... THE AF1 AIRS OF ROME. . 1I' is generally understood that the Liberal Rooman Catholics, w~iile acutely disliking any declaration by tlec Council at Rome of the dognma of Infallibility, arc of topinion that, in the Schema iu st distributed to thc bislhops, it assumes a form much less objection- able than hcey had reason to expcct. What they ii coc looking for was apparently a formula so pre- ...

... SAN SEDASTIAN, A.AriZ 6. As I told you in my last, the drawing for the con- scription, which was to take place last Sunday, was opposed more or less in all parts of the country, but especially in Barcelona and one or two other large towns, where the opposition assumed rather alarming proportions. Everyone is anxiously awaiting the result of these disturbances, to see whether they will spread ...

... F1{OMOTION AND RETIREMENT IN THE NAVY. The following are the principal details of the new scheme of naval promotion and retirement explained in the House of Commons on Monday night by the First Lord of the Admiralty The scheme is divided into five parts. Fart I. deals with the active lists of officers of the fleet. It is proposed that staff captains shall be retired at 60, or at airy age if ...

... Might we not ask that Lord Campbell's Act for prohibiting the exposure of nasty books and pictures for sale should be extended to nasty advertisements? For example, there is an establishment which has long flourished in London under the name of the Judge and Jury, which adapts every new scandal under some such title as the Lunatic Divorce, the Pretended Petticoats, and so on, as an ...

... PARIS, Sunday. PERFECT tranquillity reigns here after a week of disorder and excitement, and the only apparent squabbling is in the columns of the papers which continue to analyze the recent vote. The Tempss of this evening publishes a table which shows that while the seventeen departments of France which stand the highest as far as instruction goes recorded 450,07i negative votes, the twenty ...

... IRISH OUTRAGES, iS69-iS7O. EY command of her Majesty a statement has been laid before both Houses, giving an account of the outrages committed in Ireland during the past year. Though some of the offences recorded in this paper hardly fall under the ordinary notion of outrages, especially when the scene of the transgression is Ireland, coining, forgery, embezzlement, bigamy, and perjury are, ...

... FRAIN CE. PAR1S, .S'ahfi'dy A- i., There is a great marshalling of hosts in view of the comnlg struggle in the Corps LUgislatif over the questions of hom~e policy to be raised by A\. Jules Favre on Monday. A. Tiriers evidently means work, as he excused his absence at the meeting of the Lcft Centre yesLerday, on the ground that he desired to keep himself fresh. It will be well to remember that ...

... TI-IX CANONS 01F THE 1.OMAN CHURCTI. The following is a translation of the Canones de Ecclesiflj1 whichi have just been ?? ?? the 1.-Up Co.7 THEn C(nEuron ou Ai' TIIeNo:. i. if any one denies the one true God as creator of the Iisible and. ivisible, let himt be accursed. 2. If any one is not ashamlled to declare that nothiun exists beyond matter, let him be accursed. 3. If ally one says that ...

... THE LEADERSHIP OF THE HOUSE OF I I LORDS. The Conservative peers will meet again at the Carlton Club to-morrow, to discuss, and if possible to settle, their present difficulties. At this meeting Lord Derby's letter to Lord Colville will be read, and the peers will then consider what choice is left to them by Lord Derby's refusal of the leadership of the House of Lords. Two names are proposed: ...

... |V IRGINIA, COt'N'TY CAvAis, April 2. t JU'DCINO from the experience of the past week or so, it would seem as though Rory of the Hills and his band had been bent upon making the most of ! their time-in county Meath at any rate-before the Peace Preservation Act became law. All over the county most well-to-do people who have to do with land, either as owners, agents, or tenants, go about with ...

... NOTICE. ;ijj. publication of the PA~r. MALL GAZETTE as a ljcvning Journal is discontinued. The preference Of the Public for the Evening Edition has been so 1ii;tit)ctly manifcsted by the circulation of the paper, tilo desire that that Edition should resume its ,rjinatl form is so general and so constantly , xpessed, that the Proprietors of the paper hesitate no (loger. The Morning Edition is ...

... OCCASIOjVA4L NO2ES. .r. ,ldCgatC call boast of many labours but 'Mr. Btrils 1ut last night he achieved such a 'jcr f a Is 1ill rejoice hiim gr catly, and probably ?? c I im beyond mcasurc. IHc moved for committeC to inqtuire into the exist- haiaactI., and increase of conventual ]d ,eniaS tc societies in Grcat Britain, and .,l dly jfor tis was the gist of the miotion) * ,o *lc tems u~po which ...