... NOTHING more gratified the Shah of Persia when in Paris than the attention he received from the inhabitants of Belleville On the occasion of his visit to the Buttes Chaumont all the population of the Red Revolutionary and Socialist quarter turned out to greet him, their numbers and animation calling forth the remark, When do these Parisians find time to work ? The holiday aspect of the ...

... (TO THE EDITOR OF THE ERA.) Sir,-It may interest your readers and the many friends of the above to read one or two little interest- ing episodes in his career. He made his first appearance f on the stage under my management in February, 1854, i at Geelong, Australia, as Eugene de Lorme, in Love's e Sacrifice, and the strange coincidence is that he also made his last public appearance under my ...

... MICEAEbMAS' SALES. AS SIN GTON. Messrs.GeorgeCoote fnd Son sold by anetiop,on MOurlay, the larce and mi'eellnneonui grictiltral 'stoak of the Park Farm. EJlat Falmn, and Little Greys, Asaington, hby dieectien of the administrator of the esatite of Mr. John Dyer, deeeiised: The catalogue .contained nearly 300 tots of important live and dead 'farming stock. There wvs- ?? large attendance of ...

... X ARVEST THANKSGIVING FESTIVALS. ST. MATTErw'S, IPS5ivtOi.-Friday Inst being tbe eve of St. Mattihew's Day, the Patron Saiot of the Church, the customary htrrvest thanksgiving service was held. The service, which was fully choral, com- menced at eight p m, by the singing of hymn No. 332, ' A. and M ., .Como, ye thankful people, come. Speeial psialms ansi lessons were nuod. the latter baikig ...

... ESCAPES OF PARACHUTE PERFORMlERS. AN alartning incident took place in connection with an ascent from North Shields Cycling Ground on Saturday of -Miss Beaumont, an American para- chutist. After going up in a balloon to an altitude of ten thousand feet, she was descending, when her parachute hangings caught the lightning conductor of. Billy Mill Water works chimney, ovcr sixty-five feet high. ...

... I RURI--DECANAL CONFERENCE. On Thursday evening a Ituri-Decanal Conference was held, in tbo Council Chamber, Catlon Freeliug being iu the chIir, There were also preseimt ?? Revs. Canon Clhristopher, ?? S. Milne, J. C. Wilson, H. A. Harvoy, E. U. Dormner, I. B. Duggan, C. J. H. Fletcher, C. Marcon, DE, Kirkby, A, Coates, C. 0. Bowring, W. J. Guerrier, J. Howetson, - Halsal, C. E. Adams, - Segar ...

... OXFORD DIOCESAN CONFEREINCE. | The Conference wvill commence on Thursday next thn 2Gth of September with celebration of the Holy Comrmunion at the Cathedral at 8 am., and meetings in the Sheldonian Theatre from 10.30 a.m. to 1.30 p.m., and from 2.30 p.m. to 5 p.m. On Friday there will be meetings in the Shel- donian Theatre from 10 a.m. to I p.m., and from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. AGENDA. 10.30 a.m. ...

... I I t . ,, - - j An alarming collision occurred in the Irish I Channel late 4n Thursday night between the London no and North Western Railway Company's splendid pea- at senger steamer Banshee, plybig between Holyhead and North Wall, and tbe cargo boat Irene, belonging to the same company. The Banshee was the ordinary pea- se, saeuger boat leaving North Well each evening at seven pa o'clock, ...

... The skaft 1d Eleati- I-, tbe batch of 1pendintg ?? the voters of tile Skeaiord Iivision wvill like the pra'rogative tribe in ?? 0;-^ ?? . f ivirlit'llfian. of, the Rzoman Ct'n'itia. give thu first indication of i the a' s; i e. Both *andidates have aready i begun their eatnpaigu. and Mr. CIIAITLtY, Who is no foo!. does nott take that contemptuous t view oi his oppnelnt's chances exuressedby ? ...

... CBA?fDE?LAxNo?fIRISH ?UE$TIOYS. Mtr. Cisasuberlain Fpresioded lsst night at thte ttanual meetinlgof tbo Granud Cowuncil of the LiberelS lrsikiaist A\ssociatiOn, wthich was heda in thto Townt lni,, ilirnijugham. 'Tbc is ociaticoa includes all tho 1)i~sotioats itt the tovtu, but tho rmeeting ¶5455 pcorlyt atendd. Thel Sn1G galleries vrere fl1ed with ladies,; aud' the fronlt eeais o0 thc gient ...

... Tbi Pr?gre?s of Cernirnt?o?y *1sSpecial Committee appointed By the Manchester Corporation to ! inquire into the desirability and p~r&cticability of establishing e- . ysteni of comupulsory thrift amnong the sere- vanta of tho Corporation have not seen their s xway-at least for the present-to the realisation of Prince BISM£AncK}'5 ideal; but their Report novertheless niarks an important stage iu ...

... THE WRECKING OF A SPANSH SHIP. (FRoM OUR CORISPONDMT.) MADRID, WEDINESDAY NIGIr. For some time past the relations betwesn Spain and Morocco have been somewhat unsatis- factory. The Madrid Press is constantly com- plainingoftheallegedunuwillingnessof ?? and his Ministers to give satisfaction for acts of aggression against Spanish subjects. It was also aid that the Moors living near the Spanish ...