... Within the last few days information of a startling character with respect to the designs of certain members of the Fenian conspiracy has reached the police authorities of Manchester. In connection with the recent attempt to destroy one of the London docks, some facts came within the knowledge of the Home Department, which were communicated to the Mayor of Manchester, who was also in- formed ...

... A great fire broke out at Portsmouth, on Satur- day morning, in which Ginnetts circus and nine houses were burnt down. It is said that some of the Irish members be. longing to the Liberal party have under considera- tion a Bcheme for establishing provincial assem- bliesin Leinster, Munster, Connaught, and Ulster. A society has been formed in Austria called the Society of the White Cross, to ...

... At the Central Criminal Court, last week, Jas, Mawbey, sailor, and Emma Ashby, married woman, were jointly charged with the man- slaughter of Richard Ashby, by setting him on fire with a paraffin lamp. rhe evidence for the prosecution showed that the female prisoner co- habited with the deceased, and on the night of the (ith March the male prisoner came into tho room where they slept, and in a ...

... Within the last year or so several flies have taken plare at Brotherton, near Stonehaven, on the home farm of Mr. Hercules. Scott, a stack of oats, a threshing mill, a large quantity of grain aud straw, and part of the steading, and from the circumstances connected with the fires, and their frequent occurrence, the police were fully con- vinced that they were the work of an incendiary. As the ...

... Mr. Barnum has forwarded the subjoined tele- 4 ram:— NEW YORK, April 10.—Jumbo perfectly oontent i company with 21 other elephants. A handred olumns in newspapers described voyage and rrival. Sixteen horses and two elephants re- tired to transport him to my exhibition. All kinerica delighted. Four millions will see Jumbo bis summer. I take Jumbo and baby elephant to England in November. The ...

... H ijwT^day afternoon, Dr. Danford Thomas opened ^fthUlrv at the Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum touch- death ot Henry Sands, alias Williams, a patient institution, who was killed by a fellow-patient Fereday, on the 4tn inst.—William I lN a out.-d°or attendant, deposed that deceased ^uiet man. At four o'clock on the Tuesday :i *° wor^ oa the farm. At 4.30, another 2* 'ualQeii Hill, said that it was ...

... The Monmouth. Working Men's Conservative Assci ciation held their first public meeting on Tuesday evening in the Borough Court of that town, and the gathering was in every way a pronounced success. Although the Association was started only a few months ago it already boasts of 167 members, and we shall be surprised if the demonstration under notice has not the effect of adding materially to ...

... Mr. Douglas, Trinity House engineer in charge of the work of removing the old E Idystone Lighthouse, had a very narrow escape on Tuesday. By the break- ing of a chain attached to a derrick placed on top of the tower, Mr. Douglas was precipitated from a height of seventy feet. Fortuuately he fell into the sea instead of on to the rocks, and he was washed by a wave towards the rocks, to which he ...

... A W R E. MAD FREAK OF A RAILWAY PASSENGER.— At the Littledean police court, on Friday, William Darnall, of Awre, was charged by Inspector Hickey that he attempted to enter a carriage of the Great Western Railway Company elsewhere than at the side of tb. carriage adjoining the platform. It was sworn by Joseph Godfrey, of Blakeney, that he called to de- fendant who was endeavouring at Awre to ...

... JEWISH EMIGRATION. VIENNA, Monday. The New Freie Presae, in a despatch from Lem- berg, states that, at the initiative of the Israelite berg, states that, at the initiative of the Israelite Board of Worship, a committee was formed in that city yesterday for facilitating the emigration of Russian Jews. Four hundred Jewish mechanics' families, emigrating from Warsaw, were stopped on the frontier ...

... A fire broke out at the Dark Sun pubiic-houso, Chatham, on Sunday. Two militiamen sleeping in the budding have not since been seen, and it is feared they were burnt, to death. The builders of the steamship Bandan at Port Glasgow have received a telegram stating that when she went down in a cyclone near Singapore onlv live of the native crow were saved. The Rev. C. B. Shirres, vicar of Harwood, ...

... VIENNA, Saturday. The Austrian Delegation was opened to-day by the President, Herr Von Schmerlipg, who in his speech alluded to the suppression of the insurrec- tion in the occumed provinces, and expressed the hope that orde^would soon be restored there in preparation for their incorporation with the empire. The bill for the extraordinary credit 23,733,000 florins was referred to the Budget ...