... EVENTS IN RUSSIA Our' Oorrpondent at St.:Pet writes: After a short absence from St. Petersburg I find all around traces of the storm that raged here on I the 4th and 5ts ingt.-pavements dislocated, ttees d blown down, carrying with them diiLdiceltPali6l5, tg and cellars flooded, as might be exptedtwhen it is a remembered. that the Neva rose seven feet H ove b its normal level, and' that once ...

... THE DISTRESS AT MIDDLESEROUOH. (BY IELU0Srii.) C (FROM OUR ow. Co1iflitS'ONfNlET.) A MIDDLESBROUGTH, SETr. li. Many people cannot understand why there as should be deeper distress in Middlesbroagh now than lit there was last winter. They say the weather is still warns, w while then it was bitterly cold, and that work is now no hi wore diliicult to get. In the latter conclusion they err. Work ...

... LONDON. MONDAY, SEPT. 8. We publiuh to-day the latest telegrams, u well as an oficial despatch from the India Office rela- tive to the alarming outbreak in Cabul, news of which arrived in London on Saturday. It was 1 then stated that the British Embassy there had been attacked by several Afghan regiments, which had assembled in the city demanding their arrears of pay. The muatineers bad been ...

... :LOBD BUBGHLEY AND THE TENANT FARM.U~ THU EB DITO~I O? Til DilLY i=W 8IR,-Like hundreds more, I read with ixdign3s tion the utterance of Lord Burghley to the farmers el Nortbarmpton, that their wives and daughtera should not receive what is commonly called a liberal education, play on the piano, at lawn tennis, &c., being riquired to exist solely for the agricultural iterest. This, as you ...

... (BY A LONDON CORRESPONDENT.) Art never fulfils its purpose more nobly than when giving us not ocly pleasure and fresh vigour in our hours of ease and conte-n plation, but providing us with food for wholesome thought. I have often felt that the arts of the poet and the actor and the novelist are sadly undervalued. People have an erroneous notion that fiction is synonymous with lies. No. True ...

... FIRST EDITION, 2.30 p.m. (REUTER'S TELEGRAM.) SIMLA, Sept. 8.-Three mutinous Afghan regiments are reported to have marched from Cabul. The behaviour of the frontier tribes is not at present unfavourable. In official circles, Ayub Khan and other chiefs are suspected of having incited and being implicated in the revolt at Cabul. The Viceroy has telegraphed to. the Home Government requesting ...

... News was current yesterday in Bombay, and was telegraphed to England, that Yakoob Khan was dead; but it was not pretended that any authenticated information had been received from Cabul. So far as appears, the Indian Government are still in ignorance of the state of affairs in the Afghan capital. A statement has been published, which is traced to Shikarpore merchants trading with Central Asia ...

... FIRST EDITION, 230 p.m.3 (REUTER'S TELEGRAM.) SIMLA, Sept. 29, 2.15 P.M.-Tabir Khan, Governor of Khelat-i-Ghilzai, has written a letter to Major St. John, expressing pleasure at the approach of the British forces and promising supplies of provisions. The British force from Candahar will probably advance upon Ghuzne. Cholera is decreasing in the 9th Regiment. (FROM THE SECOND EDITION OF THE ...

... THE most eminent of French journalists, after a bitter criticism of the Pilgrimages to Lourdes and La Salette, which have been this year more numerously attended than ever, and probably all the more numerously attended through the feud between the French Government and the Church, ends his article with the question, Where in all this is the place of Jesus Christ? The question is directly ...

... IN spite of the embarrassments and reverses which so persistently beset and befall the Government in foreign affairs, their political prospect, at home has within the last fortnight sensibly improved. The causes of that improvement can be traced with perfect ease and certainty. The Government owe their gradual recovery of popular favour in part to the turn of events on the Continent, and in ...

... SPECIAL SUNDAY EDITION, CONTAINING ALL YESTERDAY'S NEWS. LLOYD'S WEEKLY NEWSPAPER OFFICE, SUNDAY MORNING. TlHE REVOLT AT CABUL. OCCUPATION OF SHUTARGARDAN BY GENERAL lMIASSEY. We have received the following official despatch from the Viceroy of India, dated 13th September:- Shutargardau was occupied without opposition by General Massey on Thursday evening, (REOTER'S TELEGRANS,) SIMsA, Sept ...

... | MASSACRE OF THE BRITISH EMBASSY. EBEROIO DEFENCE & DESPERATE CHARGE. THE AMEER APPEALING FOR AID. MESSAGE OF SYMPATHY FROM THE QUEEN ADVANCE OF BRITISH TROOPS. The attack on the British Embassy at Cabal [which we reported on Saturday last) ended, as was feared, in the massacre of the Envoy, Sir Louis Cavagnari, and his companions. Only three were Englishmen-M1r. William Jenkyns, ?? Ben- gal ...