... THE DESTRUCTION OF POMPEII. COMMEMIORATION OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTENARY. (BY SUBMAREIN TELEGRAPH.) (FROM OUR SPEWCI CORRESPONDENT.) NAPLES, SzrT. 25, Evzsuo. Pompeii in the flush of her prosperity never witnessed an assembly so distinguished as that which thronged her silent street& and tenanted her deserted houses on this the eighteenth cen- tenary of her destruction. Under the Italian colours ...

... BOOKS FOR HOSPITALS AND CONVA I LESCENT H[OMES. T0 THE 3BITOR O THE DALY SEWS, Sin,-Permit me thus to testify my great oblige. tion to you. and my correct appreciatiou of the well-known definition of gratitude, by asking you to insert anothei appeal fromn me on the above subject. Out of the fifty. one hospito s that there arc mn Loudon and its neighbour- hood, I have been enailed to stock, ...

... BISHOP COLENSO ON IHE SIATION - IN ZIVLAND, TO T= ?? OF THED DAILT 3ZWs. SnI,-In a letter whiotb I have received from the bislop of 4'Aial, dead 1'SiBshoptitow, July 25, he mentions the fact- incerepor ed by telograph-that early in August Sir Gpaet Wolaelgy would meettia Zuluchiefs atUlun4i4, and. then and there proclaim the terms of peace. On thissubjecthe saya: If lord Chelaisovd had ...

... TEE BISQoP OF NAT ON THE mu W&R. The Disbop of Natal, ia a letter to the Aborigines' Protection Society, dated Bishopetown, Natal, August 1, says: I am struck with the disingenuous mtatements of Lord Ohelmsford in his telegram of May 81 (received June 19). as published in the Daily news of June 21. He first says: I Statement in local and, probably, home papers my order that the dead were not ...

... DAILY NEWS OFFICE. RBwdiSgs Ois mwoiuny by NEGRETTI AND ZA3ElI'S BAROMETEI. TUES. L WED. 8 TH e 4. FBI 6. W'~W wNs.W. WS.W. ES. I; _ _77 3j _ :41 -aL010 1 1; | Corrected to sea-lvel and reduced to 32' P. The blowt lines show the height of the barometer at I anm. On this and three previous mornlugs. The dotted lties indicate the extremo variations duinng yesterday and the two ?? ,davs, 'hc ...

... WRMON - -d he^m~f8 ?? nih a eeigtCUI dby th'i V~ibuwuy ]eit Association-, was held at the TBree Rings T*vern, Clarkenwil4, for the puros of Making arrange. a ments for felding a great demonstration at the Lbemi n party on manday, Octaber 20, to decide upon hr aE candidates who ?? the mdivided support of the r paSy. Mr. W. Edwsrdk took thachair, antie sad their a -t object was to combino the ...

... iLORD LYTTON AN'D bi RO ON TER LATE AE'GR&N W I smsya c s On the 15th of last'month a bnquet was given St Bimla by the Viceroy blt udli. honeur of UGeel Bir Frederick Roberts. The ?? emrnors of the ?? and Bengal, Sir Michael Kannedy, and my high I dfifls of GoveftikLit were prient. After the toad of I ?? Queen had beeii 4fa^k ?? Vi*6y Proposed 4 The Health of 8ir6 edarick Bobr in a speech ...

... THE capture of CETEWAYO has set free Sir GARNET WOLSELEY for the more difficult task that awaits him in the Transvaal; and by the latest reports he was to have started for that territory at the beginning of the present month. The troops, with the exception of RUSSELL'S column, were to evacuate Zululand forthwith, the country being left in charge of two Residents for the northern and southern ...

... ritid Obtuinald otwd. AFFAIRS IN AFGHANISTAN. The Daisy Telegraph publishes the following despatch, dated Simla, Friday:- I find upon further inquiry that the statement I telegraphed yesterday-to the effect that the Ameer had sent a message to Ali Khel, and that the purport of this despatch was that Yakoob Khan was being forced by his mutinous troops to retire from alliance with the British ...

... There is no further official news in the morning papers regarding the outbreak at Cabul. The intelligence which has reached Ali Kheyl of the murder of the British envoy and his staff, and the escape of nine only of the escort, seems to have been brought to that place by persons from Cabul who had no mission from the Ameer. Nothing in fact has been heard of him since his letter to Lord Lytton ...

... This morning's papers contain somewhat fuller details of the outbreak at Cabul than were published on Saturday afternoon, but there is no later intelligence. It is assumed as beyond doubt that Sir Louis Cavagnari and his companions are killed, but no positive statement to that effect has been sent by the Ameer, who in his latest letter to the Viceroy, dated the 4th inst., says that he had no ...

... THE AGAMEMNON.') THE new ironclad which is to be launched on Wednesday at Chatham is a formidable addition to the Navy. While there is nothing remarkable in her construction, she is possibly, after the Injlexible, the most powerful vessel for coast defence which we possess. Last year gave us a rival to the AIgamemnon in the Independenda, the Brazilian monitor which is now known by the name ...