... The foreign news of this morning is of slight interest. There is nothing from America, and the proceedings of the French, Prussian, and Italian Legisla- tive Assemblies alike fail to supply any matter calling for the attention of the English newspaper reader. The AMorning Post publishes a letter from CracoW regarding the incorporation of Poland, which remarks that, notwithstanding the ...

... Saturday, 2 o'clock. . infid Obtaingld otwd. MR. REUTER!S TELEGRAMS. THE PAPAL NuINCIO IN FRANCE.-Paris, Febrziary 24/k.-Full and complete satisfaction has been given by the Court of Rome to the French Government in the matter of the Nuncio Chigi, and relations between the repre- sentative of the Holy See and the Minister for Foreign Affairs have been replaced upon their former friendly ...

... OCCASIONAL NO TES. The Revue des Deux .Afondes publishes curious statistical details respecting the industrial classes in Paris. The Chamber of Commerce in i86o made a census of the industrial population, which shows that the French metro- polis contains ioi,ooo establislhrnents, employing 4i6,000 workmen. The classification of these establishments shows that no fewer than 29,069 are devoted ...

... FOX-HUNTING FEMALES. To Isge EDITOR of/the PALL MALL GAZETTE. SIR,-I cannot, as the father of a family, allow the pleasant article of your contributor who advocates the presence of English girls in the hunting field, to pass away without entering my earnest protest against the conclusion to which it points. There is no doubt that, on paper, delineated by a skilful pencil or pen, a very pretty ...

... PARLIAHENTARY REVIEW. HOUSE OF LORDS.-friday, _Feb. 24111. The LORD CHANCELLOR is desirous of doing a kindness to the attorneys, but it is doubtful whether they will accept it with becoming gratitude. They may, perhaps, distrust a gift from the resolute reformer who has made the conveyance of land so much cheaper and simpler than it used to be, and who threatens to deprive law agents of their ...

... LORD STAN.LEY. IN the short debate on the West African Settlements last week, Lord STANLEY appeared in that attitude of repellent sense for which he is more remarkable than, perhaps, any other member of the House of Commons. He spoke of our efforts-our successful efforts--to put down the slave-trade on that coast with a cold compassion for our babyish pleasure in playing philanthropist in ...

... Alofnday, 2 o'clock. chief ObtivilTA16 otwd. MR. REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. AAIERICA.-Arrival of the Africa.-The royal mail steamer Africa, from Boston and Halifax, arrived at Queenstown at 2.30 am. this morning. She brings sixty-eight passengers and 7,981 dols. in specie. She landed ninety-five sacks of mails and two passengers, and proceeded immediately. All well. She wvas detained off Halifax one ...

... AUSTRIA AND IIUNGARY.-Letters from Vienna state that the Austrian Government has adjourned the convocation of the Hungarian Diet, which was to have met in May. One of the reasons for this resolution is the intention of the Government to reform the electoral law, which, according to existing regulations, would give a large majority of the members of the Diet to the Opposition. It is understood ...

... The Africa brings intelligence from New York to as recent a date as the 17th inst. General Grant appears to have had no further fighting; and accord- ing to Richmond papers of the ith, although Sherman's forces had shown themselves on the west bank of the Edisto river above and below Branchville, there is no confirmation of the reported capture of that place. On the 9th another great meeting ...

... Two recenlt public sales consequent on the death of one eminent dealer in horses and the bankruptcy of another, at which the animals sold are said to have realized unprecedented prices, and the approaching transfer of the chief horse mart of London from Hyde-park Corner to Knights- bridge-goreen, seem to render the present moment appropriate for offering a few remarks on the extremely low ...

... LA W REFORM. LAW reform was to be the great feature of the present session; and though as yet nothing very important has taken place upon the subject, we may still hope that the expectations of the public will not be altogether disappointed. The reforms proposed are of very various degrees of importance. Some of them, like the bill introduced by Mr. DENMAN for modifying the course of procedure ...

... IN a former article it was shown that not only were good actors rare, but that under existing conditions they were not likely to become more numerous, because the standard was gradually becoming lower and lower. Apart from the disastrous vanity which makes the man who is scarcely competent to play Laertes insist on playing Hamlet, there is a more potent influence in the critical indifference ...