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EPITOME OF NEWS. —*— The Oxfordshire Volunteers had their annual Prize shooting at Hinksey Butt, near Oxford, on Monday and Tuesday last. Lieut. Potts, of Banbury, took off the National Rifle Association's prize medal and the first prize of 215 by an aggregate score of 40 in five rounds each at 200, 500, and 600 yards. An Ostend letter has the following:—"The King of the Belgians derives great benefit from his residence at this,place, and his health improves more and more every day. That circumstance leads the people of Ostend to hope that the King's stay among them will be prolonged." The incumbency of Holy Trinity Church, Tottenham, has become vacant by the preferment of the Rev. William John Hall, M.A. It is worth £ 250 a year, and it is in the gift of the vicar of Tottenham. The Exeter Town Council have divided their body into committees, with the view of making ahouse-to- house visitation for the purpose of inspecting the drainage, and promoting the ventilation and cleansing of the dwell- ings in the various streets and lanes of the city. The Belgian papers publish accounts of a fear- ful hurricane which passed over the district of Liege. The largest trees were blown down, and the damage done is very great. The hurricane came from the south-west towards the north-east. In one enclosure alone seventy-three large trees were blown down. The last deposit for the great fight for the championship which is to take place on the 1st of November between Mace and Wormald for the champion's belt and £ 200 a side is to be made to-morrow evening, at a sporting house in Whitechapel. Mace is in training in Yorkshire, and Wormald intends to pass the interval between the present time and the day fixed for the fight by the sea-side. The betting on the two men is about even. The Court of Inquiry at Liverpool on the burning of the Glasgow, have heard the captain's statement. No new facts of interest, however, were elicited, except that the captain of the Rosamond threw overboard between 50 and sixtv tons of coal, in order to make room for the people from the Glasgow, and that the Glasgow, which was the fourth ocean steamer built, was insured for £15,000, while her freight was uninsured. The court will make a report of the facts to the Board of Trade. A match between, sides of eight, each selected from tke Cambridge town and University Rifle Corps, has taken place at the butts of the latter. The ranges were 200, 500, and 600 yards, five shots each, Wimble- don targets and scoring. The scores made were as follows:- 'Town, 256; University, 247. The deanery of Graham's Town, South Africa, has been conferred upon the Rev. Frederick Henry Williams, M.A., of Trinity College, Dublin, incumbent of Christ Church, Ashton-uader-Lyne. Mr. Williams who was ordained in 1852, by the late Bishop of Chester, was fbr some time curate of the large metropolitan parish of St. Marylebone, and was nominated by the Crown to Christ Church, Ashton, in 1858. The celebrated Temple Church, which is undergoing a thorough cleansing, is to be re-opened for Divine service on Sunday, the 1st of October. Abd-el-Kader is a Freemason, and has just been entertained at the Grand Eastern Lodge. Gourmands, rejoice! this is the finest year known for many years for that delicate article of food-truffle. It appears that in the seven months ending July, there were 34,869 tons of rag and other materials imported for making paper. Meat salted with acetate of soda is easily dried, preserves an agreeable flavour, and is more easily unsalted than when common salt is used for the purpose. The import of animals from abroad has greatly increased this year. In the first seven months of the year the numbers imported into the United Kingdom have been 92,116 oxen, bulls, ind cows; 27,475 calves; 322,074 sheep and lambs, and 49,422 swine and hogs. From an official document just issued it ap- pears that in the seven months ending the 31st 'J* as many as 233,706,2-40 eggs were imported against 2 37>790,3-i0 in the preceding year. In July last, compared with the same month in the preceding year, the increase exceeded At the last Cornish ticketing, 2,829 tons of copper ore were sold for £14,178 13s. The averages were— standard, £110 14s.; price per ton, X5; produce seven. Quantity of fine copper, 198 tons 6 cwt. Compared with the previous sale, the standard has declined 12s. 6d., and the price per ton of ore, 8d. A youth of sixteen, the son of an extensive iron- merchant in the black country," ran away the other day with his "darling Rose," one of his father's domestics, and before he was caught had succeeded in getting the nuptial knot tied. The last spring tide in St. Bride's Bay, Pem- brokeshire, brought immense shoals of mackerel close to "fcKe shore, and the Rehorman snfffcdef) in rapturing* tons of the fish with their nets. Large takes were also made at Neylama, MUford, and all around the Pembrokeshire coast. It is eight years since such large shoals of mackerel were captured on the coast before. An Act was passed in the late Session to suspend for a further period the ballots for the Militia of the United Kingdom. The time would have expired at the end of the present month, but the making of the lists is further suspended to the 1st of Oct ober next year. The Act is not to prevent the holding of certain meetings relating to the Militia. # Some of the friends of Mrs. Davis, wife of the ex-President of the South, are raising a subscription for her support. She is in Alabama, and by one account is said to be in a state of great poverty, while by another her means are said to be ample for her requirements. The subscription goes on, however, and the list will probably be added to by many as a sort of protest against the present administration. Peewit Island, near Harwich, has been pur- chased by Mr. R. Walker, of Terrington, who intends to re- claim it from the sea. It contains 1,200 acres. General Meagher has been speaking at St. Louis in favour of negro suffrage, saying- that a democrat who would deny the negro the right to vote is not worthy to par- ticipate in the triumph of the nation." An application has been made to the Lord-Lieu- tenant of Ireland for a training ship to be stationed at Gal- way, for the instruction of Irish youths in a seafaring life. The request will be submitted to the Lords of the Admiralty. The rectory of Litchfield, near Andover, has become vacant by the death of the Rev. Peter Cotes, M.A., formerly of Wadham