... The reply to Lord Northbrook's very awkward Chitral letter has taken a vast deal of excogit ating. However, better late thah never, and Mr. Morley produces it in 'to-day's Timhes. It is idle, he says, to talk of their bringing charges and accusations against the Indian Government Ad simply because we uphold the validity of an objection to a certain decision, which objec- tion we took while ...

... E L E C T R I C C A B S IN PARIS. AN EIGHTY-MILE ACCUMULATOR WANTED. (FROM A PARIS CORRESPONDEN'l.) It was reported several weeks ag that Paris was going to copy London and that electric cabs would shortly be put oil trial there, but we have not yet seen the great revolution in locomotion that some sanguine spirits prophesied. To conclude, however, that French electrical engineers and ...

... A succession of exquisitely fine days coming at the end of September proved of the very greatest value to farmers. The last, or nearly the last, of the grain crops was housed, potato-digging was begun in earnest, the ploughmani got to work oil the stubble. But a spell of fine weather at this season appears only to nurse the remains of summer for a stormn to scatter them. We passed suddenly ...

... MORE HOPEFUL CONSERVATIVE RETURNS. (FROM OUI2 OWN CORRESPONDENT.) i BARNSLEY, Friday Night,-Greater interest has been thrown into the election contest at Barnsley since my last letter, by the announcemlent of thle probable issue of the writ on Tuesday, and to-day the leadinlg officials ot the three parties to the contest and the deputy returning officer have decided that should the writ be ...

... a SATB- U L -FIGHT IN FRANCES A BRUTAL EXHIBITION, (From- A CORRESPONDENT.) vI + ssd on 5oldiiy, a spectacle of the most gruesome butchery thit~t v eve bee mylot to See iii the shape of a bulll-fight, outstic] ~i'N'.~0O',but the coutry was fair France, and tn ?? I' (.f TyrnaeeiC were present. in their thousands, and seemed Iv c.Iloto flhe cr-el mu1rder of Spa nish bulls and the imoaling of ~ ...

... TREA S URES OF THE SA VA GE. N105reo ould say, in, their haste, that the treasures of the savage are no wort wrtn about. Lumps Of ?? do nlot inake anl attractive theiie, nd he rst s aburdif nict hideous. Funl, of the mechanical ~or, aybe extracted from thcae cutriosities sometimes, but no profit But e all know howv people talk in their haste. As a r ule, prf Oit.~ Bth savage is unable to ...

... i THE NVILE VALLEY v. BEIB.ER-SUAKL.As (FROm AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT.) Do not prophesy till you know is one of those sound old proverbs which has never been more applicable than it is at present concerning 1 the Soudan expedition up the Nile. And for this reason: General Kitchener is a manl who -strikes sileitly and hard without a word of warning, either to friend or foe. It was thus ...

... AMERICA'S REMARKABLE PROPOSALS. The correspondence respecting the proposals on currency, made by the special envoys from the United States, was issued last uight as a Parliamentary paper. It commences with the proposals made by Senator Wolcott to Lord Salisbury at the Foreign Office, and closes with the letter written by the Prime Minister to the American Ambassador, in which his lordship sets ...

... v'all. malf ?? offirtg 18, CHARING CROSS ROAD, \C The Duke of York, attended by Captain the lion. Derek Keppel hal arrived at Elveden Hall, Thetford, as the guest of Lord and Lady ivea gs 1-is Royal Highness and a large party had some excellent sport yesterda in the well-stocked preserves. His return to town will, of course bo hastened by the sad news that reached him this morning, Princess ...

... Lord Ripon is convinced that the country would be all the b~etter for the abolition of the House of Lords. But it ,never does to judge politics from a purely personal standpoint. We compliment lord Ripon onl his own modesty, and acknow ledge that it about fits his particular case. But there is but one Riion, and what, his admircrs would call the gilded chamber could hold two of him at once. ...

... THE Board of Trade has made a most creditable effort to appear as the god from the machine. The letter to both sides in the engineering dispute, signed by Sir COURTENAY BOYLE, is to be commended for the manner no 'less than for the substance of the suggestions which it contains. We have only to pass to the document signed by sixteen worthy clerics, with J. HEREFORD, as might have been expected ...

... COLD EXTRACTION AND BROMINE THE COMPANY'S PROCESS IYESCRIBED- Its Capabilities for Treating Refractory Ores, The statutory general rneeting of thle, members of thce Gold Extraction andl Bromine Recovery (Limited) was held yesterday at the officeCs, 18, W-albronk, E.C., ~Mr. E. V.indasor Richards in the chair. Thie Secretary (MIVr. Edward C. Nicholls) having read the rotice convening the ...