... A Sportsman telegram, dated New York, January 11, says Kilrain and Mitchell did not reacii here yesterday as expected, but will spar in Troy for a couple of evenings and come on to New York next Monday or Tuesday. As announced, Jak'j has determined to eat his cake, and while admitting that Sullivan had the best of his representatives at Toronto, he is determined to go ahead and show that he ...

... A HYPOCRITICALOLD PILFERER. An extraordinary scene was enacted yesterday in the Church of Saint Gcmainl'Auxerroisduring the capture of a female pilferer by a private detective. The offender, who was an unctuous elderly person, had been surprised in a draper's shop just as she was engaged in annexing various articles of haberdashery. Accordingly, she retreated quickly from the establishment, ...

... TOM SMITH'S CRACKERS ON FIRE. About eight o'clock this morning a tire broke out on the premises of Messrs Tom Smith and Co., the well-known manufacturer* of Tom Smith's Crackers, at Wilson-street, Finsbury. The fire spread rapidly, much of the stock being of an inflitmmable nature, and soon two large buildings were involved. In an hour and a half their roofs were off, and some of the floors ...

... Accident to the Irish Mail. MARVELLOUS ESCAPES. A Holyhead correspondent telegraph!! that au alarming accident occurred to the Irish mail train as it entered Holybead Station at five o'clock this morning. Outside the station there is a long and dangerous gradient, and as the train came down this it was observed that it was travelling at an unusual speed, whilst the engine whistle blew ...

... I Newmarket Training Notes. I I (BY OUR NEWMARKET CORKUSPONDKNT ) NEWMARKET. Tuesday. On the Bury side, K-noon s Installation colt. Houndsditch. Cheroot, Scottish King King Monmouth. and Cheroot were sent seven furlongs. C Archer's Everslield and Pinchbeck galloped a mile and a quarter Tom Chaloner's Rigadoon aid Barkhain went a mile. Sher wood s Exmoor, St Serge, St Alyre, a.nd Philomel went ...

... THE LATKST NEWS.—A lady, who was for more than three months unable to put on her boots because of most pidni'ui corns, after trying, without any benefit, several of t,h« remedies, at last got a 13 bottle of Munday's Viridine,which is tho Corn Cure and in six days the corns were all gone, and she has bad no trouble from that tun-. Muudav's Viridine is sold m is bottles; by post Is 2d, by ths ...

... FACTS AND FANCtES. Charity .and personal forca are tho on!y iuvest- meuts worth having. Nothing: great waii ever achieved without en- tbmiasm.Emerson. The morct W . ...

... SLAVIN BOUND OVER. I Publicity given by a, section of the Presi3 to this affair on Friday had the effect of causing the authorities to bestir themselves. 011 Saturday afternoon Inspector Barnett arrested Slavin, the Australian champion, at his training quarters at Margate, and touk him before the local magistrates, for the purpose of being bound over to keep the peace towards Jem Smith and all ...

... A BOGUS CLUB AT SWANSEA. At. the Swansea police-court on Thursday— before tha stipendiary (Mr J. C. Fowler) and Messrs J. G. Hall and J. C. Vye-Parminter- Jeremiah Lynch, 18, Cwm-strfet. Thomas Lewis, Tontinp-street William Pugsley, 10, Clifton-terrace Morris Bresuau, 13, Greyhound- strect; Ed. Sullivan, 18, Llaugefelach-road Bartholomew Flynn, 21, Greyhound-street John Halliday, Jockey-street ...

... I Release of an Editor. Mr W. G. Fisher,editor of the tifunster Et was released from Waterford Gaol this morn- after undergoing a fortnight's imprisonnaec- publiabiug boycotting resolutions in hill xL, .cF. paper. ...

... THE WAR OF RATES. The Economist, commenting upon the local war of rates, ueclares that one of the most striking movements amoAg Stock Exchange securities lately has been the violent fluctuations in Tutf V lie stock. After dealing with the position of the T.'ff undertaking our contemporary prc-ceedi: The Barry Dock and Rr-ilways Company was started in 1884 by some of the leading capitalists and ...

... A new departure is to be made at the Queen's birthday celebration at Portsmouth on Saturday, the 25th inst. For the first time the navy will be represented, orders having been issued for a large body of seamen and boys to parade with the troops on Southsea Common. The parade will be under the joint inspection of General the Hon. Sir Leicester Smyth and Admiral Sir Edmund Commerell, the latter ...