... I PE3AC3 CONGRZSS AT MANCHESTER We are bound to take some notice of such public meetings as were held at Manchester by the anti- war party during the past week, but really we grudge devoting any space and thought to the matter, for the whole thing is founded upon inten- tions which, however good, never can, by ally human possibility, be realised. These friends of international arbitration and ...

... SECOND EDITIONi LATEST FOR3IGN. Overland Bombay Mail. TRIESTE, JAN. 27. Friday, at one amb., the Germania, steamer, arrived here. We learn by her that General Godwin impru- dently established an advanced post, only 400 strong, at Pegu, 60 miles beyond Rangoon, and easy to. be carried by the large Burmese force stationed at Spoy Gyre. The Burmese commandant at Spoy Gyre immediately at- tacked ...

... The King of Denmark has given his approval to a project for establishiug railroads throughout Jutland. The Minister of Conunerce of Prussia proposes for the consideration of the Postal Congress that the rate of postage throughout the king- dom be fixed at one gros. Twenty persons-two merchants, and the others mechanics and artists-have been arrested at Milan for being connected with socialist ...

... [-7RoM OUR OWN REPORTERS.J Thursday evening a meeting of the Peace Conference was held in the Corn Exchange, Hanging-ditch, Manchester; Mr. George Wilson occupying the chair. Before commencing the proceedings the secretary read letters of apology for non-aitenrlance at the conference, but expressive of cordial sympathy wilh the movement, from M. Carnot, formerly Minister of Public Instruction ...

... WFAAL AFRAY, 'Jn, =unday morning the 16th instant, thebvillage of Ilkeston 'WaM made the scene ef a brawl, the chief actors. in which :RPPear to have been Irishmen. The erigin of the disturbance An Ilkeston has not been very satisfactorily made out, but it Seems to have originated in 8Orne party or parties desirous ef :1aving a 1arl by anneying the inmates of a lodging-houee, lin whib tea sr a ...

... I TERElIIC BOILER rXPLOSIONI I GLASGOW, SATURDA~Y.-This morning, a little after five o'clock, one of the most terrific boiler explosions which ever occurred in Glasgow took piece in the en- gineering establishment of Messrs. Forrest and Co., Dobbie's-town. It appears that one of the boilers used in the establishment bad been lengthened by nine feet, giving it a total of twenty'-five feet, and ...

... I IS SIR Z. BROOKE, C.B., A BUCCANER? That is the question-the hard, iron-bound question put by Mr. Joseph Hume in a pamphlet before us, A Letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of MalmeR- bury, Secretary of, State for Foreign Affairs, $rc., Relative to the Proceedings of Sir James Brooke, ?? &c., in Borneo. By Jeseph Hume, M.P. It Is highly important to Borneo, if not to Sir James Brooke, ...

... THi LtATE ENSIVE FORGERIES. lI Much surprise has. been expressed with regard to the extraordinary forgeries ?? that he should have been gble to procur' advances to so great an extent upon the mere uroduction of corn orders, without having any corn a ytualV in existence. This seems to have originated Wieldy in the fact that h is name stood very high in the trade. It appeared that wyhen he ...

... If I might give a short hint to an impartial writer, It would be to tell his fate. If he resolved to venture upon the dangerous precipice of telling unblessed truth, let him proclaim war with mankind-neither to give nor to take quarter. If he tells the crimes of great men they fall opon him with the iron hands of the law; if he tells them of virtues, when they have any, then the mob attacks ...

... tATST, F' OM PRACE.' I: - , ~ ' y ,. ?? . a ,, ?? :2 ' .1 ?? ' ?? T' , ?? . , . ,,,PARIS,, 'Fnuux AB, sx QoZx. b Thefutuire Empress hsjust written a letter of c tloanlO to the ?? Council of 'P for ,he i .kind offer they madea farich diamond necklace aid 0 ' other costly peent, ?? intendedlfoiher Mi- ol jety. The Emprst a tim prefor P that th suml should be a'pplied to Bsore liberal . aT ...

... PIEDMONT. The Opinione of Turin, of the 24th, gives the de- co: tails of the duel lately fought on the, territory of hu Piacenza, between Lieut. Ropolo, of the Piedmontese, as and Capt. Giurich, of the Austrian army. The matter seems to have been conducted in the most public pl manner, without any interference on the part of the da authorities, upwards of 2,000 persons having re- Ws paired to ...

... . SUNDAY, JANARY 30,. 1883. ?? :[SUNDAY'S EDITION.1 THE REAB MEANING OF THE RPm- SENTATILVE PRINCIPLE. With the prospect of a new Reform Bill before us,- and' which, from the announcements oif -the Times, would appear-to be 'intended for the approaching ees- sion,-it becom nes more than ever necessary for the public to nnderstaad what is the tru nature of the representa- tive principle, in ...