... TEE CORRECT CAB FARE. Al invention which claims to settle the question that too often arises between cabby and his fare as to ?? amount to be paid for the ride has just been success fully launched on the streets of London. This is the. Taxameter, an apparatus for recording the distance travelled, time taken, and the fare to be paid on all hired vehicles. At present it has been applied to ...

... out -gibtry MM$ THEIR ROMANCE & HISTORY RELATED BY THE EDITOR AND STAFF. L ONDON has for five oentaries been Lrenowned for its great trading com- panisa. The first place has always been allowed to the MERCERS; following in order being GROCE.RS, DRAPERS, FIsH- MONGERS, GOaDSMrITHES, SKINNERS, KERCHEANT-TAILORFS, HAFEPRDASHERS, SAL'r~aSTROassOrtoxElS,VIwNTNER5,and CLOTEWORRERS. Besides those ...

... FORTUNE-TELLING. AND WHAT IT LEADS TO. __-e For the mooment the doings of fortune- tellers are absorbed in the remarkable discovery respecting the female sybil supposed to have been strangled in Whit- field-street. The ?? Briesnieck-was last week shown to have made the telling of fortunes a cover for more reprehensible practices, and now a terrible and mysterious crime is sug- gested. It is ...

... T1iE FRENCH AMBASSADOR AND I ENGCLISH FRIENDSHIP., The Ladly Mayoress yesterday after- n~oll distrlbuted, at tihe Mansion house, the prizes and certificates won at the reeent examilnatiOnS of the Soeifte Na- iiona does professieurs de Francais en Alug eterre. n introducing the leading olictals to thoe Lord Mayor, the French Amltee5dlOr remarked upon the excel- be1t iv tir now being performed ...

... I At Marlborough-street police-court, on Monday, H?,man Levss, tailor, of 3, Broad-street-buildings,. Golden -square, W. and Herij Presser, 30, a tailor's presser, living in Poland-street, Soho, were-charged with keeping, managing, or assisting in the management of 3, Flat, Broad-street-buildings, Golden-square, as a common gamhig-house. Twenty-two other men, mostly Jews, were charged with ...

... TURKEYS AND GEESE IN THE BREEDING SEASON. The longastanding prejudice that bturkey, are particularly delicate, and that they re. quire a great amount of care and atte5;05 is gradually dying out. They are to be Oeeul on more fumens all over the kiarvdom than formerly, and those who have hal experience acknowledge that when properly ansa ed Turkeys tre quite an profitable as ally otner kind of ...

... FIRES.IN THE METMOPOLIS. Down to yesterday 55 fire$ had oc- curred in the metropolis during the pro- vious seven days (inoluding 11 on Satar- day), against 69 in the preceding week, and 54 in the corresponding %i eek of 1898. SUNArY ?? 12.32 a.m. a fire w hich had fatal consequences broke out at 4fQueen's- court, Well-strect, Hackney, N.E., in a pri- vate house tenanted by Mr. J. Baldwin. ...

... REVIVAL OF CASTE. I f I Whilst completing the preparations for the Droduction on April 8 of Mr. Pinero'e new comedy, The Gay Lord Quex, Mr. John Hare has revived Caste at the Globe theatre. It says much for the human interest of this piece that after 22 years it should still be capable of drawing an audience appreciative of the senti- mont of Esther Eccles and ot the homely love-making of ...

... iSUNDAYFS SURVEY. The week in Parliament should present some interesting features to the general reader. To-morrow evening the Commons will be asked to vote, as something to go on with, a total sum of 14,781,000t., representing a provision for about four months' expenditure by the Civil Services and Revenue departments. The total grants forthese services in the session of 1898 were 36,946,0221 ...

... THE UNITED KINGDOMI I _ -- .. _- LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS. FrlOM OUR OWN CORRESPONDIENTS.] AIRDRIE. Five lads, from 11 to 14 years of yea, have been arrested on a charge of extra- ordinary assault on one of their playmates named Riddoch. It appears that the boys were bathing in the Clyde, when a quarrel arose, and the five ?? Rid- doch. He was badly maltreated, some of the boys jumping on him. ...

... THE OSNABURGH OTHEET COLLAPSE. A PATHETIC DEATH STORY. Osnaburgh-streot, Regent's-park, was the scene of a terrible accident, on Fri. day, by which two men lost their lives. The proprietor of 37, Osnaburgh-street, had contracted with a builder named Robert Montgomery, of Copely-street, Stepney, to lay new drains to the hoose and connect them with the main sewer, which runs down the centre of ...

... I tolm'-w-oot 3atlatibto. I ?? Correspondents MVUiST give suol addresses and the DArES or THE INQUIRltiS to which they refer. We cannot search back numbers, nor print in unices for missing husbands.' These columns are notintendedfor inquiries in respect to claimants for money, and no agents, at home or abroad, have any con- nection with Lloyd's. ANswERnS TO INQUIEIIGIS. On Oct. 2 last John ...