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EPITOME OF HEWS. CLARA LOUISE KELLOGG, the Amerhan prima donna, and Lotta, the actress, are *^h sai to be engaged to well-born and wealthy Philidei- phisne. MESSRS. MOODY AND SANKEY, with their families, will leave Liverpool for New J0™ m the National Steamship Company's steamer Spam, which sails on the 4th of August. GAVARD, one of the Communist3 whom the .court-martial had sentenced to death by default, has just died at Geneva. He prospered as a colonel" during the Commune. A TOURIST DESCENDING CAIRNGORM, missel his footing on the snow and slipped 200 feet. His shoulder was dislocated, and he also received other injuries. A WHOLE ROMAN CATHOLIC CONGREGA- TION, consisting of 1100 persors, at Carleton, New Brunswick, took the temperance pledge on a recent Sunday, in response to an appeal from their pastor. HER MAJESTY has expressed her sympathy with and approval of the philanthropic objects which the Metropolitan Artisans' ani Labourers' Dwell- ings Association has mainly in view, and her best wishes for their successful accomplishment. AN OLD LADY, hearing some one reading about a Congressman at large, rushed into the kitchen door shoutinv," Sarah Jane! Sarah Jane! don't you leave the clothes out all night; mind what I tell you, for there's a Congressman at large. IT IS REPORTED that the Carlist Lizzaraga, while travelling in Tyrol, visited Don Alphonso, and endeavoured to reconcile him with his brother, Don Carlos. But Don Alphonso declined, and stated that he considered his brother's cause as being totally lost. „ „ THE MOST INFLUENTIAL ELECTORS of the Department of the Nord are anxious to persuade M. Thiers to accept a candidature for the coming sena- torial elections. M. Thiers declines taking any deci- sion before the complimentary Constitutional Laws AR THE COTTON SPINNERS of the Ash ton and Staley bridge district have resolved on a lock-out on the 34th inst., because the mule, card, and blowing- room hands of the district had declined to refer the question of the demand for an advance of 15 per cent. upon their present rate of wages to arbitration. A NEW JOURNAL has just made its appear- ance, which in these days of electricity and universal telegraphy ought to find a pretty wide circle of sub- scribers. It is called the Electrical News and Tele- graphic Reporter, and is entirely devoted to telegraphy and electrical science. ADVICES FROM BERLIN announce that the Government intend placing restrictions upon the societies which have been organised in view of re- ceiving subscriptions for the indigent members of the Catholic clergy and destroying the effects of the law which deprives refractory priests of their salary. THE CURATOR OF THE MANCHESTER AQUARIUM, Mr. W. Saville Kent has secured a second sturgeon for the tanks of that institution. This specimen is a very fine one, measuring over six feet in total length. It was obtained from Mr. Parry Evans's salmon weir, at Colwyn Bay, North Wales. MR. CROSS RECEIVED a deputation headed by Mr. Morley, M.P., with a memorial setting forth the grievance which it is alleged the brushmakers suffer by reason of the competition of criminal labour with theirs. The Home Secretary said the matter was under his consideration. MADAME RATTAZZI'S fancy fair in favoured the victims of the flood was very successful. Countess Sadowska, Countess de Praneuf, Countess Lheritier, and different other fair members of high life, took part in the sale, and their little stores were widely patronised. THE LAST REPORT of the Ministry of Marine shows that the French navy includes 272 ships of all kinds; 39 of these are, however, still in the dockyards. Of the 243 others, 124 are armed and six are ironclads. The marine troops -are 30,000 strong, and are also trained for land 86 THE FRENCH ARMY may be said to have dis- played almost greater liberality towards the victims of the flood than any other body in France. The average amount subscribed by each regiment was about 600fr. When it is remembered that the soldiers pay amounts to one sou a day, their contribution ap- pears enormous. THE New York Tribune says Mr. Gladstone s 1 views on the Church of England do not appear to i have undergone any radical change. Bat his whole 1 political life shows a gradual advance from Con- servatism toward more liberal doctrines and we i may yet find him strongly advocating disestablish- AT THE CHESTER ASSIZES an action brought ] by Mr. Otis, an American citizen, against Messis. T Griffiths and Foulkes, magistrates for the county of j Denbigh, and Deputy Chief-Constable Bradshaw, to recover damages for false imprisonment, was^ ie- sumed and concluded. The jury found a verdict tor the plaintiff, and assessed the damages at < £ 550. AT THE MIDDLESEX SESSIONS a young man named George Dell was convicted on two charges of falsely representing himself to be a Government in. spector of weights and measures and thereby ob- taining money from shopkeepers. He was sentenced to five years' penal servitude and a longer period of p olice supervision. As A NUMBER OF MEN were engaged laying down a sewer to carry off refuse from Messrs. Crane's chemical works, at Bamford's Old Forge, Clayton, near Manchester, one fell down at the bottom of the shaft overpowered with the poisonous gases. Three others who tried to rescue him also succumbed, and before the men could be rescued life was extinct. THE Standard announces that the Seyyid of Zanzibar has forwarded a sum of .