... OF THE, UNrIED KINGDOM, FOR AGRICULTURAL AND SANITARY PURPOSES, FOR THE WEEK ENDING AUGUST 11TEH, 1879. (Issued by the Meiteorological Office.) femperature Rainfall. - X = w ! . Dr - ttalf- .More or Dr. c 4 c rbelow No. of fall less than Districts. Meaoun Rainy for the Mean > for Days. the forthe O O week. week. week. WHEAT-PRO- 10ths 10ths of an DUCING: Deir Deg Deg Des. F. of In. Inch. ...

... OllY- THE superfluous stock of oratory which mem- v him bers carry down with them front St Stephen's 12 to their constituencies is seldom of the freshest I wore and most exhilarating description. But with. a a the moribund Parliament and uncertain party plat- t ,ures forms miore interest is likely to attach to the un- a rans- ilian restricted utterances of members than to the c and remarks ...

... THIE AFFAIRS OF FRANCE. STATEMENT BY M. WADDINGTON. PARIS, Thursday evening. °tood . MWaddington, at a banquet given by the Prefect of the Aisne to the Council-General of the Department, i made a speech upon political questions, in the course of ance hich he reviewedl the work done by the Legislature c I during the last six Months. Speaking of the Ferry WtoI Bill, the Minister said the object ...

... 'GENER~AL GA1BALTr AND THE POPE . RO3XEi Wednesday. General Garibaldi is much better, and the Pope is in the enjoyment of perfect health. TAE AUSTRIAN MINISTERIAL CRISIS. - I BERLIg, Wednesday. I It Was yesterday announced with considerable show ef authority from Vienna that Count Karolyfi is to be appointed Count Andrassy's successor. The press at Berlin, however, is decidedly sceptical on ...

... A. *? -? -.-- LA? - ½ -]3id-i, Aikevjun., Master of >lc founder,. Louvauj in regar.d to the beh~j jQ -~coa L-hWiChll to M. Van Aerschldt . ,rom rC een 4th Junei.8S wrt yw time e Sgo, are 'only now beong cj considered. 0 wbllgf A clc is in course of const byte Bland &0 Co., Croydon, and the °Towyn Cuniiltt, resolved to provide ene bell of 3Bet aCUtlbl whic must stiike the hoezrs, and also (and0 ...

... coST OF THE HARBOUR BIL DETAILE ACCOVST OP THE X . ,fviowing detailed account of the expenses in I >co with (1) the prOmotIon of an th6e pre. q jo:! meeting the opposition to the A brte r tfroa 3 Act, 1879, and (2) the opposition > ur 0omiissioners and the Townl Council to the l ab dn Harbour Constitution Amendient- Bill, l ilber lad before the Commissioners at their monthly P t oday. The ...

... 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 ...