... POLITICAL SPEECHES. Sir John St. Aubyn, Bart., and Mr. Pendarves Vivian, members for West Cornwall, add -essed their constituents at Penzance last week. Sir John main- tained that the serious measures of repression and restriction, under which Ireland had been placed, absolutely necessary, and had produced a more satis- factory state of things. The war in Egypt was forced on the Government, ...

... lMimillllliilin MONMOUTHSUIRE REVISION COURTS. The result of the revision in the Borough of New port is a net Conservative gain of six votes. On Friday the Revising Barrister (II. H. Amphlett, Esq.), sat at Newport to correct the county lists of parishes in the Newport polling district. The Conser- vatives were represented by Mr. W. J. Lloyd, Mr. W. Wade, and Mr. R. P. Williams Mr. Bailbache ...

... CAIRO, Oct. 23, 7.5 p.m. Professor Schweinfurth communicates the fallowing news from the Soudan:—Last June 6000 Egyptian soldiers* without provisions and tired, were surrounded by the followers of the Mahdi, or false prophet, and massacred. The news of September 13th is as follows:— Abdel Kader ie in despair-at not receiving rein- forcements. He asks for Remingtons and ammu- nition. Khartoum ...

... The Government intends to create another division of the Royal Marines. Messrs. Jones, iroa and coal masters, Dudley and Walsall, hied a petition-is the Walsall Bank- ruptcy Court on the 20th instant. Liabilities £ 78.000 assets £ 50.000. Her Majesty^ troopship Tyne arrived off Wool- wich Arsenal on Monday with 167 sick amd wounded men from Egypt. The Clan Stuart, which was stranded 30 miles ...

... A non-commissioned officer in the 84th York and Lancaster Regiment, writes from Cairo, under date of 13th Oct.;—We left Kassassin about 6.30 p.m., the 12th Sept.; halted, after marching six miles on the desert, and laid down on the saud to snatch a few minutes' sleep. After a brief rest we again fell in; perfect silence was kept, and we were told that not a shot was to be fired, but that the ...

... CBVELTV TO Cows.-—Reference was made some time ago to the cruel practice of appiying caustic to the teats of a cow, so as to prevent, the flow 61 milk, and thus give the udder a full appearance. This shocking practice appears to be resorted to extensively by cattle dealers and others with the object of procuring bigher prices for m lch cows. Another case came before the Belfast magistrates ...

... NEWPORT BOAKD OF GUARD.[ANS; Mr. P. Woodruff,, the chairman, pre^idsd qvqh the weekly meeting of the Board on Saturday Mr C Ly!e^e0UEying ^/if^ir. There were 'also, W sent the -Revs. J. C. S. Darby, E. Jenkins, J. Jones D. Rob*rts, and E P. Williams Mtessrs. J^ W Be- ell> TW- Evans, _,M. Hale, D. Harrhy, T' U v W. Jones -(Cefnliegell) T. Latch, S. Scard, and E.. Thomas. STATISTICS. Newport ...

... I The forty-second annual meeting of this club and the ploughing match connected therewith took place on Tuesday, under favourable circumstances. The ploughing competition came off at Howick farm, in the occupation of Mr William Wetmore, in a well- adapted piece of clover ground. Forty-two teams competed, and the work was considered by competent judges to be of excellent quality. A number of ...

... The Central News says the following telegrams have been received at the War Office from Sir Garnet Wolseley:— CilRO, 1st October. ...

... {RSUTER'S TELEGRAMS. I CAIRO, Oct. 22 (Midnight). Jessrs. Broadley and Napier, accompanied by Sir Charles Wilson, visited Arabi Pasha this afternoon. The counsel for the defence state that the prisoner's health is good, and that he expressed satisfaction with the English arrange- nients, and confidence in the decisions of the British Government. He stated that he had been ill-treated on two ...

... On Batnrdav) at the Nottingham Town Hall, John Bailey, said to be a lacemaker, residing in The Meadows, Nottingham, w'aa charged with shooting at Elijah Hollingshead, an engine-driver on the Midland Railway, and also a stoker named Edward Sharpe. It appeared that KS the 5.30 train from Mans- field was passing the Lenton sidings, Sharpe noticed some men standing together in a field. One of them ...

... At Lincoln City .Quarter Sessions, on Saturday, before llr. Horace Smith, record«r, Thomas Smith, 46, watchmaker, was charged with having stolen gold watches to the va ne of £46. 108., of which he was the bailee. In June last Mr. S..Wright-Wright, J.P., of Brattleby Hall, entrusted a gold watch, value £ 25,' to the prisoner, fr examination and repairs. He re- peatedly caJlii to see if it was ...