... GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS (Recrer's PROROGATION OF THE | FRENCH CHAMBERS. Versailles, Aug. 2. M. Waddington, the President of the Ministry, read a decree to-day in the Senate Chamber of Deputies declaring the session closed. The Cham- ber will re-assemble on the 25th November or the lst of December. Previous to the prorogation, M. Matezieux, President of the Tariff Committee, stated in the Chamber ...

... and for some time a free fight was indulged in among a crowd numbering several hundreds. he prin- cipal combatants were two young men—Hugh ‘“Garvic, R.C., and Craig, geman—who ged in a regular prize fight, hounded several supporters. The disturb- on b lasted for nearly an hour, but on the arrival of the police the ringleaders took flight, and apprehension. On the previous night a flute band ...

... SATURDAY MORNING, 16, By the arrival of the mail steamer Dublin Dastle at Madeira we have news from the Cape to the 29th of July. Sir Garnet Wolseley was rapidly maturing his plans for the readvance on Ulundi and for the capture of Cetewayo. The latter had sent messengers of inferior rank stat- ing that he wished to surrender, but fears being killed. By order of Sir Garnet, an answer has been ...

... ARVEST PROSPECTS. (BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) Tux forecast which we gave of the harvest of 1877 might, with a few alterations, be reprinted as being im many respects applicable to the present year. So far as regards ¢ime, it is im very way the game, the chief difference in the forecast of that year and it is a gratifying one—consists inthe fact that the crops of the present seasen, if they ...

... (FROM OUR OWN CORBESPONDENT.) London, Monday Night. Tue August bank holiday, although uot so popular nor so generally observed as the holi- days at Christmas, Easter, and Whitsuntide, was duly prepared for by the managers of the various places of public entertainment. The glorious uncertainty of our British climate must be provided for; and while a tine bank holiday empties town into the ...

... CATT. OWS. STRATHEARN AGRICULTURAL society was held off this Colonel 8 (ot there were some very fair animals Mr Mors Prince Alfred was I second place a8 a yearling st at the ahow beld at and is an animal of excelient quali and has always come 4 ‘Tot pair of showa by Mr D. Hally, Meinab, which were a guineas. MrJ. Dow's (of the first place, and is a grand specimen comparatively few horses of ...

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... sum,realised is £T MorHERWELL.—Afiners’ — —A méteting was held at the Red Cartin, ee there ‘being about 300 present—Mr Edward chairman. Themen agreed - cam- meuce the restricted darg and short Lourd imme- Lavarksuire Mivers’ Assavia- diately, tion. It join the Was repo! that Gibbs's. work, had got the advance of 6d per day, and Newarthill, men had got the promise of the advance ot th ning of ...

... _ (Revres’s Serajevo, August 8. A ont thi afternoon in the of Serajevo, The whole of this part of the town is in flames, and the fire threatens to The Duke of Measures to prevent its ...

... last month at Salzburg, we see mentioned among the guests, our fellow-tewnsmen, Signori Zavertal, Mr Zavertal, senior, we understand, an intimate friend of Karl Mozart, and ism of two valuable manuscripts of the | possession alse of a likeness of! | Leopold Mozart, his , and a very success- ful portrait in oil of “‘Constanz,” wife. 8 Zavertal possesses also several interesting lesters from his ...

... WEDNESDAY MORNING, 6. Im the House of Lords yesterday, the Petro- feum Act (1871) Amendment Bill and the Lord Clerk-Register (Scotland) Bull were read » third vanced. In the House of Commons, at the morning sitting yesteniay, Mr W. H. Smith, replying to Mr Jeakizs, said he was not aware that the feet had been sent to Hesika Bay, though pos- ably im taking its usual cruise it might be there at ...

... for £30 10s, tor share loss in joint adveuture between pur suer and one Melville in the purchare v 19 fat cattle, at the price of £513. The pursuer ‘averred that he bad sold tu detender his right ‘v one-half of the profit im this transaction at the price of £5, and that the deiender had to repay to the pu rsuer his share of auy joss that might be sustaiued, The £30 10s sued for is the alleged ...