... THE SHOEBUJRYNEIS MEETING. The Volunteer Artillery Eneampmnent which closes too. day, completed their competitions yesterday, The 10-inch Gun CoC'tition wae finished by half-past eight, and the Officers' Competition with the 10-inch gun by one o'clock in the afternoon. The first prize in the former of these competitions waswon by the 4th Durham (West Hartle- I pool), whiah made the highest ...

... IT IS M-ORNING'S NEWS. TO-DAY'SLOND ON PAPER.S.; SIGNOR CRISPI'S MISSION. (STA24AIw TzLEGnAxe.) BERL=, Thursday Night.-Signor Crispi's visit still'.; forms the subject of endless conjectures. Many, German and foreign papers refuse to believe that his meeting with the German Chancellor will not be followed by important changes in the European situation,. and seem to imagine that Germany has ...

... THE GOVERNMENT AND NONCON- FORMISTS. I -. 4- Speaking last night at South Kelsay, near Market Rasen, Mr. RuOnar W. Ppncs, the Liberal daudidate for the Louth Division of Lincolnshire, and one of the leaders V of the Wesleyan Mothodist body, said that Her Majesty's Government seemed to have forgotten that mdre than half the people of the United Kingdom were Noncouformists with serious ...

... A PERILOUS BALOON VOYAGE. The 8tandard Paris correspondent writes on Thurs- ?? Isid'peodance ., Beige, received here to-day, publishes further particulars relative io' the ascent of .the balloon of the Aerostatic Corps of En- gineers. an~d .ot .the rescuie in the .Channel .:of .the teeronauta by the stesmer;Warrior. It .was on Mfonday evening the ascent was made from - the.Artillery Grounds of ...

... I VISIT TO GLASGOW. * Yesterday was the last of the visits of the members of' this Institute to the Scottish capital. and they have certainly bad a most enjoyable gathering. The weather has been fairly favourable for the north ,tountry, and the Scottish welcome has been of the warmest. Yesterday morning a, special train of the North British Railway Company con- veyed about 500 members to ...

... CAN 8MALL TARMJS PAY? A. correspondent of the. &tanrd writes as followq on the ?? questing :-In order to ascertain, if poo- sible, the cause or causes of the decline in the prosperity of the ,9all Farms and Labourers' Fund Company, whihl ,'seemeed 'obe indicated by their latest balanda-ihet, Mmar paid a vi to their estates in Berkshire and Cambridge- r shire. There is no station ouearer to the ...

... SERIOUJS RAILWAY ACCIDENT. . 3EVERA PERSONS INJlJREP. An acoident o'f a somewihat serious chairacter, though fortunately unattended with loss of life, occurred at ~ve, minutes to four yesterday afternoon, at the Cnannonl-street terminus of the 8outh-Eastern Railvway. Thse 2;15.ap, 'trisin from Tunbridge, on onteriog the station, came some- 'Swlat violently into collision vith two large-tans ...

... GIPSY FORTUNE-TELLING. - EXTPA- ORDINARY CREDULITY. wJuuJJ11- 'ow . AL- ?? JJ is L, At Sutton Coldfleld Sessions, Caroline Smith, an elderly gipsy woman, whose address was given as Lily Green, Birmingham, has been charged with obtaining 15s. by means of false pretences on the 13th inst. Mr. FAsn'rnnr. ?? Hfunte, servant in the employ of Miss Chidlow, Tudor Hill, Sutton, said that on the day ...

... (SENERAL, FOREItGN ~EWS~ ii (1aumn'q TELEOA ?? Q THE OZAR AND THE EPRESS, Sr. Pxmae-rnun, Monday.-The Czar, accompauied by Is is son, the Grand Dluke Michael Alexandrovitch, and the Gn raud Duke Alexis Alesandrovitcih, left yesterday eveiuring 5, for Iljiuskojc, the country seat of the Grand Duko Bsergius or Alexandrovitch, situeted nenr: Moscow. B. 'lhe Grand Duke Sergius aud his eonsort and ...

... - 4 ?? L1 s. Wednesday, August 22nd. 'hoe fate of the Fisheries Treaty negotiated by Mr. 0b1a'erlain, and accepted by the Washington Govern- went as an equitable settlement of a long-pending diffi- ,has at last been decided by the Senate on jrijy party lines. As the treaty required for its rstification a two-thirds vote, it has been evident for seine time puat lhat it could not be carried in' ...

... THE IJOCAL GOVBR?14ENT ACT. This important Act (51 anrd 52 Vio,, clsay 41, hae now been printed; and ns it entfrely reoonstiture au gover- reent of the counties and of London, we now give the principal clauses iu extemo, aud the ndei ones slgiaty cur ?? print If tL nail II7 so Sar asb thiey relate to counltiesi saud boroughs, but rnot zincluding the metropois- Au A\ct to Amaond the Lavs ...

... .DALNISII BUTTIER. Tche report of, Cornsul Inglis at Copenhageni upon dairy farms in Dinrnark was issued on Saturday. Among other things he sass- With reference to certain paragraphs which have appearedlin English papers, tend~ing to depre- ciate the quality of Danish butter, by including it in a statement that ' the uniformity of foreign butters is the uniformity of adulteration and not of ...