... CITY, THuRSDAY FvsEiwc,-There wasabetterifeel- ing in ?? and foreign markets on Mlonday, and but for a further upward movement in wheat the. tendency tovards a return of confidence would perhaps have been more distinctly observable. The report on the Caledon'ian saiway, from Its favourable character as to the condition ofathe line and its rolling stock, coapled with the fact that, even taling ...

... THE FEMAN CO13PIRACX. COMMITTAL OF AN IRISH LEADER The divisional magistrate at Dublin ?? T. S. Dix) attended on Thursday at Kilmainham gaol for the purpose of conducting the investigation into the case of Ferguson- aas Patrick Lennon, who was arrested in Dublin on the 5th inet, on suspicion of being the man who led the attacking party on Step- aside and GClenoullen police-barracks, on the ...

... TBE SPECIAL CONSTABLE MOVBSENT. The number of special constables who had re- speeoded to, the call of the government up to Thurs- day was, in the city and metropolitan districts, no iess than 46,201. From country towns 38,535 have been returned as having been sworn in, so that the grand total as reported is thus increased to nearly 85,00k. There can, however, bh little doubt that the real ...

... Thursday, 2 o'clock. TTTfd (t-btufnqld OeW. Bishop Selwyn has already started in his new diocese of Lichfield a scheme for the establishment of a permanent synodical organization. Resolutions have been moved and adopted at the synods of the clergy held after the Bishop's visitations to various districts of his see, which, if carried out into practice, would secure for the diocese a very ...

... MALTA. VAL~rrETTA, yam 7.--The Ottoman ironclad frigate Malimnekid, from Crete on the 5th inst., has arrived here. The Grand Vizier was still there, endea- vouring to conciliate the population by appointing Christian governors. The Norwegian corvette iXordjerneit, reported ashore at Mitylene, arrived safely at Smyrna yesterday, and was about to leave for Alexandria. The Indian steam transport ...

... y7,JE SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY. no particular reason why the 5ooth concert of the Sacred oI oi 1; cietyv given in Exeter Hall on the 13th ult., should be made I ',9ici significance. Neither was there any reason whatever why [ t d lC not. I ve hundred is a good round number, and served well whereat to halt and glance back at the road already travelled. ;1,. it lffobrded an occasion for rejoicing ...

... THE LAND TENURE OF IRELAND. J ,I'0oR Of If/Ie PALL MALL GAZETTE. 2 t , .1A-airg been connected with Ireland all my life, and having e ti fifteenl years been the owner of property in the counties of 1 1 . lOford, on which there are between 300 and 400 tenants, I (i'uu ntetiyst1mony to the fact that since the famine in 1846 it has ' I'11 hi]s usual than before to grant leases, landlords having ...

... MILITAR Y RA TTENING. As civilians, we are diffident when writing on military matters, all the more so because our contemporary, the Army and Navy Gazette, is ever alive to catch us tripping and to set us right. But last week we were taken to task by that vigilant military critic for having under-estimated the portative powers of the mules attached to the Abyssinsiarn expe- dition, which he ...

... The excitement caused amongst the game preservers of the Borders by the resolution passed at a recent meeting of the Hexham Farmers' Club, that many farmers suffer a heavy loss from damage to crops by hares and rabbits, that landlords who preserve many hares and rabbits participate in the sins of the poachers by leading them into temptation, that it often happens that poaching leads to ...

... I'm. f;ost ,lance at the revenue returns published on Wednesday reveals ag that is othervise than satisfactory. It is only when we begin to caunairx themi a little in detail that we discover the unpleasant and almost nl ee ofindications they contain. The year, as we all know too well, has nor of general stagnation, of heavy losses in trade, and of much ?? of unployment and consequent distress ...

... It appears that the French papers which are to be prosecuted for publishing illegal reports of the proceedings of the Legislative Body are the Constitutiolnne4 ycnr~naldes D~cbats, OjiniZon2 Nationmale, Teinfs, Avenhi National, 7ournal dc Paris, Unsiona, Sicl, Intrit Public, and Glaneur. No case has been found against the SEfoquc, Presse, Lane, Gazette de Paris, and Revue Nationale. The ...

... CORRE SPONDE NCE. SIXTY YEARS AGO. Se ato ErATOR of/he PALL MALL GAZETTE. SIR, -If you will take the trouble to read the following account of tile state of things upwards of sixty years ago in a community with which Alle \ritcr was then familiar, you will judge whether or not it will be a useful .contrilution to the discussion now going on about popular education. a he Lo'lard parish of , in ...