Sales of British wheat last week, according to the return of the Board of Agriculture, were 12,047 qr., at an average price ol 30s. &/. per quarter, compared with 19,504 qr. at 275. M. last year. Ot barley 104 qr. were sold at 255. 54, against 140 qr. at 21s. 94; and of oats 868

THIS DAY, aad throughout the Month. SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTIONS IN ALL DEPARTMENTS. Catalogues ok

The sixty-third annual show ot the Royal Agricultural Society ol England was opened to-day at Carlisle. It is twenty-two veers ago since the show was held that city, and there is large influx of visitors. BIG GUNS FOR PORTSMOUTH. extensive rearmament scheme affecting the forts w

There wee good but not a large company at Lord's this morning when fhe Gentlemen v. Player* match was commenced. The weather was brilliantly fine and the heat almost oppressive. Two admirably representative teams had been selected, but Hunter, the Yorkshire wicket-kedper, was un

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To-day's News Items. Pans, Monday.—Sevan deaths from sunstroke occurred yesterday in Paris and the suburbs.—DaJziel. The Kev. William Harrison, Dorchester, Xew Brunswick, a native of Westmorland, has been electcd president the Methodist Conference New Brunswick and Princo Edward

The work of Felix Buhot, the great French pa inter-etc her, is the subject of an article by M. Octave TJzanne in "The Magazine of Art" for July. The feelings of the artist respect to England are thus described : —lt is certain that Felix Buhot loved and understood England as few

Egypt has new plague all to herself. attacks the cotton plants, in the form of a little mushroom, which the scientists, with their imperturbable vocabulary, term "Cryptogram." What the Egyptian fellah sometimes terms it, as he surveys tbe ravages among lik plantations, is not re

FATAL TERMINATION- ti ei Friday evening Henry , a t 74, native of Birmingham, lt Maud Hospital, Exmouth, from the injuries received on Thursday whilst ut l» ij ou the new line being made from «ri» Salterton. Deceased was locally Patsy Stone." Mr. H. W Gould, conducted an inquest