... A GLOOMY DESCRIPTION OF . RU:SA1 LIFE. - - .. . . I , r The Moscow Gazette furnishes the following U picture of the present condition of Bussis in arn article conta-ned in one of the last numbers of e that newspaper to hand. It may be fairly re. , garded us an unprejudiced view of the pervading r characteristics of social and domestic life in the D Czar's dominioms: Whichever side of oar ...

... Major Harry R. Bowlby, 1st Battalion 20tll Foot has been appointed chief com- mandant of military police a.t. Cyprus. Yakoob Khan arrived at the British camp at Gandauiak yesterday afternoon, and ex- pressed a desire to the Viceroy for the es- tablishment of friendly relations. ...

... MOVEMENTS OJ. SOUTH WAIVES VESSELS. Otavea;a s«, Capt ljuen. left Bilbao on Wednes- day. f..r Yewpnrt.. Handaff M, Capt Lodg-e, put into Penzance on We(ities,.Ia.y- niht through Qtre. of weather. North Devon s- ...

... [SFRCtAL REOttT FROM OUR OWX COhRHSP.:)fD:NT.] MiDDt.ESBOKOUGH. Thursday.- -The issue of the voting papers in connection with the Durham strike is awaited with 6o:ne interest in thisdi-'trict. The coalo\ners have cone half-way towards the men, and it is for the latter to resj'ond if they ant the dispute settled, and to again get to wo:k. So'ne, however, fear that the men are under an ...

... A BARQUE DISMASTED. Early on Sunday morning the ship Indian Carts- burn, of London, in tow of the steam-tug Leader, ca.TM into collision with the Austrian barque Sitvia. The barque had been at anchor for some tine, when the ship, in rounding-to, fouled her, completely dismasting her, leaving only a stump of the tnizenmast standing. The ship sustained some damage, and was docked at Fenarth a ...

... WEDr FRWYDR. (AFTER THE BATTLE.) Dros rawd y dewr gwyll, Tra mellt adangosai'r pellgyrch fryn Saif gorchfygol lu y frwydr hyll, Yu welw. eta yn ddigryn Gobeithioa elaer y milwr Sel y gwiadgar r sydd yn o pwy a y siomaut sy', Pau clol a bywyd yw ei ran, Awr olaf b re u daw yd rhyddid ddaeth, Y gorchwyl dewr ar cucil sydd, Mud y gwyliant tua'r dwyraiu faith, Gwel inarw o dan wenau'r dydd Mae ...

... THE OCEAN COLLIERIES AND THE PROPOSED 10 PER CENT RE- DUCTION. tYROM A SPECIAL CORIUSPOSDEST. J The four collieries worked br the Ocean Col- liery Company are Cwmparke, Cwmdare, Ton, and Bwllfa. Previous to the mass meeting of miners at Treorky last week, the Cwmparke, the C'.viiilare men, and Bwllfa mea had agreed to accept the 10 per cent redaction those employed at the TOil Colliery—aud ...

... THE RESULT OF JEALOUSY AT CHEPSTOW. At the Chepstow police-court on Thursday, Elizabeth wife of an employe at the Severn Tunnel, was charged with assaulting and beating a girl named Jane Stringer, at Caldicot. 7c appeared that defendant was suspicious that her husband paid attentions to Miss Stringer, in consequence of which she gave her three slaps in the face. Mrs Ro.viands, who appeared ...

... PROBABLE PROCLAMATION OF MARTIAL LAW. The transport difficulty occasions much anxiety. Martial law is much desiderated by the military authorities, conferring the right to requisition, and the civilian autho- rities are inclined to comply. So it will probably come into effect. but no martial law will hinder the black drivers from bolt- ing from duty in their reluctance to enter Zululand. ...

... A curious story (the Sfatis remarks) cornea freIè Germany. The Free Trade newspapers of that notice that a certain German ironworks—the Rah- rort-tendered rails for the supply of the Dutoh Railways at t5. per 1,000 kilos., being the lowest, and, therefore, the successful bid; but it tendered to the Prussian Main-Weser State Railway, foreigs tenders being excluded in that case by Miniateriet ...

... The Daily New. correspondent in Rome, telegraph- ing, says:—The Victories of the Faith in Rome and Henry (sic) Newman, a Cardinal of the Holy Church,—such is the title of a leader in Unita Oat- toliea, It says What manner of man Dr. Newman is the Anglicans themselves have told us. According to Dr. Pusey, he was destined to restore to the in- stitution of Henry the Eighth the splendour it had ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS.—MONDAY. Their Lordships met at five o'clock. LORD CHELMSl'ORD AND THE HOERS. The Earl of CADOGAN read a telegram whico- had been received at tlie Colonial Otnce, iom le Secretary to the High Commissioner at the Cape, dat.'d the 27th of Aprii, aud stated.tliat High Commissioner telegraphed fvorA Jre 'ia that tlie Boers' camp broke up on the lbth i St., and tliat all dispersed ...