... At Washington importance is increasingly attached to the forthcoming cruise of the United States South Atlantic Squadron which Rear- Admiral Schley takes to sea on November 14th, and there seems to be an air of great mystery surround- ing the prospective movements of the squadron. The officials of the Navy Department, while declar- ing that they have no information to communicate on the ...

... The Montreal liner Iona, of Dundee, is under orders to proceed direct from the Tyne to Naples to take aboard 1.200 mules for Capetown. According to the New York; Tribune, it is estimated that the bicycle sidepaths to be erected in the various counties of Pennsylvania will cost 400 dollars a mile. The paths are to be raised twelve to eighteen inches above the road level. The minimum width must ...

... NARROW ESCAPE OF AN EXPRESS. As the Irish mail from Holyhead to London drawn by two engines, was running into Crewe station on Saturday the axle of one of the front wheels of the second locomotive snapped, and the wheel ran off the line. The permanent way was damaged by the mishap, but no one was hurt. Traffic also was not seriously delayed. The 2.45 p.m. Great Westefrn express, Swansea to ...

... Ted Butcher, thirteen years old, living at Twer- ton, near Bath, was charged at Weston (Bath) on Saturday with maliciously wounding Richard Stephenson, headmaster of East Twerton Board School, with intent to do grievous bodily harm. It was alleged that Butcher, a pupil at evening continuation classes, was misbehaving himself and refused to leave the room when requested. As Mr. Stephenson ...

... Dr. Burns, ex-medical officer of an important parish of the Sunderland Poor Law Union, which office he was requested to resign a week ago as the result of a Local Government Board inquiry into certain charges of drunkenness and neglect against him, was found dead in his surgery on Tuesday night. He had been dead some consider- able time, and all signs pointed to his having poisoned himself. ...

... London Society, indeed, is immersed in charnj Just now. At the St. James's Palace on Friday there was the annual display of work of the Middlesex Needlework Guild, a useful organisa- tion of ladies who devote their spare moments to the manufacture of garments for the very poor. The Duchess of Albany is the moving spirit of the movement, and is usually present at the exhibition of the work to ...

... A large number of passengers, chiefly refugees from the Cape arrived at Southampton on Monday on the Guelph. Amos Brothers, Wholesale and Reta'l 'Statiooers, Sussex Street, have joat received a targe o' s CDmeQt of cotcmerciai stationery wh! ...

... A small faction fight is reported from tho Pondoland border, though otherwise the nativea are quiet. ...

... WIT AND HUMOUR. Caller: ft Is the master of the house in ? Proud Father: Yes, he's asleep upstairs in his crib. Browne: Is he nursing his disappointment ? Towne he seems to be trying it on the: bottle. Caller Is Mrs. Smith at home ? Servant; No mum. Caller: Are you quite sure ? Servant: Yis, mum. She towld me so herself, mum. An Irish poacher, up before a magistrate, made this defence:—u ...

... The Gladstone statue at Blackburn, erected at a cost of £1,800 by public subscription, was un- veiled on Saturday afternoon by the Earl of Aberdeen. The statue, which weighs about four tons and stands 10ft. high, is the work of Mr. John Adams, Acton, and the attitude of the figure is the characteristic one of the late statesman of upraised hand when about beginning to speak. In an address his ...

... Lord Dufferin was on Saturday elected Lord Rector of Edinburgh University by 943 votes as against Ir. Asquith's 686. Throughout the poll and upon its declaration there were extraordinary scenes. In the quadrangle, faction collided with faction and fought for two hours. Lady students de- fended the Liberal standard in the centre of the turmoil while the Unionists tied their flag to a fountain, ...

... Dr. Goodall, medical superintendent of Car- marthen Asylum, has made a mental examina- tion of John Beddoe, twenty-four, of the Glamorgan Artillery, who will he tried at the assizes at Carmarthen on a charge of murder- ing a fellow-gunner named William Hammett at Fort Hubberston, Milford Haven, on July 5th. Seeing that some of the accused's near relatives were certified lunatics, the question ...