LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING. There has been an exceedingly quiet demand for discount to-day. Rates in consequence have undergone no change. The requirements for, the settlement, however, at the beginning of next week will no doubt have an hardening tendency. The Essequibo hap arriv

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On Friday a gas explosion occurred in one of the principal bedrooms at the residence of Major Shute, M.P. for Brighton, at Upper Brunswick-place, Hove, a deal of injury being done to the furniture and hangings of the room. The fire, however, extended no further.

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The Army and Navy Gazette says: Any solid and substantial grievances affecting any considerable body of officers will no doubt be removed, if patent to the good sense and good feeling of the country; but if the new system fails in getting us an army, it will tax the ability and

Vegetables in season comprise broad and, French beans, cabbage, cauliflowers, cucumbers, lettuces, mushrooms, onions, peas, potatoes, radishes, spinach, tomatoes, turnips, and'vegetable marrows. KITCRE,N GARDEN.—As fast as early crops come off clear the ground and dig it over; i

The Spectator says Mr. Disraeli was most successful when he intimated that the principles of Pitt and Grenville were Imperial principles, and that "in order to maintain an empire, we must remember that we shall be called upon sometimes to increase it." There spoke the statesman

The Commons, greatly to their relief, says the Saturday Review, have done with the ticensin3 Bill, and it has been sent with all its imperfections to the Lords. The con. eluding chapter of its history in the Lower House would have been absolutely uneventful had it not been marke

On Friday the .Rochdale Police-court was crowded by persons anxious to hear the investigation of a charge of assault preferred by Lieutenant R. C. M. Pooley, of the Rochdale Rifle Volunteers, against Lieutenant Owen Williams, of the same corps. Mr. C. J. Roberts appeared for the

The Atheneum says :—" M. Rochefort is preparing an account of events dating from the discontinuance of La Lanterne, with especial reference to their bearing upon the present political situation in Franco. M. Rochefort's narrative will be published in a serial form, probably by M