London.

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London.

Hales are raging in Ireland, an;l in ?orue districts the crops are several feel- under water.

Tho St. Petersburg correspondent of the Daily Chronicle states that the railways leading- from the frontier to the I'altic Soa are blocked with rye, but officials are in receipt of secret orders to delay its transmission until the price has fallen.

Lord Landsdo.wne's tenants, -who resisted payment of rent under tlie Plan of Campaign, are asking for a settement with their landlord.

Mr Parnoll demands that the Liberals shall give a pledge to release- the political prisoners if they return to power, including the release of dynamiters. He mndo a violent speech against Sir W. V. Harcourt.

Captain O'Shea is about to marry an Kn^lish lady.

. Mrs Besant announces that after Mdme. Blavatsky's death she received letters from tho spirit world similar to Madam e's

Sorvia and Bulgaria arc both mobilising heavy bodies of troops on r.hoiv frontiers for the purpose, it is alleged, of manoeuvres. The Porto advi.-os Sr-rvia to manffiuvro in tho interior of that country. There is an uneasy feeling about tho meaning of these preparations.

The Neve Freie Presse doclares that if France buys Russia's friendship by conniving at the destruction of tlio most, liecsss-nry clause of th^ Treaiy of Paris, Europe is on the eve of very serious complications, f or tho great Powers are unanimous in tie determination to resist such a conrsp. Tho Times states that if France wishes England to remain in the occupation of Egypt, she should assist Russia to open the Dardanelles.