... TERBltEiB HAVOC AMONOI4HIPPING- The weather on Friday was very stormy over nearly the whole of the United Kingdom. A furious gale raged all Friday night in the English channel from the north-east. The sea rats verv high round by the North Foreland. About midnight signals of a vessel in distress on the Goodwin sands were heard at Deal, and a lifeboat put off, as did also the Bradford. The rough ...

... NEAY,;S OF S IVANLEY. THiE MEETINLG' WVITH EMItIN BEY ?? letters despatched by Wr. Stanley in Aug7ust and at the beginning of September lasz;, frou the Arulaimi, hive at length ar- riv edin Englaeud, and we sullbjoin some of thc more interesting passages. Though not carrying the tidings of MJr. Stanley's p.icesdings further back then the note to Tippoo Tib, which was printed on Jan. 16, therse ...

... APP~tLLJNG DISASTER IN THE | ENGLISH CHANNEL. 1 -- - -401 N OSTEND MAIL B3OAT BLOWN UP. iday night great anxiety prevailed at Dover the whereabouts of the Ostend mail and passen- 'the ComtOse do Flaudre, which left 10 on Friday morning, and usltendai Dover at 2.30 p.m. So great was the ery fels t for the steamer's safety that signal guns asity Yr intervals were fired through the night. ...

... Yesterday (St. Thomas's day) was nomination day for the Common council candidates ii the 25 wards of the City. Although the attendanee at some of the meetings was good in the majority of instances, it was not up to the average. Amongs the subjects dealt with at several of the meetigs was the expiration of the Coal and Wine dues. Mr. Deputy Brown, in Castle Baynard, con- sidered that it was a ...

... - f 1-a 11 D- aM e News of THOMAS GODMAN (Feb. 3), who went to New Zealand in 1875, has come to hand, through the kindness of the managers of the Canterbury (NZ) Times, in reprinting our in- quiry. The address sent by them has been duly forwarded to Mrs. Seabrook, the sister who in- quired, and who, in a letter of thanks, says she will write at once to Hawkes Bay. New Zealand, through the ...

... (from our later editions b last week.) PLEADING POIR FAIriES AND GOBLINS. A number of London and provincial theatre managers visited the Home office on Friday, to interview ?? Henry Matthews upon the question of the employment of young children in theatres. Ml~r. Dixon iiartland, ME.P., introduced the deputa-I tion, which consisted of Mr. Henrv Irving, Mr. Augustus Harris, Mr. Brain Stoker, Mr ...

... | TERRIBLE DYNAMITE EX'LOSION. LOSS OF OVER 150 LIVES.. ANT WERP, Sept. 8.-A dynamite explosionattended with most disastrbus effects, has just occurred to a cartridge manufactorv near the port. So far as at prscent known, malay persons, principally women and ,hjlchn, ha~ve been injured. The windows of alarge nuber of houises have been broken by the shock. andheroos o may oher hae bendainiaged. ...

... EPITOME OFFOREIGNAND GENERALNEWS t A HUGE VINE at Haugsdorf, in Lower Austria now nine years old, bears 2,000 bunches of grapes. A SERIOUS fire occurred on Tuesday in the esparto grass stores at the railway station at Alicante (Spain). Three thousand tons of the grass were destroyed. Ar Berne the man Glour. who was arrested on the charge of causing the recerit disastrous conflagration at the ...

... Mr. -William Henry Gladstone, owner of Hawarden estate, sold, on Friday, ceder distraint for rent, the property of Mr. George Hughes, lEwlon, Hawarden. ;Owing to reports of sales on the 1Hawarden ?? there was a large attendance. The farm occupied by Hughes is 49 acres in extent, for which I he pays 761. Os. renrt. The holding hss been in pos- session of his family for 200 yearS. Ile is, ...

... - - _ . r urin Sunday the Shah presented the Prince of wa~les wvith the Agdas, the Royal Family Order of pecsia which is only conferred on very few persons, morei, than haif-a.dozen. 'The chief emblem is lc star set with diamonds. To the Princes and George of Vnales he gave the First Albet f he Prtrait with Diamonds. Lady Clbasr order lof pI resiented with the order of the ~~~0 ~ ~ ~ s cub.ury ...

... I EPITOME OFFOREIGAND NERALNEWS THE Russian Imperial Academy of Fine Arts las decided that Jews shall no longer be admitted among its memberS. InTF.LLsGNO Erfrom San Andreas in California states that a cave-in has occurred at a mine there. Sixteen of the miners were buried. Tese entire business portion of Petrolia, a town in the oil district of Pennsylvania, has been de- strayed by fire. T.he ...

... A fatal accident happened at Oxford after the University torpid races, on Saturday. A large num- ber of undergraduates crowded into a punt to cross to the other side of the river, but the boat sank just after she was pushed off, and several of the undergraduates immersed were rescued with great difficulty. Mr. Lay, of St. John's, was only saved by the gallant conduct of Mr. Montague, of ...