... FIRES IN THE METROPOLIS, TIMURSDAY ?? short time after eiuht in til evening a fire broke out on the Premises of MIr. Eau staff, pianoforte mnanufacturer, Solth-place EustoartiE The outbreak occurred about three-quarters of asn t. after the whole of tile hands elluplayedt by the firm had left. In a very short time the tire had assumed se.. proportions, and about muidnight it as gotunder ...

... FRANCE.-A controversy, which has been ragiing in Paris between Le Nap2coln and M. Cassagnao's journal, over the pretenesons of Prince Napoleon and his son, Prinee Victor. closed on Wednes- day with a letter by M1. de Cassagnac. He says he is delighted at the Prince's declaration that Ihe is qualifying himself to serve his country, and while accepting as filial and creditable the Prince's ...

... | On Sunday evening, as Miss Royse was returning from Askeaton church, county Limerick, her carriage was stopped by a party of armed and disguised men, who placed the coachman on his knees and fired several shots over him. They then opened the car- riage door and asked Miss Royse whether her rents were paid, and if she had issued any writs. She was so frightened that she gave incoherent ...

... LLOYD'S WEEKLY LONDON NEWSPAPER. _ . .. ._ I In spite of considerable opposition, the Governument have managed to maite impor- tan progress with their new h ?? of Proce- duile. Tihe second Resolution was disposed of early last week: and on the Wed- nesday amendments were proposed to the third, some of which Mr. Gladstone ac. cepted; but by Thursday night the fifth Resolution had been passed; ...

... ,-nOpPORTUlINISIAN IN PARLIA- Sdr. GladStone, in the course of the sharp dis- which impeded Supply on Monday even- -e ...

... FIRES IN THR METROPOLIS. THURSDAY ?? half-past seven in the morningthe brigade was called to an outbreak, through a defective flue, at 9, Warwick-lane, Newgate-street, City ; and five hours had barely elapsed before a small tire, due to a similar cause, drew them to 25, Lonsdale-square, Isling. ?? three in the afternoon a tire took place at a silverstith's, 16, Victoria-read, South iornsey, ...

... It has taken almost a year to work through S all the tortuous forms of criminal procedure of the United States to bring the wretch who e murdered General Garfield in July last to the scaffold. Many circumstances combined to surround Guiteau's crime with extraordi- nary interest both in the West and in Europe. The long, lingering agony of his heroic vic- tim on the one hand, and the repul- r ...

... THE PUBLIO HEALTH. From the ?? return we learn that durii g the week ending October 14 the annual rate of mortality in 28 of the largest Enclishl towns averaged 21-7 per 1,000 of their aggregate population, which was estimlated.at 8,46JG71 persons in the middle of this year. The rates of mor- tality in the several. towns, ranged in ordei from the lowest, were as ?? 12-6, Brighton 14'S, ...

... | e To TILE EDITOI-SIR,-In the Rock OfJnan. eary 27 appeared a letter above the slgaatureoi John Gretton, D.-D, secretaryoftha Lord's Day Observance society, from which Iquote the following :- The tiw has come then we s should no longer stand on the defensive b when we should demand the closing f all Government institutions which are oW opened on the Lord's Day. Thin sacludes hew gardens ...

... WELCOME To TROGOPS FROM EGYP1T. I The transport France (No. 28) arrived at Ports- r moath on Monday from Egypt. The troops wlio re- turned in the vessel were of the Grenadier Guards, b 20 olcers, one warrant officer, nine staff-sergeants. 546 mcn, and '33 horses; Coldstream Guards, 70 1 n officers, two staff-sergeants. 2z7 men, and 26 horses; t A. H. ., one stafl'.sergea2it and four men; Royal ...

... Workmen's trains between London and its suburbs have been desiderata for a long time. Many companies have reco'gnised either that they ought or that it was to their interest (we care not which) to run them ; but hitherto the North Kent Line, in the hands of the South-Eastern Company, has been ,conspicuous by the absence of any workmen's trains upon it. Either the South-Eastern Lwill not ...

... The discovery of the body of the late Lord Crawford has placed the police, we believe, within measurable distance of the solution of the ui mystery. ' It has been a mystery of a most painful character for the family of the late Earl. The body was, as far as can be ascertained, taken from the niausoleum at Dunecht about six months after its consign- ment to the vault in which it rested. No ...