or constituti - nal. Gravel and Pains the back. —Sold in boxes, 4s. Gd.:each, by all Chemists and Patent Medicine Vendors ; or sent to an address for CO Stamps by the Makers" THE LINCOLN & MIDLAND COUNTIES' COMPANY, Lincoln, Wholesale Agents BIECLEY & Loudon, and all the wholesa

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ACCIDENT TO ERNEST HAMILTON. - Captain Lord Ernest William Hamilton, youngest son of the iDuke of Abercorn, while passing St. George's Hall, Liverpool, in command of a detachment of the 11th Hussars, ordered to Cork, on Saturday evening, met with a serious accident. His horse be

rq 4 ' 3 ft; T t 20th 1 1884. THE PROGRESS RIFT. THE popular estimation of Blue-books is, it may be feared, a very low one, these repositories of information being regarded by the general public as dry compilations trom which as little that is of interest is to be extracted as f

Wolverhampton, Wednesday. The market this afternoon showed more anima. tion, and prices were steady, resulting in heavier parcels behere inquired after than has teen the case since early in the quarter. The principal buyers were merchants anxious to obtain supp ies to replenish

GOUT brated Medicine. These Pills require no restraint of diet during their use, and are certain to prevent the disease attacking any vital part, PILLS. Sold by all Chemists pi lid, and 2s. 9d, per box

—HIJIROD'S CURE was employed under the higt eat medical sanction in the case of the late Earl of Beaconsfield The medicine from which his lordship found most comfort and relief was Himrod's Powder. The fumes are inhaled by the patient, and at orce afford relief." Per Tin 4s. lre

The following account of torpedo boats and torpedc, shooting in the German Navy is from the Vossiche Zeitung : In no previous year have the experiments with torpedo boats and in torpedo shooting assumed such dimensions in the German Navy as in the late naval manceuvres. Not only

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acquired or coestituti nal. Gravel and Pains in the back. —Sold in boxes, 4s. Gd.:each, by all Chemists und t atent Medicine Vendors ; or bent to an, address for CO Stamps by the Makers" TUB t Dana COMPANY, Lincoln, Wholesale Agents & t,•ox, London, and all the wholesale houses.

Notwithstanding the changeable weather last spring and the snow in May, the " 12th " was opened on the Derbyshire and South Yorkshire moors under extremely encouraging circumstances on Tuesday morning. Although the light at times was anything but good, with scarcely a breath of

Bishop Piers Calveley Claughton, Archdeacon of London and Chaplain-General to the Forces, died on Honday evening aehii residence in Northwick-terrace, &fail:la-hill, London. The Times, in an obituary notice, mys : Born hi Lane shire in 1814, he was educated Repton School and at

_ QF RAILWAY PASSENGERS.--The a mail train from Galway, doe in Dublin at 4.40 on Satur- • day afternoon, ran off the tine between Athlone and 4 1 Moate at half-past one o clock. The engine and all the 1 carriages, eight in number, were thrown against an 4 bailment, and although

S , ‘TURDAY, AUGUST 16,,h, 1884.

THE QUEEN'S SPEECH. 'The fifth session of the tenth Parliament of the Queen, and the 22ad Parliament of the United Kingdom, was oni Thursday prorogy el by Royal Commission. 'f4 Lord Chancellor read the Queen's Speech as follows : "Mr LORDS AND GENTLEUEN, "The eatisf Action with