It is reported from London that the wrll-knowu Victoria Wood Hall is about to tuari-y a rich bunker. -Buoft Von Geyse, a young- officer of much promise, has been shot dead at Ikrlin in a duel with a brother offirtr. George Barlow, author of the Bible in Spaing is dead. The Dtlke of Argyll, it in said, will marry the widow of the lute Hon. Augus tus Anson. The lady is the daughter of the Bishop of St. Albans. Further steps regarding the murder of C.-ip.'ain Elliott and Magistrate Malcolm in the IVansvaal will not be taken. Tiie total number of petitions presented in the Commons praying the House to re ject any change in the law which may be proposed for admitting an atheist into Parliament is KW2, with 2iio,si>s signa tures, and the number praying for the alteration of the law is G73 with 15,54! signatures. The Lnnd Bill I'm ally passed the House of Connnons on the "J'>th inst. Mr Par nell'u amendment, adding to clause 44 ft proviso that an u>:tiou for rent pending at tho same time us an application for fixing judicial rent shall be suspended until the latter is determined, w.13 accepted. A majority of Conservatives and somo Parnellr.es, including Parneil himself, abstained i'nr.n voting on the bill ; also Mr Goschen and some «ther Liberals. The Prince or' Wales has visited Don Carlos in a. friendly way. The Foreign {Secretary has issued a notification that in future no more British subjects captured by brigands will be ' ransomed by the Government. The two treaties between the United States and China have been formally rati fied and exchanged. Chiaeso students, numbering 100, are to be withdrawn from America and sent for education to France, England, and Ger many. ■ '.' Just now there a mania ,tor killing ollicials in the United States. The Gover nor of Pittsburgh and of| Minuesota, aud Governor o*ConnelJ,_.of. New York, have had narrow escapes from murderous lunatics. The Uniled States has declined to join in the proposed general representation on the subject of the treatment of Jews in Russia on the ground that it has already, instructed its Minister in Russia on the sub ject.  The infernal machines shipped to England from America have created quite a scare hero, and almost excitement in the United States. 