... In a new publication called Echoes from the Clubs, an old story of a fracas in the lobby of the House of Commons is retold, with certain particulars which were not published at the time. The world outside is. now given to understand that traitor and scoundrel were the exact epithets applied by one honourable member to another, and further learns that a gallant general, to whom the noble ...

... Whilst speaking on the Irish Habeas Corpus Suspension Act last night Mr. Bernal Osborne described a few of the trite formula by which successive governments prescribe for the condition of Ireland. He said that the Irish Chief Secretary always brings in a bill for the preservation of salmon, of which twenty have been brought in; a Peace Preservation Act, of which twenty-six have been brought in ...

... 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 ...

... SUMMARY OF THIS MORNINGS NEWS. According to a Paris telegram published this morning, the Commission on the Reorganization of the Army has not concurred with all the proposals of the Government, especially with that for the annual voting of the contingent. The Commnission desired that the vote for the contingent should be in the form of a special bill, and not a paragraph in the budget. It also ...

... PARLIAMENTAR Y INTELLIGENCE. HOUSE OF LORDS. IN the House of Lords last night Lord Derby explained the difference between the new guarantee as to Luxemburg and that for which it has been substituted. Formerly the duchy was guaranteed as a possession of the IXing of Holland, now it is neutralized. The guarantee is collective, not joint and separate. The Premier also stated that the Home ...

... THE LUXEMBURG CONFERENCE. The Times, notwithstanding the forebodings of confirmed croakers, per- sists in a belief that the labours of the Conference now assembled in London will' be rewarded by thorough and durable, no less than prompt success. Although there is a reluctance on the part of English politicians to infringe in any way the principle of non-intervention, it should be remembered ...

... 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 ...

... NOTES FROM ROMIE. RomE, afay i8. Tab secret consistory was held yesterday. It was thought that the Pope would preconize a number of bishops on the occasion; but, contrary to expectation, he proclaimed but three, one a diocesan, and the other bishops inaprtiiis ifidciini. The first was Monsignor Louis Haynald, formerly Bishop of Transylvania, who, after two years' occupation, had, on account of ...

... ROME, May 28. I AM now in a position to give you some information respecting the Italian envoy who lately came here incognito, and whose visits to Cardinal Antonelli have been enveloped in such secrecy. He is no less a person than the Marquis Pes de Villamarina, son of the Prefect of Milan, and the most rising diplomatist of young Italy; and he has conducted his mission so adroitly that the ...

... I The Luxemburg Conference held its fifth sitting yesterday at Lord Derby's- official residence in Downing-street. The Marquis de Moustier made an official statement on the subject of Luxemburg to the French Legislative Body yesterday. Having informed the representatives of the people that the treaty which had been signed had decisively settled the question, the Minister proceeded to an ...

... It is announced in a telegram from. Berlin that the exchange of he ratifica- tions of the treaty negotiated at the London Conference will probably take place to-day. The Emperor of Austria opened the Reichsrath yesterday, as briefly reported in our carlier impression last everting, and more fully in our second edition. After a short introduction his Majesty said,- What I solemnly promised ...