... THE CLARENDON PRESS. The Clarendon Press never turns away a lan- gnage from its doors. So we gather from an inter- esting article on this academic printing-house in the September number of the Sunday Magazine. Etbiopic. Persian, Sanscrit. Svriac, Tartaric, Runic, Gothic, Coptic, Ambaric, and hundreds more, all are equally welcome. Of coure, adds the writer, if you commission them to print in ...

... Many K)Hed and tnjured Chicago, Monday.—The whole of the nearly completed steel framework of the new CoUaum at present in course of construction in Nineteenth- street aod Wabash-avenue collapsed to-day. The building was intended for the holding of large meetinga. Fuljv a hundred men, women, and children are said to have been inside at the time. Twelve bodies have up to the present been taken ...

... Madrid, Thursday Morning.—Definite intelli- gence of Carlist movements has been brought to the knowledge of the Government. It is known that an active movement is contemplated. The Government ia confident, however, that any such attempt would fail, aud would only bring trouble upon the heads of the promoters.—Central News. ...

... PENARTH DOCK CO. A Good Investment. The half-yearly meeting of the Penarth Har- bour, Dock, and Railway Company was held at the company's offices, Church-street, Cardiff, to- day. There were present the Hon. George H. W Windsor-Clive (chairman), Messrs David Evans, F. Matthews, J. H. Insole, and Evan Lewis (directors), and Mr W. H. Lewis, secretary. The report was adopted, recommending a bl ...

... BRITAIN LOSING PRESTIGE. (Press Association Special Telegram.) Pekin, Monday.—A foreign diplomatist of great experience in China, in the course of a conversa- tion which I had with him to-day, expressed the opinion that Great Britain had been practically reduced to a suppliant at Pekin, ttod this he considered the natural;outcome of .the consistently weak policy adopted in dealing with ...

... AMERICA'S COLONIES. SPANISH OFFICERS COURT MAHTIALLED. Washington, Monday Mrrning.—The War Office has been advised that three Spanish officers have been Court Martialled by the, United States commander at Manila on a charge of having re- tained the command at Presidio after Manila had been captured. Two of them were convicted on a second charge of embezzlement and were sentenced to three ...

... CHILD RUN OVER BY A CAB. DISAPPEARANCE OF THE CABMAN. On Monday evening, about 6.30, a serious accident happened iu Cathays-terrace. A little boy named Charles Turner was going shopping for his mother, who is ill, when crossing the terrace he was knocked down by a cab, which passed over the middle of his back. When picked up he was unconscious, and was taken to the Infirmary. The lad is about ...

... OUTBREAK AT GAINSBOROUGH. A Gainsborough correspondent telegraphs that small-pox has again broken out in the town. At a special meeting of the Urban Council on Monday orders were given for the isolation of the cases, and preparations were made for the possibility of further cases occurring. Two cases have now appeared. ...

... LOCAL CUSTOMS APPOINTMENTS. The following movements have been notified at the Customs headquarters in • —Mr W. McDonald, assistant, Cardiff, tooe second class examining officer, Liverp and district; Mr F. Kingdon, assistant, Cardiff, trans- ferred to Bristol and district; Mr M. L. appointed assistant at Cardiff; Mr E. W. Jonea, boatman, London, transferred to Newport; in W. G. Cavill, boatman, ...

... It is a curious fact that although Fleet-street is admittedly the home of the Press and centre of the printing trade of this country, scarce one in a hundred of the immense number of persons who earn their daily bread in its vicinity has any knowledge of the early Fleet-street printers. The popular impression seems to be, says the Press, that the only celebrity worthy of remembrance is Dr. ...

... FAILURE OF NEGOTIATIONS. After a protracted conference on Wednesday afternoon the Hartlepool dockers and their employers failed to come to terms, and the dis- pute will accordingly continue. The men s officials now threaten to throw in their lot with the sailors and firemen, who are considering the advisability of a national strike. The Hartlepool shipowners, who are Buffering seriously from ...

... THE « FORT CHABROL FOLLY. Paris, Wednesday.—Rain fell for a few minutes this aftenoon and brought some relief to the besieged of Fort Chabrol, who Aicceeded in collecting a large quantity of water by means of pails and from the gutters.—Renter. DEROULEDE ON HIS COMING TRIAL. Paris, Wednesday.—M. Paul Deroulede has written M. Loubet protesting against his com- mittal for trial before the High ...