College, Oxford. The benefice, which is worth zC430 a year and a house, is in the gift of Mr. W. Kingsmill. The population is 102. A little girl, residing in Newport-market, was crossing the end of Newport-street on Saturday morning, when a hansom cab knocked her down. The wheels passed over her body, and on being taken to the Charmg-cross Hospital she was found to be dead. The British Museum was closed seven days for -the autumnal vacation. It was re-opened on Friday, the 8th instant, after which the days for the admission of the public are Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, from ten till five o'clock, the Saturday afternoon admission having ceased for the present year. Considerable anxiety has been occasioned in North Staffordshire by the turn. out of 500 colliers and ironstone miners in the employ of Mr. H. H. Williamson, of Tunstall, who had refused to ascede to their demand of an advaace of 6d. per day in their wages. Mr. F. Calvert, Q.C., is to be married to Lady Lucy Herbert on Thursday, September 14. Her ladyship is the daughter of the second Earl of Powis, and sister of the present peer. She was born in 1819. There are to be great rejoicings at Welshpool and in Powis-park on the j occasion. The town of Fondo, in the Tyrol, has been almost entirely destroyed by fire. One hundred and fifty houses have been burned, and three hundred families are without shelter. The town-hall, the church, and a few houses situated on an elevation, escaped the flames. The poor peasants have lost nearly all the forage for their cattle. As nearly as can be estimated the total quantity of pilchards taken on the coast of Cornwall in the past week was from 650 to 700 hogsheads, a large portion of which was sent on to the metropolis. Fine shoals of fish are reported to be making towards the shore, and heavy catches are confidently expected on an early day. Prices are about the same as reported last week. The Helsingfsrs Tidning announces that the project for layivg a submarine telegraph between Sweden and Finland has been deanitively decided on. The cable is in- tended to pass from Grislehamtn to Neystadt, touching at the Aland Islands. About two miles south of Rame head the Plymouth fishing sloop, Red Rover, belonging to Mr. Samuel Browne, caught in her trawl-net, the other day, a sturgeon 9ft. Sin. long, from nose to tail, 4ft. girth, and weighing 3± cwt. It was alive when landed the same evening at the Barbican, and, having been wrapped in canvas, was sent via South Devon Railway to Billingsgate-market. Fuller inquiries into tho circumstances of the late shocking accident at E wood near Blackburn, show that at least twenty persons were injured. Of that number quite one half are suffering from severe wounds, and three of them are iR a preoMieus state. Of the twenty hurt nine were sent to the Blackburn Infirmary. A paragraph has appeared lately in the French newspapers to the effect that the cholera has appeared at Nice. The acting English consul there contradicts the statement. After a summer of rare beauty, Nice is in a perfectly healthy state, and no case of any kind having the character of cholera has made its appearance. A frightful case of burning took place recently at Leicester. The deceased, Mrs. Glover, a milli- ner residing in Cauk-street, was sitting near the fire in a room at the lower part the house. A cinder fell upon her silk dress, and she was quickly enveloped in flames. She jvas removed to the infirmary, and died there about eleven o'clock. In a recent case before the Bankruptcy Court it was stated that, by a mistake in the reading of a tele- gram, which led to a large purchase of cotton, the bankrupt firm had incurred a loss of iS34,0001 A chamois has lately been born in the Zoological- garden at Gresden. This is the second tune J^t su<A an event has occurred in a Zoological-garden, the first havmg taken place at Chambery in 1855. The young chamois at Dresden is in good health and very lively. In the first half of the three years 1863,1864, and 1865, the following quantities of home-made spirite were ra- tained for consumption as beverage m the United Kmadom. —In 1863, 8,946,498 gallons; m 1.864, '9,566,633; m 1865, 9,643,336. The quantity of foreign spirits entered for home consumption ill the first half of the three years wa lows —In 1863, 2,502,369 proof gallons; ml864, 2,903,419, m 1865,2,980,073. „ A few days back, the groom of the Hon. u a. Lyon, who is staying at Bognor, named G. Foot, got up from his bed in his sleep and walked to the bedroom door, which he opened, and, going out, shut it after him He then fell from the top of the stairs to the bottom, and, although no bones were broken, he is most seriously hurt in the back- so much so, that he has lost the entire use of his limbs, and it is feared that it will be a long time before he re- covers. T. 1 J. G-rimshaw, the popular light-weight jockey, has entered into an engagement with the Marquis of Hast- ings, who retains the first call on his services tor the hand- some consideration of £ 800 a year. The Duke of Beaufort is his, second master. Since the termination of the strike of the "thousand" nailers, when the workmen resumed work at the 10 per cent. reduction on their earnings, the masters through the districts of Sedgley, Cosely, G°rnal, have voluntarily restored the full wage of m the pound," instead of 18s. to the pound, which they have for a short time been paying. The full rate was restored for the first time last week, and will be continued. A large piece of the wall of one of the houses now in course of demolition in the Ilue St Honor^ near the Louvre, suddenly fell into the street at on Friday morning, only a few minutes before the arrival or the workmen. The frontage of the oppos^e houses was greatly damaged by the masonry so projected against it, but fortunately no person sustained any injury. The determination of the railway directors to introduce Sunday trains on the Edinburgh and Glasgow line has as was to be expected, raised a good deal of opposition, seeing that for many years there has been no communica- tion between Edinburgh and Glasgow on Sundays. A meet- ing was held in Glasgow on*t^econ* memorial was adopted urging on the direcfcors to recQn sider their decision, and leave matters as at P^esMit so far as .the Edinburgh and Glasgow portion of the line is con- cerned.

THE NEGROES IN VIRGINIA.

IKISSING THE BLARNEY STONE.

DEPARTURE OF THE FRENCH FLEET.

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