... 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 ...

... THE newspapers have just announced the visits of the leaders of the National party of Bohemia to the great Slav meeting at Moscow. This step is no doubt meant as a Czech demonstration against the new Austrian system, and as a hint that the Slavs of Bohemia will not scruple, in case of need, to associate themselves with the Panslavistic propaganda of the old Cossack party. The politics of the ...

... MISSIONAR Y WORK IN MADA GA SCAR.* OUTStDE of certain peculiar, though large, circles of religious tendency the stationary preacher of cities, towns, and villages is scarcely thought of as an evangelist in our own days; he is treated as a religious lecturer, and his sermons are freely handled in newspapers and magazines without the smallest deference to any claim they may make as divine ...

... . THE GARDEN-BY M&.GLENN. SEASONABHIl GARDENING INORt THIE WEE EMDING MAY 11, 187. , It is not a little slngular that some crops are backward, while others are much more forward than iusual, at this period. 'A man may 'ratoh these 'things very closely and seem puzzled, but so it is The Metropolitan Society, of Florists, whose authority; has beenrs looked sip to for years fixed the' shows for ...

... | B~iTr. J. 1 Toole on his Tour. Mr. Toole has been performing at the Royal Amphitheatre, Liver- pool. The Liverpool Daity Post says:- There are a few-very few we are sorry to say-actors on the stage, capable of presenting us with characters, the performance of which one is always eager to see, and when witnessed always delighted with. We might count these assumptions on the fingers of our ...

... THE REFORM BIjL. , I,, 11 I. _ TflE IDYIVION ON. THURSDAY MIGMHT REPBE~ATIONpF TBE PEDPLIM Bma6-COnsideiea inM Clommittee:-Ola1130 3:-Ar lidmlt proposed iso pageE 2, liue 5, to leaeve out the words; two y~eais,l In order to insert the~words ?? calenidar monfth.'(Mr_ Ayrton)-Quentiofl put:-- 'That the words proposedl to be left out stand paut of the ?? Commiittee divided; Ayes, 197 ; Noes, ...

... i' { AoNC GR EbT~ld~g.-iMi - To THO AiDVTOR MMFS DAZYN EWS. Sin,-There' are'few matters, pfpublic policy on |which ouseq4.dthights are Pso apt to depart as the Bale of church advowsons. Our first'impresion is,et both pu- .eh-iaw 6 gosaeae trust perish.with their money; the conclusion, to whichobsetvatiou `of ln'potism or of k ndred formsa of adminisiratiion led4s us is that a syatem. of ...

... eveRA~flI ITeL., |E. (sacTER'S TEGRAMS.) T11, pB.oPOSED CONFERENCE. VIENNA, MAY 1. o Tflicial Etcaninq Post announces that at the roposal f the Government of Luxemburg, the zodoi5 Cuiterece will. meet on the 7th inst. The sond j0111il aadds that Prussia, Russia, and m kustria INill be represented thereat by their am- yf passtdors at the British court. eE PARIS, M1AY 1, EVicNixa. re 'pie £ilet ...

... augh it vle a short hint to an impartial writer it would be to tell him his fate. f h~e resolved to venture upon the dangerous precipice of telling unbiassed truth, let hlit proclaim war with mankind-neither to give nor to take quarter. If he tells the crimes of great men they fall upon him with the iron hands of iuc Slav, if he tells them of virtues when they have any, then the mob attacks Iu ...

... THE FREAKS OF BUMBLEDOM. To 1le EDITOR of th7e PALL MALL GAZETTE. SIR,-I attended on Thursday last the Exhibition of Portraits at the South Kensington Gallery, and on Friday I attended the private view of the pictures exhibited at the Royal Academy. At both those places I observed that the parties who contract for keeping the roadway in order have repeated the mcauvcaise ?? of which they were ...

... MR. GOLDWIN SMITH ON AMERICA. To the EDITOR of the PALL MALL GAZETTE. SIR,-The letter of the Times correspondent in America yesterday, instead of giving any American news, was filled, through the whole of its two columns, with an attack on a paper relating to America, contributed by me to Mr. Macmillan's Essays on Reform. I will not go into the general questions on which my views and my ...

... THE NEXT STAGE OF REFORM. The Daily News admits that Lord Derby's description of the bill as expansive is just The personal rating franchise will be elastic in the hands of electioneering agents. The agent will get his forms of application for compounder householders for a penny each at the post-office by tens and hundreds; he will pick his men, and enfranchise submissive or venal voters, in ...