... 9tath ?? oewjd. REUTER'S TELEGRAMAS. FRANCE. PARIS, March 9.-The Raf/el of this morning announces that the senators and deputies in favour of an amnesty for all persons implicated in the Commune will hold a meeting to-morrow in order to frame a motion on the subject. This motion, however, will only be brought forward in the Senate and Chamnber of Deputies at the beginning of next week, when ...

... YPITOMIE OF OPINION IN THE TMORNING JOURNALS. MR, BRIGIT'i ON 1BIlTISTl i'O.ICV. 'Ihe Thne,/s says that for many a day Mr. Bright has given no wiser counsel to his countrymen than in the admirable speech which he X livercd at Bradford on Wednesday evening. He finds a noisy, if not a large, party eager to plunge this country into a war which would be one of the mrost costly and destructive ...

... PARIS, Sznday. THE further successes gained by the Turks at a moment when gloomy apprehensions began to prevail as to the soundness of their strategy have created considerable surprise. General Klapka, who has just arrived and who is now in conference with Midhat Pasha, speaks in high terms of Suleiman Pasha, simply criticising the hour at which he made his attack on the Schipka Pass. ...

... THE MEETING 01 PRINCE LISMARCK AND COUNT ANDRASSY. The T'ioes, referring to the speculations whether the meeting of Prince Bismarck and Count Andrassy may result in offers of mediation, observes that such may be the case, for 'anything seems possible in this season of surprises, yet this is scarcely the time which a mediator would deliberately choose for the exercise of his office. The ...

... OCC ASZOSAL NOTES. The IDuc Decazes has delivered an ingenious speech ?? which he endeavours to identify the pacific policy of France and the respect 'which Europe shows for her prudent neutrality with the success of Marshal MacMahon's appeal to the electors. There is nothing which the French peasantry and the bourgeoisie would make more sacrifices to secure than the peace of Europe and the ...

... -= - - NA NO7T -S The condition of the Spanish finances has a peculiar interest for us at WIYtn present when we are hoping to obtain some modifications of the new tariff Wtt adopted, fith differential rates against British commodities, at Madrid. stre the The ]j/5ora has lately published the approximate receipts of the Spanish fess Exchequer for the last financial year. They show a remarkably ...

... Some further but not very full details have been published this morning of the fighting at Batoum. So far as they go these accounts appear to confirm the Turkish rather than the Russian reports of the results. It is certain that the Sultan has decorated Ali Pasha as a victor. Nothing more has come to hand regarding the expected action near Kars. Sir Arnold Kemball has, it is announced, been ...

... NEW ORLEANS,Jan. 16. WERE it not for the close and more immediate interest presented by the affairs of Turkey, more attention would be paid by Europe to the events which are going on in this country. I may add, in this city, because here the glove is thrown down, and here the spark which may spread into a con- ?? has been lighted. The issue is not whether Packard or Nicholls is to be Governor ...

... TRIE A USSIANS 01; TO-DA K XIX.- m)! ois or, KNmrIrisoo). A sl'raPA EJ rho attends an official reception in Russia is surprised a. tlhe quantity of stars glittering on the breasts of persons who seem to b) of r.o ?? accotint; but this surprise increases at rev ievs of tne., 1lPere colcr.els are as prolu i ly ccnsttllated as the field-niars alb oft othle ccur ntucs, andv ?? sublltcins are often ...

... OCCASoSONAL NOTES. in a lading article in the Tiles this morning the following reflection ril-cars ?? N oi il inar is more horible than this raising of insurrection among disaffected 1 1 ulait i i ~. I c iy one thinks that tlie Russians have nintch to answer for in pro laini- if g p ltilt ln to the Ilflgarian Villagers and then leaving themn to he hanged by the 'I h : 1 it [ie 'Teli s oil ...

... The contradictory accounts which came yesterday from Constantinople and from Belgrade with regard to the beginning of the war between Turkey and Servia are not cleared up by the telegrams in the papers of this morning. The probability seems to be that, although some fighting has taken place, its magni- tude has been exaggerated, and that no important advantage has been gained on either side. ...

... jrjTi6 Obrllinn'? OrWd- REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. I SPANISH FINANCE. MAIA1D, July 4.-To-day the Bill for the conversion of the Spanish National Debt was read in Congress, and was referred to the Budget Corn- It is believed that the Bill will not be taken into consideration. The Nationall Debt Committee will arrive at no decision before it has been informed of the result of the negotiations now ...