... | tkfg5 AUGUSrBT! B;A*K i HOLIDAY. CLARE ATHLETIC SPORTS. Under the management of the Cricket Club Committee, of which the Vicar (the Rev. R. Sorabie) is the energetic president, a series of athletic sports were arranged this year for the August Bank Holiday, which were well patronied by the inhabitants and villagers round, and passed off sithout the slightest hitch. The following is the ...

... THE IPSWICH JOURNAL. ITHE LORDS AND THE ARREARS BI:LL. An attempt is being made to raise the country against the House of Lords on ac- count of their daring to attempt to amend Mr. Gladstone's work. At present there is only at slight responsetothe wire-pullers, notwithstand- ing the dark enormity of the oftence of the Peers. In fact the Caucus managers are learning the truth of that axiom of ...

... The war news is still eagerly awaited, but long waiting seems to have caused some difference in the manner in which anticipations are shaped, A week ago all was optimist in the out-look, and the most sanguine anticipa- tions prevailed. Much of this feeling is now dissipated, and has, indeed, given place to a sensation exactly the reverse. Arabi's forces, which at one time it was the fashion to ...

... THE IPSWICH JOITRNAL. The Egyptian business does not improve. It is a trouble to all concerned, in a very emphatic f sense. It has had the effect of once more exposing the futility of the European Concert, or of reliance upon that Yery mysterious entity. Whenever any strain is put upon the Concert of Europe, the first result is delay, as the next is confusion, and the last a resolution of the ...

... THE IORTICULTURAL AND COTTAGERS' SHoW.- After the presentation of the prizes on Monday evening by Mrs. Thellusson, hearty cheers were given by the large company present for Mrs. and Colonel Thollusson, and also for the Rev. H. Thompson and Mrs. Thompson, at the call of the honorary secretary, Mr. G. A.Whistler, who referred to the lively interest and personal exertions of both the President ...

... dE0100eIAL TABLET-A handsome marble tablet has C el to tle. memory of the late Rev. John ?? iloo ' s for upwards of 40 years pastor of the Irlee tt00 chtirch at this place. The tablet is ta~ alli tbe chapel. d;}tF B} GRARMAI ScHooL.-The annual r Ol f PiZe at this school was held on Tuesday, israS rel ?? friends of the boys beirg present. - 31. Crv Esq., presided. The head ret . Ravenbefore ...

... DISS. Y SAE.-Mr. Henry Wells offered for sale PROE T..,,eiidation land, and other of the property foarilS Alr Joseph Farrow, at the King's Head, Of 51te it5r. A small farm of 4 la. 2r. 14p., by the tic Fri,, o road in Diss Heywood, was withdrawn side of tlhe lore Nvere three other lots, but the bidding 3 ?? 'i 'i 'did not reach the reserve figure. Ii H1 a, IARLESTON. Tcy-On Thursday a meeting ...

... -Tens Daiy News took care to announce, immediately after the acceptance by the House of Lords of the Com- mons' Amendments to the Arrears Bill, that Lord Salis- bury had resigned his position of leader of the Conserva- tive party in the Lords. One might have thought that the Liberals had sufficient to do in their own ranks with resignations of leadership, but in this instance, no doubt, the ...

... I AUSTRIA. The official Austrian Harvest Report, dated August 15, confirms the report that great damage has been done by the continued rains in Southern Bohemia, Silesia, and Central Galicia. Rye has suffered more than wheat. Oats are becoming brown; maize stands well; hops promise a middling harvest. Potatoes show signs of rot. Beetroots are backward in some places, which causes apprehensions ...

... OWNED.-At the George Inn, Barningham on the 18th inst., before R. H. Wilson, Esq., an inquest was held on the body of Thomas Wm. Holden, aged seven years. Charles Petch (5), of Hopton, son of Reginald Petch, of Hopton, blacksmith, deposed: Soon after dinner yesterday afternoon Tommy Holden and I left his grandfather's house and went to a pond in the meadow. He undressed and walked into the ...

... ENGLAND AND TURKEY. The Times correspondent at Constantinople says that s no visible progress has been made during the last three days in the military conlvention negotiatiosis. On Friday X afternoon Lord Dufferin went by appointment to the house of the Minister for Foreiga Affairs, but nothing t could bo done, as Said Pasha had not received the neesee sary instructions. These instructions ...

... -FOr good hearty and outspoken Gladstone worship the Spectator is unique. Ent the feelings of the organ of the new political culte overcome its powers of reasoning or of coherent expression in the last number. After noting that the Government have lost by resignation two of the weightiest of Wr. Gladstone's colleagues; have carried nothing of great importance except two Irish measures; one ...