... SEN1'WENCES ON THIIN 'GWEEVDOIE PRISONE RS. TITE JUD1)GE'S ADDRESS TO FATHER MICFA.DI)FN. (FRomt OUR COlRrrPoNt~rODETS.) mikRYBOROU0H, WiVDxSiY. At Vtirlseorough this morning, Judgge Gibsoni s eentuco on the waeiloce prisoners. The court was crowd1ed in overy part whou he began his charge. First addressing William Coll, he stated that from the early hour of the day on which Mdartin mnet his ...

... SAMSON AND HIS FE ATS. EXTRAORDINARY SCENE AT TEE AQUARID M. There was another lively scene at the Royal Aquarium last night, during Samson'e performance in the theatre. Samson's claim to bethe strongest mas on earth has boen publicly challenged once or twice, and theo altercations which have taken place between the performer and his challenger have been the source of much amusement to the ...

... OuR Glasgow Correspondent tele- graphs that there has not beea so I much speculat-on in the Glasgow iron trade for ten years as during this week. Six months agO the price of Scotch pig iron was ouly 42s. 6d. per ton; it has lately been 00s., tndl yesterday was 69.q. 3d., and sellers a ' shade more. The lowest priceof hematite iron was 42s. per ton, and the present price is about 73s., ...

... The South London Auxiliary Branch of the LayWorkars' Union attached to the Church Missionary S'cicty have devised and carried out an interesting loan ?? of relics andu curiosities hoaring upon the work of English massionaries in more or less barbarous regious of the earth. The exhibition is to be seen at the Brixton Hall, in Acre-lace, Brixton, Which has been transformed into something like a ...

... LETTERS FROM THE VATICAN. -I. THE POPE AND THE NEW ERA. (FROM! OUR SPECIAL COMMiSSION.ER.) ROME, October 26, r88% BY far the most interesting question before the modern world is that which I have come to Rome to study within the walls of the Vatican. Every- where the old order is changing and giving place unto the new. The human race is now at one of the crucial periods in its history when the ...

... TIHE ELmECTIC LICH'TING.OF LONDON.-No. VIL The ?? deetrio ligiting centre ini England, and we believe in Eurilpe. is to be seen in Wyest Bronupton, *betveeon the quio1 i and the dead, as someon e has empreosed it, for the works are sevaiatcd by one wall il'On, the railway StatiOand by another from the ceiwe- I tsry. The ikiea. oi a house to Leu-e systtni- of elc-trie ?? kto qlooto the ...

... plaent out I DooD Tnro week is tow kitneas the open. ing of another cawnpaign of poli. : tical 1 speeches, of Which Lord . - I . . ?? SpiNCBa, at Lan1~ter, laat ?? fired ar effective opening shot.- Tq-night Lord Hknr. umraox and Xr. Gosowam will reply al Wolserhiaupton and Hull respectively, whi!h Mr. 4OiN Mont3ny, 'Who has been too long absent from public pIptormrs. will reappeer before ihe ...

... THE 700TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE MAYORALTY THE BALL AT THE M~ANSION HOUSE. (BY OUtR LADY REPipEs ENfTXIVE.) La fin cauronne 'a'uvre, Ten days more and the rtcign of Lord Mayor Whitebt~ad is at an end, and anotlier will reign ir his steaJ. It has been a brilliant reig-n from first to last--_a reign of usefulness and lictivity, a rei,,i also of magnificent and sumptuous festivities. Now tht 1ast of ...

... THE PUBUO HEALTH. Thbe Registrar-General reports that the deaths registered lest week in twenty-eight great towns of England and Wales corresponded to an annunl rate of 1756 per 1,000 of their aggregate population. In Loudon 2580 births and 1,310 deaths were regis- tered. Alowving for increase of population, the births were 287, and the deaths 355, below the avorege numbers in the ...

... MR, DAVITT BEFORE THE COMMISSION. Mr. Davitt was in good form this morning. In a pretty full court, the founder of the Land League-the sometime felon and now the trusted leader of a party-proceeded once more to discuss the circumstances which attended the writing of the Timothy Horan letter. The letter (said he) was written and sent at a time when the Land League leaders were safe under lock ...

... THE deluge is upon us. In the Tfimes this morning no less than twenty columns of small print-or, if we include Mr. GOSCHEN'S speech, twenty-four-are taken up with the Irish question. That represents a total of some fifty thousand words, which is about the number contained in one volume of a novel. Of course, no human being, who is not under professional compulsion, will read this volume-so ...

... The Fainre' I riend. CoLaw. OLeOn is a truly brave mnan. He does not even give up the Fairios, at all .ovents the Irish Fairies. He waved the Fairy Flag (like that at flunvegan) in the Antient Concert. Room at Dublin lately, and all children, at least, will sincerely trust that the Colonel is right. There may be Fairies, why not ? If we cannot see them, it is only because we have destroyed in ...