... ?? Obtntna'4 OtWd. THE FESTIVITIES AT BERLIN. yesterday was kept as a day of solemn thanksgiving to Almighty God for -he Germnan victories. The Emperor attended Divine service, at which Dr. iorffmnan preached. A Te Deum was sung on the occasion. On Saturday a Court dinner was given at the Royal Palace, the guests numbering about 700. The Emperor made the following speech The (lay of ...

... CITiq Obminald otb3d. THE DUBLIN RIOTS. In Dublin to-day (says our correspondent, writing last night) much regret was expressed by men of all parties that the Lord-Lieutenant and the Countess Spencer, whose exertions to make the loyalvisit a source of pleasure to the people as ivell as to the Royal visitors were so manifest and constant, should have had the mortification of seeing a week of ...

... PARIS, B-idatty. I r is a Jacobin dogma that Paris should rule France-at all events, until the provinces become sufficiently educated to appreciate the Republic one and indivisible; but it is strange to find the Liberal members in the Nat onal Assembly fighting against that decentralization so tenaciously demanded when Napoleon III. was Emperor. In the days of despotism, M. Picard and his ...

... PARIS, Taesday. IT appears that a spirit of reconciliation reigns at Versailles, and that the Government and the various Committees are on the point of coming to terms on several questions of deep interest. The Right has scored two triumphs. M. Dufaure has brought forward a law which renders all members of the Internationale punishable by law. A person convicted of belonging. to that dangerous ...

... T'1'H student of social life, who ought to be accustomed to look upon his fellow-creatures simply as objects of natural history, will at this season of the year find strange variations of species taking place about him among the featherless bipeds with whose habits and customs he seeks to be familiar. Every man, after moulting his black coat and becoming encased in tweed, not only changes his ...

... TIHE DUBLIN RIOT. THE close of the Royal visit to Dublin has been signalized by a serious and disgraceful riot, which can hardly fail to embitter the relations between the people and the authorities, and to produce a dangerous feeling of irri- tation and resentment. Yesterday afternoon a party of Irish Nationalists attempted to hold a meeting in the Phoenix Park to demand the release of ...

... SECOND EDITION, 2.30 P-m FRANCE. VERSAILLEs, April ?? last meeting of the Permanent Committee was held under the presidency of M. Grdvy. The Minister of the Interior was present, and in reply to M. de Mornay, expressed regret that the German Government should have expelled natives of Alsace choosing French nationality, but he hoped that the diplomatic negotiations which were going on would ...

... SECOND EDITION, 2.30 p.m. BELGIUM. BRUrSSELS, March 30.-The MAenteatr of this morning confirms the state- ment already announced yesterday that the French Government, availing itself of the power given by Article 40 of the Treaty of Commerce with Belgium, has notified to the Belgian Government its withdrawal from the Treaty, which will accordingly cease on the 28th of March, 1873. AMERICA. ...

... THE DEBA TE A T VERSAILLES. THE debate now going on at Versailles must be regarded as an item in the punishment which the French are undergoing for an extraordinary complication of offences of various kinds. We can imagine many disasters of greater magnitude which would cause far less grief to a really patriotic man than the spectacle of a debate on the great question, Whose fault was it ? in ...

... THE speech of the Emperor of Austria at the closing of the Hungarian Parliament last week has produced a marked change for the better in the condition of public feeling both at Vienna and at Pesth. In the former city the boldness with which the Czechs have again come forward as declared enemies of the Constitution had created a suspicion that they might still be backed by some powerful ...

... THE POLITICAL CRISIS IN PRUSSIA. The Times holds that the importance of the step taken by the Prussian Lords in rejecting the Government scheme of local reform cannot fail to be at once appreciated. So stubborn a vote does, in truth, provoke a sus- picion whether, after all the protestations to the contrary, there is not some- thing behind to account for it. It is not easy to believe that an ...

... CYPRIAN ANTIQUITIES. To the EDITOR of the PALL MALL GAZETTE. SIR,-It was with much pleasure that I perused lately an article in your journal drawing attention to the important archaeological acquisitions of General de Cesnola in Cyprus. I join with you warmly in regret that that collection could not be secured for our country. The value of antiquities must, however, largely rise in England ...