Conservative meetings in Aston grounds, the Town Hall, and Skating Rink, Birming ham, announced for October 13, were broken up by the Liberals in great numbers, who forced an entrance into the Town Hall by battering in the doors with heavy planks, and overwhelmed the Conservatives. A free fight took place, In which the furniture waa broken and freely nsed for weapons. The mob swept from the platform the officers of the meeting. The speakers (Sir Stafford Northcote and Lord Randolph Churchill) endeavored to ad

; dr?** th p people present, but their efforts were ! ineffectual, and they were obliged to retire to a side-room, where they made short addresses to a small party, the mob endeavoring to pre vent the speakers being heard. An attempt by Lord Lytton to prevent the publication of bis father's letters has raised some very interesting legal questions. It ap pears Miss Devey cannot be stepped in pub lishing the letters. The Lord Major gave a dinner on the 20th to the Incorporated Society of Authors. Among the notables present were Lord Houghton, Walter Besant, George A. Sala, William Black, Edmund Yates, Justice McCarthy, and many others. Mr Besant made a speech, denying that the society was hostile to publishera. It only sought to obtain justice for English authors, An anti-slavery jubilee meeting was held in Manchester on October 23. Henry M. Stanley was present, and assured the English people that slavery had not been abolished, but what was called free labor in Africa was the labor of cap tured slaves. He said the cause of the existing slavery was the action of the Portuguese Go vernment, and that a strong expression of public opinion on the subject would do much to abolish the evil. Mapleson concluded contracts with Patti and Neilson for a Drury-laue season on the 23rd, paying to the former £450 nightly ; to the latter £350. Ida Theresa Foote, daughter of Captain Foote, U.S.N., and Lord Montague Paullet, son of the Marquis of Winchester, were married at St. George’s Church, London, October 14. The Queen sent an antique diamond bracelet and a gold breakfast service ; Prince and Princess of Wales, a diamond necklace and an Indian shawl, Christine Neilaon met with an accident in being thrown from a vehicle while driving in Hyde Park, and will not go to the United States this year. 