... SHOCKING BOLEB EXPLOSION I BIRRMINGRAM. - THREE MEN KILLED. An alarming boiler explosion, attended by serious loss of life, occurred early yesterday morning at the works of the Stephenson Tube Company, Liverpool Street. A consider- able number of men are employed there, and at six o'clock most of them were at work. About half ara hour after that time, a terrific explosion was beard in the ...

... OLDBURI. . 1AL ,vlA A BRUTAL HUSBAlW.-A ~th PoiceCut etray -before Muesrs. H. Chance and J. IE . Wilson-a mineri named Humphrey Humphriee, residing at Chur anbridge, was etorgod with assaulting hs wife,.on the 6th inst.- Complainant said on the day in question defendant came home and gave her Ss,, out of ?? whish was all he had earned during the week. Sho remonstrated with him and said she ...

... ?? . 1 Vlall.Qlmw A V: . ' ' I: YESThHIDAT; of The CRAVElN CUP,t-or ,al ages; at, 3.,108. ,0 r Mr.- Dowding'e Dalntless beat Mr.Htone'a Shade .V- I Mr. BInghnm's BroIntlet baet Mr. Dowdiog's Dlreell be 1M Mi'. Clark's Queen of Sheba beat Mr. Bills'a Erytlrela as iMr. Packwood's Palmer bent Mr. Gardner'sGodftneb . he 3r..rIttxom's Willoughby beat s4. Saunders's GiJna mne. Cottlo's Claudiaboat ...

... THU MUNICIPAL_ ELECTIONS. 1.ST. MARY'S WARD.-MEETYS.0 OF MR, AGNALL'S ~~d ~~A SUPFORTERS.' u .d Ameeting of tieseupporters of Mr. J. J. Baejlnl, t Conserve- 'tive chndidate-for St. Mary's Wiid, was hold east evening In' the ~ rgyle Rootvs, ',Lower Loveday ,11teast. fir. James Mason pre- . OY~ sided, and amongst those pr'egatit, in addition to the candidate, r- wvere Mr. Rawlsea (borough' ...

... On Saturday sftght some 200 gentlemen dined together at Anderton's Hotel to inaugurate a club of journalists, Y which has been established in Fleet Street, London. The r president of the club, Mr. G. A. Sala, was in the ohair, sup. ported by Lord Houghton, Viscount Folkestone, Dr. t OameronM.P.; Mr.Macliver, M.P.; Mr. Justin M'Carthy, II.P. ;Mr. Q'Donmefl, M.P., andothervisitors aadbyastrong ...

... THE1 NEW EGYPTIAN ARMY. ?? * [I ErIJTn's . TELEGRAmiiS. 5 CAIRO, OCTOBER 18. I The liegotiations for the settlement of the diffi-i Eculty attending the defenco of Arabi are making c f slow progress. It is doubted whether the court- I martial will be able to assemble even in a Week's f ftime. Baker Pacha's preliminaty scheme for the | creation of a new army is being carefully examined , by ...

... I - -- - : I At Croydon a boy named Skeat has been sent to a reformatory for five years for stabbing another lad in two places. SUSPENSION OF A MASTER AND MATE'S fu CERTIFICATE. S The Board of Trade Inquiry at Leith into the lose of the Adriatic, barque, in the Straits of Belleisle, has re. 38 suited in the suspension of the master's certificate for ne six months, and the mate's for three ...

... S SPECILN TELEGRAMS, E&. Between two and three o'clock yesterday after-,i noon,nan explosion occurred in one of the mning sheds at Messra. Kynoch's Powder Wsrks, Witton. Richard Craddock, a young man 26 years of age, who was working in the shed at the time, was killed on the spot - Mr. Sydney a. Buxton, Eaton-place, London, who contested Boston in the Liberal interest at the general elction, ...

... Ir vhWC ?? .. l ?? oF ?? THE AUTUMN SESSION.-The House of Commons will soon be at work again, and there are signs that the special task for which it is to reassemble will not be very speedily accomplished. Mr. Gladstone's original intention was that the Autumn Session should be devoted exclusively to the new Rules of Procedure; but it is almost certain that a great deal of attention will be ...

... COtiAEiSPONDENCE. NOTICES TO CORRRESPONDENTS, a 11 letfe-r intmded forfbidlicotation sust be accompanied bit a the-name and address of the swriter; not necessarily for L ublisction but for the infornmation of the Editor. ?? to qsesiosnJ acre not 5ivess di the course of a dey or' two, the questioners soll please to ?? Xtha w qe are un7abie t6oseyplet/io' ifermation; asked for. -We ca~nnot ...

... Yesterday afternoon Counoillor White opened a new establishment, to be called the St. Luke's Coffee-house, in Sun Street. Among those resent were the Itevds. Cauon Bowlby, W. B. Wilkinson ?? K. Cox, H. Hodges, J. A. Dodd, Major Bond, and BIessrs. C. English and T. Sutton. The Rev. AW. B. 'WILKINSON (vicar of St. Luke's) said the . promoters of the movement did not possess premises on suc. sab ...

... FOREIGN NEWS. EGYPT. gre fec [}XCUANGa TEZLGRAY.3 at CAcao, Ocr. 30. the The Ehedival Government has formally approved its of Mlessrs. Broadley and Napier as counsel for the in I I prisoners ?? for-the defence proceed a c: vigorously. MO AL- NDRYa, Ocr. 30. fin Tbe'Genadier Guardsand three companies of i4t ?? Guards arrived here last night, and imme- I diately embarked on board the Frac, where ...