... A FEWIV PiPRESSIONS OF A FIRST BALLOON A SCENT I HAD long felt a sneaking fancy to make a balloon ascent, which WI 'ar eoed into a resolve when, on meeting (after many years of th sepo)Mation) my old ...

... 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. ...

... THE CLAIMS OF COMMERCE. One of the most important, though one of the least pretentious, of autumnal gatherings is the annual Conference of the Associated Chambers of Commerce.. This Conference has no elaborate presidential orations, no popular evening meetings, no holiday outings t6 places of historical *or scientific interest: it attends strictly to business, and its chief business is to ...

... | TERRIBLE DYNAMITE EX'LOSION. LOSS OF OVER 150 LIVES.. ANT WERP, Sept. 8.-A dynamite explosionattended with most disastrbus effects, has just occurred to a cartridge manufactorv near the port. So far as at prscent known, malay persons, principally women and ,hjlchn, ha~ve been injured. The windows of alarge nuber of houises have been broken by the shock. andheroos o may oher hae bendainiaged. ...

... EPITOME OFFOREIGNAND GENERALNEWS t A HUGE VINE at Haugsdorf, in Lower Austria now nine years old, bears 2,000 bunches of grapes. A SERIOUS fire occurred on Tuesday in the esparto grass stores at the railway station at Alicante (Spain). Three thousand tons of the grass were destroyed. Ar Berne the man Glour. who was arrested on the charge of causing the recerit disastrous conflagration at the ...

... THE WANDSWORTH FINE:. Mr. Coroner Hicks resumed the inquirv at the Towr Hall, Waudsworth, into the circumstances attendiui the death of Fireman Jacobs, who lost his life in tbo recent fire at Messrs. Barroughs, Wellcome and Co.'s chemical factory, Waudsworth. Several witnesses were examined, including William Howard, the engineer in charge of the fire-station who said fire was dropping through ...

... BY ONE OF THEMSELVES. -4- ?? CHURCIi or AIERGAVENNY. - NEO. LEeTED MONUAIEXTS.-THE CASTI E GRoUNDS,- RLWAL\VAY COMPANIES. - A. FOult - foRtsD COACH. -LUNATIC ASmUMS.-PElU-ATic LUNATICS. -NATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS. -- GaaEGnS SoNo.-lGOODBYE': TO SOUTI1 WAIsTS. GRANDER SCENERY.-JOIJIN7EY AN!) AciiVAL. -REmEDY FOR INSECT BITES. I always make it a point to visit the notable ! institutions and ...

... 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 ...

... GENERAL NEWha The North-Eastteri Failway is making a considerable bofidession to its servants. No* when their sdrvants traval, they may have for themselves, their wives, or young children, return tickets at one-half the cost of an ordinary ticket. It has been discovered at Salford that the late manager to the Ebenezer Loan Society, a man named Atkin, had falsified accounts to the extent of -12 ...

... 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 ...