... LETTERS FROM THE EAST.-I. CONSTANTINOPLE, ffrchi 7. You think that my frequent residences in Turkey and my long and general acquaintance with the East enable me to give you some information respecting our interests in it, our policy of late years towards it, the situation in which it now stands, and the conduct for us to adopt relative to that situation. I think I have thus resumed the points ...

... THE REFORM BILL. A TzIfiRD EJpITION Of thr PA4LL MA4LL GAZETTE will be P' lisjeed Zhis evening immedialtdv onZ /he conclusionl of Air. Disraeli's state;cnie in Mec Ho use of Comnmnons Oi Reform. Monda-Y, 2 O'cock. Telid Obtuing'o' f1clud- REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. AUSTRIA. ViENNA, Jiarrch ?? -lopat and Hasner are said to have been appointed President and Vice-President of the Lower House of the ...

... SUMMARY OF THIS MORNINNG'S NEWS. The new bills on the liberty of the press and the right of public meeting, were laid before the Corps LUgislatif yesterday. The principal features of the new press law are these :-The authorization hitherto required previous to establishing a journal is suppressed ; imprisonment for offonces against the press laws is abolished; the amount of the fine which may ...

... -1MILITAR Y REORGANIZA TION. BY a curious coincidence, the French Government laid before the Legislative Body its scheme for the reorganization of its army on the same day that General PEEL explained the proposals of our own Government on the same subject to the House of Commons. The similarity of the problem presented in each case for solution naturally suggests a comparison of the rival ...

... Tnv Fussian despatches which have been published in the Joiir;-na ele ?? F~fcSiS?/~oa enable us to appreciate the keenness with which that Govern- Vent is now pursuing its designs in the East and the pressure which Lord Stanley has had to resist in adhering to his fixed policy of non-intervention. 1Ihe tenor of these documents and th eir publication at this moment certainly suggest the idea ...

... THE threatened strike of the engine-drivers on the Brighton Railway has at last taken place, and will, it is to be feared, be followed by strikes on other lines. Many circumstances have of late tended to show that we do not even yet thoroughly comprehend the power which is wielded by a well- organized combination of workmen. At present all such combinations have necessarily been hostile to the ...

... THE excessive mortality which prevailed last year in the borough of Liver- pool was so frequently the subject of current public comment that the appearance of the customary annual report by the very able medical officer of health, Dr. Trench, on the sanitary condition and health of the borough in i866 has been looked for with unusual interest. It appears from the report, of which we have ...

... The statement in the Owl that Lord Russell formally resigned the leadership of the Liberal party in favour of Mr. Gladstone at the meeting held on Tuesday last is certainly not true. All that Lord Russell did vas simply to urge the whole Liberal party to continue to recognize Or. Gladstone as their leader in the House of Commons. But this advice did not change the rank which Mr. Gladstone has ...

... 0 a.ODTEMPOPLA1ES. To 'FICERMli j The Times Treviews tbecareer of ilq4 p t sen~r misstry- describing the ,hole transactions relatlirg to .Reform as most dis- vreitsle, ?? Derby as the' ,eot extraordioarq one .that, bhe! legislatvure has istened to in ourtnOe.. The ministrT 7began with a licy of see At the opening of parliament Mr. s e 'ke an orator ofa debating society, pcveabn spokeing,, ...

... E 9* 1 The Queen; accompanied. by PrincessrLouise and rnce Leopold akriyed Qt BuekifigbmarPalace shortly pfner twelve o'clock, on .. .Tuesday, from. Windsor- casle.'fle Qee held a cotundil at halfpast twelve caestle.a Ihichue' were -present the Duke of -Marl- borough,the Duke of Rio ond th Earl of:19rad-, for, nd heEarofDerby. Her MaJesbtyleft Buckifgharm-palace at baif-pst four 'clck, ...

... Tuiesday, March 19. BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED.-W. ADAMSON, Sowerby-bridge, Yorkshire, cotton spinner-J. GILLARD, Drayton, Somersetshire, car- penter. BANKRUPTS.-(To surrender at the Bankrs-pts' Court, London.)-J. BRANT, Breotford End, Isleworth, hatter-F. DE NAEYER Oxford- street, billiard-table proprietor-I. K. SMART, King's-road, 'Chelsea, schoolmaster-1-1. FULLER, Strand, newspaper proprietor-T ...

... TOWN ED 1TION.jq TEE ERA OFFICE, SUNDAY, Two A.M. LATEST FOREIftN INTELLIGENcE (REUTmSB ' TELEGRAMS.) BELGIUM. BRUSSELS, MARCiH 16.-The report of M. Vandenpeereboom to the King upon the cattie plague in Belgium states'that the results of the preventive measures adopted imposes upon the Government thes duty of rendering them more complete. The Minister proposes to include in one Bill all the ...