... The special correspondent of the Cape Town Daily Telegraph, in a despatch says :— The Colonial wal with the rebel Basutos is causing both anger and grief here. It is only the wisdom of the policy which sustains the popularity of Government. Officers in Basutoland, as in Zululand, seem incapable of doing anything the only difference is that in Basutoland we fight and are defeated, and in ...

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... At the Central Criminal Court., on Monday, the Recorder advised the grand jury to return a true bill against Hannah Dobbs for the murder of Miss Hacker in Euston square. Messrs. Macmillan and Co. have in preparation a new series of Classical Reading Books for the lower forms of schools, selected from the beat Greek and Latin authors. Miss Florence Hyde and Mr. Ives, members cf Mr. DOyley ...

... At a delegate meeting of the steam coal colliers at Merthyr on Monday, 32,000 men being represented out of 40,000 employed, it was resolved, by a large majority, to concede to the associated masters the ten per cent. reduction asked for, although an endeavour will be made to get the masters to take a less re- duction by taking ten per cent. from the wages of 1875. It was also resolved to ask ...

... A Times telegram from Simla says: The Burmese situation is still very unsatisfactory, but the tendency on the whole is towards the slow subsidence of the alarm and irritation produced at first by the King's wholesale slaughter of his relatives. The British frontier troops are still on something like a war foot- ing. The exertions of the King to call out what he terms his army have, indeed, ...

... Mrs. Scott Siddons gave 11 recitation a few days since at the Olympic. Her style has not im- proved during her absence, as her effective elocution is marred by restlessness of movement. A BROAD HiNiw-Last Monday, Mr. C. W. Royal, 'if this city, placed some very nice young potatoes upon our table, raised in his own garden. Thanks. We would modestly suggest that we have no objection to sampling ...

... THE BOYHOOD OF THE PRINCE IMPERIAL. Napoleon 111. had been married three years when the birth of the Prince Imperial took place, the ,1(1 ill March, ISod Driving through the Bois de Yincennes some months before, the Empress Eugenie had made a vow that if a son were bom to her, she would erect a chapel on a spot which she designated and there the chapel stands now, for no vow was more gladly ...

... THROAT AFFECTIONS AND HOARSENESS.—All suf fering from irritation of the throat and hoarseness will be agreeably surprised at the almost immediate relief afforded by the use of Brown's Bronchial Troches. These famous lozenges are now sold by most respectable chemists in this country, at Is. lid. per box. People troubled with & hacking cough, a slight cold, ot bronchial affections cannot ...

... BRISTOL CATTLE MARKET. THIKSDA- Bed-uwderate supply—best, 7Ss. to 80s.; middling. OSs. to 70s. Mutton—in demand— best Wethers, to lOd. LaID lJ-plentiful, in request—at 10J. :300 Store Cattle, and though the prices were lower a cjood many left unsold. 750 Pigs—Bacon, 9s. Gd, Porkers, 10s. (id. ...

... TUESDAY.—Their Lordships met at five o'clock. CORPORATIONS AND CEMETERIES. Earl in moving the second reading of the Public Health Act (1875) Amendment Bill, said the bill was such a small one, that he did not think it would excite any controversy, especially as it took the question of burials. out of the atmosphere of religious controversy. It put the subject on a broad, intelligible, and ...

... JN HiW.FU.tVl POLICE INTELLIGENCE. COUNTY POLICE.—SATURDAY. [Magistrates T. GRATREX, Esq. (in the chair), F. J. HALL, R. W. HAMILTON, and J. FIRBANK, Esqrs.] RIDIXG WITHOUT REINS AT NASH. — Matthew Williams was charged with riding without reins.— P. C. Melsom stated that on the 20th inst, about 4.40 p.m., he saw defendant asleep and without reins riding on a waggon, drawn by three horses, at ...

... At a meeting of the Portsmouth Town Council. on Tuesday, a V,ote of condolence with the Em- press Eugenia was unanimously agreed to. Late On IT onclay night, the body of a man un known, wriS found in a cellar at Halifax. It was partly es tr,n by maggots, and had probably lain in the c ^]]ar for a month. Tb.o Duke of Cambridge, the Prince of Saxe- We'xmer, and the Crown Prince of Sweden visited ...