... NGLAp, RUSSIA AND AFGHANISTAN I ENGLAs h Al np: rinhinr from.MeRhefl A Tives correspoiidenf Meegienr uglU l i jrsncu under date Aug. 10, ?? the maintenance of peace depends on unaggressiveness on the part of the Afghans, it is assured, for the Afghans are, t rupulously careful to give the Russians no excuse for attacking. They keep well within the frontier admitted by Russia to be theirs, and ...

... TO TILE DEJZO0V7STRATION COMMIlTTEE. BY MRS. JOSEPHINE BUTLE 2. Dear Friends,-I regret to be unable to accept your invitation to be present at ?? Park Demonstration. I should have greatly valued the opportunity you offer me of speaking a few words On that occasion, but I am on the Continent now in preparation for the annul Conference of the Federation which is to be held at Antwerp on Set). ...

... C Ift W Obevilla's Vewi. .M. ROCIIEFORT ANT) LORi) LYONS. ME. R~o !herort contnin es his noutcry f-or vcn gctnce fir t he de:;th nf ;M. Oliivier Pa;o, ;cod hi no0''v attic Aed M. llrisoisin a t;li:e-i iench Conrsils and Vicc- (YIy Y ; l:i)t as cc ?? In the a i`cr. M. loiciefoit no.v sueots tlhtt 'ne of h;i lfilnwers should tab,- the ea! iet opportt:nity to box Lord ,Vo; 's eals tn the sr ei ...

... ?? 7T; OR, TifE DIARY Oi1 A CITY IJTZY lITrI. .1; t! *i -:e ent vbasime Robert-no one ever calls him n ob s a . (i 11iljv nen -,d in-n 11' things that have cciae before h s no 1' ?? il tilc (.ty ,nJ'o ., hal et:: .ates his volune To thc grandohl Co; ?? n o. t ?? SelAc and Nohel City of London, that has done its d cony .. uan )il n aiv 700o years, and won the respect of ALL by i's go(d ;ve; ...

... HOW TO ASSIST EJ1IIGRATION. MR. ROBnRT .1MILLER CHRISTY, Secretary (pro kmn.) of the Self Help Emigration Society, writes to us from Memorial Hall, Farringdon-street Every one interested in emigration will thank you for your recent inser- tions entitled Diary of an Amateur Emigrant, and especially for that of the 29th ult. The very excellent observations upon the discomforts of the ocean ...

... ELECTION NEi ws. 5 br. ChiiAs, ftP, who wlfl be pt address to his oasdttuuit at Pouteract, in which he- says; ?? Maution 1Pespeully to offer mYseR agin as aiddath for -tour sufos. I have 1g.:- venly visited the ?? ?? o, the eouiteey, ?? hope to return to the borough ha Septmber to cosipias.? mny canvas, wbich lie beens very satisfdact ind icates that fnl1y retaio thv have placed in woe icrabou ...

... I BETTWS-Y.COED. Late'on Thursday evening an excursionistffroam Slhef- field named Griffithe, 23 years of age, fell from a rock at Ethe Fairy Glen, Bettws-y-Cocd, into the torrent, which wvas swollen by recent rains. Up to last night his body had not been recovered, although a party of men under Police-Sergeant Owen had been craggmg the river all day. DARTFORD.- Sir William Hart Dyke, speaking ...

... - WXSSIXG. On Wednesday, Mr. -E. S. Cooper, of 5, the Gardens, Peckhom-rye, applied to Mr. Hannay for assistance with respect to the disappearance of George Sinclair. The missing man, said the applicant, lived in Black- friars-road, and was employed as a clerk by Messrs. Marshall and Sons, the advertising agents, of Fleet- street. Sinclair left his office to go to his dinner and did not return ...

... TIHE UN'7',POPULARITY OF THE ARMY. BY AN Is X-DRAGOON. Now that puhblic attention has been called to the matter, it may not be an unfitting season to state briefly, but withal plainly, a few of the circumstances and conditions which make the army unpopular, and render the task of obtaining rectuits in sufficient numbers year by year, a more and more dificult problem for successive Ministers of ...

... Mr. J. Seymour Keay, the candidate selected by the West Newington and Walworth Liberal and Radical Association, addressed a public meeting of the electors of that constituency in the yard of Briggss Horse Repository in the New Kent-road last evening. In the course of his address Mr.- Keay, who avowed himself an advanced Radical, strongly censured the conduct of Sir William McArthur in. ...

... THE PROTECTION OF GIRLS. NATIONAL CONFERENCE AT STr. JAXIES'S HALL. A National Conference was held in St. James's Hall to-day to consider a proposal for the formation of a National Vigilance Association for the Protection of Girls, to assist in the enforcement of the Criminal Law Amendment Bill and the suppression of vice. The consideration of rescue and preventive work will occupy the ...

... P R 0 T E C T I 0 N OF GI R LS. r H 1-- E 'I I E II I' 1) IE IP A R K1 ' .T i' iE F I N G. Jfve a).-c phlan shows tho position of the Platfonvis in Hyde Park at the meeting of the inhabitants of London, which is timed to commence ther e at Five o'clock to morrow afternonn. ...