... FATAL FIRE AT MANCHESTER. A fatal fire occurred at an early hour this morning in a house off Oldham-road, Manchester, occupied by a man named Oheeseman. During the progress of the fire one of the children, a girl of sevan, named Annie, was missed, and a policeman at the risk of his life entered the house and found her in one of the bedrooms, dreadfully burned. She died an hour afterwards. ...

... SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH COMPANY. STATEMENT BY HON. H. R. BRAND. I A meeting of the shareholders of the Submarine Telegraph Company was held to-day at the offices of the company, Throgmorton avenue, London. The Hon. H. R. Brand, who presided in the absence of the. rman, Sir Julian Goldsmid, referring to tiie negotiations for the purchase of the undertaking by the Government, said they had now a ...

... THK LEGACY OF CAIN.—This new and enthralling romance by Wilkie Collins, author of The \V,'man in White, will be eomraencpd the Cardiff Times and South Wales Weekly News this week. Order from the newsagents at once in order to ensure seeing the first chapters of this powerful and realistic novel. ...

... GOUGING A MAN'S j EYE OUT. I An elderly man, whose face was surgically bandaged, stated at the Thames police court, London, yesterday, that about three weeks ago a woman deliberately gouged his eye out. On the day in question he was going upstairs, when the woman, who lodged in the same house, shoved up against him. He asked whom she was pushing, and she replied, u I will gouge your eye out. ...

... Grandpa is unnecessarily sensitive on the score of being as bald as a soap bubble, and the fact is never spoken of in his presence. Aunty Mary has bought a sealskin cap for Uncle James. Little Albert (as the doots are thrown open); Hooray! Dranpa's dot a new wig! John Henry had a guest at dinner, the other day, and during a pause in the conversation the enfan iterrible spoke up: I wish I was ...

... OURI LONDON LETTER. in fraos 017n GrFeA ionarotS mnr.1 i- LONDON, WARDNMAn NIG1uT. o Mr. Gogchen had abundant warrant for his re- is mark at the Fishmongers'-hsal that the Gladstonian r 's leaders are ...

... CARD1FF UNIVERSITY COLLEGE.O I MEETING OF COVERNOUTS, 1 -- er EMPORTAN=T SPE'E,'(1 '1'\ t A BEIRT. 1) A 's R l, 'TL13 CRADDOCK WELT S ?? ?? w CONTROVEI{. ?? P'.t AN INTERVIEW TO TE StO iW WTiTH of SI ...

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... At a meeting of delegates of the sugar, ship- ping, and dock industries in the East end of London, this morning, Mr John McLean, journeyman cooper, presiding, the question at issue between Mr Charges Bradlaugh, M.P., and Mr Samuel Peters was fully discussed, and a resolution was passed praying the House of Commons to refuse a select committee moved for by Mr Bradlaugh, and to allow the action ...

... ON Saturday evening the Cardiff Temperance and Prohibition Society held its annual meeting in the Stuart-hall, The Hayes, Cardiff, the spacious building being crowded with an enthu- siastic gathering on the occasion. Mr Lewis Williams, J.P., presided in the unavoidable absence of Mr John Cory, and amongst other gentlemen on the platform were the Revs. N. Thomas, John Morris, O. L. Roberts, and ...

... Mr Kyrle Bellew is not quite a great actor, kj't he looks very interesting, and has large eyes. **ence these tears. Miss Coffin, an American lady who has never spoken to Mr Bellew, has 41 fl apped her yonng affections on the slim actor 1n the most wholesale fashion and as he flies as 18t as she pursues she has pledged herself to shoot bun at sight. It is not pleasant for Mr Kyrle e1iew. ...

... 'Zht R t; aeman'lf carnal [ DUBLIN: SATURDAY, FEB. 11, 1388. . _- . _ . _ I W. PAR'-%LL last night moved the adjourxn- mene of the debate on the Address in realv to the Speech from the Throne. He will himself move an ame dment to the Address as follows- To represent to her Majesty that the operation of the Irish legislation 'of last Session which was of an ameliorative character has tended ...