... 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, ...

... 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 ...

... 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, ...

... 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 ...

... 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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... THE PROPOSED CONFERENCE. The T7Ymcs agrees with Lord Derby that a Conference to arrange the affairs of two countries, neither of which concurred in it, and neither of which held itself bound by the decision, must be a waste of diplomatic energy and ability. Even if the Italian Government consented to attend the Conference, and to submit itself to the decision of the majority, it would still be ...

... TELEGRAPHIC MESSAGES. To the EDITOR of the PALL MALL GAZETTE. SIR,-Some people, being of an impulsive and liberal turn of mind, are fond of corresponding with their friends by telegram-the cost being to them but is. or 25. per message. I have the misfortune to live seven miles from a telegraph station, and I have twice this week received telegrams upon trivial subjects, and upon other people's ...

... We are semi-officially informed from Paris that the Chevalier di Nigra is coming to London with instructions to confer with the English Cabinet respecting the proposed conference on the Roman question, and to notify that Italy adheres in principle to that object. A telegram from Rome of yesterday's date says that the Insurrectionary Committee of Action has been discovered, three members of ...

... THE 3DECKER YOB. Tirux story of the Jecker bonds, which were the original pretext of French intervention in Mexico, is not new, but it has just been retold by Coant de Keratry in a very clear and detailed manner, and as it is a very signifi- cant episode in an important chapter of modern history, it may be worth while just to recall some of the chief features of the transaction. The candid ...

... Besides the Emperor Napoleon's speech (which was printed in full in our second edition last evening) there is very little continental news to-day. The Emperor says that the necessity of resuming the interrupted discussion of important laws has obliged him to call the Legislature together earlier than usual ; and, he adds, recent events have further caused me to experience the wish of availing ...

... MIR. ERNEST -ONES ON THE, ARISTOCRACY. CERTAINLY it would be difficult to imagine a more singular instance of that unconscious irony which so often shows itself in people's proceedings than was afforded the other night by Mr. SAMUEL MORLEY when he took the chair at a meeting presided over by Mr. ERNEST JONES, and gave more or less countenance to that gentleman's views on economical subjects. ...