... I TESTERDAY'S PROCEEDINGS. The hearing of the charges of conspiracy and fraud, made against the seven directors and general manager of the late West of Eneland bank, was restaned at Bristol yesterday morning. Miss Ann Gandy. of Clifton-road, Exeter, stated that she first bodgit shares in the bank in 1864, and from that time she had annually received the reports, and believing in them she had ...

... TEE C:IpTLnR Or CETYAY0. . I ,I. A telegram announces that Cetywu\-yo is cap. tured, and that he was fo:.nd in the north-east Of Zululand. Assuuiing the report to be true, we hope that he will be as well treated as I'Yakoob Khan. There is no reason to be- ,ieve that Cetywayo ever hated us; there is only evidence that Cetywayo was hated by :Sir Bartle 1Frere. is we have got him, fe have at ...

... 'ACCZDENW TO THE EUPHRATES. intense excitement prevailed in Portsmonth onWed- nesday evening, in consequence of a rumour that the Euphrates had been capsized as she was being got out of dock. Happily the report was an exaggeration; for, although an accident occurred to the huge trooper, the officials acted with becoming promptitude, and all risk to the ship was averted. It will be, however, ...

... MA SKvS AND FA CES IN the opinion of Talleyrand language was given us to conceal our thoughts. Do the people who inveigh against the duplicity of this sentiment ever pause to consider what an inconvenient thing it would be, if every one at all times was obliged to say exactly what he was thinking ? What shocks politeness would receive-if indeed social intercourse were possible at all; but ...

... PREMA TURE CONCL USIONS OF POL rCY. WITHIN the last few days a controversy has been raised upon the question, What are we to do with Afghanistan when we have conquered it ? The debate, except as showing that annexa- tion outright need in no case be thought of, appears to be some- what premature. We do not yet know with any degree of exactitude what our position in reference to the country is, ...

... V04 Obtuin2ld otb)4. REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. THE AUSTRIANS IN NOVI-BAZAR. VIENNA, Sept. 5.-A telegram from Serajevo published here announces that the Austrian Commission which recently entered the sandjak of Novi- Bazar will return to Serajevo to-day. The inhabitants of Plevlje made no demonstration on their departure from that town. The Duke of Wurtemberg will arrive at Tchainitza on Sunday next, ...

... THM COST OLF XING-1 YEAING. Fatal folly, combiled with. criminal credulity are the characteristics of our policy both ill Asia and Africa. After we have bullied Zuius and Afghans to our heart's content, wve prove u1p puppets for no other seeming purpose than to have them knocked over. When Yakoob Khan signed the Treaty of Gandamak the Englich journals, with few exeentions. w ere load in their ...

... rRANCE. From fifteen to twenty thousand persons witnessed the arrival of 108 Communists, who returned to France in the Sasdre. Their sanitary condition was bad. M. Louis Blanc wont to meet them, and received an enthu- siastic ovation. At the Leclerc Restaurant, where a re- past was laid out 'for the amnestied Federals, on being called upon to address them, he thus spoke - I am too much ...

... SUNDAY, SZPTEMBER 14, 1879.- SECOND EDITION. ARISTOCRAar AND WEE LAND. Aristocracy is done for. Feudalism is at an end. It is discounted by Chicago, Odessa, and Alexandria. It is no longer possible for land. lords to get tenants for land, any more than it is possible for farmers to make a profit. We are coming to the break up of the landed system. It is gone, and may be the subject of a ...

... LOVE, JEALOUSY, AND SUICIDE. On Tuesday the body of a young lady, agedappareutly about 18 years, well-dreased, was discovered floating in the river Thames, near Woolwich, by a boatman named James Fulton, residing at Gravesend. On one of the fingers deceased bad a gold eneaged ring chased with true lovers' knots. Besides some ordinary jewellery. such as watch and chain, bracelets, and earrings, ...

... NAVY STATIONSFOR.SEPTEIBrR,1879. I Achilles. cditri briyWU f Africst idrsrci. U. ot ireion ActjetQPOage home Ire Queen. portsmb Osborne. Portsmouth Agincourt. I V~ i~rirmn, tatder to Lord (Spray, Panama Albacore, Ber~muda Warden Pgoo.oo,ChiOO Alberta. Portsmouth Flamingo. N. A. and Pelican. Pacific Alart .SIeia aerviceo ii llOD I Pmeneope, Harwrigh Alor'dcre home d roereIY c !iBe Penguin, ...

... (FROM AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDEN2. ALIWAL NORTH, AuGasr 21. Ahe siege of Moirosi's mountain progresses very slowly, if indeed it progresses at all. It is now more than six months since Moirosi entrenched himself behind his stone walls, which he might easily have been prevented doing had the Colonial forces under Commandant Griffiths cut him off when he was in the plain near Palmietfontein in ...