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NEWS IN A NUT-SHELL. A eu-Mier grant of .iO;),()(OOllol. has ben applied for to the American Congress to keep the Orleans Ex hhitron afloat. i >uv:.r~ the month of November last rough and un- •ric '1, n-.ondsof the value of £ 246,854 were exported tiIc Cape. h Australia the trades are all doing well, and the demand for skilled labour and domestic servants con- tinues in excess of the supply. Proceedings have been taken in New South Wales to recover the sum of C61,000 deposited in the Oriental Bank by the Crown. Daring the last month the officers of the Fish- mongers' Company seized at Billingsgate Market 13 tons of fish as unfit for human food. Judgment in the Ross-shire "pet-lamb" case, re- cently given against Mr. Winans, has just been re- versed in his favour by Sheriff Mackintosh. Lord Annaly and Lord Monteagle were on Mon- day invested with the ribbon of the Ordtr of St. Patrick. The Lord Lieutenant, Grand Master of the Order, presided. John Green, who had deserted from the Royal Marines and returned to his home at Leytonstone, is in custody in consequence of information given by his wife, who did not want him. A lad named Thomson has recovered fifteen guineas from Messrs. WaTceley Brothers for damage done in Chelsea to a tricycle by a carter in the em- ployment of the defendants. The clothes, watch, &c., of Mr. Hugh Brown, who was drowned, with his brother and a companion, while yachting in Hobson's Bay, Australia, have hI en found in the stomach of a shark, lately captured there. In Kashan, a town of Northern Hungary, the widow of a professor of the Agricultural School baz, out of despair at the death of her husband, shot herself with a revolver. She leaves two iufant chil- dren. It is stated at Ottawa that Colonel Williams, a member of the Dominion Parliament, has tendered his services, and those of a regiment 600 strong, to be selected from the Canadian militia, for garrison duty in England. It has been publicly notified in Cabul by the Ameer that anyone in future found carrying letters to or from India, except through the regular post, will be put to death. One man has been fined oOO rupees for taking a letter to Cabul. During a ball given by the officials of the Moravian Ironworks, at Witkowitz, a dynamite cartridge was exploded, destroying part of the staircase leading to the ballroom. The perpetrator of the outrage, a workman who had been dismissed, is in custody. It is stated that the King of Abyssinia, acceding to the representations of the Italian Consul at Massowa, has given orders that the guide Mandaitoo, who betrayed Signor Bianchi and his companions to their murderers, Bhall be arrested and handed over to the Italians, When a milkman knocked at the door of a house in Spitalfleldi, early the other morning, the door was opened by a burglar, who said the family were not up, and walked away. Several articles were stolen and a man named Padmore is now under remand charged with being the thief. From Pekin it is reported that Lord Northbrook's and Sir Thomas Brassey's speeches, made in Novem- ber last, have been read there with wonder, as it is considered that the English squadron is a sham, especially in guns, and that Admiral Courbet's ships could sink Admiral Dowell's without being hit. The Government have sanctioned the temporary appointment of six additional medical inspectors, four of whom will be engaged in making a general sanitary survey of the inland districts of England and Wales, while the remaining two will be engaged, in company with Dr. Bloxall, in inspecting the port sanitary districts. The Skye Crofters Relief Fund of £ IKX), which has been raised through the agency of the Earl of Breadalbane and the Rev. Mr. Macdonald, of In- verness, has been expended upon the purchase of meal, blankets, clothing, shoes, and plaiding. Tke relief is confined to the crofters of the Uig and Staffin districts, and its distribution is proceeding. Early in the morning a lady named Nichol appeared on the doorstep of a gentleman's house in the West End of London carrying a huge silver shield, and creat ing a disturbance. Her explanation of the matter was i .at she was godipother to the gentleman's eldest son, nd merely wished to present the shield as a gift. She is under remand for causing annoyance. On Tuesday aiyntimation was received at Cardiff from "ie Prison Commissioners, that a warder n nnrd Canu>oeIi would be fined 21 and be instantly from LL< post, for gross negligence. Campbell had foolishly turned his back on the corridor of the Car- diff Ponce-court, whilst a prisoner named Jones was talking t.: h:s wife. When he looked round Jones. j| had goni, and has not been seen since. Campbell had [ seen 14 years' service. I seen 14 years' service. I Mr. John Morley, M.P., in his inaugural address as president of the Glasgow Junior Liberal Associa- tion, strongly opposed the carrying on of a war in the Soudan, and contended that the original instructions to Lord Wolseley should be carried out—namely, that no further offensive operations of any kind are to be undertaken after the rescue of Gordon and Stewart. If those two gallant men were dead there was an end to the object of the expedition. At Sedgley, on Tuesday, three men, named Hobms. Jones, and Roberts, were charged by an old III- named Joseph Turley, with highway robbery lob violence. Turley alleged that he was accosted hv ti» three men, who made him drink four gin? es <> £ ■*]« through a straw. He afterwards became uncor.arien* and for 10 hours was exposed in a lane. Three vwiriKb ten shillings were taken from him. The jtls<.UfTS denied that they were the perpetrators, andware dis- charged. The receipts on account of revenu&from the hI., April, 1884, when there was a balance of ry I'u 1885, wer!