... The Enfield Election. i I PRESS OPINIONS. I [THE DAILY NEWS.] The result of the polling in the Enfield Livisioa on Saturday is a disappointment to the Liberal party, but is in no sense a disaster. The largi increase in the Liberal poll-which was 973 morf than it had been in 1885, and 2,525 mort than in 1885—accounts for, and goes far ta justify, the sanguine anticipations with which the ...

... DESTRUCTION OF SHEEP BY DOGS, [SPECIAL TELKGHAM TO THE ECHO.| of sheep by dog- is report*, to-day from the district of Ballydaheeo, count; Cork. During the past fortnight over 4200 wortt of sheep have been destroyed, sixteen having been killed and others injured on one night alone. ...

... THE C0MPT0IR D'ESCOMPTE. | BEDTER'S TELEGRAM.] PARIS, Saturday.-It is announced that M. Moreau, divisional administrator of the Comptoir D'Escompte, will proceed to London on Monday to conduct final negotia- tions for a general agreement in view of the cancelling of English contracts. ...

... e comet of ^,e Present year was ( 'Sy0rf Mr Barnard, at Lick Observatory, thVoii>;at nineteen minutes after five a.m. V The comet is described as faint, and cph0. 9 time was in Right Ascension K0l*'r>° c (diminishing 52sec daily), and vth ^'fiation, 16Jeg. &min (increasing 2min ...

... 3 London correspondent of the South nip'ht. suvs ? — -w_, on. -.n- --J I The Volunteer Manoeuvres. a Easter volunteer operations this yeAr.re, ttracting- much attention outside volunt.0 I s, chiefly for the reason that the maD«uvr6j utjiQ3) )e of a more practical than showy character rarious corps will be distributed over a largl on of the South coast, some going to Dourne, others to ...

... SUNDAY SCHOOL CONFERENCE AT SWANSEA. On Good Friday, the annual conference of the Swansea Sunday School Union took place at the Congregational Chapel, Walter-road. At the morn- ing conference, presided ovar by Mr R. P. Price, Mr Gwilym Rees read a paper on Sunday-school Work, or the Duties beyond Teaching, and the Rev J. Roberts (Mount Zion), on The Claims of the Sunday-school to the ...

... Latest Training Work. I (Compiled from the Training Eeports.) I CITY AND SUBURBAN. I ?tipimilb covered a mile and a half steadUy Fehx traversed a mile at a useful pace Friday had healthy exercise Fullerton covered seven furlongs Horton had mile work Indian Prince an3 Lady Rosebery cantered six furlong  ™t\mile a»d a quarter at a sweating P? Mamia -?vas not mentioned sJ i^, °SopS?t was given ...

... 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 ...

... To place the alternative of death or matrimony odd way of wooing the object of one's affections but its eccentricity is considerably enhanced wheu the suitor professes to hold friquen-t ttid supernatural communion with the spirit of his adored one's deceased father, and to have taken the advice of that disembodied progenitor as to the most efticacious method of obtaining his daughter's hand. A ...

... The following interests have deposited petitioDO in the private bill office of the House of Lord' against the Barry Dock and Railways Bill v*. Pilots and pilots' apprentices of Cardiff, licens pilots of Bristol, aud the Corporation 0* Gloucester. ...

... Testimonials to the Police. Detective-inspectors Peel and Tunbridge, of Scotland Yard, Detective-inspector Miller. Sergeants Fordham, Nash, Merroney, Gould, and Watkins, of the Metropolitan Police, who effected the capture of the Muswell-hill burglars, have each been presented with a token of appreciation of their skill byihe Atkin family. A public testimonial is also being promoted. ...

... Ttte monthly meeting of the Cadoxton Local Board was held on Tuesday afternoon, Mr Lewis Williams in the chair. A recommendation from the public works committee that Mr C. R. Walker, who has already reported in a drainage scheme for the local board district, should ba appointed to carry out the drainage work, was agreed to unanimously.-A recommendation of tha same committee was the following ...