... Madame Kolland, who, with her husband, has beeIJ on a tour round the world, fell into the Niagara Rivet on Saturday, and was carried over the Falls. visited Three Sisters' Island, stooped with a cup to get drink, lost her balance, and fell into the rapiJS just above the Horse Shoe Fall, being carried away too quickly for her husband to rescue her. They are frotØ Liege, Belgium. Having ...

... A FREE FIGHT. GREAT EXCITEMENT. An unprecedented series of scenes of violence were enacted in the French Assembly on Tuesday. The special correspondent of the Standard, in the course of a long and graphic account of what took place, says:— I have no hesitation in saying that the author of all the mischief was M. Paul deCas- sagnac. He laid himself out to provoke and insult the majority, but ...

... A return, prepared at the instance of Mr. Sclater-Booth, shows that the number of wives of Army Reserve men who applied to the union authorities in England and Wales for relief during the time their husbands were called out last year was 494. The total number of the children under 16 dependent on their mothers was 1354; and the total amount of out-relief given was £4:>7. jjs. 5d. A similar ...

... LEO XIII. PRESIDING AT A PHILO- SOPHICAL DISPUTATION. We extract the following from The Timet of Monday, descriptive of a disputation by students In the presence of the Pope A noteworthy scene was enacted in the Vatican a few days ago, which still more fully reveals the means by which Leo. XIII. would endeavour to restore, not only the ecclesiastical, but, if he can, also the temporal glories ...

... The Bishop of Manchester, In concluding his sermon at Westminster Abbey in the evening, after appealing to the congregation for their sympathy on behalf of the be- reaved Empress, said ¡-What an unstable thing was human life I What fortunes had not that young Prince of twenty-three years passed through since the memor- able day which dawned so darkly for his House, and when he passed through ...

... TERRIBLE MURDER OF A A7IDOAV IN FRANCE. The youth, named Oliivier, who recently murdered his second cousin, Madame Leclerc, a widow, aged 75, in the Rue Noilet, took his trial last week at the assizes. He replied in a firm voice to the questions of the .judge, who reminded him of his having left school on flimsy pretexts, of his petty thefts in a shop where he acted as clerk, and of his ...

... It appears (says the London correspondent of the filaitchexter (huirdicui) that attempts are being made tc form another Australian team to visit England during the summer. If those who contemplate this ste]. are well advised, they will wait a year or two until that little affair of the outrage on the team which Lord Harris took out to the antipodes is for. gotten. Just now the Australian ...

... DEATH OF THE PRINCE IMPERIAL. A Central News telegram, received on Thursday night, says A telegram has been received in the House of Commons to-night stating that the Prince Imperial has been killed in South Afnca. 1 he telegram announcing the death of the Prince Imperial was received last night by Mr. Pender, M.P., ID the House of Commons, and he conveyed its con- en s to his brother ...

... A very charming comic opera, with a most amusing libretto, by the late M. Bazin, entitled Le Voyage en Chine, which enjoyed a long run at the Paris Opera Comique, has been adapted for the English stage, and brought out at the resus- citated Garrick Theatre, to the great delight of the eastern amateurs. An important point has been discussed at the Manchester Board of Guardians. A pro- posal ...

... At the Exeter police-court, on Wednesday, Annie W1 was brought up on remand charged Wlth the wilful murder of Reginald Hede, the illegiti- mate child of Mary Hoskings, of Camborne, Cornwall. Mr. Friend again appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. lloud was present on behalf of the prisoner, having been engaged by several gentlemen who sym- patbised with the accused in her undefended position. ...

... The Rev. M. Heidonheim, British Chaplain and Lecturer of Divinity in the University of Zurich, writes to the Times :-Cardin.al NSwman does not admit that had, as Professor Dollinger says, his books been translated into French, Italian, or Latin, some of them would have been put upon the' Index.' Dr. Newman's reply, of which I subjoin a literal translation, has appeared in the Mercury of ...

... SPECIAL SERVICES. — On Sunday and Monday the Spencer-street Welsh Baptists held special services, when the following ministers preached to large con- gregations—The Revs. T. T. Davies, Newport F. Mills, Abernant; and — Morton, Brynmawr. Col- lections were made in aid of the chapel funds. THE FAIR. -On Monday a fair was held on Briery- hill, when the show of cattle, pigs, &c., was very limited, ...