... I ' fA E. .F i ' , I . . , - ' - I X 'i !.d ?? ?? .t , ,, ~ V: i i, A. ; 3; ~ ~ n -oI OWN 0 ?? t / rs 'A portion of the following appearedin l'our Eveniing Le dition 9f yesterday :] PARIS, T!nsDAEvENiNG. 1gs'!i statement that M 'Thiers had given a par- i-- liamentar' dinnerto a great many members of the ?? urue, R1e'laely had aemile Ly gathering of'the friends who habitak1 visit him h -th at's ...

... T2HE DRAMATIC COLLEGE FETE. The Dramatic College Fete has certainly had to contend this year against unusual disadvantages. With the almost simultaneous arrival of the Viceroy of Egypt, the Belgian volunteers, and the Sultan, so many festivi- ties are taking place that the actors' revels at the Crystal Palace appeal to a public which has already almost as many pleasure engagements on hand as ...

... ?? : i .: I. . ' ti.: -.ta ;311 .:5D- LLL:LL if . L. I (mols OUR IAgUL Cop 1.) I , 86ei that a eanon'sationis a vertrate event, and Veterm ad a teori only vagu'ely comp~rhendeo by1et .. -or peraons out of communion with te, ?? UP of Rome, it will be well,:by way 'of *preliuin* Jto ;s the ceremo:,ny of St. Peter's-day ,tdI give -a'rlFac- i count. of the process of saint-making,: which is as,,p. ...

... I (mROM OUR OWN CaOxpooSNnT.) FLORENCE, ArsL. 18. The government has acquired a degree of Eta. s bility which it was hardly expected to attain. Till the 24th of this month it may at least be safely te expected to survive; for parliament has been pro ie rogued till that day, on the score of Easter holi. ndays. The Left, while very readily accepting the , holiday offered them, do not fail to ...

... THE KEY OF THE RITUALISTIC CONFTROVERSY| _ ?? (From the PaU Mdlt Gdz&eU6) If you do not like a sermon or a book there is Le always The easy resource of rot listening to the one and not reading the other. With prayers aid ceremonies it is s altogether different. The question then is whose taste is - to beconsulted if the clergy and the-congregation differ? i, This will gradually be seen to ...

... IONDON, BRIGHTON AND . OUTH COAST I - ?? ' v yAIL WA . Uri The adjoured special ne'etixsgs of the sh'are- 1,C holdrs i ?? anywere held yeisterday at the Bridge-6 ' house Hotel'; Colone' BIAiITELOT, M.P., in the chair, be Thefe was a large6 and 'excited attendance. The forspal pri preliminaries having been obser~ved, till The CHAinAasi said that the meeting had been adjourned in order to ...

... A HE CRU)PS IX. THS UNITED STATES. 1 The American papers publish the following ac- counts of the crops in various States' LouisiAIOA.-A letter from Alexandria5 says :- cotton prospects are rather looking up ; indications of worms b much fewer. In fact, a close examination of crops to- h day has shown but one or two wormis. it is believed now tha a ontnuace of fair weather will retard them ...

... FLAX CULTiVATION IN IRELAND. LO d A public meeting has been held in Belfast to It discuss the desirability of forming an association for the l; extension of the growth of flax in Ireland. Various com- n munications from persons qualified toofferan opinion upon the subject were read at the opening of the proceedings. EA noblemar in the 01u~t:5 9f Galwaq said-' So entirely ieI hait.ie fated in ...

... BISHOPS AND CUBATEBS (From the C(hristian Observer, September.) Our readers will learn without regret that the bill for increasing the episcopate by the addition of three or four new bishoprics has been withdrawn in the House of Commons by its warmest advocate, Sir Roundell Palmer. . . . With a clergy on stinted incomes, and curates, if married men, half starved, churchmen would see with ...

... The crowds who visited the Crystal Palace yes- i terday coulld hardly realise the fact that on theE previous day a great fire had destroyed a large and v-aluable p(rtiofl of the building unless they went up to the north end, and were permittedto peep r through the screen by the police. It will be re- E xllemlbered that this screen, or bed tick' as it was i contemptuously called, was loudly ...

... -MR. SEELY, M.P., AND HIS CONST-ITUENTS. I A public inec~tilig, convened by the Lincoln Liberal Association, was held on Wednesday evening ini the Theatre, to hear addresses fromt the city ucosbers. Mr, Heneage, MI'.1, wasB the first to snake his appearance on tho platform, Winl he was received with considerable cheering, aL few hisses )provoking another and more hearty round of app1limse. ...

... THE SUNDAY LIQUOR TRAFPIC. A public meeting, held in consequence of a numerously signied requisition to the Lord Mayer, tools place in the Guildhall', yesterd~ay, to consider the best measn of stopping the sale of intoxicating liquors en Sunday. There war, a very large attendance. The LoRD MABOR who presided, and who was 1udly cheered in passing through the hall, said he occupied his present ...