... TEE TO TALISM A ND TyWoPEVCE-H-ALFPElVNZ THE general impression of Mr. GOSCHEN'S fourth try appears to be that it is a pedling Budget. This is what even the Times says, though of course in less direct phraseology. The Budget, we are told, lacks any central operation of a simple and imposing character, and the surplus is distributed in a number of changes many of them of secondary ...

... FOURTH EDITION (spte dare 2, ORTHuJlBERLAND-STREET, STRAND, W.C, Mr. Michael Davitt's condition is improved, though he is still prostrate. After the wedding ceremony of Mr. William O'Brien yesterday, Mr. Patrick O'Brien-the sole surviving bachelor among the O'Briens-might be seen p carrying about the lobby a great batch of letters and telegrams received by the bridegroom from all parts of ...

... HIS HOLINESS'S INTENTIONS ON THE SOCIAL QUESTION. A representative of the ?? York Herald, who claims to have had the privi- lege of a special interview with the Pope on the 19th inst., reports his Holiness as speaking as follows: 'I have a claim upon Americans for their respect, hie said, with kindling. eyes, because I love them and I love their country. I have a great tenderness for those ...

... OCCASIONAL NOTES, We trust that all moderate and reasonable Unionists will pay par- ticular attention to yesterday's debate on the Belfast Corporation Bill, for it affords a very striking illustration of the essential clumsiness of the attempt to govern Ireland from Westminster. The question was obviously one of extreme interest to Irishmen, while no Englishman under- stood a word about it, or ...

... Whatever else may be thought of Lord Salisbury's arrangement with Germany, every one will agree that it will have the effect, of still further complicating poor Mr. Smith's arrangement with the House of Commons. Portions of the British Empire cannot be alienated without the consent of Parliament, and it is inconceivable that the Heligoland Surrender Bill should pass, if it ever passes at all, ...

... A CENTRAL AUTHORITY FOR HOSPITAL ADMINISTRA TION. IBY ROBERT R. RINTOUL, M.D. TI-IRRE seems to be a general idea that unless there is a central authority appointed to supervise the administration of medical charities little permanent good will be effected. I think the Local Government Board should take the hospitals under its care. Their medical inspectors and district auditors would report on ...

... YESTERDAY IN THE HOUSE. BY AN OBSERVER. THE long contest which had arisen on Monday over the Scotch clause of the Local Taxation Bill was brought to an end at three o'clock yesterday after- noon by a stern use of the closure. Before, however, this consummation- which before that hour was devoutly wished by all who did not share the ,Berserker fury of the Scotch Liberals-there was a good deal ...

... PEN PORTRAITS O' STANLEY, EMINAND W ISSMANN| FATHER SCHYNSE'S NOTES ON THE MARCH TO THE COAST. Father Schynse's diary of his journey from the Victoria Nyanza to Pagarnoyo with Stanley and Emin Pasha is now published. The author said he found Stanley very amiable and in good humour. Dr. Emin Pasha is sunk in his scientific observations and collections. He is a very simple man, given over more ...

... THE ARMY AND THE WAR OFFICE, SCHEMES OF REFORM AND RE.ORGANIZATION, IMPORTANT SPEECH BY MR. STANHOPE. Mr. Stanhope's statement in Committee of the House of Commons yes- terday on the Army Estimates contained several important announcements. The Government have not gone so far-at any rate not yet-as Lord Harting- ton's Committee or the Minority Report of Lord Randolph Churchill recommended, for ...

... HELIGOLAND.-ZI. THE PROGRESS OF THE PALL MALL PLEBISCITE, THE following is the second report from our Special Correspondent in Heligoland. The only uninteresting thing is that our representative seems unable to find a single dissentient voice. It is all a chorus of condem- nation of Lord Salisbury's surrender Soon after the CzGexJaven, which brings the daily mail during the season, had ...

... MR. STANLEY AS AN AUTHOR, Darkest Africa, Mr. H. M. Stanley's new work, is not likely to be ready sooner than the -first or second week of June. But, prior- to undertaking-the le~dership of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, Mr. 6tahI~ey had a xetiospect of his ouny through the Dark Continent Printed for circulation amongst a few ofhi friends, and an extract or two from this scarce work will ...

... HER MAJESTYS COLONIAL POSSESSIONS. WE have received a batch of reports on her Majesty's Colonial Possessions2 but those who have had them in charge cannot be commended for the speed with which they have been issued, seeing that they deal with the year 1888. ASIATIC LANDS. Ceylon makes a good financial show, the revenue having increased by two million rupees, and the surplus amounting to a ...