... Carnspubtart. THE BALLOT. TO THE EDITOR Or THE EXAMINER. Sir,-As every arygument for and against the ballot has been advanced again and again, may I be permitted to give one prac- tical illustration of its necessity which has come under my own knowledge. I live in a country village of some five hundred inhabitants, and at a reading room in the same often meet and converse with them. Many are ...

... SulcIDE IN BLENHzi PAUL-On Thursday week the Spanish Consul for Australia, Don Antonio Arrom de Ayala, committed suicide by shooting himself near the Home Farm in Blenheim park On his person were found three letters one addressed by him to the landlady of the Bear Hotel, Woodstock, where he has been staying since Tuesday lest, end another addressed to the Duke of Marlborough. The third was ...

... 94~~et Ua The most note-worthy political event of the present week has been the speech delivered at Bordeaux, on Tuesday, by the Emperor of the French. For the last few weeks epis- copal mandements have been rife in France. The occa- sion of receiving an address from the Cardinal ArEchisop of Bordeaux, on the part of his clergy, gave the Emp an opportunity of stating his views on the ...

... IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT, HOUJSE OF LORDS. Monday, .TJune 27. The house, pursuant to adjournment, forwarded a few private bills through their pending stages of progress. Oa rising, the house adjourned until Thursday. Thursasday, Junoe 30. 'AINISTBRUL rXPLANAMIONS. After Lord Granville had made a statement similar in substance to that made by Lord Palmerston (which will be found in our report of the ...

... Plat 4nifffifffurf. SATURDAY, AUGUST 20. The following telegrams have been received:- PARJs, Friday.-Thle Moniteur of this morning contains a decree to the effect that foreign shares and securities may be negotiated at the Bourse, after two-fifths of their value has been paid up. Previously it was necessary that seven-tenths should be paid up. The Mcniteur further announces that their ...

... On Saturday Mr Gladstone was elected by the matriculated students to the important office of Rector ow the University. of Edinburgh. lie had a majority of 116 over his opponent, Lord Neavis, one of the judges of the Court of Session; the numbers-for the respective candidates being 643 and 527. On Saturday a man named Dorlwell, aged forty.two, expired in the Poplar Hospital, from the effects of ...

... VISIT OF THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OP PsUsSaA.-Preparations are being made at Windsor Castle for the reception of the Prince and Princess Frederick William of Prussia and suite, who will arrive at Windsor shortly before the 9th proximo, for the purpose of being present at the grand banquet to be given in honour of the birthday of the Prince of Wales. The illustrious visitors will not return to ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS. Monday, February 21. THEE IONIAT ISLANDS& Lord D:ERIlY made an earnest appeal to Lord Grey to postpone his motion for copies of the correspondence between the Secretary of State for the Colonies and the Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands respecting the proposed alterations in the constitution of those islands. He considered that, as this question was still under ...

... ADuLTERATION Or FOOD D1IL.-Mr Scholefield, M.P., has revived his useful Bill a for Preventing the Adulteration of Articles of Food or Drink. It imposes a penalty of so many pounds (not yet fixed) on every person vending or exposing for sale any article of food or drink with which, to the knowledge of such person, any noxious ingre- dient has been mixed. More than this, the offender will be, ...

... TOWN AND COUNTRY TALIK A railway is projected for connecting the South-Eastern station at London bridge with the railways to the west of the metropolis. It will pass through the property of St Thomas's Hospital, close to the wards, so close, indeed, that the hospital will have to be removed from its present site. The shipment of horses for the continent is increasing. The Bishop of London has ...

... Mr H. Berkeley has published the following letter in reply to certain editorial strictures of the Times, on a letter of his which appeared in that journal: To the Editor of the Times. Sir- Nothing would be more agreeable to me tban that the Ballot Society should print my letter and the leading article in which you have attempted a reply in juxta-positioI, that the unthinking portion of the ...

... 9~ mk The invitations to the Congress have been issued. It is to be held in Paris, and the first sitting is announced for the 5th of January next. It appears that England has consented to meet the other powers, but who her plenipo. tentiary is to be has not yet transpired. The Times suggests Lord Palmerston himself. The text of the treaties signed at Zurich have been pub. lished. The ...