... 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 ...

... l1,PERIAL PARLIAMENT. BoUSlE OF LORDS.-FRIDAY. Tieir lordsldPS met at five o'clock. THE FENIAN SENTENCES. T lFFoRO presented a petition from Glasnevin, h ?? lilit praying forthe remlission of thle ,1aidbur et i el the Fenian prisonors. The pe- epl , Lch isively signed by members of the De- (,ion : w who had all been ready to support !,ace lIritie. in the late disturbances ; and he ehl- ahe aur ...

... (From the Mfedical Tiens nd Gazette.) There is no doubt that cattle plague has again made its appearance iii London. It was statedin the House of Cronsmons on Monday week that cows had recently died of the disease at Limehouse, and that 39 had been killed. On Thusrsday last a fresh case appeared in the shed of Mr Rance, at Islington. We have been able to obtain some infosruation about the ...

... 'TY NEM O U T C a ON sERVATIYvI ASSOCIATTON. I INAUGURAL DINNER. On Tuesday evening the first dinner of the Tyne- mouth Conservative Association was held in the Al. bion Assembly Rooms, North Shields. The associa- tion was formed a few weeks ago, with Farl Percy president, the object being to secure more united ReX tion in political matters of the Conservatives of the -districts. For some days ...

... I The New York correspondent of the Times, writing on the 15th instant, says.- The release of Mr Jefferson Davis on bail is, in all probability, the closing incident in his public life. Like General Lee, and other chiefs of the extinct Confederacy, be is anxious to withdraw into the strictest privacy and seclusion, and it is most unlikely that anything will occur to bring him before the pub- ...

... I (By Telegraph.) HOUSE OF LORDS, Y5nI IA. Their Lordsbips met at five o'clock. INCREASE OF THE EPISOOPATE. The House went into committee on the Increase of the Episcopate Bill. On the clause authorising the appointment of saffraggan bishops, The Earl of DERBY opposed the Clause, and objected to the appointment of suifragan bishops altogether. After some discussion, and without any result ...

... THE PRIVY COUNCIL AND THE NORTH RIDING 9EAMBHRI OF AGRICULTU4E. On Saturday we reported the refusal of the Lords of the Privy Council to entertain au application from the Xorth Biding Chamber of Agriculture for. the opeing of thl Maltou market for. the use of the North . ?? Riding farmers formeale of hored cattle, The refus'al was based upon the report of an outbreak of plague in the North ...