... DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT GLASGOW. J Damages £ 20,000. A destructive fireoccurred last Dizht in the flour mills of W. and A. Glen, Cheapside and Piccadilly, Glasgow. The mills, which are 80 feet iong aud six stories high, are already destroyed, and extensive landed stores to the south were in great jeopardy. The inhabitants of adjacent houses fieri to the street. The damage is estimated at 220,000, ...

... I CARDINAL NEWMAN. In view of the numerous paragraphs which have lately appeared with reference t(1 the health of Cardinal Newman, we (Birmingham Pott) are happy to be able to say that his Eminence has for some days past been able to resume his usual occupations, and that he is now restored to health. In fact, remembering his age, the Cardinal may be considered hale and strong; so much so, ...

... ATHLETIC NOTES. I By an Old Stager. I Almost on the very threshold of what bid fair to be a most successful season, the Swansea team on Saturday came to grief, Newport sending them home defeated by a try to nil. This result, so different irom what had been looked for, came, I need scarcely say. as a very agreeable surprise to the Newport public, some 1,500 or 2,000 of whom witnessed the match. ...

... SIX LIVES LOST. The barque Alette, from London to Christian- sand, stranded on the 31st January 011 Huz Island, near Laurvig, and went to pieces. The master, mate, and four men were drowned. ...

... MONEY MARKET, Latest Prices To-day. LONDON, 1.30 p.m. Notwithstanding the Stock Exchange settle- ment, the demand for money limited, and short ionas are quoted £ to J per cent. Discount rates remain at If to 1. 25,000 in bills on Madras were allotted at Is 5 29.32d. Indian Ex- changes were firmer, at Is 5gu. Stock Exchange settlement progressing very little fresh business doing in any ...

... MOONLIGHTERS AT WORK. A Tralee correspondent telegraphs that as Mr Vandelenr, agent to Mr S. Oliver, who owns property in North Kerry, was returuing-to Tralee yesterday evening, he was tired at a short distance from the Causeway. Seven shots were discharged at him, but though his horse was injured, be escaped unharmed. In return he fired his revolver at the assailants, but the result is not ...

... In the divorce division yesterday, Mr Justice Butt had before him the local suit of Stride v Stride and Giles, which was one by the husband, Charles Stride, a publican at Bath, for a dissolu- tiou of his marriage by reason of his wife's alleged adultery with the co-respondent Giles, a cab proprietor at Bath. Ifrom the evidence given by the petitioner it appeared that the Snarriage took place ...

... THE RUMOURED I ? RETIREMENT OF SIR E. J. REED,°M.P. An Unfounded Statement I A telegram received at 1.25 p, m. to-day from Sir E. J. Reed, M.P., at Westminster Palace Hotel, says There is not the slightest truth in any rumour as to my retirement. Telegraphing later Sir E. J. Reed says :— Have just sent for and seen the Western Mail of to-day. Have neither been offered a permanent official ...

... At the Swansea police-court on IVedneadty- before Messrs J. T. Jenkin, J. G. Hall, J. Paddon, and F. S. Bishop—a respectabiy-cou- nected young man, named William Richard Morris, of Mount Pleasant, Swansea, descnbed as a titter's labourer, was charged on remand with committing three indecent assaults on little girls between the ages of ten and four-and-a-balf. Mf W. Robinson Smith appeared for ...

... Great Fire at Phila- LEEDTERS TELEGRAM .J ...

... Strike of Masons at c Barry, J' — J •' i .C On Friday the masons' employed in the con- struction ot the Barry Dock came out on strike. The facts of the case, as stated on behalf of the employers, are that before Christ mas the men were engaged on tide work on. the dock wall. They were paid at the rate of 8 hours per tide, while the average work was only 45 hours per tide. At the same time the ...

... The Kail ;>• Haddington has determined u relinquish public coursing, and bis kennel will hfi (old About tbe middle of SeptMfat Bitfi ...