- i70>?7'w *<o,Uoo,711 m the corresponding period of tV pre- T5fnC^ yearJ wh'ch began with a bal'WiCe of 0. ihe net expeaditura was £ 71 o<> si*7 against £ 72,685,290 to the same r» ata jn thr »ir, .T'i 4 year. The Treasury balances o- v ° to £ 3,229,139, and at th' •' i 8&IB0 dato in lNivt to The ateamer JJ.e' West Hartlepool, from Baltimore to V^ "Lynn< arrived on Tues. TC -louth, and reported that in lar. America'" IonK- 27>3° *he passed <ho .I-built ship Erinna, of about 1,400 IM -r, on fire fore and aft, rudder .mil ..sts gone, and bowsprit only standing. Could not ascertain where she belonged, as the stem was burnt too far down. Stayed by her for some time, but no- thing further could be seen. Replying to a deputation from the Indian Reform Association, who congratulated him upon the policy of his administration, and asked his advocacy of some further reforms, the Marquis of Ripon expressed his belief that Lord Dufferin would shortly deal with the remaining points at igisue in respect to the Bengal Tenanoy Bill in a fair spirit to all concerned in agricultural operations in that Presidency. He also observed that the present method of selecting per-, sons for the statutory service of India required amendment. Mr. Justice Hawkins, in his charge to the Graadi Jury at Worcester, said this was the second time the experiment of Bending one judge dn' cireujt had been tried, and aa the result of his recent expe-rii ence he was of opinion thatrthe system would effect lt great saving of judicial time, provided it were, ft-ri ranged that nisi prius cases be heard at one or two large centres instead of at every assize town, as here. tofore. Criminal cases should still be tried in each county, as he believed the visits of the judges maim tained the dignity and majesty of the law. An indiscriminate warfare appears to be going on at Bhamo between the Chinese, who hold the town, and bodies of Burmese and Shans. The Kachiens, the late allies of the Chinese, are said to be turning against them and making common cause with the Burmese. Early on Tuesday morning a constable was called to a house in Camberwell, and informed that a young woman named Anslow, had, during the night, given birth to a child. This information was given to the constable by the mother of Anslow, who alleged that 8he was unaware of her daughter's condition, and only ascertained that she had had a child by seeing spots of hlood about the floor. The child's body was found in the kitchen, wrapped up in a cloth, with a bruise on the head, which the girl, who said that the baby was stillborn, stated was caused by a fall. The Irish Boundary Commissioner. have finally approved of schemes for all the counties and boroughs in 1 rcland, and it now only remains for them to settle their neral report. ing at the Manchester Reform Club, Mr. Tn-velv 'n, referring to affairs in the Soudan, said the (1" ion was not political, but military. Now th, w had drawn the sword we could not put up v failure. The Government had perfect conf: ) in Lord Wolseley; all the means he re- quired uld be placed at his disposal, and the whole countr; .vould rise to the occasion. The right hon. gentle hen referred to Franchise and Redistribu- tion, some of the probable results of this con- stitiit" :ange. As to what the Liberal party w. uid r; !,e future, he should say it would do that winch r v/ished to do in the past. Adtn u-Frederick Richards, one of the Lords r- iV! > expected to take command of the Atj '■ .ration shortly, rviV' t;: 1 -enwich police-court on Tuesday, Joseph Liake i iup mast and oar maker, was summoned for an n; ment of the Prevention of Floods Ac- it < 1 remises at Rotherhithe, by failing to h. certain tide-board in the pre- scribed ] ;1. The defendant declared that his slwp had ?r-tight front, but said he desired to con i or in :■> lie law. A previous conviction was proved, and it was pointed out that the magistrate ha i no powe.1 to impose less than the full penalty which was t20. The magistrate said it was most portant that this Act, which was passed in order to prevent serious damage to property, should be strictly observed. He fined the defendant 1:20. An old lady named Mary Partridge, So years of age, met with a shocking death on Wednesdav, at her residence, Blackheath, near Dudley. The deceased's husband has been very ill, and while descending a night of stairs to get him some medicine, she fell from top to bottom, and when picked up was quite A memorill drawn up by the committee of the Lord s Day Observance Society has been addressed to Mr. Gladstone, protesting against the recent reso- lution of the trustees of the British Museum in favour 1 of oing that building on Sundays, and giving a Wumber of arguments in support of their objwtioM tie t,40 *doutwa qf uwfc ik stel?, jf: „ %m

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