... % DESTRUCTION OP PORTMAN-MAREKET BY FIRE. Shortly After midnicht o(in Sstnrday lo9t a fire weg discovered at No. 2A, New COurob-streot, Lddgware-road, oceupied by Mr. 1;. Johnson, bootmaker. T[bi shop forms one of a nliurbeu iu-mediately contiguous to Port- msn-marhet, and the Dier ?? with such rapidity as eventually to destroy the mnorket building and twenty shops. Peortnmsumauret embrwed a ? ...

... I SGUTHERN AFRICA AS AN OUTLET FOR OUR COMMERCE. IN a letter addressed to the manufacturers of Lancashire, and read at a public meeting held in Blackburn recently, Mr. Charles J. Becker, of Pretoria, Transvaal, British South Africa, discusses at much length and with great Cleverness the capabilities offered by the Central and South-Eastern portions of that continent for a vast ex- r pansion of ...

... ter and Mining uh-«, Iriory f the lico bu- Of ■arthe the GENERAL SUMMARY. Accident a Foor-in-Hand. —As Viscount Chur- I and officer were driving four-in-hand, near Cranford Bridge, on the Bath-road, the vicinity Hounslow, on Saturday evening, the fore-axle suddenly snapped, and the vehicle toppled over. Vieconnt Churston and his friend were thrown with considerable violence to Ihe grojnd, the ...

... 1 DISCOVEny 0'1? 41, COINING ?? I I I ay, ,ed rn- in. e1r of lee r.5 ,ho Wr lid he he ug let ve en nd !0- he to le. r1' ,id de ire be ve Ve Ar. ess k. he as ed d er he 3d in as he a e. re hio be 0- to di. ni ir, le il if. 20 10 d. id 'if in10 A sixourimrz case ir, COII.'CCtiOIIii Wthl thr 'holesalo ?? of cll terfeii coins catile beforo tho Edorionton matgiotrato ttel en iedsticdet) y hen ...

... PLUCKY ATTEMPTS ATRESCUE. :A RELMARKABLE m ,re Woke out early Thuits- day morning on boardlhe .steamship Kawac1hi Maru, owned by the, Japan. Mail Steamship Company, now lying at Tilbury Docks, The vessel is a twin-scre'w steamer, of over 6,000 tcns, and forim.k piirt of fileet: of twelve similar ships, bulilt for a forinightly service between London,'.lars-eilles;'Singapore, and Yokohauia. The ...

... - ~ ~ ?? _i - I. CATTLE TRADE HORRORS. ATIZXT1ONTI aain ibeing drawn to the`:suffer- 1110 of ?? stOI brought from-the Antipodes. C Colam; of the ?? gives thehistory 01 l1e last three earZoes' The' W6ooloinoolo lanudid from Austia'w with :268 sbeep 'and laded only 210, havibg lost, 584nimals. on-tth VOyage; the Pertlishire started with 160 large (atble, and landed oulyr 138,uustaining a loss of ...

... SLIVE TRADE HORRORS. - Ct l A - I _ THE Hon. Cecil Ashley has received the following letter from a friend travelling on the East Coast of Africa:- Zanzibar, December 10th, 1884.-Her Mo;jostj's ship Osprey arrived froth' Madagascar on:' Nuvember l2th. Rumours being afloat that several cargoes of slaves had, been recenty run from the main- land to Pemba' and Zanzibar, boat crucisihg was at once ...

... THE STRPXE IN THIE COTTON TRADE -RIOTS AT BLACKBUN-N, &c. EIrrIT1 ILLUSTirIZ.ONS ?? SirTCeitS ANDo'tI ?? geve in ou .r edlition for this Week fcrther Lllgm- c ic s of 10 Rho mst ?? connectedI wit n tle. struko in thle cotton trade. The lagecne alti sub~ect represents the scene -Witnessed in the town gl of the horning of Colonel Jackson's carriccge, ?vhich wit i s thus described by an eye ...

... I . I , ?, ?? ?. 77IM7?7 'iiO I il? I : §1 T 1h , , ?v i?, f i ?i ?? ? .1? ?, Tha tth17i'~j l*.nitr. someino XlLtnmW~ h1iqn hk' I~;;arofbrtlnelg;, r,,SiL m; i1,lltai.4i tegLa. ?? 3aix^FN'w tho nloiiF tradol) ?? ?? ?? 3;oirnet~in^t' iejt1h9'O i's tofnx,,b ?? ?? ; Li otib ;2fthvi e r ?? lst t~ jcim as no ,e ie n : ?? A,. i, :fni1atQ~5cif,,lre3. a ipi,t'v .,ty i L q,., the t 9,!, e efaY5s, th ...

... A COUNTESS IN TUE BANKRUPTCY COURT. At tie Bankruptcy Court, London, the coos of a lady was heard which excited riuch interost, The bankrupt is described as Junia Maria, D'Alteyrac, of 32, ['ark street, Grosvenor-s(uare, connouly knoon as the Coun- tess D'ALteyrac, othorwise Willoughby, of no occupation, now in prison for debt in Bream's-ulildiags, Chancery- lane. Hfer ladyship's rame is ...

... TEfE SECRETS OF THE CONFECTIONERY TRA.DE. ?? .1 e 11 -. m OrI r.- 01-.- ?? ?? 0 At the Sheffield Towa Hall Mr. Ch:Lrlcs Fielding, pro- 'I e vision dealer, Snighil], was suanmolned, on the informa- B tion of the chief sanitary inspector, for having in his pos- session a large quantity of batter totally unfit forhunaan econsuption. The butter which had been seized at the defendant's shop' he had ...

... DANGEROUS VAGARIES OF k BUTIr d AT Malmeebnrv markeb on WredneedaY, adcai ?? c Bristol, named Leon7rd)boughtseverql fa h a anction, and the drovbr in oharge started tO ? out of the muarkot about one o'clook, to talke tho-railwvay station. Upon getting ouc ?? I. one of the animals bolted through a r. ronnd Eo:uo gardens at the back of Me-ss2. ;: r and Clark's premiSes. He. then ran round ;.:e i ...