... ROMISH PRACTICES-SO-CALMD - on EXsURB RITUALISM.: TO THE DIiTOR OF THE DAILY NE ; Sam,-With reference to your excellent irti'le on the recent disgraceful occurrences at Nonrthmoor-greefl I fully concur in your observation that the peace of a parish ought not to be at th6 mercy of one man. Nor ought that spirit of domineering, which is one of the chr lacteristics of the papacy, be allowed by ...

... A MINISTERIAL crisis at Vienna has, for the moment at all events, brought Baron Beust once more before the world. For the last three months his name was obscured in the misfortunes in which he contributed to involve his kingdom. One of the ablest and most honest, he has been the least successftil of the statesmen of Germany. No one ever succeeded in impeaching his motives. Hle always acted in ...

... ENGLAND'S INTEREST IN DELGIAN INDEPENDENCE. The Schturday Revicw holds that the presence of the English ?? at the Brussels festivities points to the question of the amount of ?? which this country has in the independence of Belgium. There are, iM(ICCO( many reasons for objecting, in a general way, to these gigantic ?? excursions to foreign countries. They Inight too easily lead to unpleasant ...

... GERMANY. (FROM VIU OW2; COefRESrOtNcDENr.) FIRANKFORT, OcT. 18. The protest of t'ae Frankforters against the annex- I %tion of their town, which I mentioned at the time i it was sig-ed, hias been magnified in the English press to dimensions it never had. As there are only 9,OO) citizens in this town, 15,000 cannot have signed, and the fact is that only 2,80 sigtnatuies have been given. Of ...

... 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 ...

... Iight give a abort Sint to an ia1 writer it would be to tell him his fate. If he resolved to venture upon the dangeroes precipice of telling unbiassed truth let him pretclaim war With mankind-neither to give nor to take quarter. If he tells the crimea of great men they fall upon him with the iron hands of the law; if he tella them of vrt~ues, when they have any, then the mob attacks hi wfith ...

... ONE of the ablest of our contemporaries made the following observation the other day in an article on Mr. GRANT DUFF'S speech at Elgin:- We call Mr. LOWE'S Liberalism the Liberalism of intellectual indifference, the worship of material prosperity; iMr. GLADSTONE'S, the Liberalism of popular sympathies and spiritual faith, and we are disposed to think the latter the truer Liberal type of the ...

... Saturday, 2 o'clck. Int'd obtubt-qld otwd. REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. THE CANDIAN INSURRECTION. VIENNA, Oct. 20.-The Vienna papers publish telegrams from Co'nstanti- nople announcing that dissensions continue to prevail amongst the insurgents of Candia, The Turks have captured a stock of provisions and munitions belonging to the insurgents. CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, Oct. 20. ...

... THE VISIT OF THE ENGLISH VOLUNTEVER It TO BELGIUM. (rFBOM A CORBESPONDENT.) BRUSSELS, FRIDAY MounTmo. Yesterday afternoon the volunteers mustered in the Place du Musfe to the number of about 900 or ?? strong, bent upon seeing Antwerp, and upon showingthern. selves in that ancient town, Before they started Colorul Lindsay addressed the force with respect to making ar rangements for receiving ...

... 'NO TES FROM R OALE. ROME, Oc/. I5. Tnr coldness of the Romans towards Pius IX., in consequence of the monetary crisis, and the Holy Father's refusal of remedial measures, increases every day. Recently he went to Monte Pincio at the hour of the promenade when the band was playing and a large crowd had assembled. He alighted from his carriage, and traversed the gardens on foot, surrounded by ...

... THE NEW ATTOBNREY-GENEBAL. (From the Solicitors' Jourmal.) The ordinary course would have been to promote the Solicitor-General to the vacant Attorney-Generalship, and although, in this particular instance, no one would have grudged Sir William Bovill the customary advance, it was felt that there was a difficulty arising partly froea the indisputably prominent position occupied by Mr. Rolt in ...

... The Man in the Street says that Mr. Disraeli is preparing a compre- hensive Reform Bill, which comprehends household suffrage and a 20 franchise in counties. Mr. Gladstone's Bill came to grief this year because it went into distasteful details. We hope that Mr. Disraeli's will not founder next year on account of its being too comprehensive. For the honour and credit of the House of Commons ...