... CHILI AND PERU.-NAVAL ENGAGEMENT TRREE VESSELS SUNK. The following telegraphia intelligence was on Thursday afternoon received at Lloyds:- An engagement has taken place off Iquique be- tween the (Ihilian wooden vessels Esmeralda and Covadonga and the Peruvian armour-plated frigate Independencia, when all three sank. The Esme- ralila is stated to have been originally a Spanish gunboat. The ...

... FOR THE nY-B TuuM rNAnG Junr 7Tu1lU79. BY MR. GIOEN NY. (Editor of Glenny's Illustrated Garden Alinaneck.) OURt WEEKLY CALENDAR. Azalea l~nilie4- oon00 as these hove done hloomiinz, by Ca f enourasrging aL f iree larewili. pitos taceai in hieat, waterC Rein libe; aIlly, and syrinsec them frasly ovarhe; a. t - Iieisams.-lt will he tsesseary to shift these fi-onotl.Ind 'IO keep thorn in butt; ...

... THE Government keeps up its character for surprises, and consequently there ought to have been no astonishment when Parliament was duly informed by order of the Cabinet that after all the assertions to the contrary, Sir GARRNET WOLSELEY had been selected to go out in supreme command at the Cape, and in his civil and military capacity to supersede both Sir BARTLE FHERE and Lord COuELMSFORD. ...

... NAVY STATIONS FOR JtUNE,'1879. Achilles. lediteron Fahn,teulder toDLordiPlicaitu, acilla Aciet OC. Good Reop War~den Penelope. l1orwieb - or edhod one FlArmaingo, lilditeraan Penguin, Pacifei Agincourt. rasesogc to Fly'. C hiens flent, pcc-enge 1001 lnyvc ovrt Fermin. . C.Afric Pailoeer.yW.C. Africa Albacoreiermuda ForwarUi W.0. Africa Plover, i. A. & )N. I. Albeta. h'.~rbtiuouth oxe, channel ...

... FIRES IN THE METhOPOLIS. Up to yesterday morning at six o'clock 27 fires oc- curred in the imetropolis during the week against 2.5 in the previous week and 40 in the correspondinig period last year. Captain Shaw reports the follow- ing as causes of the fires :-Escape of gas 1, spirit ]amlp upset1, lightsi throwvn downl 2, stove impro. perly set 1. spontaneous ignition l, papsr falling on ...

... EPITOME OF FOREIGN AND GENERAsjjj SIR CHARLES FARQUHAR SHAeNa, Chief JuKt the Mauritius, has resigped tijat oice. tstee of TcafLFenecl Mlinister of Public Xorks is be advocate the conpletion of a dsop-water (Llt bo tween Havre and Itooen, Xlal! be. THE Glen line steamer Glencoe, with tl fret shfipmcent of sew season's tea on board (4 000,0001b left Woosung on May 27th.-Reute2 . Olb) A FRENCH ...

... PARIS ITEMS, (nROM OUR OWN COBRESPONDNT.) Pnis, May 30, Niclht,-We bad another press prosecution to-day. UI. Leo Taxil publishel a pamphlet some time ago with thle aggressive title of A bas la salotte. But the author certainly went too far in his ridicule of thle estalblished religion of France, and to-day found himself prosecuted and acquitted. The pamphlet itself surpasses anything Dl. ...

... IMPEDIMENTS TO THE ADVANCE OF THE ARMY. POSSIBLE INVASION OF NATAL. THREATENING ATTITUDE OF THE BOERS. MORTALITY AND SICKNESS AMONGST THE ENGLISH TROOPS. Cape Town, May 14. A Cape Tiases telegram from Fort Pearson reports that Dabulasnanzi and another chief, while trying to reach the Tugela to surrender, were intercepted by a large impi sent by Cetywayo; many were killed, Dabulamanzi among ...

... LATEST INTELLIGENCEI Br SPECIAL XXI'5ESS AND ELETrr c TELMO r.nAP r rrC LL PARTS OF THE WORLD. OUTRAGE ON A EUROPEAN COMMISSION. THE REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENtD IN RUSSIA. MORE FIRES. A SERIOUS NAVAL ENGAGEMENT. THREE VESSELS SUNK. The following telegraphic intelligence has been re- ceived:- An engagement has taken place off Iquique between the Chilian wooden vessels Esmeralda and Covadonga' ...

... .A SUDDEN CHANGE O0 YRONT IN AFRICA. The Beaconsfield Government must be cre- dited with the faculty of surprising their sup- porters. Only a few weeks ago they were asked to sustain the Government and the Queen in their determination to express confidence in Lord Chelmsford, the commander-in-chief at Isandula, and in a mild admonition to Sir Bartle Frere, who went to war with two thou- sand ...

... ROYALTY'S ADVERTISEXENT. TO TIHE EDITOR OF R.EYNOLDS'S NEWSPAPER. Siit,-An intelligent Parisian coming to London just now would be strack with lthe energy royalty is showing in advertising its existence. Go where he might, or read what he chanced, our republican friend would lind it impoasible to get away from the effllgenec of the Crown. it ?? pursue him like a tire- less shadow, and ...

... I I The expected arrival of thle company of the Corn6. dig, Franpaise at Charing'cr05 station caused a lively little scene there last evening. Tile time at Which the tidal tr-ain, by which the distinguishied members of the coinvtivy travelled, wits announced to :arrive was 8.3;35. nid a number of ladies and gentlenalein were ol the platform ien expecta- tiou. Inut it betanile knlipwi shortly ...