... TEHE CAPE MAIL (TEMOUGH kRu'Th'S ArrcYL.) CAPETOWN, Nov. 4. (ra Plymouth.) The news to the Ist inst. respecting the affairs in the Transsaal was of a most threatening chs- raoter, the various telegrams received up to that date stating that the Boers had repeated the Middleburg oursage at Potchefetroum and Stan- derton, ead bad to tha number of 1,000 men assaembled in leager at Eumsa's Farm ...

... (CO1NT 8CEHOALOFF. - (fBY SUEMARI TBLEU1EA 3 . .JrOM QUA 0WN CORRESPONDBNT.) BEI I LIN, FauD N tear. Count Schonvaloff has been received by the Empress and by the Cro'vn Prince. His Excel- lenev bad iitended leaving for Varzin to-day. but but put off his visit to Prince Bisinarek until to-morrow, on account of a slight indisposition. TURKISH NEWS. ftxO1;GH xXT~hfl8 AGEsSO . CONSTANTINOPLE, ...

... THE THUNDERB GUN RXPKBnhI3NTS. The investigatione of the ThundererExplosion Committee werse continued yesterday at the Woolwich Proof-ground under circumstsnces of increasing interest, the trials having entered upon a stage which, according to one class of theorists, may prove destructive to the gun at any step. It is well known thit in loading a rifle it is held of importance to make sure ...

... tonday Light Was not very eold, the minimumn marked by the thermometer at the Receivinz House, Hyde-park, being only 29 degrees, or three degrees of frost. At 9 am. yesterday it was 32 degrees, and at noon 34 degrees. The condition of the ice generally in the Parks yesterday, as compared with that of Monday, was unchanged. The ice on the whole surface of the Serpen- tine was considered safe, ...

... GENERAL ROME NEWS. I -r ,e s gY TXLBEGRPH{ ANDs EXflifS) ter ACCRINGTON. er A large meeting in favour of the Women's Suffrage aud mnovement was held last night inthe Town-halll, and wass r'y addressed by Miss Becker, Mms Scutchr'l, ajnd liless on Jessie Crage. The usual resolutions were aerated with IY eutihnsiassru. Mlessrs. Holt and Siarkie w~ere requeslted to n' supper I the Bil, andl Lord ...

... A SWISS JACK SUEPPARD. A corresnondent writes urcer date'Nove.O5 ber 21 - An ettem-pt at escape was made a few days ago by a convict confined in the Bistooprie prison (prison diEeiiclid) here, which, though it did not succeed, is almost worthy to rank with the ex- ploits of Jack Sheppard, Baron Trenok, and Thoelie Orsini. The gaol in question, situated near the Cathedral, consists of three ...

... THE I'RgONQ SrTlON IN A iEIVCA. I Tuir New ?? 2BPick ,referringto an'i iidiineui; | fo that the Prdsidntw',ill aglioi urge upono'gresqi a th settlemebt bof' 't'ae t rtoon qs(iution says: The th timeiis ol'nsehtfihxid-hvhtu'tlic upopul'ati'ono tbe tori- ho tory will'be s6o I eidihit to rieu0ou'ttah 'a^.misBion Pu as a State *ilf'lohkir~ike Bn atbitrartny aucnuleu3t (de mi parture fr6mu-'sl1 ...

... An Operatic Hitch, TO THE EDITOR QF THE ERA. Sir,-I was surprised at seeing a letter from Mr George Fox, in your last issue, in which he gives an emphatic denial to my statement, that he had not studied the part of the Count in Le Zozze di Figaro. He must consider me very innocent, if he believed for one moment that I should have made such a statement without authority, which is of the ...

... The vote of Thursday last in the French Chamber is said by several of the Paris correspondents to have damaged the Government severely. The Times correspondent says that M. Le Royer and M. Goblet, Under-Secretary of the Ministry of Justice, have handed in their resignations, and M. Goblet's resigna- tion has been accepted. M. Waddington for the third time has begged M. Gravy to relieve him ...

... , TIFE oratorical progress of Mr. GLADSTONE through Scotland has raised a constitutional and political question of much urgency and importance. Does he or does he not, if he succeeds in displacing the present Government, intend himself to undertake the respon- sibilities of office ? So far as we are aware, he has not in any way withdrawn his strong declarations of retirement from the active ...

... (From our later editions of last wek.l C'OVENT-GARDEN -Si.,iibad the Sailor is thB title of the 'autosnilme at this hjouse, and I' written by Frank W. Green. Scene I shows us the Web of Witchery, with Aphrophora the Fairy Fiend (Miss Annie Stuart) amongst the I spiders she has subdued, wishing to check all advelnturous spirits and to stay the march of progress. She objects to Sindbad ...

... AXlB AND FOOD. If England is as rich as ever, she has a very curious way of showing it. The other day the Lord Mayor had no defendants or pri. soners before him. No middle class secretary or director was that day had up for misde- meanour or felony. The Lord Mayor congratu- lated himself upon getting a pair of white kid gloves, but he went on to explain that the poor. box was in a very low ...