... I A. WOMAN STABS, A COMMISSIONZASS. A woman of very doubtful character caused much excitement in Whitefriars-street last night by stabbing in two places the commiesioniare on duty at Messrs. Scott and Co., of 9 and 10, Whitefriars-street. It appears that the woman in question had been disput- ing with the landlady of a public-house in that street. She afterwards went away, vowing ven. geance ...

... I - 4- AN APPEAL TO ALL TRADES. I MEN REFUSE A COMPROMISE Yesterday (Saturday) wag the 17th day of the great London strike, which, beginning originally with the dock labourers, has now spread till it is not confined to any oue trade, andnumbers an out-of-work army of considerably over 100,000 men. Some estimate it at 150,000. The struggle to live with the poor men has been great, but the ...

... OW LOST £250,000 INi TWO YEARS,' The book which Mesesrs. Triseliler e i der this title is dedicatel b i'tautr r 12.1nest Benson (the Jubilee, plungeri) it. e parents and guardians to wvhotn is entrusted thb responsibility of waking oT marrine the future of the helpless children entrusted to their care, wish them a full complement of discretion and amiabilty and their wards a happy immunity ...

... Down to yesterday 27 fires had ocoxrred in the metropolis duringthe previous seven days (including four on Saturday), against 41 in the preceding week, and 33 in the corresponding period of 1888. Sur;DAY (1).-One trifling fire. due to the explosion of a spirit lanmp, occurred shortly after 10 at night at 10, Bowling-green-lane, Clerkenwell. Xou)X.&Y ?? back room on the seoond floor of 48. ...

... PUBLIG AND SONGS LXTTERS. I . o. LXV. TO TO S UPPER CLAssES. LADIES AND GENTLPMEN,-Witlh the money-which you have accumulated by robbing the poor of the metropolis, you are n1w in country mansion, on Scotch moor, or.Continental health resort repairing constitu- tions exhaustea by the too violent delights of a London season. Have you read of the sufferingseof the fleeced ones whom you left ...

... L PARLIAXENT. or OEtOMMgONS.-IMONDAY. go k,.took tlle chair at three o'clucLk. Thepe 6,1JAL pU.1~N Ut:9'S.-Mr. BRADLAGR FSFF Chancellor of the Exchequer whether any ed the teps had yet beign taken to give effect to thle ead ltagt muinte, July, 18d8, relating to perpetual llSi0A~NC;ELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the The Yte TroasurY had been too yreat to allow hin seork 0 t e scli caae the full ...

... 2J1: PAASONtS AND TEE PEOPLE. ?? MI - C, - A a flo-1 1 - _A_ i. 1- Tile men or (Uoct are wise in their generation. They know on- which side their bread is buttered. It is better for them, in a worldly point of view, to bow down before Dives, and, as it were, give poor Lazarus the cold shoulder. The latter has no church patronage to bestow; the former, plenty. Here and there, but with very few ...

... FIVEFENCE OR SIXENCE2 I. TO THE EXDITOR. Os REYXOLDS'5 NEWSPAPER. Sir.,-A penny is a small sum of money, but that insignificant coin, at the time I write, blocks the whole of the trade of The' greatest port in the world. It 'forms as perfect a barrier to the commerce of the Thames as a row of ironcla-ls or a fleet of torpedo boats. The simple penny virtuall represents the struggle now going on ...

... at r _ t . - The Reaths for the week ending Auag. 24, registered in twenty-eight great towns of Enzland and Walen corresponded to an annunl rate of 17'2 per 1,000 of their aggregate population, which is estimated at 9,555,40-t perstoni in the middle of this year. In Loudon 2,558 births and 1,240 deaths were registered. Allowing for inerease of populstion, the births were S.d. unit the deaths ...

... CUTTINGS FROM THE C0OMICS FADE ?? (From Moon~ss ne.) MRs. DrNTXOK, in Australia, is not as well as it was hoped1 he wuielfbe. His travels, apparently, have resulted In a doubls disappointmengt. They have neither bosredted his own chest, we are sorry to say, nordseneegreat deal forhis early's cofe. AUTMH MAieNCtE-E.-Obtuse Observer: What can have induced Mrs. Hunter to bring her girls to this ...

... SUNDUAY LECTUZES. |LPoatisulars should roach tisa Ogei. nsot lahr than Saturday N.-Mildumay Radical Club and Inetitute, 36, Newington. green-road, 9, lEntmrtainmeut, -1B3as-pond Branuh N.ch S- Ki4gidand green, L£.S0, Mr. G. St1andring, What Free- thought has Done for Humtauity; in tue Hal, Air. G. Standring, Secularism, Atheuiimand Theorophy.'-North London Branch of the Natioual Secular ...

... _3HE CoUtT. During her short stay in Wales the Queen took little part in any public affairs, mainly content- ing herself with receiving visitors at the PalI, where alse was staving, walking about the ebarm.- ing grounds that surround it, and making carriage excursions through the defiles of the magnificent mountains that like warriors stand to sentinel an enchanted land. The youngsters, how- ...