... SHOREHAK ELECTION. It is stated that should Mr Walter Burrell, brother of the late member and successor to the baronetage, refuse to stand, Mr Robert Lodea will be the Con- servative candidate. ...

... FRIDAY'S RACING. [BT TELEGRAPH.] DONCASTER. SELLING WELTER PLATE.—1, Eveleen 2, Idle Boy 3, Bohemian. FITZWIUJAM STAKES.—Kings Lynn beat Bargee. SCURRY STAKES.—1, Clara; 2, Zoroaster 3, Idle Boy. Five ran. SANDOWN PARK. CLAREMONT HANDICAP.—1, Snail; 2, Hampton 3 Zitella. Five ran. MILITARY STEEPLECHASE—1, Highland Mary; 2, Morristown; 3, Purity. Seven ran. SANDOWN PARK STAKES—1, Kaleidoscope 2 ...

... |1)irfl)st Parrtagts, anh Jeatbs. BIRTEiS. Erbistock Lodge, Ruabon, tù; rife of John Rowe Beunioa, of a son. BEVAX — Ou the 6th inst., at 17, Yorke-street, Wrexham, the wise'oi Mr William Bevan. eompositor, of a son. KEAKXL! Y—On the loth inst., the wife of E. C. Fearnley accountant, Wrexham, of a daughter. •EEEXHOW-On the 13th inst., at Cardiff, the wife of the wife of the Rev. Edward ...

... WREXHAM BOARD OF GUARDIANS. At the ordinary meeting of the board on Thurs- day, there were present—Captain Griffith-Boscawven, chairman Mr A. Peel and Mi* A. W. Edwards, vice- chairmen Lieut.-Col. White, and Messrs J. Burton, J. H. Ffoulkes, J. Beale, E. Rowland, J. Ll. Thomas. Maurice Hughes, J. Rogers. Gomer Roberts, W. Thomas, E. B. Samuels, W. Lester, and H. Whalley, and the Clerk, Mr J. ...

... NEWMARKET RACES.: FRIDAY. The Second Welter Handicap Pia t. Propnete, 1; Lettice, 2; Inglewood Ranger, 3. Five ran. The Newmarket Stakes—Skylark beat Glacis. Two-year-old Selling Stakes—Reality, 1 Gloxi- ana, 2; Beguine and Brown Doe ran a dead heat for third place. The One Thousand Guineas Stakes, a subscription of 100 sovs each, h ft. for three-year-old fillies, Rst each the second receives ...

... (BY TELEGRAPH). THE EASTERN CRISIS. LONDON, Friday A Cabinet Council has been hastily summoned again this afternoon, and is now sitting. It is rumoured that a very soothing reply has been received from Russia, which is deemed evasive and unsatisfactory by our Government. LONDON, Friday. The Admiralty have received a telegram from the Admiral commanding the Mediterranean Fleet to-day. The Fleet ...

... LATEST WAR NEWS. Eight of General Baker's English officers have bee. directed by telegraph to jo n him at Cons tail tiu op! e with- out delay. A general belief prevails there that England is about te proceed to active intervention, it is stated im official eirdes that Mr Lay.ird has given an assurance to that effect Mr Lavard, however. denies having done anything of the kind. The Cur. replying ...

... DiplaRIA.-I%O following figures relative to the deathsora diphtheria, gathered from the annual reports of thglstrttr General, may be of some interest just now. t is only since 1855 (the year of the severe epi- demici diphtheria in France), that this disease has been aced under a separate heading in the tables of mortfy. It .rs that from 1855 until the end of 18701,361 deaths from diphtheria ...

... ILLNESS OF JOHN MARTIN, M.F. Lmmox, Thursdny. Mr John Martin, M P., is lying very ilL near Newry. His indispositicn was caused through ex- citement at the funeral of John Mitchei. ...

... THE BLACKBURN MURDER. BLACKBURN. Friday. Previous to being brought before the magistrates to-day. Fish was visited by his wife and two children, his mot! e'-n-law, and a fennle friend: also bv a Church of i-j. li.id clpr^rvman. He looked deadlv pale, and was accomuiocated with a seat in the dock. ...

... Naval Question of the Day.—Does anything extra- ordinary happen to a turret ship when the captain gets in a towering rage ? Somebody has sent our editor's butler a price list of wear resisting suits- He says it's enough to give a man delirium tremens to think about his clolbes resisting him every time he wants to wear 'em. He says the clothes would wear the man out first. THE DECLARATION ...

... CABINET MINISTERS AT LIVERPOOL. The Home Secretary (Mr Cross), the President of the Board of Trade (Lord Sandon), and the Secretary for War (Colonel Stanley) were the chief guests, as representative of Lancashire con- stituencies, of the Mayor of Liverpool, at a Tewn Hall banquet on Wednesday night. About 250 fjentlftiDf-n wore present, inclttdir-g Lords Win- ir-arieigh and kfimersdale, the ...