... The anticipations of a gathering of Albanians threatening the Servian frontier have proved correct, siys a Belgrade telegram. It is an- nounced that their assembled forces number about 8000 men. ...

... A Home Rule demonstration took place on Sun- day in Glasgow. A procession was formed, and marched through the principal streets to a field, about six miles to the west of the city. Here speeches were delivered by Mr. John Ferguson, who presided, and others. Resolutions were unanimously adopted declaring that if the Scotch continued to dominate Liberal action, the Home Rulers would vote for the ...

... RR, CATTLEITEAMERTSUNK. Ihe steamer SemlranwJe^ of Newcastle, bound from Boston for Liverpool with cattle, was on Tuesday morning, about one hundred miles wes^ of Cape Claar, by collision^ with the steamer Corsica, bound from Bristol for New York, in ballast. The crew were all saved, and were brought into Qaeenstown harbour on \V eduesday morning by the Corsica, which had her cutwater started. ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS. TUESDAY.—Their lordships met at five o'clock. MISCELLANEOUS. The Lord Chancellor laid on the table for con- sideration during the recess a bill for the Consoli- dation of the Enactments respecting Municipal Corporations, the Artisans' and Labourers' Dwell- ings and Improvement Act (1875) Amendment Bill, the East Indian Loans ( £ 5,000,000) Bill, the East India Loans Bill,and ...

... On Thursday (yesterday) a gamekeeper, named Donald Watson, was fined ±5 at Inver- ness for killing game in the close time. ...

... The Jumna troopship arrived at Plymouth on Wednesday. The Daily Chronicled reporter imme- diately went on board and thus describes his interview with Captain Carey: On boarding the Jumna I found Carey, looking well and in good spirits, and although his uniform betokened that he was a pri- soner, yet the arrest is merely nominal. Notwith- standing this, however, he was unable to land, which he ...

... GOVERNMENT PROSECUTION OF DIRECTORS. On Tuesday afternoon there was a stir among com- mercial circles in Bristol, as it had been whispered about that an application was to be made to the ma- gistrates for summonses against the directors and managers of the late West of England and South Wales District Bank that afternoon. The rumour proved correct, as Mr Hare, of the firm of Hare and Fell, ...

... PENAL SERVITUDE ACTS. The Commissioners appointed to inquire into the working of the Penal Servitude Acts have made their report, in which they give the following as the recommendations to which they attach the greatest importance :— 1. That in order to prevent contami- nation of the less hardened convicts by old and habitual offenders, a separate class should be formed (subject to the ...

... A PHILADELPHIA paper says: 'Rag gathering is the only business in this city which is worth pick- ing up.' THE lesson of the present hours—Sixty seconds makes one minute, and sixty minutes makes one hour. A Corkonian, on being asked at breakfast how ho same by that black eye,' replied that he ...

... News of a shocking murder committed in County Moath late on Sunday night reached Dublin on Monday. The body of a man named Thomas Tandy, a large farmer, of Athboy, has been found lying in a ditch in one of his own fields with such marks that show that he has been violently assaulted and shot. Deceased was 60 years of age, and it is said he was a man of eccentric habits. He was worth JE1500 a ...

... James Dilly was executed at Newgate on Monday morning for the murder of his illegitimate child. He was informed on Sunday of the reprieve of his paramour, Rainbow, and seemed greatly pleased thereat. Dilly never denied his guilt, and acknowledged the justness of his sentence. On Sunday night he enjoyed undisturbed repose. He walked with some difficulty to the scaffold, and appeared very ...

... NEWPORT TOWN COUNCIL. The fortnightly meeting of the Watch Committee was held at the Council-room, Town-hall, on Tuesday when there were present :-J. Moses, Esq. ex-Mayor, (in the chair); Councillors W. West, B. Evans, GolS, S. Goss, J. Maddock, H. A. Huzzey, H. P. Bolt, and R. Davies, the new member for the South Ward. u The minutes of the last meeting were read by the Deputy Town Clerk, and ...