... I LOCAL COMMISSIONS. The London Gazette of Friday night contains the following:— WAR OFFICE, PALL MALL, July 2nd. REGIMENTAL DISTRICTS ST,&FP.-Major W. Cooke Collis, Royal Irish Rifles, to be deputy assistant adjutant and quarter-master general, vice Lieutenant-Colonel E. S. Creek, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, who has vacated that appoint. ment in consequence of promotion. ...

... fBh=R4 TELEGRAM-] BttrtLttf, Saturday.—Prince ?od Princess Bis- marck left here at 20 minutes to 9 o'clock this worninz for ...

... GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY BILL. Siding Accommodation at Cardiff Docks. The select committee of the House of Commons on the bill promoted by the Great Western Rail- way Company sat again on Monday, Mr J. A. Blake in the chair. Mr Clerk. Q.C., for the promoters, said they had considered the suggestion made by the com- mittee on Friday that the Great Western Com- pany should be admitted on to the ...

... The Missing Policeman. RECOVERY OF THE BODY, I Our correspondent telegraphs — The police who have been dragging the canal at Fenny Compton for the missing constable Hine this afternoon found the body within a short distance of the public house where the officer was last seen. There was a wound in the neck which seems to have been caused by the knife, and behind the left ear was another wound, ...

... I HOUSE OF LORD-B.-Tn,A I PLACES UNCHANGED. The Lord Chancellor (Lord Halsbury) took his seat on the woolsack at ten minutes past four o'clock, and it was noticed that the two parties had not changed places, the Conservatives retain- ing their seats to the right of the throne, and the Liberals, as they entered, passing to the benches on the left. There was an averasre attendance of peers, ...

... The Strikes in America. [CENTRAL KBWS TBLBQRALF 1 NEW YORK, Monday.-Affairs at Fort Worth are tor the moment quiet, although the situation is not changed for the better. Five hundred militiamen, with some heavy guns, have arrived at the depot. The trains left yesterday morning each one guarded with armed troops. The strikers are gathering in considerable numbers at the outskirts of the town, ...

... SPORTINGITEMS. Ducat, trained by Joe Cannon, has, tfter a loup; rest, renewed his acquaintance with the exercise heaths, and the horse will be specially prepared for hurdle race purposes. Scot-Free (5 yrs), the winner of the Two Thousand in 1884, has arrived at Epsom, and will in future be trained by John Nightingall. Viola- tion (4 yrs), and Sweet Maid (6 yrs), have also joined J. Adams's ...

... Yesterday, at the City Coroner's Court, Golden- lane, London, Mr Langham held an inqaest re- garding the death of Robert Manners Sprigge, aged 45, clerk in the employment of Mr Johnson, master carman, Russia-court, Milk-street, City, who committed suicide by hanging himself the day after his wedding. Mary Ann Sprigge, a young woman, said she was married to the deceased on Christmas Day. They ...

... Another Victim of Quacks SAD SUICIDE. Dr Thomas held an enquiry yesterday morning at St. Pancras, relative to the death of Joseph Fewster, aged 26, a clerk, employed at a builder's in Graye-inn-road, and lately living at 52, Victor- road, Seven Sisters'-road.—It was stated the deceased had most peculiar ideas as to his health. Two years ago be read a book, which is given only to young men, ...

... LONDON LETTER. j Specially Wihecf. I By Our Gallery Correspondent. LONDON, Wednesday Night. To-day's proceedings in the House of Lords were apparently without interest to any- body but the reporters. There was nobody in the strangers' or peeresses' galleries, and when the Royal Commissioners in their robes entered, at a quarter-past two o'clock, only four other peers were present. After the ...

... The Speaker took the chair at four o'clock, and shortly afterwards members were summoned by Black Rod to the House of Peers, where the royal assent was signified by commission to a number of bills. SOUTH WALES MINES INSPECTOR- SHIP. Mr KENYON asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the appointment of Inspector of Mines in South Wales had been filled up, and, if not, ...

... (1*V OUR NEWMARKET CORRESPONDENT.) I NEWMARKET, WednL-z,.(Liy.-Oii the Racecourse side, Day's Lioness, Seagull, artd Philosopher went two miles Golding s Westwood and Scotilla going a simi- lar gallop. J. Cannon's Ducat was aeht one mile and three- Quarters. Siierrard's Cohort, Xema, The Sama- ritan, Kinfauns, and Spectrum galloped die same Uis. tance. Hayhoe's Lucerne, Middlethorpe, Repentant ...