... They say 7,000 book keepers are idle in New York. Bradford, jConn., has a seventy-year-old tele- graph messenger boy. It is witb -ancestry as with antiquity-nations are proud of bUe one, and individuals of the other. We wonlA like to see your mother, if she is not engaged- Seven-year.old Engaged! long ago, andgot married before I was born. Conversation warms the mind and enlivens the ...

... SINGULAR CASE OF DESERTION AT HAVERFORDWEST, Two Children left on a Door-step. At Haverfordwest petty session, held on Monday, Sarah Warren, a single woman, was charged under the Vagrant Act with deserting her two children. Superintendent Williams informed the bench that late on Saturday night he received information to the effect that two children had been discovered on the doorstep of the ...

... TOO LATE! EMERGENCY MEN REVISIT PEMBROKESHIRE. The Welsh tithe evictions in Cardiganshire arel apparently to be re-prosecuted. Mr Stephens's emergency men arrived at Cardigan on Saturday. They came in a brake, probably destined for Whitechurch parish, Pembrokeshire. The visiti of these gentry proved futile about six weeks ago, and as a consequence half a year's tithes are said to be ...

... The Speaker took the chair at five minutes past three o'clock. DUTY ON SILVER PLATE. The CHANCKLLORof the EXOHKQUEK, in answer to Mr Howell, said he should b glad if he could see his way to abolishing the silver plate duty; but the state of the revenue would net permit him to take any steps in that direction this year, nor could he give any pledge upon the subject. NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY. ...

... Last eveni tbe Marquis of Ripon attonade a conversanooe, held at LiEmehonse Town 1Hall, in con- nection with the Limnehouse Liberal and Badical Asan- ciation. Trhbre was a good attendance. - Mr. J. STEWAXT WALLACE, Liberal and Radical candidate for Limehouse, took the chair. and in introducing the noble visitor, Mr. 'allace said the record of the association during the season now closiag had ...

... A Press Association telegram •—Mr W. Fuller Maitland, M.P. for Brecknockshire, has declined the invitation to contest the Maldon Division of Essex; Mr H. Evans Broad, of Fonthill, Reigate, will accordiilgly be the Liberal candidate. ...

... THE FALCARRAGH PROSECU- TIONS. The Division. Mr Atherley Jones's motion, discussing the Falcarragh prosecutions, was sup- ported by 127 Gladstouian Liberals and 28 Irish Nationalists. The majority which supported the Government was composed of 209 Conservatives and 43 Liberal Unionists, including Lord Hartington, Mr Chamberlain, Sir Henry James, Mr Heneage, Mr Caine, Lord Wolmer, and Lord ...

... The steamers Ivy Holme, from Swansea, and Maryland, of London, were in collision off the Lizard ou Sunday evening. Both were slightly damaged. The Ivy Holme put into Falmouth, and the Maryland proceeded. ...

... TRE HARRIS. A PIPE IN THB COALPIT. -At tho Merthyr police-court on Monday, Luke James, collier, was fined 20, and costs or a mouth's imprisonment for a breach of the special rules at the Deep Navigation Pit, Treharris, Defendant was seen lying down by a tram inside the lamp station the stem of a pipe protruded out of his waistcoal pocket. ...

... PRINCESS MIDAS. 7W at EDITOR of the PALL MALL GAZETTE. DEAR MR. EDITOR,-Will you kindly allow me to correct an errol in my figures of the Outer Harbour of Adelaide? In place of 4 per cent. interest, what I should have said was, that taking the present import and export trade. of South Australia, together with the tonnage of Steamer traversing these waters, the Outer Harbour scheme, 'as ...

... ABCISIIOP OF DUBLIN t- I: , y bLALORDS. ?? .1 I Tba foul ing important letter bha ben aA- drused to tlu principbl amoning paows in Len- da - -, Sza-h is annonneed in yourcoinmes this Warning that theroareu arbaration of the posits so long ia dispute between landlord and. tents on ?? estate, in CIAreh happily resulted in a friendly settlement of ttie£ Casee. This, then, seems to we a famoarble ...

... IMPERIAL PARLIAMEENT., Is - I 's I ~HOUSE OF LMORDS. ea MONDAY, MnAY 6. lt .i- The LoxD-CTNsCELLOa took his seat on the 0] is Wooleack at a quarter-past four o'clock. a- NEW PEER. el a- The Earl of CABLiSLE took the oath and sub- ly scribed the rall of members on his ?? to the v ly Peerage, d ) MANCHESTER CORPORATION BILL. tl of This bill was read a third time and passed. t1 st AFRICAN NATIVE ...