... NOESTR. AND COMMtEN'TS I It is romonred that some of the leading ralwa~y co, panies, in consequence of the high premiumns, 10s per tea.v being in many cases the minimrum, charged by fire is=u companies on goods wvarehouse i at r-ailwiay atarion5 5, template becomning themselves insurers, not only of then. ow property, hut also of the good5 of thleir ?? toes warehoused. Nor is thlis all. Thze ...

... Ywou may be left at first, but try to be right at last. W~hen a river breaks its banks is the result financial| ruinMI Why is a lamaplightec a cowardly ?? he runs away from his posts. A law student once defined libel as something & man says, and afterwards wishes to goodness he hadn't.' A physician says alcohol has killed mnore people than yellow fever. Woell, doctor, more people have taken ...

... ALEXAYDMA, WED.NESDAY According to authentic intelligence received here Arabi has directed the house of some obnoxious natives at Cairo to be burned. Nineteen natives, refusing to recognise Arabi's government, have been shot at Cairo. At half-past three this morning about 50 mounted Arabs attacked one of our outposts on the Mah- moudieh Canal. There were some sharp skirmish- iDg, and a good ...

... OUTRAGES. A Boyle telegram states that PWllip Brady, hotel pro- prietor, Ballinamore, has been attacked and savagely beaten near Sishuarregan, by a party of disguised Moonlighters, who stopped his horse and carand attacked him with heavy bludgeons. Brady lies in a precarious state. The oatrage is agrarian. No arrests reported. Three men have beenarrested at Dremnnamore, County Li- trim, on ...

... I &Pgrial *pTIRAmot. flOUSE OF LORDS.-TEvUsDAY. THE ARREARS BILL. Lord CARLINGFORiD moved that the House should accept the first amendment in the bill as it now stood, The Marquis of SALISBURY said his views on the sub. ject were unaltered. lie warned the Government that this pernicious precedent fruitful of future evil would not in the future be forgotten by the people of Ireland, It was a ...

... TELEPHOIOX EXPEZXKMETI. The result of a number of experimcents in various tele- phonic systenms have proved their success over distances increasingly great. Liessagesrhave been seat from Vienna to M~unich, 284 kilometres (about 157 miles); from Paris to Dijon, 341 kilometres; from Paris to Brussels, 344 kilo- metres; and from Paris to Nancy, 353 kilomnetres. The systems which have thus been ...

... A N EXTRA ORDI.N fY SCENB IN A PABISH CHURBH. On Sunday evening, a man did penance at All Saints' Church, East Clevedon, for the seduction of a servant girl who now awaits her trial for manslaughter. The church was crowded, and after the evening prayer, as the vicar was about to enter the pulpit he requested the audience to remain seated. He then said: We are about to deal with a matter of a ...

... NORTH-BAISTBN R.AILWA Y EALF-YEARLY REPORT. The following is a copy of the report of the directors of this railway company, to be subrnitted to the proprietors at the lifty. seventh half-yearly general meeting, to be held at York to-day:- During the lialf-year the sum of £518,239 has been received on share capital; in tile course of tie same period the1 terrnineble debenture account hes been ...

... JYTT2UTIOK OF MECHANICAL EYC&INER1v' The British Institution of Mlechanical Engirneers coma- menced its twenty-seventh summer meeting in Leeds on Tuesday. About 350 members assembled at the Town Hall at half-past ten in thle morning. ?? Percy G. B. W~estmscott (of Sir William Armstrong and Company, Newcastle) is the president for the year. The 1?asrnm-' in his address said: We may pride and ...

... LODAL NOTES, The one thing lacking in the proceedings at the consecra- tionof tbe Bishop of Newcastle-thepresence of distinguished laity -was atoned for at the enthronisation yesterday, when a number of influential county people received the Bishop at Newcastle. A luncheon and conversazione formed part of the proceedings; and to-day the Bishop will commence his diocesan work by attending the ...

... HOU°ISE OIF LORDS. -TmnSnAv. ; Th ?? tokhis seat shortly after two The Fishery Board (Scotch) Bill pussed through Comn- The Earl of ItEDESDaLE moved to amend the third clause, which relates to salmon fisheries, by inserting words extending to private rights that protection which the clause gave to the powers of district boards The Earl of }1OSEBERY observed that the words were I unnecessary, ...

... What a snuff-takes ?? as good as a feast. It is a terrible coma-down to a man to fall oat of a balloon, and be obliged to walk home. You never bear of a strike amcong the astronomers; their business is alwsays looking up. The poet who sweetlyreferred to the sighing of the winds should go out west and experience a sighelone. Long-pointed finger-nails are fashionable among women, but they ...