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Playford led a little at the start. Edwardes-Moss led half a length at the end of a mile, and at the mile-and-a-half they were level. After this Playford wore his opponent down and eventually won by 150 yards. The time to Hammersmith was 9 min. 8 sec. to 9 min. 7 sec., a pace which has never been surpassed in a race by professionals even on a spring tide.

IRISH TERRORISM.-By the grand jury of Roscommon Mrs. Young, the widow of Mr. James Young, who was recently shot on his own estate, has been awarded 4,000l. compensation. Some extraordinary evidence was given before the grand jury, showing the existence of great terrorism in the county. It was deposed that the murder was publicly spoken of as a deed to be accomplished before it was perpetrated. After the murder a farmer who told the police that he had before its perpetration seen a suspiciouslooking stranger in the neighbourhood was threatened the same night, and his house was burned over the heads of his wife and family. Mr. Young's steward has since been warned that his life is in danger. Threatening notices are extensively posted over the county, and some of the witnesses said they gave evidence at the risk of their lives.

CAPT. JONES, of the brig "Penelope Sutton," which has arrived at Berwick from Navassa, America, reports that on June 28, while in latitude 45.15 north, longitude 46 20 west, he passed a lifeboat, from eighteen to twenty-one feet long, with a man and woman on board. The boat was named the "New Bradford," and was twentyone days out from New Bedford, bound for London. Capt. Jones offered the man a rope, but he refused it. His name is Capt. Beaumaris, and he is attempting to cross the Atlantic in this tiny craft, which he built himself. The captain of the ship that fell in Iwith him before the " Penelope Sutton" stated that he was accompanied by his wife and child.

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RACE BETWEEN A TRAIN AND A PIGEON.-The other day there was a race from Dover to London, between the Continental mail express train and a carrier pigeon conveying a document of an urgent nature from the French police. The pigeon, which was bred by Messrs. Hartley and Sons, of Woolwich, and "homed" when a few weeks old to a building in Cannon Street, City, was of the best breed of homing pigeons known as "Belgian voyageurs." The bird was tossed through the railway carriage window by a French official as the train moved from the Admiralty Pier, the wind being west and the atmosphere hazy, but with the sun shining. For upwards of a minute the carrier pigeon circled round to an altitude of about half a mile, and then sailed away towards London. By this time the train, which carries the European mails and was timed not to stop between Dover and Cannon Street, had got up to full speed, and was proceeding at the rate of sixty miles an hour towards London. The odds at starting seemed against the bird, and the railway officials predicted that the little messenger would be beaten in the race. The pigeon, however, as

soon as it ascertained its bearings, took the nearest homeward route in a direction midway between Maidstone and Sittingbourne, the distance "as the crow flies" between Dover and London being seventy miles, and by rail seventy-six and a half, When the Continental mail express came into Cannon Street station, the bird had been home twenty minutes, having beaten Her Majesty's Royal Mail by a time allowance representing eighteen miles.

28. THE COLORADO BEETLE.-We have had what seems to be another false alarm respecting the arrival of the Colorado beetle in our midst. Great numbers of what were supposed to be these beetles, and to have been hatched from eggs brought in seed potatoes from America, having been discovered on potato plants in the suburbs of Hereford, the Home Secretary sent down Mr. Tennant, the naturalist, to inquire into the matter. By that gentleman it has been found that the insect observed was one of the ladybird species, and a good friend of the potato-grower. From Cologne, however, it is telegraphed that the beetle has been discovered in another field near Mülheim, and that great excitement existed in consequence. At a meeting of the York Chamber of Agriculture, resolutions were passed thanking the Privy Council for the prompt steps taken to prevent the introduction of this insect into the country, and expressing regret that naturalists should be importing live specimens, it was stated that the last attack on the potato crops cost the country 50,000,000l.

