... 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 ...

... 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 ) ...

... ( THEE official reports of the Inspector-General of Musketry which have been furnished to the House contain little or no information on the subject of the Snider rifle which will be new to readers of the Pall Mizll Gazelle. But they afford ample justification of the opinions which we have from time to time expressed as to the value of this arm. There are five reports in all, of which only one ...

... SOjjrt four months ago we announced the appointment of an artillery committee to consider the advisability of reverting to muzzle-loading guns for field use. The Armstrong and Whitworth Committee had already expressed a decided preference for muzzle-loading guns, and the Ordnance Select Conmittce had distinctly recommended their adoption in the field. When a third committee, composed of the ...

... THE MINISTERIAL RESPITE. The Times has no doubt of the wisdom of the decision arrived at. The Reform Bill in its present shape is altogether inadmissible-it has the gravest sins of omission and of commission. But it can be transformed into a measure which may be satisfactory both to Parliament and the nation. The evidence taken before Lord Grey's Committee on the effect of the Small Tenements ...

... I CORK, Stlhlrelay A7,Ygit., WE did not leave Dundrum till nearly twelve o'clock yesterday morning, so I amused myself by walking about the village, chatting with the peasantry, who were all on the alert to catch a glimpse of the army, as they, with much courtesy, dubbed our formidable force of sixty. I found them ready enough to talk on any possible subject, from the weather to Fenianism, ...

... AN APPEAL. To lhe EDITOR of //ze PALL MALL GAZETTE. SIR.-NOW that the weather is so cold and food so dear, and evert what we well-fed people admit to be the necessaries of life so costly, there: are many little nests where the birds cry for food in vain, and to which the old birds return day after day without anything in their bills. At Lanark, in Scotland, this is terribly the case in a nest ...

... The new scheme for the reorganization of the French army was laid before the Legislative Body yesterday. The term of service is fixed at five years in the active army, and four years in the reserve, and for young rezruits not comprised in the active army four years in the reserve and five years in the mobile National Guard. Soldiers of the Line are not allowed to purchase exemption from ...

... The King of Prussia's birthday was kept yesterday. A Parliamentary banquet was given in honour of it, at which members of all the political parties in the North German Parliament were present. The Health of the King was proposed by Herr Simson. Congratulatory telegrams were received by the King from nearly all the European Courts, including those of Paris and St. Petersburg. According to ...

... IN THE TRACK OF THE FENIA NS DUNDRUM, YUrrsilay ZVI,/it. TiHE weather was so bad this morning, and a heavy fall of snow during the night had made the roads so heavy, that up to the last moment there seemed some doubt as to whether any flying column would leave Tipperary to-day. The carmen, whose cattle are not exactly the strongest in the world, had evidently come to the unanimous ...

... THE report which was recently in circulation, on the authority of the- Army and ffavy Gazetle, respecting the partial failure of the Snider rifle at Aldershot, had just so much of truth in it that it would have been incorrect to say broadly that it was absolutely without foundation. Lord Longford in contradicting it found it necessary therefore to explain the precise nature and scope of the ...