£50 to the Mayor of Birmingham for distribution among the charities of the town. His Highness has sent similar sums to the Mayors of Liverpool and Manchester, and has sent a cheque for .£100 to the Lord Mayor of London for distribution among the Metropolitan charities. ON WEDNESDAY MORNING, while the plea- sure yacht Skylark was taking a trip at sea off Brighton, one of the party fell overboard in what appeared to be a fit, and, althoughhe was taken out of the water before sinking, 1animation could not be restored. The name of the deceasedwasBroderson, and it is believed he was a groom living at 16, Lea s mews, Grosvenor-Equare, London. a THE Noveau Monde of Montreal publishes a letter from Louis Riel, dated at Worcester, Mass., and addressed to the electors of Provencher and his countrymen in Manitoba. Hfc thanks the electors for re-electing him as their representative in the House of Commons three times within less than 12 months, and protests against his banishment as an act of injustice. THE LEEDS RIOTING CASE.-Twelve men were charged at the Leeds Police-court with commit- ting a riot on the 6th ult. by assembling at Wood. house Pride, near Leeds, and with a number of other persons demolishing some new buildings in course of erection, doing damage to the extent of .£150. All were committed for trial to the assizes. They allege that the houses were built on common land. THE VARIOUS IRISH SOCIETIES of London are, we understand, engaged in the formation of a Metropolitan Amnesty Association in advocacy of the release of the Irish military and other prisoners still detained for offences connected with Fenianism. Branches are to be formed in all the large English towns, and an endeavour made to secure English support, for the movement. TEW HOUSES have just been destroyed by fire at Portes, near Aix. A ROLL OF BANK NOTES, value £800, was last week lfeft by a lady under the initials of E. C." at the office of the CLiratesl Augmentation Fund. THE CEREMONY OF SWEARING IN Sir Charles Yorke, .C.BG as Constable of the Tower, was proceeded with on Thursday. GREAT DISTRESS, says a Yienna telegram, i 3 being suffered by the weavers on strike at Bruenn- Their meeting on Monday night was dispersed by the military at the point of the bayonet. THE DUCHESS OF EDINBURGH and the Princess Louise have intimated their acceptance of the patronage of the new School of Cookery which is being established in Edinburgh. LIEUTENANT COTTON, R.N., has been granted 10 months' leave of absence to navigate a Chinese gunboat, which has been built in this country for Foo-chow. POPULAR LIBRARIES are about to ba esta. blished in all the Paris mayoralties. The cost of each library is expected to amount to 1300frs. per year. SIR ARTHUR GORDON, the new governor of the Fiji Islands, arrived at his post on the 25th ult. This intelligence is communicated in a Melbourne telegram. A LOCK-OUT OF COTTON SPINNERS is ex. pected in several of the Lancashire towns, in order to put an end to a partial strike which has taken place at one mill. LORD NORTHBROOK has officially notified the conclusion of the mission to Burmah, and ex. presses confidence that the stipulation that British troops should be allowed to pass through Burmese territory will ultimately be agreed to. FOR THE PURPOSE OF AIDING the fund for a testimonial to Sir Moses Montefiore, a bazaar has been opened at Willis's Rooms. It is patronised by several members of the Royal family, and is supplied with many interesting and valuable objects. A COPENHAGEN TELEGRAM says that a Prussian war ship has been secretly engaged for some days in taking soundings and in mapping the coasts of Jutland. An explanation of this extraordi- nary proceeding will be demanded at Berlin. THE INDIAN TROOPSHIPS are, says the Portsmouth Times, in future to be coaled straight from the colliers, instead of from the shore. This alteration has been made for the purpose of prevent. ing the deterioration in the coal which ensues from storing it for several months. THE FRENCH MILITARY CONTINGENT for 1875 being about to be called out, the Minister of War has