... ELECTION EXPENSES. The total expenses which Mr Edmund Bulnois, the Conservative candidato, incurred in winning the seat vacated by Lord Charles Beresford in Klst Marylebone are returned at JB476 148 6i. Thoso of his opponent, Mr George Leveson- Gower, the Gladstonian candidate, amounted to JB652 08 6J. ...

... THE SHAH A SERIOUS RESPONSIBILITY. The Shah of Persia is evidently responsible (says a Paris correspondent) for the lunacy of a poor fellow who walked up to the bouse of the station-master at Asmieres, outside Paris, late on Sunday night; awoke the official with a thundering noise. and demanded in stentorian toties five hundred tickets for Teheran. The station-master dressed himself quickly ...

... FATAL FIRE AT EXMOUTH. Four Persons Burnt to Death. I A distressing scene was witnessed at Exmouth ,-on Monday morning, when a mother and her three children lost their lives in a fire. Theflames broke out in a shop, forming the lower portion of a house in Chapple-streefc, nsar the market. The shopkeeper, named Gidley, with his wife and five children, redded on the premises, and at the time of ...

... CRICKET AND iTS ORIGIN. The toast of Cricker, at the annual dinner of the Cobham (Surrey) Cricket Ciub, laiit week, was entrusted to Mr Sam Bircham, the well-known member of the committee of the Marylebone Cricket Club, and in proposing it he gave some interesting particulars regarding the origin of cricket. It could not definitely be said when aud where cricket was first started, but Lie ...

... Another method haa been adopted by the Danish police with a view to putting au end to drunken- ness. Every time a man is found in a state of intoxication in the streets or in a public place, be is, at the instance of the police, put in a carriage and taken home. In case a man is not able to give information as to his residence, be is kept at the police station until sober. Then the publican ...

... The National Eisteddfod. DESCRIPTIVE SKETCH, [BY MAELGWYli.1 The absence of the Prince of Wales from the national festival of Kymru was more than com- pensated for by the appearance of Madame Patti. For the first time in its history has the Eisteddvod of Wales secured the invaluable assistance of the finest singer in the world and although iry countrymen are by nature proud and self-reliant, ...

... Owing to the overcrowded state of the Protes- tant cemetery at Mallow, county Cork, the Local Government Board held an enquiry, and subse- quently issued an order prohibiting further burials except by certain specified persons who had exist- ing right to interment. The order omitted a number of persons who claimed to have such right, and it was openly threatened that the order would be set at ...

... THE GLAMORGAN VOLUNTEER81 1 SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO _THE ECHO. I- I The Glamorgan Volunteers, Capt. Goodwyn, 2ud Battalion Welsh Regiment, at Cork, will shortly leave Ireland and proceed to Wales for duty as adjutant of the 2ad Volunteer Battalion the Old Glamorgan Rifle Volunteers be relieves Captain Foley, who rejoins his corps, the Middlesex Regiment, at Buttevant, in Ireland. ...

... The Man About Town. Too much, it seems to mc, was made by the spcaker3 at some of tlD Miners meet- ings yesterday of the the attendance and I notice with regret that in one case it was attributed to ignoble mo- tives. I venture to suggest that all the t men did not ask for the Monday montilly 'holiday because they wanted to w attend mass meetings. Ihere are other things in life just as ...

... Waiter, a beefsteak-but not a small one. I am so terribly nervous that every little thing up- sets me. Sissy (charmingly): Do you know Charley Muttonhed asked me what day was April fool day? Sophia (sarcastic): I don't know why he should have asked. All days are the same to him. No, mum, said the help to her mistress I've made up my mind and that settles it. Ah, sighed the poor mistress ...

... [GLAMORGAN ASSIZES. ii Absence of Crime. HEARTLESS BREACH OF PROMISE OASE. 1A Carmarthen Married Man Courts a j Domestic Servant. [special telegram to THE KCHO.] In ctMr#m £ the Grand Jury at Swansea to-day Justice Mauisty expressed pleasure at the remark- able absence of crime displayed by the calendar, which contained only 13 cases and 15 prisoners. In-the Nisi Prius Court—before Justice ...

... A ROMANTIC INCIDENT. One night young Boulanger, whilst going his rounds to all the. sentry posts, observed a woman glide furtively iuto the camp. On making enquiries he discovered she was the fianc#i of one of the natives who had been takeu prisoner the nrevious evening. Ordering the girl to be arrested and brought before him, the young i fficer enquired the reason of her visit to the Freuch ...