... The three year old filly Canter tofcT'teffliyd dington for the stud. ...

... VIVISECTION. A Bill in Parliament. I Under the auspices of the National Vivisection Society a meeting was held at Plymouth on; Tuesday, when a letter was read from Mr Leonard' Courtney enclosing another letter he had received from the Home Secretary with reference to a, Bill to be introduced in the next Session of Par- liament to make it illegal to operate for scientifio purposes upon a living ...

... [BY ''OLD STAGEB.J I Oxford University v. Cardiff. I I had hopctd that Cardiff would have been able to turn out a thoroughly representative ide in their game at Oxford, and my prediction that the long sequence of wins again t the Underradnatcs would not be broken to-day was based upon the hope after allowing for a decided improvement in the 'Varsity team since they weie beaten by Newport last ...

... CARELESS CONVERSATION At Manchester Assizes yesterday Justice Willa heard an action for slander brought by Dr. Kingsbury, a medical practitioner at Blackpool, against Mr George H. Willoughby, a Mancheste architect. Defendant, it was alleged, informed Mrs Pollock, one of the plaintiff's patients, tha.t he had got hold of a poor half-mad woman from Southport, that by mesmerism he persuaded her ...

... The Curate and the Old Lady. SINGULAR LOAN ACTION. At Whitechapel County Court yesterday Judge Bacon was occupied till a late hour in hearing the remitted action in which Mrs Newbury an inmate of the Almshouses of St Saviour's, South- wark claimed the return of £ 20. money lent to the Rev. George Horlock. formerly a curate of St. Saviour's, and now of Spitalfields parish. Mr Herbert Smith ...

... NEW YORK, Friday.—According to a despatch from El Paso, Texas, Baron Horden Hickey, the soi disant Prince of Trinidad and formerly editor of the Paris journal i'rihoulet, committed suicide on Wednesday night by taking poison at an hotel I in that city.— Keuter. ...

... ENGLAND v. WALES. INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL MATCH. I English Union Seeking a Date. I The Rugby Union Committee have under con sideration the advisability of cancelling the North v. South match at Exeter on Saturday, February 26th, and substituting the much-desired contest between England and Wales. No decisiou, however, has yet been arrived at, as in the absence of a committee meeting the ...

... I PRINCE OF WALES. The Prince of Wales left London to-day for I Windsor to visit the Queen. ...

... I FIRE AT SOUTHWARK. I Theatrical Scenery Destroyed. A destructive fire broke out about threa 0 clo k this morning in some railway arches at I Bear-lane, Southwark, and which mi-c used by Sir Henry Irving for the storage of theatrical scenery. The contents of two of the railway arches were destroyed, and the fire also spread to another building used as a. store, and that too was destroyed. i ...

... HOCKEY. ICAUIM'F WEST CAHM?F.—T'i be played on the Cardiff Ground. C ...

... LATEST DETAILS. Reticence Enjoined. ??'??-Some of the survivors 8£ the -iw?' ? .hip Maine arrived here iMt night ? ?wo of the wounded died on the passage °^ from Cuba. All the men h?ve been Btrictly lden to Ulk ? the disaster or give Y 1D f ormation to reporters. Some of them, howe' did say that they could not see how the could be the result of an aecident. Messages of Condolence. !1UD1tID, ...

... Alleged Conspiracy to Defraud. In the Queen's Bench to-day the hearing was resumed of the Grosveuor Hotel case, in which the directors, manager, and Mr Drew, the prin- cipal tradesman, are sued for conspiracy to de- fraud shareholders. Mr Justice Ridley an- nounced that he would conclude the hearing to- morrow. Former employees of Drew's were called to speak tt ohe correctness of the weight of ...