forwarded a circular to the different com- manders requesting them to only admit in the in- fantry men whose height or physical strength do not fit them for special branches of the service. A WITNESS NOT ANSWERING on the call of his name in a certain trial, an elderly gentleman arose and solemnly said," He is gone." "Where has he gone P" asked the judge in no tender tone. "I don't know; but he is dead," was the guarded answer. ONE OF THE PATIENTS in Clare Lunatic Asylum attacked an attendant named Connor with a bass brush and fractured his skull so severely that his recovery is doubtful. He was only prevented from killing Connor outright by some of the other patients. By A RECENT ACT the restrictions placed on the liability of the rolling stock and plant of railway companies to be taken in execution at law or in equity, which was extended to the end of the present year, have been made perpetual as to lines in the United Kingdom. AN ACT OF PARLIAMENT has lately been passed to provide for the establishment of a close time in the seal fishery in the seas adjacent to the eastern coasts of Greenland. The statute is to be applied by an Order in Council in conj unction with foreign States. PRINCE KHIVA KAVA, uncle of the Emperor of Japan, and his Adjutant Funa Taffaka have been appointed Prussian lieutenants, and attached to a Berlin regiment of Foot Guards. Taffaka has passed the usual lieutenant's examination, while Khiva Kava studies the military art under an eminent officer. TWO DESPERATE KICKING CASES were brought before the justices at Blackburn. Eli Dackworth, for kicking his wife, was sent to prison for a month; and Mr. John Hodson, joiner and builder, charged with kicking and seriously injuring Thomas Smith, was remanded for 14 days, but admitted to bail. THE FLOODS RESPECT NO ONE-not even the King of Greece. His Hellenic Majesty, who is stop- ping at some place in his dominions with an unusually unpronounceable name, was cut off almost entirely from the world last week by the sudden rising of a mountain stream. Even food had to be sent a long way round to the Royal family by mounted men. IN THE EDINBURGH COURT OF SESSION a ver- dict was returned for his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales in the action brought against the proprietor of Abergeldie to determine the boundary of his Royal Highness's estates in Birkhall. The Court also found for the defendant in the action brought against Principal Shairp, of St. Andrew's, by Mrs. Auld, for slander. A TRIPLE CRIME is reported from Bordeaux. One Duverneuil, a porter, having quarrelled with his neighbours, attacked them with a sword-stick, and before he was disarmed killed a man and his wife on the spot, and wounded a policeman. The assassin has long been notorious for his revolutionary in- stincts, and at the time of the overthrow. of the Empire was on the point, of being elected a municipal councillor. ORANGES IN CALIFORNIA.-The San Fran- cisco Chronicle says that California consumes 10,000,000 oranges per annum, or about 18 a piece to each man, woman, and child in the State. There are, of course, some who far exceed that figure, and many who never taste an orange from the 1st of January'to the 31st of December; but 18 is the average. Of the 10,000,000 of oranges consumed, over 50 per cent. now come from Los Angoles and the other southern counties of the State, and the supply from that source is constantly increasing. < SINGULAR ASSOCIATION.—There is a sin- gular association in Stowe, Vt., called the "Three Score and Ten Society." It has 87 members, 42 being men, and all between 70 and 100 years of age. One associate, Mrs. MaoMahon, was 100 years old last January. The LXX. Society held its second annual meeting at Stowe on the 17th of June, with religious services, a collation, &c., the sermon being preached by the Rev. Dr. Hall, of Morrisville, from the words addressed by Pharaoh to Jacob How old art thou ?" At the table the old gentlemen made speeches, some of them very good enes. ACCIDENT TO AN AERONAUT.-An accident occurred a few days back to M. Beudet, a French aeronaut, who was making an ascent at Leipsic He started on his voyage hanging by his hands to a trapeze suspended beneath the wioker basket. He was unable to watch the expansion of the gas as he rose to an atmosphere lesadonae.and.before he could reach the oar to open the valve, the tension on the silk became so great as to split up the balloon, WhICh then began to descend with great rapidity. Fortu. nately it dropped into some trees which broke the fall. M. Beudet escaped unhurt, and shortly after. wards joined his wife, who had been a terrified spec- tator of the.acoident" AN UNKNOWN MAN committed suicide at Brooklyn by jumping from the deck of one of the Hamilton ferryboats as it was leaving