... L1TTIM. news has arrivced this week. Sir Garnet Wolseley, on his arrival at Cape Town, determined to go at once to Natal, where he woluhl be immediately sworn in as Commissioner, and, aft ...

... SPECIAL SUNDAY MORNING EDITION. AGRICULTURAL SHOW, YESTERDAX | VISIT OF :HER MIAJESTY. The Queen, Princess Beatrice,and PrinceLeopold left -Windsor at half-post nine yesterdaly morniag to visit the Agricultural Exhibition at Kilburn. The carly trains by nll the routes took down many thousands of visitors, nnd by 10 o'clock it was estimated that about 10,000 visitors had been admitted. Crowds ...

... From the Registar-general's return we learn that during the week ending July 12, 5,880 births and 2,949 deaths were registered in London and 22 other large towis of the United Kingdom. The mortality from all causes was at the average rate of 18 deaths annually in every 1,000 porsons living. The annual death-rate was 1S per 1,000 in Edin- burgh, 22 in Glasgow, and 22 in Dublin; Small-poxC ...

... PXOPOSAL TO A PA2L1AXENTARY I The select committee of the House of Commons appointed to inquire into the facts of the special report made by the select committee on the Tower-bridge Bill to the owse, touching upn an alleged breach of privi- lege, met on Thursday, Mr. Walpole in the chair. The other members of the committee ?? Solicitor. General, Mr. Grey, Mr. Dodson, and Mr. Pemberton. The ...

... A SEAMAN has no higher title of honour to bestow than the name of sailorman. In using it he implies that the comrade or officer to whom he, applies it is indeed a thorough seaman, who knows his work and will do it, whatever risk or toil it may entail. Whether the word is of old usage or has been invented in our own time to distinguish Jack from the fireman is a matter of doubt. It is certainly ...

... CTTid Obtata,214 OtW. REuTER'S TELEGRAMS. I FRANCWE. PARIS, July 9, Evenirg.-To-day an individual named Verdelet entered the Hall of the Council of State and fied four shots from a revolver. No one was hurt. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, July 9, 8 P.M.-The Porte has ordered the Crown pro- perty in Janina, Tricala, and Prevesa'to be sold without delay. Frequent despatches are being exchanged between ...

... - ?? I PARIS, Friday. -d rEST for the moment centres in the tussle between M. Jules Simon and the Government. M. Jules Simon was asked by Mdme. Thiers to make a speech at the approaching inauguration of the statue of the First President of the Republic and the Liberator of the Territory, at Nancy. To the great alarm of the Cabinet, he consented. Fearing lest be should seize this opportunity ...

... The bill for the demolition of the Tuileries was sent up to the French Senate yesterday, and, despite the warm opposition of the Right, was declared urgent. ?? Right, however, succeeded, with some votes from the Moderate Left, in getting the bill referred to a Committee appointed some time ago to consider the question of restoration, and this body will probably not report before next session. ...

... WE were right, it seems, in surmising yesterday that Lord Hartington's proposal of a new preamble to the Army Regulation Bill was intended to prepare the way for an attempt to abolish corporal punishment in the army altogether. Last night Mr. Forster gave notice on behalf of the leader of the Opposition of a motion to the effect that no bill for the dis- cipline and regulation of the army ...

... I .01k . lal 1;: 0 SA.TUIRlAY, JULY 26, 1879. 'WU~N x~riting, tial other day; on the Parlia.- li~entiny intiqliry illtO thle wrkig of co-opera- uise ores w>>e {sotike of' the bitterness and pi elee. displayed by many of those who have .dife tpc tlir parables gainst t -mdse f idable iolpetttcn'ti. It. is worth wvhiloe perihaps, to give i e pencimen of this, and we taket ie an illustra- ionl ...

... IMPEUIUL PARLTAMENT, 1t 'F -tut-ix:.% Let-I Truro W ?? t~~~it z:Q - thet ..v- ?? ?? -A - tin tisletni ion with- v ?? 'r~~anit dljsortu ve 1: it ;-;1r~spha o tiolt -utlrofeirred to, b)ut he Aft vroast bie ;uii~iuforined. F3)0 :,i Jit i;o7d tar ber Nla~cstys I1h 7;: ilxrira ninte iinpos-IPaM - -. . ~it' x~r' titd ul ?? ?? nti- ovie' the s:colnd I ot tak t , I i3 ?? till t ?? cetn(-teries. sin ...

... THE QUEWB U7nVSiT MUtic Yeaesterdayatlsomob oiudeptaii VA nected with th Qvieen's UniviitY had Su'llIwt the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who Was by Mr. Lowtber, Chief Sctayfor Ireland,7 -V ball, inrefeence to ?? University Bill. The first deputation. reptesentiag the Belfast Graduates? Associa, tieri conistedof M . Bn MoMordie, M.A., a member la of the Senate of Queen's University, MrW Edw5d ...