... NATTIONA0L SCHOOL HISTORY. AMONG the numberless school histories of England extant there is one which is worth notice for reasons which will presently appear. It is not a new book. The first edition appeared in I845; but it has been frequently reprinted since. It bears no imposing name, nor does it assume to clear up obscurities or to settle disputed points. It is a very brief summary, ...

... CORRESPONTDENCE. VIRGIN MIARY WORSHIP. So Ske ED CTOR ?? PALL MALL GAZETTE. Sinv,-1 lately had to spend a few days in the South of France, and, iil particular at Avignon, Marseilles, and Lyons, I made sorne observa- ?? on the orowing popularity of Virgin Mary worship in those places ?? Ecu may perhaps think it worth while to print. All ti your readers who know Marseilles must of course know ...

... I ' It does not appear from the telegrams published this morning that the French troops have yet left Rome. It is stated, however, that the French Government has telegraphed a request to the Pontifical authorities to stop, all proceedings. against those persons who may have been compromised by their votes for annexation to Italy. The Garibaldian riots were renewed at Milan on Wednesday night, ...

... It would seem that the Emperor of the French has obtained no promise from the Powers to attend his projected Conference. The Parie of last night, thankful for small mercies, announces that no formal refusal has been received. A telegram from Florence says that the Italian Parliament will probably meet on the 5th of next month. Nothing more is said about the ramoured dissolution. A banquet was ...

... C2E SARISM IN FRANCE. To tihe EDITOR of dhe PALL MALL GAZETTE. SuIR,-I always read with attention, and I may add with great profit, the comnments which English newspapers make on the speeches of Napoleon III., whenever one of those enigmatical utterances takes place. Although the construction put upon them on your side of the Channel is generally considered too favourable by French Liberals ...

... THE FENIANS AND THE IRISH. The Tviscs observes there are wise people who tell England, till England is tired of hearing them, that the Irish never will listen to reason, never wll appreciate fair dealing, and never will see in humanity anything bat cowardice. Every now and then this estimate receives a painful confirma- tion in facts. What else can we think when we read the comments of the ...

... Some of the Paris papers of last night comment upon the Queen's Speechb. The France and Elendard, referring to the passage which recommends art early withdrawal of the French troops from Rome, express regret that encourage meret should be thereby given to Italian pretensions. The F'rance adds that England speaks conformably to her traditional policy, anxious about and jealous of French ...

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... A special despatch to the Nevw York Evening Post states that the members of the Judiciary Com mittee now declare that the majority of the conlymittee favour impeachment, and are confident that the project will receive the approbation of a majority of the members of the House of ?? This statement is made, according to the 77-ibune, upon the authority of Judge Lawrence, a member of the committee ...

... THE PROPOSED CONFERENCE. The Daily Alews doubts whether the Conference will meet, and sees no hope of any good from it. Of the Powers that signed the treaty of Vicnna, restoring and guaranteeing the Temporal Power and the possessions of the Pope, there is probably not one that would now accept the respon- sibility of such an undertaking. If the Temporal Power is to be treated as a purely ...

... . THE LORD MAYORS SHOW. The Times deems it a safe prediction that a Lord Mayor's Day which is only half a Lord Mayor's Day is on the highway to complete extinction as an occasion of pageantry. The day is not far distant when the Recorder will be spared the idle task of concocting biographical notices of incoming Lord Mayors, when the streets of the metropolis will know Lord Mayors' Shows no ...

... Mr. Percy Wyndham has already given notice that he intends to question the Government on the salmon fisheries of the Solway. Whether le and other salmon preservers will succeed in improving our still defective legislation in such matters, with Abyssinia absorbing all the chief interest of the present session, may perhaps be doubted. But at any rate there is one reason for hope. If we know very ...