... OPINION IN THE WEEKLY REVIEW S. FLOGGING IN THE ARMY. 'IThe JExaindner observes that if ever a Minister had an opportunity of inaugurating his accession to office by a graceful act, Sir John Pakington had it, and that on very easy terms; for, whatever his own opinions may have been. he must have known that the feeling of the country and of the atury was strongly in favour of abolishing ...

... In a new publication called Echoes from the Clubs, an old story of a fracas in the lobby of the House of Commons is retold, with certain particulars which were not published at the time. The world outside is. now given to understand that traitor and scoundrel were the exact epithets applied by one honourable member to another, and further learns that a gallant general, to whom the noble ...

... Whilst speaking on the Irish Habeas Corpus Suspension Act last night Mr. Bernal Osborne described a few of the trite formula by which successive governments prescribe for the condition of Ireland. He said that the Irish Chief Secretary always brings in a bill for the preservation of salmon, of which twenty have been brought in; a Peace Preservation Act, of which twenty-six have been brought in ...

... INTRIGUE IN ITAL Y. THE circumstances connected with the recent Ministerial crisis in Italy have been very inadequately made known. The correspondents of the ?? press have been either unwilling or unable to throw light on an incident that fell like a thunderbolt out of the summer sky. The whole matter has been shrouded in a mystery, which has had the inevitable effect of stimulating conjecture ...

... AvPoINvTsrs;TS.-The head-mastership of Preston Grammar School has been conferred upon the Rev. William Hart, M.A., of St. John's College, Cambridge, curate of Walton-le-Dale. The Bishop of Ripen has licensed the Rev. Richard Frankland Dent, M.A., of St. Catherine's College, Cambridge, late curate of Sefton, to the incumbency of Coverham with Horsehouse, near Middleham, on the nomination of the ...

... Saturday, 2 dclock. I Thiq ?? otb3d. REUTEA'S TELEGRAMS. FRANCE. PARIS, Allarrc/ 23.-M- de Lavalette, Minister of the Interior, has issued a circular to the Prefects, dated 2Ist inst., with reference to the late workmen's riots at Roubaix, in which he says, The Government is firmly resolved to maintain the public peace and respect for individual liberty. SPAIN. MADRID, Afarcih 22 (Evening ) ...

... The Empress of the French arrived at Osborne on her visit to OQeen Victoria yesterday afternoon. In yesterday's sitting of the French Legislative Body the whole of the ordinary Budget for ?? was voted by 240 against I5. The debate on the extraordinary budget comes on to-day. Loid Vane and his family have arrived at Berlin on their journey to SFt Petersburg, where his lordship is going to ...

... SUMMARY OF THIS MORNINGS NEWS. According to a Paris telegram published this morning, the Commission on the Reorganization of the Army has not concurred with all the proposals of the Government, especially with that for the annual voting of the contingent. The Commnission desired that the vote for the contingent should be in the form of a special bill, and not a paragraph in the budget. It also ...

... PARLIAMENTAR Y INTELLIGENCE. HOUSE OF LORDS. IN the House of Lords last night Lord Derby explained the difference between the new guarantee as to Luxemburg and that for which it has been substituted. Formerly the duchy was guaranteed as a possession of the IXing of Holland, now it is neutralized. The guarantee is collective, not joint and separate. The Premier also stated that the Home ...

... THE brief telegram from Darmstadt the other day, announcing that the Emperor of Russia had signed an ukase abolishing the Administrative Council of the kingdom of Poland, brought a piece of news which has hardly received in England the attention it deserves. The news is simply that of the complete incorporation of the kingdom with the Russian empire. The last of the few institutions which ...

... THE TORNADO CASE. 71T the EDITOR of the PALL MALL GAZETTE. SIR,-I have read in your impression of yesterday the answer of D. F. C. to my former letter, and I hasten to send my reply. In my letter I stated that Messrs. Isaac had been interested in the cargoes of two vessels, the Stephen Hart and Springbok, condemned (on different occasions) by the Northern prize courts, on the ground in ...

... There is no American news by the Atlantic telegraph this morning. The Paris correspondent of the Times, who in his letter published yesterday expressed the opinion that the French people were unfavourable to war, now says that a change has come over them. The tone of the German press, the demonstrations of the Berlin meetings, and the arrogant and insulting language used towards France are ...