... THE FRENCH SE'NATE. TN order to appreciate the practical consequences of the modifications which have just been made in the constitution of the French Senate it is necessary to bear in mind the peculiar position which that body has hitherto occupied in the system of the Second Empire. 'The key to the Constitution of 1852 is to be found in Louis Napoleon's declaration that the social fabric of ...

... I LEADING ARITICLES: IonmD TlSSELL AN Tlll EnueTnON Blr.LI 'rho PolichA of I-lay ?? to the Oprositioi; ?? TIIE GiolnNo;RN'll oLONDON: TheSlescit Commlittee for NT. Buxton's Metropolitall Government BilL ?? 4 QCCAiSIONAL AIITICLES: 'lt4: }IIENCII R - : . ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? flo1:NcrA I>-w.i: ?? .. 1 i:ESCII AOL' LJ*Nu;ISII ESrIDjNCI:, ?? ,, , ?? ,3!E ?? iUsrl9 .LSIJ0 ANTIIE lIA.LIAN ]ttisi. ?? IN ...

... CONYUGAL STATISTICS IN FRANCE. T'IE Journal Officiel has recently published some rather curious statistics. They are furnished by the Minister of Justice, and relate to judicial separations (siparations de corps) in France. It would appear froai these figures that conjugal happiness, or perhaps we ought to say con- jugal patience, is becoming every day more rare in France. The number of ...

... THE SPANISH DIFF1ICULT\V. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office to-da:y EFr.oacr, July '1 (Ev-ning).-In to-day's sitting of the Chambor of Deputies Sinori Miceli, Corte. Nieotera, and Oliva questioned the Government relative to the affairs of Spain. rlome. and the declaration of Mr. Ollivier in the French Legislative Body. Signor Visconti-V'enosta, Minister for ...

... THE CHANGE OF FRONT ON THE EDUCATION BILL. The S.pectator observes that there are so many questions of temper complicating the questions of policy that not even the shrewdest politician -will hazard a confident opinion before Monday next as to the resalt of the change of front made by the Government on the Education Bill. Tile Birmingham League do not know their own mind, and they cannot ...

... lil is satisfactory to see that at last some attempt is to be made to put an end to the brutality of our arrangements with regard to cattle, which, not content with slaughtering and eating, we have suffered to be tortured in every conceivable way on their journey to the shambles. An order of Council, dated the i2th inst., has been issued, 1 extending to Great Britain only, by which it is ...

... ALPINE RAIL WVA I7S. WAN'; are not surprised that the scheme of the St. Gothard Railway should excite strong commercial and political antipathy in France. Frenck carry. ing companies have already lost much of their traffic, thanks to the coft. peting Italian commr~unications with the East, and in spite of all the help they give themselves by means of malevolently arranged correspondences and ...

... ?? O. A PRACTICAL account of the voting will not be out of place. The urn is an upright box of common deal, the cover of which is secured with an iron band and two little padlocks. In the cover there is a slit for the deposit of the voting papers. The box and the voting are presided over by a delegate of the mayor or other proper functionary. At the same long table that bears the box are ...

... IF, as we suppose, the pltbiscile was merely intended as a new, fresh record of a great majority of voting papers, to be used as the excuse and authority for the government of France by military and not by parliamentary forces, it has succeeded quite to the Emperor's satisfaction. Had the majority been even less by a few hundred thousands or so, it would have served his purpose equally well; ...

... EIN(GLIS AN1) PRUSSIAN GUNS. The Tiowv reports that Captain V. D. Majendiej Royal Artillery, Assistant Superintendent Royal Laboratory, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, has addressed a paper to the Royal Artillery Institution devoted to a comparison between the Prussian cast steel breech-loading rifled guns and the English Woolwich' muzzle-loading rifled guns. He replies at length to Captain von ...

... Frcm the Bierlin correspondent of the Timnes we learn that the Prussian repudiation of the LoUxcmbur Treaty is contained in a circular note dated the 3rd of Dcccmber. The repudiation is grounded on the facts that the Luxemburg authorities connived at the provisioning of Thionville, and suffered many French fugitives and escaped prisoners to return to France. The French Consul at Luxemburg, it ...

... THE RETIREMENT OF MR. CHILDERS. The Tivies believes that the-announctenme t of Mr. Childers's resignation will be received with universal and genuine regret. His appointment as First Lord of the Admiralty on the construction of the Ministry two years since was regarded as a considerable promotion, but the zeal and ability with which he has discharged the duties of the post have amply justified ...