... THE STABBING AFFRAY IN EAST LONDON. The inquest concerning the death of John Brown, a native of Glasgow, an army pensioner, who was fatally stabbed near Rat cliff-highway, was resumed yesterday. A number of Spaniards were originally charged with being concerned in the murder; and now another named Hammond, a Swede, is accused of having committed the crime. The chief witness was a young woman ...

... I Gossip of the Day. From To-day's London Letters, f Supposed Windfall for Mr Gladstone. | It is rumoured that Mr Gladstone benefit* considerably under Lord Wolverton's will. I ha.vet no private information on the subject (*ays thq London correspondent of the Manchester 4fu#r £ ian), but on antecedent grounds it is highly probable that rumour is for once correct. The Glyna of banking fame were ...

... TWO IMPORTANT ARRESTS. SEIZURE OF EXPLOSIVtS. The Central News is enabled to state thai the man who absconded after the death of the dynamiter Cohen, alias Browu' (upon whom an inquest was recently held in Sout'awark) has been arrested. A large quantity of dynamite was found at his lodging. His complicity with Horone.y, alias Melulle, whose name was prominently menticned at the inquest, and, ...

... LAND IMPROVEMENT IN SCOTLAND. Letter From the Duke of Argyle. Argyle. The Rev. J. P. Situdbilandti, having written to the Duke of Argyle relating to a conversation with a fellow passenger who said that whenever im- provements on the Dukfc's lands were made rents were always raised, has received the following reply;— Inveiary, Nov. 14th. Rev. Sir,-I am much obliged to you for your letter. I ...

... CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY I ELECTION, Professor Stokes (Conservative) was returned unopposed to-day for Cambridge Univer»ity, in tu. loom of the late Mr Eeretford Hope, ...

... Great Fire in Brooklyn. Terrible Destruction of Horses. I [RKCTER'S TKLEGUAM. NEW YORK, Tuesday.—A fire broke out last Right in Vanderbdt-avenue, Brooklyn, at the stables of the Brooklyn Tramway, One hundred and fifty-seven horses perished in the Haines. The damage is estimated at 200.000 dollars. ...

... Suspension of T. Loates, T.Loales, who was reported by the starter for disobo | dience at the post prior to the start for the Ches- terfield Nursery, at Derby, on Monday, has been suspended from riding again during the meeting, and the stewards likewiec reported him to the stewards vf the Jockey Club. ...

... A Barque Abandoned at Sea. I A Lloyd's telegram states that the Norwegian barque Jomsborg, of Tonsberg, timber-laden, has been abandoned in the Atlantic, waterlogged and breaking. The crew have been taken aboard the Clara B., bound from Monte Video to Cardiff. ...

... SIILL HENRY STAFF, 1.D NORTI'CCV'J I AT UARLZD[F. I. I .. I. Sir IJEHRY STAFFORD NOnTsCOTEJ wound up what must have been a very pleasant day to him by a speech last Ceening at the COirdiff Conservative Working Men'3 tlub-his first publia utterance, by the way, sinoe he received his baronetcy upon which we beg heartily to congratulate him- as full of goo2, solid matter as it was felici- tous. ...

... 0 _ _ _ _ _ _1_ _ t STREETS IMPROVEMENT AT l' i CARAe ri CARMARTHUN. A ot 'lHI W1DENNG' OF OIIU.IIOH.LANE. tale: iv -A public meeting, convened by the mayor (Mr. C'leri lot E. A. Rogers) on receipt of a requisitioni I to con- stic3 Ict eider the proposed expenditure of £1,060 by the 'ban lie Town Council in sile purchase of some ruirijlind lad: ier dwelling-houses near St. Peter's Charch, for ...

... MARK ANDREWS was summoned on Friday at the Newport police-court for allowing a horse to stray in High-street of that town. I am not about to describe the vagaries of the animal, for they will be found in another column. I call attention to the cass airaply because every night in the streets of Cantou some sort of four-footed creature is permitted to toara without the owners being served ...

... ANOTHER AWFUL MURDER IN SHROPSHIRE. SHOT DOWN IN THE DARK. A DESPERATE FEUD. Another dreadful murder is reported from Shropshire, and in the same parish where PicKering was butchered not quite a week before. The murdered M, all is John Powell, a well-to-do- farrr.er, residing at the Round Thorn, Whixall, is-, ne six miles from Whitchurch, and the sus- pected murderer his brother-in-law, Elijah ...