... THE SOUDAN. FORM OF GOVERN- MENT. ENGLAND AND EGYPT JOINT RULERS. IMPORTANT CONVENTION. CAIRO, Thursday. The Official Journal to-night contains the following Convention «Whereas certain provinces in the Soudan which were in rebellion against the authority of the Khedive have now been reconquered by the joint military and financial efforts of her Majesty's Government and the Government of the ...

... LOCAL LAW CASES. MORTON v. FOSTER, PonTEn Ai-m Co.-In the Queen's Bench Division of tho High Court of Justice on Thursday the case of Morton v. Foster, Porter and Co. came before Mr Justice Bucknill, sitting with a jury. It was an interpleader issue which raised the question whether Foster, Porter and Cpo had a right to issue execution against the firm of William Morten and Co. upon a bill of ...

... HANDS ACROSS THE SEA. One of these events which posterity will pro- nounce historic is to take place in the summer. The Heir Presumptive to the throne, the Duke of York) will, as commander on board a battleship— probably the Prince George—welcome to our shores a whole squadron of the American Navy, and festivities ana jollity will be the order of the day. This we may be assured of beforehand, ...

... THE HOUSEHOLD. the making of pincus- hions there is a simply end- less variety of design, and as there is nothing in the way of a small present so universally appreciated, I give drawings of two which struck me as being pa.rti- cularly new. The first is of immense use on any dressing-table, and is a hairpin and pin-holder for which a small, round, bamboo basket will be re- quired, or a. round ...

... THE POLICE AND THE TIME. A singular point was raised in a prosecutior before the Hull Stipendiajy (Mr Twiss) in a pro- secution of an off-licence holder. The police stated that he sold a bottle of stout at 11JO p.m. by their watches, which were set by a clock in a signal cabin. Mr Rollit, who defended, said the A.ct required the police to prove Greenwich mean time. He took that point in 1892, ...

... DELUDED DAMSELS AT BARRY. A FORTUNE-TELLER CONVICTED. At Penarth Police Court on Weduesday a woman named Charlotte Price was changed with fortane-telling and obtaining by tricks money and goods from two young women named Mabel Wood and Eva Underwood, domestic servants. The sitting magistrates were Mr V. Trayes, Colonel Guthrie, and Mr L. Pur he] I. Mabel Wood said prisoner came to the back ...

... ACCIDENT TO LORD ORKNEY SINGULAR COINCIDENCE. The Earl of Orkney visited Mr Leopold de Rothschild on Wednesday to express his sym- pathy with that gentleman in connection with his accident in the hunting field. While riding back through the home park farm of Mr de Rothschild, his Lordship was thrown near Wing Lodge and sustained a sprained ankle and other injuries, necessitating immediate ...

... THE TINPLATE TRADE. CWMBWRLA ARBITRATION. Mr J. C. Fowler, the Swansea Stipendiary Magistrate, attended on Wednesday at the Swan- sea Guild Hall to hear the Cwmbwrla arbitration case. Neither the employers nor workmen northeir representative turned up. After waiting for three- quarters of an hour, Mr Fowler left without, as far as can be ascertained. receiving any intimation that it was not ...

... A DANGEROUS PRISONER —Before Mr W. P. Ormond and 3VTr T. L. James. John Glass, sweep, of Fountain-row, was brought up in 'custody charged with being drunk and disorderly and assaulting the police. P.C. Llewellin stated that the previous evening defendant was drunk and very violent. After repeated requests to go into his house he continued his uproarious conduct, and wanted to fight a neighbour ...

... GLADSTONE MEMORIAL. PUBLIC MEETING AT EXETER. A public meeting in snpport of the proposed Gladstone Memorial was held in Exeter Guildhall on Thursday. The Mayor (a Consarva- tive) presided, and was supported by Arch- deacon Saudford, Sir Stafford Northcote, M.P., Sir Arthur Arnold, Sir John Sphear, and others, There was a good attendance of representatives of both political parties. Archdeacon ...

... BIEMINGHAM Thursday. -The state of trade evinced at to-day's market was exceptionally active for the present time, when consumers are generally supposed to have covered their require- ments for the quarter. Marked irou is fiim at and for the Earl of Dudley's branl 12s 6d List houses' second grade m,tat is S,7 10s, anrl merchant bars comlnand £6 15s to 17. Very few of the co.n i on unmarked bar ...

... Elizabeth Jones made her first appearance before the Caerleon magistrates on Thurs- oay. The wretched woman, who was only discharged ttom Usk Prison on Monday, visited the police station at Cwmbran on the following day, anxious evidently to test tho comfort of the cells at the new police station, and demanded to be locked up. She had no home, she declared, and the constable advised her to go ...