... The leak of the Grosser Kurfurst is said to hart been closed with an iron plate, in consequence of which raising operations are shortly to begin. This latest bit of German submarine news should be fe. ceived with caution. The New York Times reports a horrible death in [ Brooklyn, from blood poisoning, alleged to have been Mused by the use of arsenic by a dentist to destroy the nerve of an ...

... The Hong Kong Daily Pross of the 9th of September states that there can be no doubt that the Chinese Government is, in a desultory sort of way, pre- paring for war. The Hong Kong paper says:- The immediate enemy may not, perhaps, be actually decided upon even by the Ministers at Pekin, but they evidently entertain a belief that before very long they will have to meet a formidable antagonist. ...

... THE AFGHAN CAMPAIGN. ABDICATION OF THE AMEER. GENERAL ROBERTS'S PROCLAMATION. L THE FIGHTING AT All KHEYL. EXPLOSION IN THE BALA HISSAR. A Reuter's telegram dated Simla, saysThe Ameer, Yakoob Khan has announced his determina- tion to abdicate, stating that he intended taking this Itep earlier, but was then dissuaded from so doing. General Roberts has counselled the Ameer to recon- sider the ...

... A recent specimen of successful forgery is worth recording for the amusing impudence displayed in its perpetration. A certain City man is in the constant habit of making Saturday a holiday. Wet or fine, busy or idle, it is all the same. Never on the last working day of the week does he make his appearance within the sight of Corn Hill. On Saturday, not lone since, a gentlemanly-looking youth ...

... ATTEMPT TO POISON A | MIS i HESS. At th Derby Borough Police Court, a girl named ..larv Arm .Sauuder*, a domestic seivant, has been brmght up on a charge of attempting to poison her Becson. Detective Inspector Spibey said t. at he went to the prosecutrix's house and took po8.-jos.-ion of the pot, bottle, and glass produced. It Hpp ared that Mrs. Beeson, for whom the prisoner had pi c-viously ...

... The London Oantti notifies that the Quean has fignified her intention to confer the Victoria Cross on Captain (now commandant) Cecil D'Arcy, Fron- tier Light Horse, and Sergeant Edmund O'Toole, for d»ri$g tJyLjgulu War, ...

... SIR M. H. BEACH AT BIRMINGHAM, On Saturday, Sir Michael Hicks Beach in ttddreMw ing a large meeting at Birmingham, said: Ha wished he had adequate power to express the deep sense which he entertained of the importance of that great meeting in defence of Conservative opinion and in suppori of her Majesty's Government. He knew ery well that the addree. he had been presented with was not ...

... THE CROWN ESTATES. The fifty-seventh report of the Commissioners of her Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues for the year ended the 31st March last refers to the measures taken for the concentration and improve- ment of the CYown property, which, commencing in 1 Sol, have since been continued. Mr. Gore states that one of the results of those measures of improve- in nt has been that the ...

... A correspondent of the Times writes from Can- andaigua, Central New York :—The ordinary tourist in this country on pleasure bent general sees little of the most important class in American society and political life—the farmers. In such pleasant towns as that from which I write—a village of, perhaps 6,000 inhabitants—the traveller will find pictures of wide streets bordered by overarching ...

... MB. FQTHEKGILL'S VISIT TO MEIITHYB. It is evident that the electors of Mtrthyr are not going to let Mr Fothergill visit the town without giving him a hearty reception. It is true there may not be the display made, similar in magnificence, as was made the Aberd&re side of the mountain, but we are sure that the warmth of reception accorded him on Monday week, when he arrives at Merthyr, will be ...

... SERIOUS FLOODS IN SPAIN—GREAT LOSS OF LIFE AND PROPERTY. A sudden hurricane, with heavy rain?, has caused disastrous floods in the provinces of Andalusia, Ali- cante, Murcia, and Malaga. On the night of Tues- day, the water created a panic in the streets, entering the lower part of the houses in tho valley extending from the mountains of Murcia along the banks of the Sigura. That stream and ...

... Whilst the drama Proof was being played at the Exeter Theatre, on Saturday evening, great alarm was caused by a man who was leaning over the iron rails of the gallery suddenly everbalancing himself and falling into the pit some 50 or 60 ft et below. As he fell, his body first came in contact with a kind of cornice projecting from the upper circle, and from this he bounded on to the dress ...