... ' THEE 'AERICAN FINANCIAL0$;' i.0:l: el.0: - C ISIS. : - 0- : ' 'vi IOE.AILURES, rNNE opK. 0 TEW YORK, MAY 15. Teleg rams ftom all platrts of the country show little At apprehension. of the effect of yesterday's failures uponci CO' other balitkl., The feeling. here is thai the worst is now l over. The Committee of tho Clearing House sat until a ayi late hour last night ioordbr to investigate ...

... cY Th DdailayYews Naples correspondent says :-The trial of t-c of Blisdea, which commenced on tho 19th inst., has continued be all the wcek, and it will be probably still so61e days before St the verdict is pronounced. The court is crowded daily. l~ Contrary to tlre nsual oustom, the prisoner, instead of tr er sitting in the common dock, is placed in an iron cage, da n- exact~y like that of a ...

... DISTRICT NEWS, WOLVERHAMPT~ON. Et. A NAxasow EgsaAx'-Ycsterday afternoon, Messrs. IV r yal HL Court and Lyons W~right. two Corporation officials,~ the had a narrow escape from serious acoident. They wcre rge walkeing up Victoria Street, and when near to a draper's Isd establishment their attention was attracted by th falig 0r0 of some pieces of mortar. They Stepped, and im media' ely H. after ...

... OF THfE PRINCE OF WALES.-A Renter's telegram from Rtoyat says thle Prince of WVales is staying at the Grand Hotel there. His Royal Highness takes the baths rega. i larly. t ~iill DEATH or~ PRINCE LEOPOLD OF SANE COBURGt.-The we 2. Queen received yesterday morning the inelaneholy intelli. th itariay gence of the death of her Mlajesty's first cousin, Prince Sp AoiyLeopold of Saxe Coburg and ...

... ? I ? . GIM, AWWGS - ?, ?, Id ienpublio park was opened, at Cartarvon ?? day. At Ely, on Thursday; a miltlstaan shot at and wounded1 one of his officers. as A Helsingfors telegram states that rnaviqatl n has been to reopened at Borga and Kotks. al Olaudian will reach its 150th performance at the he Princess's Theatre on Monday next.l ir- Mr. Peter O'Brien, Q.0., has been appointed her ...

... A HEARTRENDING TALE FROM ±SEHROPlSHlRE. I- A v isit of~ our Sbrewsbury correspondent yesterday 'o WA t. the outlying mining districts beyond Alinsterley, Shrop- i f share, has elicited some heartrending stories of diL D. tress among the miners there, consequent upon le the stoppage of three of the mines. The low price of lead 1- ore in the marlet lls, it seems, rendered it .n- II ,n profitable ...

... I NORTH WARWICKSHIRE DISTRICT UNION OF TEACHERS' ASSO0CATIONS. dis I thS The annual meeting of this association was held on !nt, Saturday afternoon at Union Street Schools, Coventry; ace- Iir. TW. Sutherns, of Yardley, presiding. There were also the present Messrs. T. Rielcard (Coventry), R. Davies (Aston), ,ny H. Webb (Aston). Tidmarsh (Birmingham), Davis, Nuttall, lessP . Owen, E. Cooke ...

... od | or . t or to I een THE GOVE RIMENT OF KING EDWARD'S Gmi her SCHOOL. on A largely attended meeting of the Executive Committee Lish of the Birmingham Liberal Association was held last night, any at the 1irmingham Roestaurant. The chairman of the tie- committee (Mr. F. Schnadhorst) presided; and among anr .ent those present there were Mr. George Dixon (president of was the the association), ...

... GLEANiNGS. An Archdeacon Farrar has been eleotI Bamptonl al for the ensying year, iii The mceting arrauged between the Pressde0 [d Board of Trade eud the shipcowners talces pla'c toar8 sy XGreat heat has been ecxperiecned in Paris duruigD t i6fewt days, On Mfonday tho thcriaomeeer wen P 'y nearl; ~°0 degrees Fah renheit. Lt Mo Mr.. Charles O'Conor, of New York, the itsi io tinguished lawyer ...

... WESLEYAN, s METHODIST FOREGN WESEYiAISSions. FO:IG ANNUAL BREAKFAST AND MEETINGS. OlDuring the past week secrvides and' meetings have been held in Birmingham., in connection with the sixty-ninth anniversary of the Birmingham and Shrewsbury district of e the Wesleyan Methodist' Foreign Missions. Yesterday a morning a public breakfast was provided in the Town I- Hall, after which a meetingwas ...

... II A LIVELY TORY MIETING AT IEPl , :8 Arr. T. IT. Bottonilev. nresident of the Ol,1b ., Its Mir. J. H. Bottonilcy, president of the Oldham ?? m vative Working Mlen's League, has been deliverj,, A or of lectures in Herefordshire durinig the past reeks a Ol Saturday evening hoe appeared in the county t>' , addrcss a public mecting at the Corn E.c 4i ion the subject, Why I asi a CoerrY ?? Mr. ...

... I ?? .rroonn.l t 1 [Front our owmi Correspondent.] a NEW YORK. May 19. X SoNir ten days ago the steamer City of Montreal I brought to this port from Liverpool two hundred d British subjects calling themselves minors, who D were immediately despatclied to the coal regions of ti Pennsylvania. They were nearly all single men, t and reported that others bound for the same desti- 1 nation wvere ...