... In view of the expected compromise between the German Government and the Vatican there is serious talk of the establishment permanently of a Papal Nuncio at Berlin. Prince Bismarck is known to favour the idea, believing that the presence of a Nuncio at the German capital will materially assist in maintaining an understand- ing on leading political questions.-Pall Mull Gazette. ...

... At a conference of workmen engaged in sugar mdustneson Tuesday, it was resolved to send a de- legate to the \V est Indies to investigate the con dition of the sugar cultivation. The Bishop of Manchester has written a letter to the secretary of a committee formed in South- wark to agitate the cat question. The bishop, who has been invited to attend a meeting on the subject, says he is hardly ...

... The Rev. W. Muncaster, who has won golden opinions in the black country, where he was stationed some years, and who has latterly been travelling on the Bristol circuit, has resigned the ministry under peculiar circumstances. It ap- pears that he contemplates marrying a lady who has obtained a divorce from her husband for mis- conduct and cruelty. The Wesleyan Conference not approving of this ...

... The following is the address of sympathy from the wives, mothers, and sisters of Capetown and vicinity:—To her Imperial Majesty the Empress Eugenie.—Madame,—We, the under- signed, wives, mothers, and sisters of the city of Capetown and its neighbourhood, whilst reluctant to disturb a grief too sacred for any words of ours, desire earnestly to express, with the deepest respect, our most ...

... ARREST OF A- SUFPOOED MURDERER. On Wednesday night Ubaldo Campagnoli. an Italian shoemaker,, who- has resided in Cardiff for about five years, to a Metropolitan police constable by the Cardiff police authorities, for transference to Italy, under the Extradition Treaty between England and that country. The accused is- charged with having, committed murderatAnoona, Italy, oiasy years ainoe, and ...

... RESPrTE OF THE DERBY MURDERER. The toilowing communication has been received by Mra Hollas, chairman of the public meetiDg- held in Derby in favour of respiting the convict ^.laiuwaring for the tnarder of a Whitehall, 12th August, 187D. SlR,—Tbe Secretary of State for the Home De- partment having considered your application on behalf sf, Gerald Mainwaring, I have the satisfaction to acqpaint ...

... 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 ...

... Mr. J. M. Stillman describes, in the American Journal of Science and Art, a new resin obtained from San Bernardino County, California, which appears to possess entirely different properties and composition from any organic mineral here- fore described. The name of Bernardinite is proposed for this mineral resin. SIGNALLING ON RAILWAYS.—Any mechanical in- vention tending to lessen the risk or ...

... COLLISION AT SEA.—14 LIVES LOST. A Lisbon telegram of Monday night saya :—The English steamer Lucretia has been in collision off South Finisterre with the Spanish steamer Gon- gora, which went down. Fourteen Spaniards were drowned. The Lucretia, which is damaged, has come into this port, bringing nine survivors of the unfortunate vessel. ...

... Genial good humour reigned supreme-as well it might—at the Mansion House banquet to Her Majesty's Ministers. With the end of a not unsuccessful Session in sight, it was meet that Lords Beaconsfield and Salisbury and Sir Stafford Northcote should make merry with their friends and it must be admitted by the very surliest of democrats that the proceed- ings exhibited a well-justified jauntiness. ...

... HOUSE OF COMMONS. MONDAY.—The Speaker took the chair at four o'clock. NOTICES FOR NEXT SESSION. Notices were given for next session by Mr. Anderson to re-introduce the Married Women's Property (Scotland) Bill; Mr. Blennerhassett to move a resolution in favour of the total abolition of distress for rent in agricultural holdings in Ireland; by Mr. M'Arthur to call attention to the taxation of ...