30. A CREW POISONED AT SEA.-A dreadful case of poisoning at sea by unwholesome food is reported. From the statement of a sailor named Inman, who to-day arrived at Southampton, it appears that while the barque "Crown Prince," of St. John's, New Brunswick, was on a voyage in November last from the Peruvian coast to Falmouth, the food supplied to the crew was unfit for use, and that in consequence the whole of the forecastle hands, fourteen in number, became ill, and six of them died. The vessel left Peru on Oct. 4 last, and all went well till Nov. 19, when a new cask of pork was opened. On the following day all the men who had eaten it were taken seriously ill, with all the symptoms of poisoning. Their sufferings are described as fearful, and they were unable to work the ship, which was therefore hove to for a fortnight, at the end of which time three of the men went mad. The captain then made for the Falkland Islands, 200 miles distant, which he reached on Dec. 7, and where six of the men died, the rest being sent into hospital. The doctor stated that the men had been poisoned by putrid pork.

AN INDIAN CEREMONY.-A scene occurred at Indore at the latter end of July which takes one back to the patriarchal ages. The season's rains were unusually late, and fears began to be entertained lest the drought which has desolated Southern India should be extending its ravages to Central India also. To avert this calamity Maharajah Holkar, accompanied by the Maharanee and all his household, proceeded early in the morning to a village about

two miles distant from his capital. A vast crowd assembled, and prayers and simple offerings of flowers, fruits, and water marked the humble faith of the worshippers. Then the Maharajah took hold of a plough, and, himself guiding the yoke of oxen, turned more than one furrow. Meanwhile the Maharanee, acting as the wife of a peasant, waited upon the Maharajah, and at the proper time produced from the folds of her cloth his frugal meal for the day. Genial showers, it is added, at once descended upon the parched earth, and the people dispersed with shouts of gladness and much noise of tomtoms and shrill pipings.

A RAILWAY TRIAL.-A jury met at Bristol to-day to assess damages in a claim for compensation, brought by the executors of a tailor's foreman named Way, against the Great Western Railway. Way was in a train at Bristol station last summer, when an incoming train, overshooting the mark, dashed into the stationary train, causing injuries to a number of the passengers. Way, who was in a delicate state of health, received such a shock that it hastened his death. The company agreed to pay his eldest son 150l., and the second son 2001,

AUGUST.

2. THE PROMENADE PIER at Llandudno, which has been in course of erection for the last two years, though not quite finished, was opened to-day. The pier is 1,250 feet long, and about 30 feet wide in the narrowest part. At the extreme end a broad platform is being erected, on which a pavilion will ultimately be built. Facilities will be provided for landing on the pier from small boats, and the steamers from Liverpool and other less distant places will also be able to land their passengers on the pier, instead of sending them to the shore in small boats, as at present. The pier is a light iron structure, not devoid of ornamentation, and it affords a charming view of the Happy Valley, the town of Llandudno, and the mountains beyond.

THE GERMAN DEmand for Gold.—According to the Frankfurter Zeitung, the new German gold circulation is being rapidly curtailed, not only by exportation, but by inland melting for industrial purposes. The annual report of the Hanau Chamber of Commerce specially comments on the circumstance that, in consequence of the conditions of the gold markets which have existed for some time past, the goldsmiths' demand is almost exclusively supplied from the new coinage.

4. THE TYNEWYDD RESCUERS.-Before 30,000 persons, Lord Aberdare, on behalf of Her Majesty the Queen, presented medals to twenty-five of the Tynewydd rescuers. Four of the medals were of the first class, the Albert. The Lord Mayor distributed

the Mansion House Fund; Mr. H. Vivian, M.P., the watches presented by members of the House of Commons; Major Duncan presented five medals of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, and Mr. Talbot, M.P., the silver tankards presented by the Daily Telegraph. Most of the recipients wore their working clothes, having been requested to appear in those garbs. The place where the awards were made was on an elevated spot surrounded by lofty mountains. Speeches were delivered, and the utmost enthusiasm was displayed; but the immense throng was most orderly. After the distribution the Rev. D. W. Williams, Fairfield, entertained about 500 persons at a banquet in the Market House, which, as well as the town, was decorated with flags and arches of evergreens.

