... H O POLITICAL.-Mr. Chamberlain made a long and stirring speech at a Unionist meeting on Wednesday, held after a conference'there of the Midland Liberal Unionists. The Duke of St. Alban's presided. In ...

... ARREST OF TWO IRISH ?? Mr. John E. Rediaond, M.P., and Mr. William El. Redmond, M.P., were arrested at Rossclare, county Wexford, on Monday, and conveyed under a strong escort of police to Wexford town. Mr. Edward Walsh, proprietor of the Wfseford People newspaper, had been previously arrg'tea in Wexford, and was detained in the police barracks until the arrival of the other prisoners. All ...

... a:WAUDS OW rATLUER. Baron De Worms is to be made a member of the Privy Council in acknowledgment of the utter failure that has attended his pro- longed and costly efforts to bring about the settlement of the sugar bounties question. This is what he has long aspired to. Having failed to win it as a revolter against his party in the hot days of Lord Randolph's political youth, and the Fourth ...

... PIUOINGG OUT HIS mYs. __L- ?? .2 _ _ _ - ?? t An extraordiuars case of ?? is rcporwu from Dublin. A medical 6tulent, Dinned James L. Gannon, aged thirty-six years, living at 20, North, umberland-avenue, Kiungtown, left his residence o0 Mlondavy morning with his brother, Edward Ganunoi. About one o'clock, a girl, named Bessie Carr, aged twelve years, saw him walking across a little pasture ...

... T3 Mi D3iFNTCE Or LONDON._ Major-General Sir Reginald Gipps, ?? the commander of the Home District, has issued instruc- tion that officers and uon-commissioued' officers of the Guards and other regiments quartered in the district shall during the ensuing winter prepare reconnaissance reports on roads and positions round the metropolis, as part of a scheme for the defence of London. It has been ...

... SU1IS[ARY OF LATEST HOME NEWS. Yesterday, James Double, drayman, emploced by Messrs. Charrington, fell from his dray at Iiritechiapel, and dislocated his shoulder. He was surgicail.7 attended at the London Hostpital. Yesterday, a. shunter, named George 'Walsh, mnef with a dreadful death at Blackburn Rtailway Sttationl He was shunting some waggons, and as he attemp~ted to fasten the couplings, ...

... On Wednesday evening a farewell dinner was given to Mr John Maclean, on the occasion of his leaving this country for America, with Miss Mary Anderson's com- pany. The dinner was given by the Savage Club Lodge of Freemasons, and by the members of the Logic Club, a club which has been in existence for some few years for the purpose of advancing a knowledge of Masonic working. In this club Mr ...

... THE FANTASTIC FAILURE MUST GO.-Daily Teleraph. The Daily Telegrapk, as to the reorganization of the Detective force, says that it cannot, while referring to the bounden duty of the Government, shrink from the painful but imperatively necessary task of warning Lord Salisbury that the public are altogether discontented with, and will soon become uncontrollably impatient of, the presence at ...

... S60'310i'if AI5 A AtUWAG;l 2,111. aI Oc StUrdaiy ?? aneetxiong Boonm weie0 WRItneed at ?? Brightfen Polos Gnehirorslr7 where., In'uszdr. ds d ?? ti7 eth ,r. a~tareketievr~, Vsi!. Cree n-a ;3 vosreriet.UpX in en vi7 ann ?? cdse T'ii7 fl zcv agi 0 tfflzce Iet t i H , c1 r Y ieoymnsloc in tr7 te hone' -A, i. ienecion ?? lemno doen in a, irleeL c-npitv oage, by vhich t.hae Hleyt,', don I ...

... A ROX LN1UIC AlFAIR AT CEL3WICK. OA coeR'.SPoeDl? t5 N N wSlt::3 :-.6t Y..ev teomatine fiaedavt is t0tep-:3d frO3s: Giwiek, IroMr whibh It a ?? thei Fbout two reuai e 5he w33e or a' hel S ?? re nir in ha hrt p'lrt of tie ?? a ld mherto o| four youog ohliren, euddedly r' rared frun Ler ho 0010 uuD vbout the emtee ?? e gteniatiemun of w L g t6-do o'nretenIce:, acd bellevoci to ?? bEcore. 5quw ...

... A VISIT TO MR. SWVINBURNE, The resi lence of the Holman Hunts, Draycott Lodge, is quite near to 'The i'ies, the home of Swinburne and Watts. So I took the two visits in todether,' says ' rr. -Louise Chandler Moulton in the Eoston Svin/aoy Ilerald. WI TH THill PICTURES AT THE PINES. it is a lo\ ely place, in the midst of verdure, and as quiet as if it were not With n half a.!i beo t' of ...

... . BY THE REV. F. 0. MORRIS. I HAVE been told that you wculd be lilely to entertain a plea put in for our unfortunate sea birds ; and in that willing belief, inasmuch as one touch of Nature makes all the world kin, I should be glad to enter an appearance on their behalf. It is only too well known that the close season for them, which at one time stood up to September I, has since come down, ...