday, at Rasnegate, at the age of seventy. two years. The son of the late Henry Bolekow, of Sulten, in Mecklenburgh, Germany, he vwas born in 1806, a d settled ...

... 5 o,, * tr . -f, -Y T he0 e4iaii1, si? tdbtgnt Dean of Cork/ died on Sunday afternoon. He was one of the most prominent members of tre Irish Church, and one of teix three candidates for the vacant see of Cork. A ser aut girl has been burned to death at Whiby She accidentally saturated her dress with paraffin oil, and4 tisen imprudently went too near the fire. She was a Sir William Miles died ...

... EVERYBODY'S COLUN. ainmiA SERTOos accident happened to a, Ishonrer lalrolk ar- Wilson, resiing in Beedhiam's-conirt, Skeldergate, red The imanwas sistihg on the end of a barge moored of to the Queen's Wharf, Skeldetkate, smhoking hie pipe.; 77. while some guano bags *tre being unloaded by the means of h. crane, when the Sib gave 'way and fell It on himineititag severe injuries on the head and ...

... ONE of our Paris correspondents writes :-The Academy has just held one of those sensational elections which from time to time excite the French lite- rary world. The vacant seat of M. Thiers was disputed by M. Henri Martin and M. Henri Talne; and that of M. Claude Bernard by M. Ernest Renan and M. Wallon. MM. Martin and Renan have been returned; and, con-, sidering the energetic opposition ...

... FIRST EDITION, 2.30 p.m R E U T E R'S T E L E G R A MS. THE CONGRESS. ST. PETERSBURG:, June ?? Schouvaloff and M. ?? started for Lilin yesterday evening. THE GERMAN EMPEROR. LERLIN, June ?? following bulletin was issued at 6.30 this mornifv:- ' With the exception of two brief intervals, his Majesty has passed a quiet night. (Signed) D. Langenbeck. THE EMPRESS OF RUSSIA. S 1. PETERSBURCG, ...