... SERMANYAND THE CAMEROONS Telegraphic Communication. BERLIN, Tuesday.-It is announced that tele- graphic communication has been established between Germany and the Cameroons. Dr Stephen to-day received a telegram from Sir John Pender, chairman of the Eastern and South African Telegraph Company, congratulating the German Postmaster General upon the event.— Neuter, ...

... Manchester Meeting. There was a dcided change in the weather at Man- chester this afternoon, where the ,kv was overmst and threatened for rain. Fortanaic-Iy very Htt!e fell up to the time of racing commencing. The dulness of the morning, however, had very little effect on the attend- ance, which was quite as large as on the opening after- noon, and interest in the sport w?.s fully maintained ...

... THE POPE'S JUBILEE. Congratulatory Messages. ROME, Monday. — On the occasion ot nis kpisoopal jubilee, the Pope received a con- gratulatory tdegmnl from the Czar, which was despatched without prejudice to the latter, and presents for his Holiness, of which M. Izwolski is Ihe bearer. The Ruw'in Minister of the Interior, .e Prince of Montenegro, and the Swiss Federal l??uncil also telegraphed ...

... liiiti .-space is reserved for any event of intevesl j arriving whilst this edition is being prinrflrt off. ...

... Messrs Morewood's Enterprise. It will be interesting to learn that the new steel mill at the South Wales Tin-plate Works has already been set in motion, and is now proceeding steadily. The company have during recent years made great improvements in the steel department, and the last development is of a most important character. The new process will do away with the old one of steel making, ...

... SHALL LONDON BE UNDEH GLASS P Extraordinary Proposal. A propo.saT lO make IKJIKIGU a ^lass-roofed city is the subject of a long letter addressed to us by Mr J. Newton Mappin. Interesting as it is w. have not space (-ays the Daily Wetcs) for the whole of it. The plan, which will not be popular with the umbrella makers, resembles one in Mr Bellamy's Looking Backward. Mr M-p>»in, however, does ...

... Causes of the Crash. In a leading article the Standard says :-Tijare is nothing at all astonishing in the panic of which the New York Stock Exchange has been the scene for the last two or three days, though the excitement yesterday seems to have reached fever heat. For a long time past speculators 11: America have been trying to get the English public to bny the securities they wanted to sell. ...

... r A Demented M er. I Jumping on a Child. A terriMs ch?d murder by a dempnt? mother is reported from Londonderry. I Mary Simpson, a-labourer's wife, being seized acute mania, shut herself 111 her house, together with her three year- old child, and killed he little one | by jumping upon it. When the neighbours smashed open the door and rushed in on hearing the screams, the woman shouted that she ...

... THE REVOLTING CRUELTY TO A LITTLE GIRL. At Bolton, yesterday, Thomas Cooper, collier, Daubhill, was charged with gross cruelty to his adopted daughter, a girl of six, who presented a pitiful sight on being carried into court on a stretcher. Evidence was given that the prisoner fclirice attempted to drown the child, blacked her tyes, hung her head downwards from a iine, and roasted her before ...

... At the Bridgend pohce-conrt on Saturday, Evan Jones, of Heolycue, innkeeper, was sum- moned for having his house open during i!!ega! hours on Sunday.—The house was visited by P.C.'s Button and DriscoU and defendant WM tined jBl, and a man na.nmd Greensl&de, found on the prem'se.°. was nnsd 10s. At the Merthyr Potice-court on atnrd}y, Jossph Crook was sun.:noned for seeing btr during ...

... THE STREETS. Threatened Claim for Injuries. A meeting of the Public Works Committee of Cardiff Corporation was held in the Town Hall to-day. Alderman D. Lewis presided, and there were also present the M;Ayor(Coun,W. E. Vaughan) Aldermen Fulton and T. Rees, Councillors rE, Thomas, F. J. Bevan, J. Comley, W. S. Cross- man, C. H. Waring, T. Morel, J. Ramsdale, and J. Gerhold, the Town Clerk (Mr J ...

... Debate in the Freiich Chamber. I PARIS, Wednesday Evening.—-As had been fully expected, the meeting of the Chamber to-day was of a very stormy character. It was known that the Government would be attacked in connection with the Panama scandals, and consequently the House was crammed in every part. M. Gousset and other members accused the Government of interfering in the judicial proceedings, ...