... 223CREASE OF THE POLICE. It is announced from Dublin that the Irish Govern- ment have resolved on immediately increasing the police force of the country. The proposition is to enlist a considerable number of recruits for a limited period and it is understood that this is for the special purpose of instituting a system of night patrols. The recruits are to be taken mostly from tho army reserve, ...

... THREATENING A CHIEF CONSTABLE- At Chester police-court Patrick Walsh, an Irish labourer, was charged on remand with sending postcards, threatening to murder Mr. George Lee Fen wick, chief constable of Chester. Of the postcards addressed to Mr. Fenwick, the first was as follows: Dear Friend,—After a careful meeting you have been found euiltv and sentenced to death at our Buffalo Lodge this ...

... TUNIS. A correspondent telegraphs Bou Amena's spies have entered the French encampment during the night. Some were caught and were shot, and also the French goumiers by whose fault the occurrence took place. Si Sliman was not reached. Some of the goumiers sent on a reconnaissance passed the enemy. The officers of the Arab Bureau, being ignorant of the language, are obliged to have Arab ...

... A memorial to the Hum; Secretary is in course of preparation respecting a sentence of 10 days' impri- sonment, and three years' cor.firemcnt in a reforma- tory, which was passed at Stoi noway, on Murdina Maclean, a gii-I of 12, for stealing a pair of stockings, value Is., from the shop of a relative. Intelligence from Appledore states that the Norwe- gian batque Admii al Peter Tordenskjold ...

... A shocking occurrence took place at the Oxford Theatre of Varieties, New-road, Brighton, on Tues- day evening. Ling Look. a Chinaman, who describes himself as the Lord of Fire, Cannon, and Sword, was just completing his entertainment, which con- sists of drinking boiling oil, biting hot lead, swallow- ing swords, and iiriii, a gun and a, cannon balanced upon a sword, which remains in his ...

... MINISTERS AInD WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE. Replies have been received at Bradford from Mr. Gladstone and also from Mr. Forster and Mr. Illingworth, the local members, to a memorial for- warded to them hy a meeting recently held in support of the woman's suffrage movement. Mr^Iadstone saj's that whenever any measure is under consideration of Parliament, extending their suffrage, he has no doubt in that ...

... According to the Pulltifchc Correspoii'knz, the Rus- sian Budget for 1S80 shews a deficit (,f 98,000,000 rClllhle, part of which has been covered by the issue of 30.000,000 in paper money. The expedition to Cen- tral Asia andjth • preparations for war against China. figures for 2(57,000,03) and the fortifications in the military district of nr««v for 700,000 roubles. William M lore, 40, ...

... The annual meeting of the members of the Central and Associated Chambers of Agriculture was held on Wednesday at the rooms of the Society of Arts, London. Lord Carington presided, and was supported by Major Paget, M.P.,Sir B. Leigh ton, M. P., Mr. T. Duckham, M.P., and others. MR. GLADSTONE AND LOCAL TAXATION. Captain Craigie, the secretary, announced that in reply to a request that Mr. ...

... The Calcutta correspondent of the Timti tele- graphs The Ameor is still encamped at Deh Khoja, outside Candahar, and is collecting transport for an early march. Reports differ regarding his intentions. One rumnur-and that the more likely one—is that he is anxious to return t,) Cabul, and will start for fche capital soon. Another rumour has it that ho hM ordered a portion of his harem to be ...

... Nearly E700 has been subscribed for the benefit of the boys rescued from virtual slavery in Constanti- nople, and this sum will be sufficient to meet present wants. Lord Granville, in addition to the promptest official aid, has shewn his sympathy by a donation of £20. In the Queen's Bench Division a man named Swinden has recovered jeMO from his lata master for slander. The case was in effect ...

... REVIEW O THE YEAR. Hott PARLIAMENT. The political activity of the year 1881 began the tree. unusually early. The Christmas holidays were not over when the Parliamentaxy session was opened. ton Its labours, which began on the 6th of January, the did not terminate until the 27th of August, yet two n practically the session was engrossed in one Bill. of The political history of the year might ...

... On Monday 3,000 people assembled on Mr. Butler's estate, near Clonmell, and killed twenty deer, besides hares, rabbits, and other game. On Monday the Boyle harriers were prevented es( from hunting by a large body of men, armed with Ba sticks, who afterwards scoured the district and reM ' 1 ' thl destroyed all the game they could find. On Tues- ye day morning the postponed meeting of the hunt ...