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SHARPS AND FLATS.

GRAND RALLY OF SOCIALISTS.

LONDON, Oct. 23.--Despite the alarming reports concerning Gladstone's health there is absolutely no cause for apprehension. He is suffering from one of his usual colds, [corse?] [?] upon exposure to drafts, etc., while traveling, which is somewhat aggravated by hoarseness resulting from the exactions of his speeches, but all report agree that he is much better tonight, and indications of his complete recovery within a few days are unmistakable.

To the astonishment of everybody, and no one more than the socialists and alleged and unemployed workers themselves, the police permitted the projected [reering?] which they had previously all but prohibited to be held in [?] Sqaure, Clerkenwall. Green and other places today. The crowds at all of the meetings were enormous, but there was no attempt at violence and what little disorder occured was so slight as to call for no special activities on the part of the police. The speeches at the [dinerent?] stands were violent enough to have incited men to [?otous] demon-nation who had not half the cause to rebel against society that the speakers protess to have, get beyond the applause of the multitudes indorsin the gentlmen's of the [speakers?] there [?] nothing to demote that the advice of the loaders was heeded by their followers.

[Intelligences?] has been recieved of the destruction by fire of [?]. a town of Buck[?] Central Asia. Hald the inhabitants relished in the flames.

The American Exhibition will be closed Oct. 31, after which date Buffalo Bill and his Wild West Show, the feature that has prevented the exhibition from failing completely, will go to Birmingham, thence to Manchester. The close of the exhibition will be marked by a meeting of prominent Americans and Englishmen to discuss the question of international extradition.

Lord Chamberlain having completed his arrangements to sail for America next Saturday, it is announced that he will make only a brief visit to New York and proceed to Washington. After leaving Washington he will make a tour of Canada. It is asserted that he will make no public speeches while in America.