... es W THE SHAH.-It was generally supposed that the recep- tion accorded to the Shah on the occasion of his second visit to England would be much less enthusiastic than that which astonished and delighted him sixteen years ago. This anticipation has not been fulfilled. He is evidently as popular a figure as ever, and it will be strange if he does not leave our shores with a rather kindly feeling ...

... The ruceting of the Bermondsey Vestry last night, at the Town Hall, Spa. road, was attended by much disorder. At the previous meeting of the Vestry a noisy NrowI mustered in the ratepayers' gallery and caused so much ?? that the vestrymen had to edjourfl to a commcttee room, whore the rest of the buruiess was gone throughwith closed doors. When the publio prsented themaslves at the Town Hell ...

... lMPARY ASSOCIATION OR TEM Umu I , I . KUTGDOM . .. The Counai of this &Aemmlitimi aa decdodeatO hold the twelfth annual meeting of te ~isty in Low a don during the du uingautoom, a* 4l 7nasouo ?? Beou~sro it ?? ?? in ta fG~' Inn. Liaic~larinuedbythotetO@ iletna. Vansting the hr*mv~ uomw biob n wl Ieo 'ton sorb the Way .fou lageaa~ td the *dtk of thaW eilu ,4te as any precedin es.A el sotrid; ...

... ?? 4 - FnROM THE BOARD SCHOOL TO BEGGING. b is much to be regretted that some system of reaehing boys to work is not associated with our Board schools. As it is many are growing up with a 5mattering of knowledge that awakens a desire to do anything rather than labour. The latest illus- tration of this evil comes not from the East- end, but Westminster, where James Frost, aged 13 and Charles ...

... . MEETING OF THE JOCKEY . CLUBI. RESIGNATION OF SIR GEORGE CHETWYND. - PURIFICATION OF THE TURF. An important meeting of the Jockey Club was hold yesterday morning, at the town residence of the Duke of Richmond, 49, Belgrave-square. Amongst those present were:-Mr. James Lowther, Mr. Chaplin, Lord March, the Duke of Westminster, Sir John Astley, Lord Colville of Culross, Colonel Forester, Lord ...

... B3RTRIS3 WRECKS. I. . I The number and tonnage of British vessels respecting whose loss reports were received at the Board of Trade during the month of June, and the f~nber of lives lost, are as follows:- Description Number Tonnage Lives Lost Sailing ?? . 3( .. 3,2S4 52 Steam .. . 11 7,077 47 Total . 47 10,361 ?? 99 The above table is a record of reports received in the month, and not of ...

... THE HENR Y GEORGE OF GERMANY. AN INTERVIEW WITH MR. MICHAEL FLtRSCHEIM. THE international congress on the land question recently held in Paris was organized by Mr. Michael Fliirscheim-the Henry George of Germany. Mr. Fliirscheim was a manufacturer, but recently turned his business into a company, and now devotes his life entirely to the advocacy of land nationalization. He edits the organ of ...

... ?? ?? S 7-- 11~- ~ f THE LORD MlAYOR entertained at dillner on TtU-1 A thte prelates of the Church of England and other eatue-t intuo Iii setea Nonconformist ministers, among them the I-Ve I)D. X.ll, tle Rev. Dr. Parker, and the President of the ?? t [ aI01S. Tlhe Archbishop of Canterbury, responding to the tolt tf thle health I the principal guests, said that he ?? very g ?? present the ...

... (COMMUNICATED. BY AN INCORPORATED AUTHOR.) Mr. Walter Besant and Mr. Sprigge may justly feel proud at the success of the function which they arranged for last night. Most people know that Mr. Besant is practically the moving spirit of the Incorporated Society of Authors. There is, of course, a representative and powerful council, but Mr. Besant takes more than than an ordinary author's ...

... POLITICAL ITEMs. IRISTI VOTERS IN LO[NDON.-The executive of the Irish'National League of Great Britain have issued in- structions to the sixty-four metropolitan branches of the organization on the subject of Parliamentary regis. tration for the present year. It has been ascertained that the possible Irish vote in the London con- stituencies is much larger than the actual vote. In future the ...

... HOERMEuE LOSNDON TEAGEDIES. The deputy coroner for Mast Surrey held an inquest' at St. Thomas's Hospital upon the body of George I Howard, aged twenty-five, bargeman, of Great Waker- l ing, Essex, who was found outside the Lambeth Palace gates, bleeding from a wound in the neck, and who ex- pired a few minutes after his removal. A young man named James Crickman, a pawnbroker's assistant, is ...

... BENLEY REGATTA. 0fOU ova 8PNOz aommPOD!!T.)' . ELXY, W'rNs EvA Y Emf. The irst dsy of Henley Regatta- has pased a o off-vryqietly guin deed. The day's racing pro- 'c grramrwas was little so ter than it hba .been, a a~nd the number of vsitors was not great. As E to the rng it began ahalf-p ast twelve and. t w vs finished six o thereabouts. Five hours; . a and a halwwas thought to be enough for ...