... THE present position and policy of the South American Republics have not hitherto attracted the interest they deserve at the hands of the maritime nations of Europe. They have long been both struggling and isolated States, but few of them enjoying any great prosperity, and without exhibiting the spirit of union that ought to belong to colonists descended from a common stock. The national t'ype ...

... Fr.day, 2 iclock. Z? TTif; Obminqld Rewd. )REUTERS TELEGRAMS. EGYPT. CAIRO, Feb. 28.-The Vicer( y h, s decreed the diminutio of his army by onc-half. WEST INDIA, MEXICAN, PACIFIC, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. SOUTHTAMPTON, March I.-The R-yal Mail Company's steamship -Tasinanian?, with the above mails, has arrived here with Sr passengers, 3,364,275 dollars in specie, 2,905 packages of cargo, including ...

... 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 ...

... IN many districts of London, and probably elsewhere, a system prevails of i working the parish, according to the popular clerical phrase of the day, shich is a great deal more tiresome than successful. The charities and the energies of the kind-hearted are frittered away upon a multitude of objects, some of which are especially distasteful to so ne portion or other of the parishioners, while ...

... T ROME, eb. 23. TH E allocution delivered in the Consistory of yesterday by the Pope, so much more moderate and dignified than we have been wont to receive, has excited great dissatisfaction amongst the retrograde prelates, who are particularly incensed at its applying the title of Serenissima to the King of Italy. They also complain that he is spoken of as King Victor Emmanuel, a form ...

... The North German Parliament yesterday was occupied with the verification. of the elections. Herr Lasker drew attention to what he stated to be illegal conduct on the part of some Government officials who had superintended the elections in certain military electoral districts, but the House decided that the result of the elections referred to had not been determined by military votes. The total ...

... AT THE PLAY. To the EDITOR Of the PALL MALL GAZETTE. SIR,-I am writing a series of private letters on matters of political economy to a working man in Newcastle, without objecting to his printing them, but writing just as I should if they were for his own eye only. I necessarily take copies of them for reference, and the one I sent him last Monday seems to me not unlikely to interest some of ...

... TEE nigger-prior among men and things in his right to the epithet-has longbeen known as the typically irrepressible being. Irrepressible, too, is the Eastern question. Irrepressible are the nibbling rabbits of Heligoland. Greatly irrepressible are Messrs. Whalley and Darby Griffith. Most irrepressible of all is Dr. Cumming. But none of these-no, not the famous vial-conjuror, nor the oppressive ...

... THE CONSERVATIVE SPLIT. The Post reports that a hundred and twenty Conservatives met yesterday to urge upon Government the wisdom of at once granting the maximum -of concession. The advice was hardly needed, for it is well known that Lord Derby and Mr. Disraeli are not much afraid of Reform, and are per- sonally disposed to very liberal measures; but there are eighty Tories who have their ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS. THE Peers met yesterday afternoon only to receive some petitions, to postpone the solitary order of the day, and to adjourn. HOUSE OF COMMONS. THERE has been another revision of the re-revised code of rules for the distribution of educational grants, and it last evening fell to the lot of the Vice-President of the Council to explain and justify the changes proposed in that much ...

... BRIBER Y. ONE of the least satisfactory parts of the not very satisfactory speech of Mr. DISRAELI was that which related to the question of bribery. The remedy which the Government proposes, so far as it is disclosed, is to consist, it seems, of two parts. Upon a petition two assessors are to be sent to try the case on the spot, and there is to be an appeal to a select committee of the House ...

... Letters have been received from Massowab up to the 14th of January. Mr. Hlad, who had been there since the end of the preceding October, hif made several attempts to communicate with King Theodorus, but all his messengers had been intercepted. Intelligence, however, had arrived frorm the interior reporting that the royal army was hard pressed by the rebels on all sides, and that the captives ...