... ?HX LONDON OQUN3?Y QOUNOIL. .The usuall weoly metiujg this Council. FZwcAlca. lo Th Fiusee Commiittee reported tat Up4n full di' eeracio of t1ie rate at whioi monoey could be 0$ rasd, thee had decided fo the pesen to voiiitnzd fSo. l}n of Ith),OO43. uand uwrsd (n singl amounts' at l p er cent., under ICO,O and uqt under h00oco, at bu hI pe ceaS., undet 60,00W. 3t *pc;cent. The p ath-u ...

... TEIE COMMONS AND THE CROWN. BR. JOHN NORLEy'S. AMENDMENT. When Mr.. Xorley rose is te gouse of Qom. $ moo yiesterda to resume tbe te o th edto!s-gg*.tth~t a int2t in tiae matterwaseetd. , 0 rivinzg, r h ° th numhqr g ou nts of , 0he Front Opnositien lsnb tp f ve; th - otbers, in addltpn to 3: Jokn Morey, hein Sir Willamn Hrurt, M. E H. Fowler, Mr. 04bmrVaiR. Tbe !jreswy Bench we r flledthough ...

... |. ANMD MRS. GLADSTONE'Sj GOLDEN WEDING. THE COMMEMORtATIVE ALBUM. The commemorative album which will be presented to Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone on Friday evening. at the National Liberal Club, as a gift from the members, in celebration of their golden wedding, is a unique typo of that form of testi- monia. The artistS who have combined in its roduction, virtually as a labour of love, ae .Marcus ...

... FOLLOWING rapidly upon the disastrous fires of last * week,' an enormous conflagration occurred shortly h before seven o'clock on uinday night, at 103, Great 1 Dover-street, Borough, upon the very extensive pre- I mises of Messrs. W. :H. and F. Croker, beilders.E The flames broke out in the farther end of the mill, 1 near the engine-house, and rapidly involved a great i area of the buildings ...

... I~~E THE EARL OF HOPETOUN, who has been annually since I887 the Queen's High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, and who is a Lord-in-Waiting, succeeds Sir Henry Loch as Governor of Victoria. THE EAST MARYLEBONE ELECTION.-Mr. A. B. Forwood M.P., Secretary to the Admiralty, addressing a Primrose League gathering at Oakfield Park, Dartford, attributed the diminution ...

... A Haunt. .IT ; tie north end of Lui4- .Among the Bort hebth fiht prt- pbe SU theso X . e - TiM grey granite rise, like the brows of ancient Cli deep sunk amid a sea of gree. Thre is no sign OVi sound of man, or beast, or bird, save 8he ?? note of a stonechat swaying on a s f glove, or the fdat cr of a wandegtrni whose wbite wings float a moment over shoulder Of the bll No sound is there, eisa ...

... pRESENTATION OF THE 'FRElE)OM I Of IRD1FF TO MR. GLADSTONE. i * ?? On &55 ly aftrnoon a doputgtionl from theth 0Qerporatiols of Cardiff preselited the froedoms of their I a: tboroqb to Mdr. Gladstone. This ceremonly took place wit ,l the ralid~eat of Sir F. J. Rleed, M.P., in Herrington- UD S~aaans where a, large company assembled at the iuvi- %tlle of the member for Cardiff. Amongst ths ...

... A Robber Stronighold. Tni blue hills of Devon are faditg far astern. The heights of Exmoor, the tuaged coastline, the little ! ports whose strects like stairways rise steeply from the sea, are vanishing in the uist of dawn. From the lighthouse tower of Hartland shines a feeble gleam that *- shows the enatin to be nesr, and 'gins to pale his ineffectual fire. On the smooth water whole fleets ...

... o *W TO SEETHE N..AL JUR'VIEW.' ,ho Gxi, of tbe Iuu'pkioau of the FMet Mt S pbC , by tbe lj tar wtsuprror for Agt > b~t^i liittt~fr~v~b twO ?? 9es Uixa liteit runto aouth. COit. St i qiie &Wsalrady eid nething. the a itoaion ra Uia muoh aa itwu Mwelgs wstie ton the subjeet. O o re riteS x one of tae oflu. f U atioStat.on, tr not yet cow- _ . f,~r the N*vl Review; in fkat, we 1gelv~ kraW ...

... Aadm am A xOS cuniom tria for mficidual ?? and wrest ba Ute1Y _m plce at .* York A.sizm. Wamr. 70tic MAmW. The plaintiff was ZIHRo2DMS, lady of eition in the 1 aay, sad the deendan't Mr. BATMON, OWD-the Harrogate Borough magistrts.s 3r BsAsox bad lent Ms HoDSox a sum tl 9 Mvithout the knowledge of her husband; 6t wbge hek showed t slackness in pay- g t iobest.or which he pressed her in S i of ...

... ILBTEOROLOGI(OL PO1T. 's dL LY X! WSI OfPICS, I ADmNGS TMSS MORNUNG BY | NEGRTI £4D ZAMBRA!S BAROMETER WED. 17. F II SAT. ~~ - A e.*W. &W. S 8 r6 30 o 3a0 0 8 5- 1 5~~2 go 8 9 2 Cretdto sea-IwI dad TedUcW 49 82 deg. P. rho lac lies howthe elet.O thbe!nltetfat I o'cloek on The i EMPoiRATw nl Wth oped air at I Othlek .tYWf mogll, ^s UkOA ?? ofC in ?? ws 67P; tte reading wtthe W119 Io yesdumas - ...

... The Sorrows of Youg Oxford. THIs is no sight for persons of feeling and culture, said Frau c BUCEoLZ when Herr BUcHroLZ tried several sorts of beer and liquours. In the same way (but not, of | course, for the same ressoa), Oxford orickoti yesterday was no might for persons of su culture and feeling. Nobody expected de very much from Oxford. They had lost all their matches except that ...