... THE FINANCE OF THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION. The Tivi esa allows that under the circumstances there is not inuich in the Ministerial proposals as to taxation for the expenses of the Abyssinian expedition that can be seriously contested. At the sane time it is necessary to understand that we are preparing a deficiency of a million this year. We cannot flatter ourselves that the uncol- lected ...

... ]r-iday, 2 O'ClOCk I Vrid (T-benilm'd Rewd. REVTER'S TELEGRAMS. THE HURRICANE AT ST. THOMAS. I.IVFRr(CL, NAIOV. 8.-Telegrams received by the Liverpool underwriters ccnfliming the news of the disaster at St. Thomas state that the crew of the Rhoie were lost, and part of the crew of the Wife, and only twelve passengers by the steamer for Southampton were saved. ITALY. PARIS, ANr'. 8 (4.48 A.M.!. ...

... . RomE, Nlozv. r9. THE search in the apartments of Mr. Odo Russell was ordered by Monsignor Randi, the director of the police, and was effected by Major Eligi, at the bead of thirty gendarmes. The Major secured the co-opera- tion of an architect who knew the structure of the Palazzo Chigi, and was thus able to make a thorough examination of the premises, beginning with the vaults, and taking ...

... FOR the first tine since 1857 Parliament has been summoned for a ninter session. It has been often remarked as somewhat incon- sistent that Parliament, claiming as it does the right to regulate the administration of the country even down to the most minute details of executive work, should be content to exercise its authority during only half the year, leaving the Government altogether without ...

... SPORTING GUNPO WDER. THERE is a tendency among sportsmen at present to use a very mnuch coarser-grained gunpowder than has hitherto been generally employed for fowling-pieces. And we have very little doubt that in the main sportsmen are right in this matter. But it is quite certain that a good many of them: are wrong in the train of reasoning by which they have been led to this conclusion, ...

... THE COMMITTEE 0N BREECZ-LOADERS.- THE object of the question which Lord Elcho asked in the House a few nights ago on the subject of breech-loading military rifles may not be at once' apparent to some even of those who have followed this subject with close interest. The question was to the effect whether the decision of Colonel Fletcher's committee on the various breech-loading arms submitted ...

... TEE Palestine Exploration Fund is in straits for want of money, and unless the public responds to the earnest appeal of Mr. George Grove, the hon. secretary, on its behalf, it will have to bring its investigations to an abrupt and premature close at the very moment when they promise valuable results. It is now two years since the fund was established, and in spite of preliminary difficulties, ...

... PARLIAXENTAR Y INTELLIGENCE. HOUSE OF LORDS. THEIR lordships were occupied last night with a discussion on the Bishop of Salisbury's charge. The clergy and laity of the diocese who are dis- satisfied with the Bishop's teaching, having failed to induce the Archbishop of Canterbury to interfere, sent a petition through Lord Portman begging for the appointment of a tribunal to which such ...

... We have news this morning of the adhesion both of the Pope and Italy to the Imperial scheme of a European Congress. The consent of Italy is announced by the FrFance of last night. A Roman telegram of yesterday siys that the P'ope trakes his adhesion contingent on the restitution of the MIrches and of Vivibtia under the guarantee of the Powers participating in the Con- fielece. His Holiness ...

... MR. LOWE'S speech at Edinburgh against the exclusive scheme of classical education which still practically obtains at Eton and in our universities, is already producing its effect. What the right honourable gentleman said on that occasion had, indeed, been said on many occasions before by other educational reformers, who have long thought as he thinks; but then it had probably never before ...

... 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 ...

... CORRESPONDENTCE. WHAT IS A WHITEBAIT? To bie EDITOR of fie PALL MALL GAzETTE. SIR,-The interesting letter which Mr. Francis has published in your paper of Tuesday opens up a 'question of much scientific and of considerable national importance. The subject of the zoological relations of the whitebait is one to which I have from time to time given some attention, and I am glad therefore to find ...