... I - (psOx ova 0sraCIaL COzSPONDrN.) VERONA, OCT. 9. There is an air of gloom and sadness about this fine old city at the very moment of its]ong-wished- for liberation. In a few days the Austrian rule will have become matter of history, and in a few years we may hope that it will have been almost forgotten. But whilst I write the streets of Ve- rona are held by strong patrols of his Imperial Ma ...

... WE spoke the other day of the doctrine of tendencies as the safest guide of political speculators. Mark the existing tendency of events and of opinions on any particular subject : distinguish as well as you can mere superficial movements from steady prevailing currents: place yourself in imagination at the point which the flood will have reached twenty or thirty years hence, unless any ...

... (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENCE.) O UR Paris correspondent says :- According to the latest accounts, the fears entertained in regard to the health of the Empress of Mexico have diminished, and it is now asserted that the crisis was only one of those attacks of nervous excitement to which ladies of energetic temperament are often subject. As on the present occasion it was, so to say, an official ...

... GIWAT YARMOUTH BLECTION COMMISSION. I After the despatch of our parcel on Friday the first Nvi~ness examined was Mr. E. H. L. Preston, who de. pe -ed that lie had t'ie authority of Sir H. Otracey to draw upon Mlessrs. 1Harveys and Hudsons, of Norwich; the authority was given a month or si weeks before the elec. tion. Witnesr was autbo :sed to caw for about 1,5301. ?? Hen. j Stracey salid to ...

... I I (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) BALE, OCT. 18. Travelling in Italy is not, I have before said, cheap. The general range of hotel charges is high, and the bills presented to you require a little re- d vision. But without entering into discussion with their managers as to the general rate of charges, t for which, if you are so disposed, they will tender 0l you exceptional reasons in abundance, the ...

... (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENCE.) THE following is from our Vienna correspondent:- The discontent now prevailing in Bohemia gives almost as much anxiety to the Government as the Hungarian question. Count Belcredi, who was Governor of Bohemia before he became Minister, knows the country well, and is said to be very favourably disposed towards the Czechs, so much so that before the war it was ...

... Royal Masonic Institution for Boys. A Quarterly General Court of this Institution was held on Mon- day last ia the Board Room of Freemasons' Hall, Br.Jou.x llitivEv, V.P., in the chair.l The mninutes of the last Court were read by Br. F. Bixcrer.s, the Secretary, and, with the exception of the portion presenting Br. Russell with Li5 on his retirement from the office of Head ?? of the School, ...

... (PRoX OUR OWN COBRESPONDE.) [The following appeared 9in our Evening Edition of yesterday:] PARIS, SuNDAY EveNING. M. Saint Marc Girardin, after summarising tie history of the Greek question for the last half cen- tury, concludes a long article in the D6bats as follows: Let us not be deceived; the presentorislsof the Christian East, although for the moment not affecting so large a1 surface as ...

... i I as On Friday afternoon a meeting of delegates from working men's clubs was held at the Manohester Athe. rs nasum, to consider the advisableness of establishing a is- union amongst the working men's clubs in Lancashire and mi Chleshire. In the unavoidable absence of Mr. B. Armitage, of who was to have presided, the chair was taken by Mr. J. B. M'Kerrow. The Rev. H. Solly, of London, whose ...

... tl TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY NEWS. ?? SIR,-The recent meetings of the Social Science n, l Congress, held in the city of Manchester, were considered w by those who were present very successful. The papers i1 read, and the discussions which took place upon them, OJ were above the average. The question of education a! excited considerable interest, and the section devoted to r this subject wits ...

... THERE are two points connected with the recent military scandal at Simla upon which the evidence is complete, and to which the attention of the authorities at home should be called without further delay. The first of these points is the practice in which general officers in high command indulge when on service abroad, of employing gentlemen bearing her Majesty's commission on duties of a ...

... The _N-orl/eriz Daily Ex5;ess says that at the Gateshead Workhouse the grim economy has been practised of using the dead-house of the union as a cell for the incarceration of paupers, and that corpses and refractories have been constantly locked up together in it. This seems to us to be too horrible to be true; but we shall be glad to see an-early contradiction of the fact on authority. There ...