... I TE GRAPHIC INTELLIGENC (aIrs's rRE~nAs.) FRANCE. PARIS, M.AncH 7, EvEmnos. To-day M. Thiers presented to the legislative body a demand for leave to question the govern. mert relative to the foreign policy of France. Ad Berryer complained that the Yellow Book did nut contain a single diplomatic document written be. tween the 1st January and the 1st March. e regretted, in particular, that ...

... 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 ...

... (FROM oUR OwN ooaassarOsNIr.) str FLORENCE, FEB. 28. - It is as yet too soon to attempt to form any ba] opinion as to the probable complexion of the new of ;chamber. And the scattered fragments of elec- res I tioneering news with which the papers and the thE minds of the politicians are filled would have FPh little interest for readers on the northern side of affi the Alps. Two facts, however, ...

... THE ENGINE-DBIVERS ANVD THEIR GBIEXANCES. The engine-drivers and firemen of the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway have addressed the following reply to the directors:- The engine-drivers E and firemen employed on the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway respectfully acknowledge the receipt of proposals made to them by the directors in answer to I theirUmemorial, and desire to ...

... Ie TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY NEWS. LT SIR,-Allow me, through your columnrs, to thank r Sir Charles Trevelyan, for the most able and exhaustive. ,o letters I have ever read on our present army system of . promotion. it For more than five-and-twenty years I have upheld )f promotion by purchase ; not that I did not see many ;e evils in it, but because I saw no way out of it, and Le balancing ...

... TH-E -INDIA AND CHINA MAILS. 'r I . . U I ~ is By the arrival of the above mails we have advices Yfromx Bombay' to March !6th; Calcutta, February ig 28th.;. Madras,. ?? .8th; Colombo, March 2 hd ong ong,7?piwbrnsa ...

... TEA EGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. I (BRoUTR'S TELUGEU) THE NORTH GERMAN PARLIAMENT. BERLIN, FEB. 28; In to-day's sitting of the North German Parlia- ment the verification of the elections was proceeded with. Herr Lasker drew attention to what he I stated'to be illegal conduct on the part of some 1X government officials who had superintended the 5 elections in certain military electoral districts. ...

... ?? I' : Eat t u . WINDSOR CASTLE, MARCi 2. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice, drove out yesterday afternoon in a carriage and four, attended by the Duchess of iiot. burghe. Her Majesty, attended by the Lady in Waiting, took a drive this morning. The Prince and Princess Christian went out walkingi Princess Louise also walked out, attended by the II,,. Flora ...

... FoR I LICENSED VICTUALLERS. | * Tise page Sillm ?? be found interesting to Licensed Victecal- Zero, and the operations of the UNITED ToWNS' AesoceANc anD LiC'ONSND VICTUALuERS' DENNOOCE LEAGUE are pub- lisjled linde/r their own suptereitendence. SUNDAY CLOSING of the PUBLIC-HOUSES T'ie better keepiig of the Sunday, in all the large towvns in (,reat ltal, is a question which at the present time ...

... NINIU C0iLDREN BURNED TO DEATE, (SUEDCOT 0F ILLUSTBATION.) A serious fire, attended by very melancholy circum- stances, nine little children having been burnt to death, took place on Friday, at Accrington. Persons who have oassed through that town, over the Lancashire and Yorkshire RTwilway, will have observed a somewhat lengthy viaduct, which consists of several lofty arches, and spans a deep ...

... SINGULAR iDISCOVERY OF SPANJSI-I COINS NEAR WEST HAlRlLEPOOL. (SIUJECT OF ILLUSTRATIO N The severe storms that have lately prevailed on the North-Esetern coast have in many placoes washed '%way, the sand from the beach, and on the Durhamncoast, between Seaton Carew and West Hartlepool, disclosed a submerged forest of considerable extent, acommpnied by a formation of peat of great thicknees. ...

... 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 ...