... .z EGYP T AN]B ITS. SOUPAN. - ' loto very ints~ting letters, te first of which is dated Ajtrl 12 have lbeo reoelvedilu Vienna from an Austrianr Kt14ii r wj~a dXali; w$ .hiWi4ied for many years at 1 saaa. . -Ee statea that fortke previousethree Months ~s~l~~idhad 'ceasbesieged by thei-adefidoahiArabi, who, iowdver, natbeingproided withfrearms hadbeonafrald io attempt to tie thegarison b ...

... MR. SHORTLAND DISCHARGED. and' f At the Xingsbridgo, Petty Sessions on Saturday, before there W. It. Ilbert, Esq (in the chair), J. Giffard, REq., Liout. - tiusui Colonel Madden, 3. Sels, Esq., and R. H. Watson, Esq., glory Hugh Rotherford Shortland, deocribed as at barrister, was thatI charged, on ramand, with the murder of his wife. Mr. PurlPc Goulding, solicitor to the Treasury, prosecuted; ...

... OWING to the extreme heat at Salisbury drying up the soil, there has been revealed what is undoubtedy the site of the first Cathedral, which was raised by Bishop Osmond, on the removal esf the See from Sherliorne to Sarum, the build- ing having been dedicated in 1092. It wae evidently in the shape of a plain or Latin cross, with a transept. It lies at the north-weet angle of the mound lknown ...

... RuRaL SAlITARY AUTRORITY, YESTERDAY.-Mr. W. i Carter in the ?? order for £260 was made on ( Cullompton to meet special expenses, and a similar order I was made on Silverton for b30.- Mr. T. H. Hepburn stated that the Bradninch Water Works were progressing, the f ground havingiheen oponod a considerable length to receiveI tthe piend ; a ?? if there were no obstacles the work would 1 be ...

... GR.EAT FIRE IN A LONDON SUBURB. '111R.)2`,DOO5 EXPLOSION. A fire broke ojut shortly before one o'clock the otlhex morning at, Messrs. Spencer, Dunn, and Co.'s cihemical works at thle Abbey, West Ham, and was followed by ail explosion -which was distinctly felt within a radius of a mile, anidwaslhea-rd severalmiles away. Messrs. Dunn's work~s are situated on the slope of the Western outfall ...

... S-T. SIDWELL'S CONSERVATIVE DINNEH 1\1t. II. S. OSTHCOTE ON PUBLIC AFFAIRS, fricn The meibiirs of the -Workiiig Men's ConservativO tion Uttinll in .it. bid vell's Waid had their ansual dimner oin elect Ivcdueedoy last at the Censtitotiolnal Club. The eleet goittcrieg rock ?? in the large rooli %vhich had been wvoul vilc prettily decoratcd by Moesss. XV. Baker (Vice- decd pr1'ideut) and A. ...

... The Board met at the Castle of Exeter on Friday, Sir John Diakworth presiding.-Mr. J. H. Lay road tho report of the Finance Committee, which stated that the committee had examined the accounts of the Surveyor and found them correct. The committee recommended the pay- ment of tradesmen's bills to tho amount of £G5 17s. that £150 be paid to tho Surveyor for general purposes; that quarterly ...

... AGRIOULTURAL GOSSIP. ! E~iovny, (ONSTRllBUTBD; BY: 4, VRUOTICAL, The rains of the past week have been very welcomnont only to the agrioultuaiats, but to people generally. The i want of an adequate quantity of rain, has caused much inconyonience where thes storago for domestio and other i purposes has not been able to bear the.atrain, aid in. some places the ditlioulty of obtaining water has ...

... I ertluman t althr, Ifniq v8s, I ^~ ~ ~ ~ s. - y ' (RSTABISHED 1763) IS THE OLDEST AIND MOST EXTENSIFELy CI1CULATED CONSEIBVATIVE NHEWSBPAPER IN THE WEST OF ENGL.AND. WEDNESDAY, SEPTzEIBME lOTH, 1884. THE Pitsouiri's Midlothian campaign has been one of the chief subjects of discussion during the past week, and from the general tenour of the comments made it is evident that Mr. ;LADSTON.B has ...

... RAID ?? IO1Ii' -I ; Gi,; For some time past !tC\hasebeto niorhius tba'tlile system of Coopering As 'belig extensivey carried oh in thq north Saa. A. number of- flnely9biiilt vieise1 I solie of them fltted uo In a ratheir 'aiptuouis 'manrr1 hate bqen sasling about thrc'nothtra conasta, all .6io tlhi. wsell supplied with grog, cigars, aud tobacco. Thcale.they retall ?? ehpa, and to, any ...

... A correspondent with the Channel Squadron, writing from Palmas Bay, Sardinia, says: The Channel c Squadron, comprising the following vessels-lere Majesty's ship Minotaur, Captain Fellowes, flying the DIag of Vice Admiral his Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh Agincourt, Captain Mead, the fag ship of Rear Admiral J. C .Wilson, second in command: Sultan, Captain Sir Walter HRsnt-Grubbe, .C .B ...

... CASTLE OF EXETER, YESTERDAY.-F. G. Studd, Esq. (Chairman), Admiral White, C.B., and D. Redford, Egqrs. THOMAS PttIM of Topsham, was mullted in the sum of ION. inclusive for having been drunk and disorderly at Tepsham, on the 24th December. JOHN SANDJERS, loadlord of the Passage Boat-house Inn, Topshani, V ca hartoed with keeping his licensed premises open during prohibited honrs. Mr. F. ...