the ship on the Brooklyn side. Every effort was made to rescue him, but he did not come to the surface. M. MICHEL CHEVALIER has declined the invitation of the Glasgow Chamber of Commeroe to viait a Glasgow tea-meeting of scientific bodies in Glasgow,'to make arrangements for the meeting in Glasgow next year of the British Association. ONE FOR GRAMMARIANS.Mamma: "Oh, Alfie, you must not speak such bad grammar!" Alfie Why not ? Mamma Because incorrect grammar grates on the ear of those who speaks it well." Alfie Serve them right for learning it!" —Judy. A Daily News telegram from Rome says that he Austrian Emperor, mindful of his cordial recep. tion last April on Italian aril, has conferred on Count Sepra, the Vice-President of the Senate, and Signor Bianoheri, the President of the Chamber, the Grand Cross of the Order of Leopold. A YOUNG FELLOW, writing to his governor for money, said he was now reallj penitent for his fellies, he had suffered so much. "I have drunk the cup of bitterness to the very dregs said he. It was perfectly true; he had just finished a tankard of bitter !—Judy. ARTILLERY EXPERIMENTS AT SHOEBURY- NESS—In presence of the Secretary for War, the Commander-in Chief, and several other persons of distinction, some artillery experiments have been made at Shoeburyness. The practice was with both light and heavy guns, and was pronounced generally satisfactory. A SUPERIOR OFFICIAL sent out by the British Post Office is expected at Constantinople to organise the Turkish postal service in conformity with the provisions of the Berne International Postal Union, which are expected to come into force here on the 13th September. A contract has already been concluded with a Russian Navigation Company with this object. FINE FOR UNLICENSED PORTER-DELLING.— Amelia Downes, a Sheffield tobacconist, was sum- moned before the magistrates of that town, charged with selling porter on Sunday without a license. Several respectable men entered her premises on Sunday and purchased porter there, but on being asked a shilling a bottle they refused to pay, and a row ensued. Amelia was fined .£20, but preferred taking the month's imprisonment instead and reserve the £ 20 for rejoicings on her release. MILITARY HARVESTERS.—It IS not generally known that the French Minister of War places every year a certain number of troops at the disposal of the farmers and cultivators to assist them in gather. ing the harvest. The Minister of War announces that very little help can be tendered this year, on account of the exigencies of the service and the re- daction which the dismissal of the contingent for 1870 has made in the standing army. DINNER TO MR. BARRY SULLIVAN. — Mr. Barry Sullivan was entertained at dinner at the Alexandra Palace, previously to his departure for the United States. The Earl of Danraven presided, and amongst those present were Mr: A. M. Sullivan, M.P., Mr. B. Webster, Mr. W. CresWick, Mr. Billing- ton, Mr. Albery, Colonel Waring, &o. 3 expressing the best of wishes was presented to the guest of the evening, and the proceedings through. out were of the warmest and most cordial character. SEVERE GALE AND FLOODS IN SCOTLAND. —Aberdeen, Banff,, and other Northern counties of Scotland, have been visited by a severe gale, accompanied by heavy rain. In Banffshire the corn fields have been levelled, the turnip crop has suffered severely, and large quantities of fruit have been destroyed. The river Deveron flodded its banks, and fields of grain, turnips, and grass have been submerged. The low-lying portion of the town of Banff was flooded. The storm was felt at sea, but no serious damage is reported. CASES IN THE CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. At the sitting of the Central Criminal Court, Eliza- beth Hillier, a married woman, was placed at the bar to plead to an indictment which charged her with the wilful murder of her female child. It was found that the prisoner was insane, and she was therefore ordered to be detained during her Majesty's pleasure. Ellen Hervey, for having attempted to drown her infant child, was ordered to be imprisoned for six weeks without hard labour. Frederick Davis, for the manslaughter of Thomas Henry M'Nalty, was sentenced to three months' hard labour. DEATH OF GENERAL DUFOUR. From Geneva is announced the death of General Dufour, who, in 1847, commanded the troops against the Sonderbund. The deceased was born at Constance in 1787, and was consequently 88 years old at the time of his death. He was 60 years of age when he was made a general, and appointed to the command against the Sonderbund. The Diet, in recognition of the servioes which he then rendered to Switzer- land, voted him a sword of honour and a grant of 40,000 francs. He was the author of a work on artillery and another upon military tactics. MR. GLADSTONE'S MOTHER—In one of Sir Roderick Murchison's journals the following notice occurs Old John Gladstone's wife was the dearest friend my mother had. She was a Miss Annie Ro- bertson, daughter of the Provost of Dingwall, Ross- shire. When my father married he proposed that the bride's great friend and bridesmaid should stay with them. Finding that she was in very delicate health, he attended to all her ailments for a year or more and when I was brought into the world, the first young lady's lap on which I was dandled was that of the mother of the Chancellor of the Ex. chequer." DISCOVERY OF ROMAN PAVEMENT IN LONDON.