Metz is becoming depopulated, the inhabitants fearing a second siege in the event of another war breaking out. 172 persons suffering from knife wounds were admitted into the hospi tals at Rome between the Ist July and Bth August. The Rev L. R. Jacob, Vicar of Llan llngan, Montgomeryshire, was lately fined at the Newtown Police Court lor drunkenness.
The Livingstone expedition of Mr Stanley is reported to have cost the "New York Herald" between 40,000 and 50,000 dollars.
The subscription for the restoration of Warwick Castle has been closed. The sum received is estimated at from £20,000 to £30,000. Cardinal Antonelli is said to have requested the clerical journals in Italy to refrain from publishing the Pope's

speeches. Mr Genge, one of the foremost agri culturists in the South of England, and an octogenarian, was choked while swal lowing a bean. Mr Josiah Mason, the Birmingham philanthropist, and founder of the great orphanage at Erdington, is about to endow a college at Birmingham for teaching practical science. Horn burg is very crowded this year, being the last of the existence of the gaining tables, and " society" wishes to be in at tho death.
A subscription has been set on foot in Rome for the purchase of an estate,

called Villa Saverelli, to be offered as a national gift to General Garibaldi. Japan has already seventeen news papers.
A waterspout took place lately at Comrie.
The pearl fishers in the Tay are making £5 a week. M. Thiers is said to be writing a philosophical work. Russia is said to be preparing for a war with China.
