... Mn. A. L. SMITH.-The statement published in the Obse rer, that Mr. A. L. Smith, of Salt Hill, Chichester, Junior Counsel to the Treasury, had been appointed to the vacant Judgeship, is, we are enabled to state, devoid of foundation. A DISTINGUISHED VISITOR.-On Wednesday afternoon Sir Edmund Beckett, Q.C., paid a visit to the Cathedral campanile. Sir Edmund, as is well known, takes a deep ...

... C. j aT -Do- Good name for a bull dog-Agrippa. The paper-hanger's business is very stuck up. Eterna. vigilance ie ofitn the price of an umbrella. ?? ever c milain without cawys. That's where they ale sensible. The jolly-boat ought to be manned by a good-natured Btrw. 'lWy cannot Gladstone insure his ?? lhe can .get no one to make on: /sp ptivu. The good that men do may be interred with their ...

... THE EGYPTIAN CGRISIS. PROPOSED CONFERENCE. CONSTERNATION AT CAIRO. DEPARTURE OF THE CHANNEL FLEEDT. DECLARATION BY THE FRENCLa PREMI 1E. PARISs, Tuusin).eY. The Freunh Government has made a proposal, whichL has been acoepted by Ecglaud, for the assernbling of a Conforeuce of Ambassadors at Coustantioople upon the Egyptian question. Is is expected that the invitatious to the Powers will be ...

... EPITOME, OF OPINIfOl. EGYPT.--THE MINISTERIAL STATFMENTS. * The Times says ?? the whole, the answers of the Government must be pronouriced disappointing.' A -clear statenient of a line that they had determined to follow whifle the Conference wtas, discussing. the conditions of Turkish intervention would have done great good. As it is, the Khedive's insurgent Minister will, all too probably ...

... LATES T NEWS. DEATH 01F THIE KAIIQUIS OF CONYNGHIAM, ?? Marquis of Conytighesee daied at hig residence, Bel. rave-Hqssare, Londou, last evening. TidE REQEX-r CO1L~IVEY EXPLOSION. &t ties, ndjournedl inqec a-t at Wlhite-eaven, yesterday, on thle bodies of lthe boer mens- WILd by the recent colliery ICiplioeln, a serdiit of A!e-oid-nteI death waee returned. I JUSThICO 'BONWEN'S SUCCESSOR. ...

... - S T - - TAT F i EL . I - I. 0 0-FT,'STA:TE, OF IRFLIAND. it ^ ''THltn PHCEDNIX PARIt1IflIPEIIS.. The Piess Assooton Dublir 'orrespo ndc~ report3' that two men vhose oappeartrain0' corresponded %vita:th' deseriptidn given of the Phmni;. Park murd~rers Avq re ,s5font tbe shoreg of Lough Neagh, near Portadoivn- On Saturda>y - but np to the presenat, notwvithtaindi'ng the pblice have scoured the ...

... WEAT ?? FORECASTS. Thn tollowi M rup irt seas Assred ftou the MHetorologleal. Depariltient at S uP. yerterday:- I .fIoutI.eCastvlY to GOUtUiMwcsterly breezes, 0. Scotland, * . *- nuderafte to.fresh; showery. I Scotland, ?? . SQuth.westerly breezes, moderate; come 2, YngKI, If -ishowers, 3. Engl3s$d, .30 Samen as Nte. h ; 4. IM. CouPIrrnYils ,T e as ?? 1 and 2. S. b $ 1 a asterly oreezes, ...

... WELShI NOTES FROM THE METROPOLIS. An immense congregation cains together on Sunday night last to listen to the Dean of Bangor's sermon on ' Temperance at Westminster Abbey, the nave being crowded. The First Lesson was read by Canon Farrar, and th;e Second bv the Dean of Westminster. The Precentor, the Rev. Kr. Flood Jones. intoned the prayers. The Donsof Bangor took as his text the 5;h ...

... 0 C EDITION L. I SECOND EDITION I I . WESTZaPN MATL Gsvscz, 4.30 A-. LATEST GENERAL NEWS. Mr. Trevelyan, the Irish Secretary, arrived in London from Dublin yesterday. IMr. J. C. F. S. Day, Q.C., has been appointed judge in the place of Lord Justice Bowen. Thu failure was announced yesterday of Barnes Ancor, the proprietor of the Falstaff Club, London. Liabilities £47,000. Last night's London. ...

... MOVEMENTS OF SOUTH WALES VESSELS. Scots Greys arvd Aden, coaled and proceeded for Genoa and Marseilles, 4th Free Lance arvd Marseilles, from Cardiff, 3rd lihosina arvd Port Said, from Cardiff, 4th John Marychnrch passed Dover, from Taganrog for Hull, 5th S W Kelly arvd London, from Jamaica, 3rd Thos Turnbull left Port Said, for Sulina, 2nd Cosmopolitan left Malta, for Glasgow, 3rd Earl of ...

... HOME TELEGRAMS. ^'ce-Chancellor Hall has sont in his resigna- His lordship is suffering from paralysis. .1 tiie South Docks, Sunderland, on Saturday, 1l:um'(l Luke Thompson, while working a vessel, was killed by an iron mast, j6'1 was assisting to raise, falling upon him 4 'ra'Jt!'ring his skull. on Saturday, a gentleman named *father attempted to murder his sister-in-law, i^'° ^vinson, a ...

... On Friday Mr S. G. Johnson, town clerk of Nottingham, and G.M. of the Nottingham dis- trict, invited the directors of the Order and a select company of friends to dinner at the Alex- andra 1 lotel, Cardiff. The following gentlemen were 1 'resent — Director.-) — G.M. Flanagan, l>. G.M. Walton, P.G.M. Schoiield, P.G.M. Holmes, P.G.M. WoIMcin, P.G.M. Woodeson, P.G.M. Bennett, P.G.M. Curtis, C S. ...