... THE SUEZ CANAL CONVENTION. [KKUTEB'S TELEGRAM.] CONSTANTINOPLE, Monday.-All the represen- tatives of the Powers met at the Porte to-day, and signed the Suez Canal Convention. ...

... STEAMERS BETWEEN RUSSIAN PORTS AND OHINA. I ftLIGBAK,) ST Weduesday.-Tbe Russian Government has agreed to grant an annual subsidy oi 111,900 roubles to a private firm to run a line of steamers between Russian Pacific port and Cloroo4 Japan, and China. ...

... At the Newport borough police-court to-day- before the mayor and other magisirates-J nbn Wood, a fish hawker, was summoned for being drunk in charge of a pony and trap. P.C. Faulks stated that as the people were coming out of places of worship, the defendant Woods was driving down Commercial-street, the trap beiioic driven from one side of the road to the other. Woods was drunk, and a ...

... Leaders Sent to Prison. I At the Newport borough police-court, to-day, George Morgan, Paul Keefe, William Morgan, and James Stanley were summoned for assaulting Edward and Mary Little. Mary Little, married woman, Dean-street, stated that on Saturday night she was in the house with her husband, when defendants Knefe and William Morgan rushed into the house and dragged her husband into the ...

... RECENT MILITARY DISTURB- ANCES AT CANTERBURY. As Much Liquor as They Like to Drink. The Mayor of Canterbury has received a communication from Colonel J. C. Russall, com- mandant of the cavalry depot, on the subject of the recent disturbances by soldiers on the eve of their leaving the garrison to join their regiments in India. Colonel Russell, while expressing regret that the men should have ...

... Sir William Harcourt, who is staying at Bournemouth, attended a theatrical entertainment last evening by a London company at Newton Hall, Bournemouth, ...

... THE FRENCH EXECUTIONER. That interesting personage of France, M. de Paris, who corresponds with our Mr Berry, and whose proper name is M. Deibler, lives in a very modest quarter of Paris, Belleville, in a thorough- fare called Rue Vicq d'Azir. Here may be found a drinking saloon, differing- in no particular respect from other marcbands de via, in which the executioner lodges, the landlord ...

... THE ST. LEGER. The St. Leger of 1888 was added yesterday to the long list ol pasi; events. In its main features it was like the majority of its predecessors. On reaching the station, those of the crowd who, preferring to walk, were not snapped up by the eager crowd of waggonette drivers, with their shilling each to the course, must have felt rewarded for their determination to brave the heat ...

... BETRAYED AND DESERTED. I A WOMAN'S ATTEMPTED SUICIDE IN CHURCH. The Paris correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says, to-day :-There was a tremendous scare in the Church of Pornic in Brittany during the service on Sunday morning. The report oi a revolver was suddeuly beard, and on looking towards the spot whence it proceeded the startled worshippers beheld a well- dressed woman pointing the ...

... THE FATAL FIRE AT LLANELLY. Opening of the Inquest. On Friday, at the Joiners' Arms, Llwynbendy, a coroner's enquiry was held touching the death of Mary John (77), Margaret Jane Harry (10), and Sarah Kate Harry (7), all of Cefncaeau, who met with their deaths on Thursday morning by the burning of a house and shop, as reported in our issue of yesterday. Mr J. D. Rowlands (deputy coroner) ...

... THE TRIAL OF MR O'BRI EN, M.P. In the case against Mr O'Brien at Loughrea, to- day, a witness stated that the meeting was promoted by the Town Commissioners. ...

... [RECTER'S TELEGRAM.] I BERLIN, Tuesday.-T'J-day's bulletin says the Emperor passed a somewhat less satisfactory night. Fever has slightly increased, otherwise here is no essential change. ...