... A KERRY ME4ADOWING AUCTION. AN AUCTION OF 50 ACRES O0 N HEAVY MEADOWING Will take place at Ballygarry, At Twelve ?? on Thursday, by Martin Murphy. The foregoing announcement, printed on yellow paper, has been affixed to various walls, within an eight mile radius, and the lush-grass lies awaiting its purchasers in the quivering noonday heat. Up they come, on foot, il ass carts, such a inctley, ...

... A FRENCH VIEW OF THE WATER-TUBE BOILER. MONSIEUR LE DiRECTEUR,-Oll a suivi en France, avec beaucoup d'intert, les tres remarquables articles que vous avez publies jusqu'a ce jour sur les chaudieres aL tubes d'eau, et sans partager, dans le monde mari. time, les opinions Demises, on trouve, comme vos dmiinents collaborateurs, que ?? a agi avec beaucoup de lcgcretd en adoptant les chaudieres ...

... Cbe top of the MIIforning, MR. RITCHIE ON THlE MERCANTILE MARINE. Mr. Ritchie presided yesterday at the distribution of prizes to the of the training ship Worcester. He said the proportion of Britislh seameti on board British ships instead of increasing was, unfortuuatelyalilmot yely diminishing. The presentstate of things h adarisen verylargely ill ?? of the substitution of steam for sail. As ...

... . pICQUART9S SUCCESSOR AT RENNES. MAJOR CUIGNET'S EVIDENCE, THE YOUNGEST OFFICER YET CALLED. E2XTRAORDINARY PRECAUTIONS IN THE STREETS. ?? OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.1 REN-Ns, SaturdaysIn proportion as tranquility grows profounder, at any rate on the surface, the precautions taken become stricter and stricter. This morning persons proceeding to the Lycede found even distant streets Tarred in ...

... Cbe 'Cop of the MHlorninq. TnE QUTIEE ( I TIEl TRL.ASURY'S RVS1T ssio- H H aerty ?? has presented to the Trustees of the National Portrait Gallery as a national po-e-sion a portrait of herself, in the robes worn at her Coronation, cainted by Sir George I layter, and at present in Kensington palace. It will be reemeebered that the Treasury erecently declined to inake any grant to the Gallery ...

... WHEN you make holiday in a cottage you become a cottager to the casual observer, and the poor are notoriously good to the poor. This probably explains why the House, separated from us by an arch of lilac, does not receive even its tithe of wandering folk, while we are asked for the drink of water, or the slice of bread, or the match, all day long. At first we were impatient of the constant ...

... -BY LADY JEPHSON. Ischl lies remote from the vulgarity of nineteenth-cen-u-:, ?? r- mountain spur high up among the hills of Upper Austria. ..a of mountains surrounds the dwellers at Ischl as much as ever c ; of the Coliseum encompass the gladiators. Ycu see the with rosy brush the moultain-tops, and the setting sun! leaves mew e--: purple against a flamingi sky. Mist lies over the va liev= in ...

... TIJIRTY YEARS IN MACEDONIA. TIr-se PRESENT SITUATION. wing statement, given to me by one who has enjoyed an unbroken 501ourn of over thirty years in Macedonia-whose name cannot be pub- lsooud for very obv-ou reasons-will perhaps be read with interest, not only on a~c untof the disturbed condition of that region, but also because Ir. o ant stands almost alone among impartial spectators on the ...

... IT is much to be regretted, and for more reasons than one, that a French fisherman should have been killed by a shot from a British gunboat, fired in the exercise of naval police duty in our territorial waters They, however, who play at bowls must expect rubbers, and poachers, by sea as well as by land, have nobody to thank but themselves if the light on a likely night is not sufficiently ...

... A recernt issue of the *rVto IYrk .Suo conitains the follomvinm statement of losses oill the battietield, in v iewv of tihe reported statement that the Modder River engagemelit was the b' hloodiest iattle ' of the century. 'At the battleof Aiisterht/, ?? 2, 1805, the French blost 7,000 officers and mell and thie killed and wouindeii of the allies numbered more than 3,000. The Frentch losses ...

... ALLSOPPS. The weakness of Allsopps Ordinary has been quite a marlet reaturp o- late. There seems nothing ill thle situation to Warlrant allly p lar oul. - back, beyond the ordinary conditions affcting m larkets. But tralnsacthli, in A Ilsopps are ahvays rather curious, and the inarket gciielallv lii \wav. A seller or two will usually suffice to bring about decided deprlesi,,J and this has been ...

... liY A 1 -AAS H-owv difteretit it ?? tha 't of I90 little thjouight, just a year ago, when walking d on the peaceflbi ?? street, past tile Royal Hotel, that shells wvould to-day~ be hurst,tn11i~ t its do~or. I had been onl anl Inspectinlg tour und~er tll(m lonely s11inlillitS Of the, Drakensbeg and returued to spend ('bristinas Daly withi aii old Jrieud of' mine, one otfthc leading merchaiits ...