... 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 ...

... 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 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 ...

... M.R? GLADSTONE IN ?AXIS. N~~ ~ ~~ I oi ?? ?? P '9AELT~a1O2sDASX ii Mr. mid Mrs Gadston- find change here, : f but theycetainly do sot seekc for: rest. Thy. fe era, however, obliged, seing 'how shortt their o@l stay here mus be, to spend the leaste possble . i time in receiving those who callon; them,: The *i demoands for iptorviws are innumerable. Sbut an al a ttempt oud be made to satisfy ...

... [LONIDON, SATUBDA Y. Sapkmber 21. a u _ _ ?? The dispute between the dockers and their employers is now to all intents and purposes absolutely settled. Some few blacklegs still remain at work, but they are kept to them- selves, and in consequence are not interfered with by the other men. The work of loading and unloading the vessels, many of which have been for the last four or five weeks ...

... ¶ TE RAID ON A GAMBLING CLUB At thbo Marlboroulgh-street Police Court, yes- terday. Carls ELisle 50. William Williams, S0, Osear NeiLe. 5' and John Hoeners, 34, yore charged on reIuman?. before Mr. Xewton, %vith koepill a cornmmon lamitg -houee-to wit, the Cranboura Club, at S4, .t. Martiu-strmet, Leicester-square. Several men, I whose namres havo already beeu published, were also charged ...

... NAVAL AND MILIUTAR TLeMOUTe n TaUua3nAr NIotr. The now guaoat lRedbreast, which was engined by Messrs. Earle and Co., of RUll, went out from Plymouth yesterday for a four hours' torced dmnught tritl, and again the trial proved unsatisfactory. The vweselmade two tials, and oan each occasion failed to realise the twelve hundred indicated horse power which the engineers contracted for, the horse- ...