—A few days since (says the City Press) some workmen employed by Messrs. W. Thomas and Son, in excavating for the foundation of a new building for Messrs. W. and C. Volckman, Bishops- gate-street Within, came upon a piece of Roman pavement, above 12 feet below the surface. The piece, which is a little more than a yard in length by about two-thirds of a yard in width, was in excellent preservation. The tessellse isi in black and white only, and the pattern is plainer than other pavement which has been discovered in the same vicinity. AN "AGONY COLUMN" MYSTERY. Who can solve the mystery of the following advertisement in the "agony column" of the Times: U To an I Ash-spoke erst felly-bound to a brazen nave, but, so badly tired as to fall out.-Was the end of your defection to cost but a j'ot to a big vehicle carrying those who excur so far; and, whilst lying-so long and strong and straight-to trip up and lame the honest and unwary-whose path you orossed-until old cunning hands, picking you up, again, oun you fit for a fire-escape? Has the lining, made the old road more easily practicable; and scattered ashes, covering the worst of slippery ways-your course more safe, for you ?' MELANCHOLY BOAT ACCIDENT.-An in. quest was held at Reading, on the bodies of Henry Brown Gooby, son of a Congregational minister at Hambleden, near Henley, and Jane Carter, the daughter of a jeweller in Reading, who were drowned at ten o'clock at night in the Thames. The two de- ceased and another clerk, Henry George Lovejoy, were coming from the Roebuck, which is about three miles from Reading, in a boat that was no doubt too small. Lovejoy rowed, and the two deceased sat in the stern of the craft, whioh filled with water and sank when Goobymoved the rudder about. Love- joy saved himself by clinging to the oars. Jane Carter's brother was following in another boat, but it was too dark to see anything of the drowning boy and girl. They were eaca 16. CHOLERA. HAS BROKEN OUT at Odessa. THE HERRING FISHING in Lochfyne has been unprecedented as to quantity and quality. THE LATELY DECEASED CARDINAL ARCH- BISHOP OF BESANCON makes the 104th cardinal dying during the reign of Pius IX. IT IS REPORTED that the appetite for intoxi- cating drinks can be cured by eating an orange every moining before breakfast. ACCORDING TO ORDERS given by the German authorities, the names of the streets of Metz are soon to be altered into the names of German victories. THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY hM again declined to receive a deputation of the Church- wardens of St. Alban's who wished to protest against the suspension of the Rsverend Mr. Mackonochie. Two MEN, said to be old convicts, have been committed by the Westminster magistrate on the charge of having burglariously broken into St. Saviour's Church, Thames Bank. THE IRISH MEMBERS are to have a conference with the Chancellor of the Exchequer regarding the restrictions on the germination of grain in Ireland for cattle-feeding purposes. THE MARCHIONESS OF MOLINS, wife of the Spanish Ambassador in Paris, has left the French capital with her daughter for London, where she in. tends spending the season. IN CONNECTION with the O'Connell Cen- tenary Committee, it is announced that arrangements have been made for 50,000 men to marsh in proces- sion on the 6th of August next. A MEETING OF PIG-IRON MANUFACTURERS was held at Wolverhampton, when they resolved to reduce their blast-furnace men's wages by 10 per cent. ALFRED R. MIGHT, aged two years, died at New Cross, London, the other day, from loss of blood through cutting off the top of his tongue with a knife with which he was playing at the dinner table. HIS EXCELLENCY SIB, HENRY E. BULWER, K C.M.G., governor of Natal, is expected to leave Dartmouth by the colonial mail steamer Windsor Castle, for the Cape, on the 23rd inst. MESSRS. PATON COOK AND CO., manufac- turers, 85, Queen-street, Glasgow, and at Glengar- xock, Ayrshire, have suspended payment. The liabilities of the firm are estimated at < £ 60,000. THE MINISTER OF THE UNITED STATES and the Misses Schenck have gone on a tour to Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, from which they ex- pect to return about the 1st of September. THE FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE i3, accord- ing to the Sherbourne Journal, spreading in the neighbourhood of Salisbury, upwards of 100 cases being reported in the Whiteparish and Bramshaw district. AT THE HANDS OF MR. WALPOLE a hand- some testimonial was presented to Mr. Higham for his exertions during 30 years on behalf of building societies, resulting in the passing last session of an Act relating to them. A WOMAN is REPORTED to have died recently in Mexico, at the advanced age of 130 years. HEr funeral was attended by over 200 of her nearest relatives, among whom were two sons, aged 90 and 100. WHILE SOME SCHOOL BOYS in Littleton, New Hampshire, were playing crickeb recently, a ball batted by one of them struck a swallow in the air and brought it down as suddenly as if hit with a bullet. A MARRIAGE IS ARRANGED TO TAKE PLACE between Lady Anne Finch, daughter of the late Earl of Ayleaford, and Mr. Charles Murray, of her Majesty's diplomatic service, and eldast son of the Hon. Sir C. Murray, K.C.B. MISS CAROLINE WHALLEY told the Factory Commission at Sheffield, that the greater part of the married women employed in the cutlery and other works were obliged to labour in consequence of the drunkenness of their husbands. BRIGANDAGE BY CARLISTS.—A Madrid paper announces that the Carlists have stopped a train between Barcelona and Saragossa, and detained 16 travellers, for whom they demand a considerable ransom. It is stated that the Carlists under Perula are retreating in the direction of Estella, pursued by Generals Quesada, Tello, and Loma. A BOY NAMED STACK, nine years of age, was charged at the Mansion House, London, with begging, and it was stated that his father had no control over him, and that he was accustomed to associate with young thieves. The prisoner was remanded, preparatory to being sent to a reforma- tory. IT IS STATED that numbers' of people have lately been repairing to a hill near Genoa, where it was alleged the Virgin had appeared. A local paper announces that an innkeeper and his daughter have been arrested on the charge of simulating the miracle for the purpose of attracting customers to their house. MANLEY HALL AND ESTATE, lately the resi- dence of Mr. S. Mendel, the Manchester merchant, have been bought, at a cost of £ 120,000, by a firm of speculators, who intend to convert the grounds into a place of fashionable resort during Bummer or winter. The at! ractions will comprise an aquarium, a winter garden, promenade concerts, exhibitions of fireworks, &c. Two WELL KNOWN LOCAL PUGILISTS, named McLachlan and Lynch, have had a prize fight near Glasgow. After 27 rounds had been fought, the police interfered and took both of the combatants into custody, but the crowd mobbed the constables and rescued the prisoners. There was a good deal of betting upon the result of the fight, which was witnessed by several hundred persons. NEW MAIL SERVICE TO THE CONTINENT.— A new week daily steam mail servioe to the Continent is to be opened on the 26th instant between London, via Sheerness, and Flushing. The London, Chatham, and Dover Railw ay will be responsible for the London to Sheerness arrangements, and the directors of that company have issued invitations for an inaugural trip, to take place on Monday, and to be crowded, on the arrival of the guests at Flushing, by a banquet, at which Prince Henry of tte Netherlands will be present. DEPUTATION TO M. MICHEL CHEVALIER.— A deputation from the Glasgow Chamber of Com- merce waited upon M. Michel Chevalier and pre- sented anaddress, in whicha high tribute was paid to the services which he had rendered to the cause of international Free Trade, and a cordial invitation was given to him to visit that city. M. Chevalier was, however, reluctantly compelled to decline it, as he expected to be recalled to France at any moment in connection with the business of the Channel tunnel. MEETING IN HYDE-PARK.-Mr. Bradlaugh addressed a meeting of several thousands of people who assembled in Hyde-park, London, on Sunday to protest against the grant given in connection with the visit of the Prince of Wales to India, and to petition Parliament that accounts showing the amounts of the private and public sources of in- come of the members of the Royal family should be furnished. The chief arguments used by the speaker were that, the visit being a merely personal one, the expense should not be defrayed by the nation, and that the income of the Prince from all quarters ought to have been sufficient to sustain the outlay. | The assembly, which was quite orderly, almost unanimously agreed in the protest, and voted the petition.

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