... VOLUNTEER ARTILLERY AT SHOEBURYNESS. The work of the volunteer artillery meeting com- menced at Shoeburyness on Monday morning with fine weather and fair prospects. In the 64-pounder competition. one detachment made three direct hits, and in the repository drill a 2nd Middlesex detachment completed the long shift in 9 mine. 41 sees. The day's proceedings opened by practice with the 64-pounder ...

... The fore and after W.R.T.of Truro, collided with a pilot boat in the Butty river on Wednesday morning, The three pilots in the boat were thrown into the sea, and two of them, named Coalbrook and Jenkins, were very badly injured. ...

... A SHOOTING GALLERY ATTEND- ANT SHOT. On Tuesday evening, a young woman named Mary Jane Dreman, a shooting gallery attendant, was shot by a man named Edward Jennings, millhand, of Sowerby, near Halifax. It is alleged that while the young woman was at the far end of the gallery attending to the whitewashing, or something connected with the structure, Jennings was firing. She called to ask if she ...

... On Tuesday afternoon the half-yearly audit was held at the Speech House Hotel, and, subse- quently, many of the mine and coal owners, with other friends, dined together. The gathering possessed some exceptional interest, because of an invitation to, and presence of, £ the directors of the Severn And Wye Railway Company, including its chairman. Mr Francis, Crown receiver for Dean Forest, ...

... MILITAHY REDUCTION CONTEJI- PLATED. Considerable reductions are, it is understood, to be made in the strength of the various battalions of infantry at Chatham, and commanding officers of infantry regiments have been ordered to for- ward a return of those non-commissioned officers and men who are disposed to take their discharge on modified pensions on the completion of 18 years' service. ...

... LORD LIVIRPOOL On Thursday, at Liverpool, Lord Sancton opened a new branch Sailors' Home. He said it was a matter cf gratification to see how much fcaey ware indebted to the kindly fgrssight of the •hipping interests for providing sueh hpmes, which are little seeds which would bear germs m future. His Lordship afterwards gave away prizes to the boys the training ship Indefatigable. He said ...

... ANOTHER CANAL. The canal from Aarberg to the lake of Bienne, which had been nearly ten years in construction, was officially opened on Saturday, but vi as actually opened the previous day, when the river, being high, made its way through the temporary bar- rier. Thirty thousand hectares of marsh land are thus drained, and the banks of lakes Morat, Nelfchatel, and Bienne are secured from inunda ...

... CONSERVATIVE OR LIBERAL. Conservative in some respects set the members of the Opposition a good example. As soon as there is a prospect of a contest at -NO7,1- castle-under-Lyme no les3 than four Conservative M.P.'s are on the spot to do battle for the cause. At a recent election, which was won by the Liberal candidate, it was with the greatest possible diffi- culty a single Liberal M. P. ...

... HORRIBLE CHARGE IN DEAN FORESL At the Ccleford police-court, on Tuesday, Her- bert Jenkins, a collier at Whitecroft, was charged, on remand, by Superintendent M. C. R e, with indecently assaulting Nellie Prior Griffiths, a year and 11 months old, daughter of Thomas Prior Griffiths, station master, at Whitecroft, Severn and Wye Radway. He was committed for trial a.t the absizes. ...

... ACTION AGAINST DIRECT JRS. Au action was commenced before Vice-chancellor Bacon, on Wednesday morning, against Mr Dodds, M.P., and his co-directors in the Cleve- land Extension Mineral Railway Company, for the recision of a contract fo ...

... RrJIor ES AT CONSTANTINOPLE. Saturday. —A French company, supported by M. Fowineer, the Ambassador here, has made an applica.tion to the Porto for a railway concession similar to that claimed by the Duke of Sutherland, who has the support of Sir A. H. L iyard. Both the Porte and the British Ambassa- dor deny the reports current here that aegociacions are proceeding for the cession af a p on ...

... t'j C stjxk DESPATCH.—The ss WIIHa.m Banks, Capt Morgan, left Havre_ Dock at 10 p.m. on Tuesday last, and docked in Ro.uh Basin, Cardiff', at 10 a.m. on Thursday, having competed tho iournev in 36 honrss ...