... (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 ...

... T At Bloomabury county court Judge Bacon and a jury on Monday heard an action for damage, tres- pass, and assault, the plaintiffs being Mr. Alfred Bloom and Mrs. Jane Bloom, his wife, of 35 and 36, Hilldrop-crescent, Camden-town, and the defendant Mr. John Morgan, a public-house broker.-Mr. Bloom claimed 251. for damage to furniture and trespass, and Mrs. Bloom claimed 401. for assault.- The ...

... 11 THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. rk Sir Peter Teaze ?? Mr JoHN MA(LEAN re Sir Oliver Surface ?? r FRED. TORNSK in Sir Benjamin Backbite ?? r BitsN WIL.STRIi Sr Joseph Surface ?? Mr S lln ltm BStIsN at Charles Surface ?? Mr FuLLYRi MrcLL1,1 Mtr Crabtree ?? Mr A. WooI' le ?? r ARCRI' BBEt 7e Rowle3 ?? M Mr C. %lKvmsIS in ?? . Rb rCnt;L H ITi)ooBrtR a Snake ?? SLL h Trip ?? ?? Mr . GRovx Sir HarrY ...

... I THE POSITION ON THE. NILE. (f0M 0M COBRSPONDBNT.)' CAIRO, TLSnV 1I60. ?? has sent the Sirdas's proca- M ination to the Rhahfa for him to answer. M Eir F. Grenfell bas left korosko, and will n arri~o at Assouan to-day. 0 . THotn6t REUTgR'S io=AGRX CAIRO, JOT 17, UiniOaT. C PrisQnqs. #Aikn to-dav sate tat mfnii of o Wid-el-Neioomi's eairs press him to ?? t terms, but that he will never yield; ...

... traox orit COMIRSPWONDEI.) BEEW=, Fainjx NiFon. LI Thexcetaieelce Zeitwiy totdaycomplain s of the Cz's 5 delay in returning the Emperor W oli ws visit, which took place a year ago, and goes on to t express surprisetbat the Czar h ad not even written a line explaining the cause of his re-g mniesness, though such a letter would have prv- evl dueed an admirable effect. Thisartice is some- m3 what ...

... W, PERIAL PARLIAMENT. I - ?? 0OUiqE OF LORDS.-FgRIAY. it Tne LeO t ZsL'4a took his Seat on the Wool- k It,'artertpast four. tic ROYAL COMMISSION. er . = o.,al^eset't bad -reiorv b ^ o ?? Cor° or cl ndecenit AdverCtleamt Oil~m-8 THE DFPRECIATION OF SILVER. ?? ml ^e r of NORTHIBROOK. ealliag attention to wt g~qn~tiO. s^nid that it seriously affected the junior cul of Civil, Iervdtt ill India, ...

... The lntercolonial IMail Rtoute. T'E Vancouver Board Of Trade has published a circular letter ad. dressed to the Board of Trade of Sydney, Neew South Wales, upon the advantages of a line of British mail steamers between those two places. The representatives of an American firm have been working bard to obtain a sub- sidy for their own boats, and with that object in view they bavo made the most ...

... 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 ...

... The Stsge and the Cbtzreb. draiu?tie profession have, on the whole, no reason to oomploln? of the spirit in which the 3nri- diaconal Conference in L~iverpool baa this week. discussed the question of the Stage Times have indeed changed since the Church and the Theatre wavged war wvithout truce or favour. Mr. S vvnsrnU, the Vicar of Roby, even went so far as to say that if tfe Stg vwill be ...

... THE NILE CAMPAIGN FURTHER CAPTURES. (FRIW oM a COnR3rOZDExT.) CAIRO, 8UDA1 NIOnv. Six hundred men of the Welsh Regiment left to-day for Assouan. A despatch from Aisoum- this evening says that two hundred and twenty Dervish refugees and twenty-three Dervish wounded arrived there to-day. They received medical treatment and comforts without stint. Barges with food and medical officers have been ...