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The Victorian agricultural trophy is placed in a grand position at the Stirling Show, and is a great success H. M. Stanley was in Switzerland at the time he fractured hia ankle, and was confined to his room for several weeks Lord Sheffield has now engaged Able and Bean to accompany his cricketing team. Edward Pinter, described as a merchant who was charged with attempting to obtain the sum of £40003 by a trick (the philosopher's stone) with intent to defraud Eward William Streeter, a jeweller, has been found guilty and sentenced to three month's imprisonment. j Mrs Searle, formerly Miss Hop- j kins, of San Francisco, has died from ] influenza, leaving the immense sum of eight million pounds. The Grenadier Guards have arrived at Dover from Bermuda. The Bankruptcy Court in Camera on 28th July decided that Mr Parnell was domiciled in England, and consequently would be declared a bankrupt, unless he forthwith pays the cost of Captain O'Shea in the divorce proceedings. ; The Trades Union Congress, which meets at Newcastle in September, will urge the extension of the Factory Act to all trades employing women, and to increase the limit of age to twelve. The girl Greenfield assured the British Consul she had been con verted to Islainism, and had followed her husband. She refused to return of lier own free will. The Chicago Exhibition will cover

1000 acres of ground, 750 of which will be enclosed, and 150 ioor. The cost will be 25,000,000 dollars and it is estimated that the women's department will cost 200,000 dollars. A?; a banquet nt the Mansion House, the Marquis of Salisbury said the prtJiction that Ireland needed a resolute Government had been fulfilled, and he asserted that it was owing to England being at the back of Ireland thai famine had been averted in that country. Beferring to European politics, he said they were nev«r so tranquil as at present. Egypt and Bulgaria were rapidly developing, which promised to solve the Eastern question, and he knew of nothing unless it was j the treaties question calculated to menace the worln's peace. He Btated that the Imperial Government i had been pressed to insist on com* pulsory arbitration on the Chilian Revolution, and the reform of the Argentine Republic finance but they were not disposed to j encroach on the functions of the Presidents. The Government he declared would duly defend and assert British interests, but would not meddle in other quarrels, and at tbfi present time the allies of Grea\ Britain all desired peace and good' will. .• * *' Mr Tom Mann will contest the West Riding of Yorkshire in the Labour interest at the general election.