... A OUTLOOK. The continued and increasing depression in trade everywhere prevailing, has induced the Manchester Chamber of Commerce to ask the directors to hold an exhaustive inquiry as to its cause. It was stated that during the last five weeks there have been 102 English and 72 Scotch bankruptcies, 29 winding up mtices,and 1,215 liquidations. It is believed that (10 per cent, of the cotton ...

... The Central News correspondent, writing from Beyrout, says:—Commander Cameron is still en- gaged organising his expedition for exploring the Tigris Valley to ascertain its fitness for the pro- posed Indo-Mediterranean Railway. He holds this route preferable to the Euphrates Valley route, being better for trade, and more thickly populated. The expedition will be absent until the end of April at ...

... IX-tails of the great storm in America have been received at Queeustown. In Philadelphia over 40 churches aud hundreds of duelling houses were un- roofed or otherwise seriously damaged. The railroads there suffered a great deal, one was demolished, and several were damaged considerably. The loss of property along the rivers was large. In Chester 70 buildings were unroofed, and 11 manufactories ...

... The two children of Captain Grinatead, the master of the steamer Princess Alice, have been admitted into the Masonic Schools. The father was a Free- mason, and his brethren have naturally inte- rested themselves in behalf of his family. The admission of the two children, a boy and girl, has been accomplished without prejudice to other candidates, the sum of 2310 having been paid by the Mansion ...

... May) air says Next year the German Emperor will celebrate his golden wedding. I may mention that once before a golden wedding nas been celebrated at the Prussian Court. King Frederick the Great made merry over an event of the sort. He had no issue and the festival, besides, took place in circum- stances which contrast strangely with those in which the present head of the Hohenzollerns finds ...

... Great mortality prevails amount the children of Caerphilly. They first complain of sere threats, and • large number of the weaker ones are carried off by the fever which invariably follows. Mr Henry Jackson, J.P., held a special sitting on Monday, when he sentenced two tramps named Allen and Andrews to 7 days at Cardiff Gaol for begging by day and sleeping near the colliery fires at Nelson by ...

... The condemned culprit, Garcia, was convened back to Usk Gaol on Thursday. The prisoner was taken, in irons, in a cab to the Great Western Railway Station ■where a large crowd had assembled to witness his de- parture. A strong body of poliee was provided but it required their utmost exertions to convey the 'mur- derer through the crush refuge was eventually taken in the second-class refreshment ...

... A SWISS ROMANCE. OT A romance in real life, ending in what unlikely to prove a tragedy, is reported ^ie(j Berne. A good many years since a ma-11 ■, Bobren left his wife and his native went to America. For a long time no to in* vas heard of him, and his wife, thinkingby informa_ dead, and being confirmed in thib bo retu tion she received from a Switzer w marri from America, accepted an tribunal ...

... MR. SPURGEON.—The Rsv. C. H. Spurgeon, who has been very unwell for the last week, was not so far reaovered on Sunday as to permit of his offi- ciating at the Metropolitan Tabernacle. The ser- vices at night were conducted by the Rev. Mr. Spurgeon, Jun. THE BISHOP OF MANCHESTER ON IMPATIENCE TO GET Picitimr, -Bishop Fraser. preaching on Sunday morning in St. Barnabas's School Church, Rock- ley ...

... On Monday Miss 'Helen Tayler (member ef the School Beard for London) addressed a large meet- ing of her constituents at the South London Temperance Hall, Blaekfriars road. Having alluded to some difficulties and drawbaoks with reference to the business of the beard, Miss Taylor said the greatest of all the difficulties they had to contend with was the matter of corporal punishment. This, more ...

... The following appeared in Tuesday's Da ily Sir,Dr. Kenealy asks for the letter he wrote to roe. I send you a copy of it, which I will thank you to publish with this note. I have abstained from quoting much that Dr. Kenealy said to me fa the couversatiEm he refers to, and I will not go into the reason why he came to the conclusion never again to think of the sub- ject,—but the reason, I suspect ...

... While a man named Sherlock was making fire- works in his cottage a few days since at Cran- leigh, Surrey, a spark ignited the powder, and blew the cottage to pieces, killing his wife and father, and it is feared fatally injuring himself. ...