6. MR. GLADSTONE was visited at Hawarden Castle this morning by the members and friends of the Bolton Liberal Association, numbering about 1,400. He at once gave them permission to see the grounds, but at first declined to address them. Subsequently, however, he informed them that he and his son were about to fell a tree in the park, and he would then reply to any vote of thanks they might wish to propose to him. About four o'clock Mr. Gladstone and his son, clad in rough working suits with slouch hats, proceeded to a large ash tree, about fifteen feet in circumference, at a distant part of the park, and set to work to fell it in presence of the whole body of spectators. Before beginning they threw off hat, coat, and neckerchief, till they had on only check shirts and rough light pants, and as the chips flew at the strokes of their axes the admiring excursionists picked up some of the fragments and carefully treasured them as mementoes of their visit. As some relief to the monotony of waiting, the excursionists sang several glees, and, as the ex-Premier paused to breathe awhile, crowds gathered round him with a view to shaking hands. Mr. Gladstone granted the favour to the ladies of the company, but refused it to the men. The excursionists proposed a vote of thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone for their kindness in allowing the use of the park and for their presence on the occasion. Mr. Gladstone replied to the vote, leaning on his axe, and expressed his pleasure at seeing so many persons present enjoying the fresh air and the scenery of the park. He went on to speak at length of the contrast between life in town and country, and said he trusted that the time would come when the contrast would not be so great as now.

THE PIGMY MARMOZET.-Among the recent additions to the collection in the Zoological Society's monkey-house is an example of the pigmy marmozet. This is the smallest and one of the rarest of the monkeys of the New World, and no other living specimen, so far as is known, had previously been brought to Europe. The little animal was purchased by the Society at the end of April from an engineer who had been working on one of the steamboats of the Upper Amazons. It was stated to have been obtained near Pebas, in Eastern Peru. The total length of the

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body of this little animal is about five inches; its tail is about the
same length. It is therefore the smallest of the true monkeys,
though some of the allied group of lemurs are still more diminu-

tive.

MEUX'S EXPERIMENT.-With regard to the well-boring at Messrs. Meux's Brewery, in the Tottenham Court Road, a contemporary says:—“All hope of coming upon inexhaustible streams of water below the lower green sand is now definitively abandoned. Perhaps the most unexpected result of these borings is the discovery that not only is the whole series of secondary formations, with the exception of the chalk and green sand, absent, but even some of the upper paleozoic or primary rocks are also missing. Up to a few weeks ago no one could be quite sure that there were not lying beneath the earth, between the chalk downs of Epsom on the south, and of Dunstable in the north, supplies of coal sufficient for the domestic use of London and its suburbs for ages to come; nay, for aught that was known, these supplies might even have been attainable at depths no greater than those from which coal is now being raised in some parts of England with a profit. But Messrs. Meux's experiment has at least determined the fact that no coal will ever be found under New Oxford Street, nor in all probability under any portion of this part of the country. The last stratum bored through at Messrs. Meux's is, in fact, now proved by its fossils to be Devonian. It is a very hard shale, resembling slate in colour, though not splitting so easily. This discouraging kind of core was first found immediately below the lower green sand, at a depth of 1,100 feet, and at 40 feet lower, where the boring was finally discontinued, the diamonds were still cutting through this obstinate substance. sand cut through in these operations is represented only by sandThe so-called green stone and limestone; and hence the pieces of cores, which vary in length from 50 feet downwards, and resemble rough and broken pillars of greyish-white stone, can fortunately be easily put together in unbroken succession without chance of disturbance."

7. MARRIAGE OF THE LADY MAYORESS.--The marriage of the Lady Mayoress (Miss Ada Louisa White) with Mr. Cecil Herbert Thornton Price was solemnised this morning at St. Paul's Cathedral by the Archbishop of Canterbury, assisted by the Bishop of Ely, Canon Liddon, the Rev. W. C. F. Webber, the Rev. J. M. Roberton (chaplain to the Lord Mayor), and the Rev. W. S. H. Meadows, vicar of Chigwell. The fact that a wedding had not taken place in the cathedral for a hundred and twenty years gave additional interest to the ceremony, and although the building was thronged from end to end, an immense number of applicants for tickets were necessarily refused.

THE GRAND SHEREEF OF MOROCCo, Sidi el Hadj Abd-es-Salem, Prince of the House of Wazan, accompanied by the Shereeffa, an English lady, and their two children, with several attendants, arrived at Charing Cross yesterday afternoon. The Prince's visit

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