... WE printed the other day a curious extract from M. Guizot's contribution on modern European politics to the last number of the Revue des Deux Mondes, entitled France and Prussia before Europe. It is worth while to recur to the passage, both as suggestive of some serious thought, and also because it illustrates oddly enough the extremely imperfect character of the knowledge which is acquired ...

... FRANCE. PAP. a, 8.-Aficr a speech from M. Roue, h eaersle YtC i. lb 93 votes a-ainst 24, that there was no reason to send back the Ircss Law to the Corps Ldgislatif for reconsideration. AUSTRIA. IlPA, Mt'(71 4.-The Emperor Francis Joseph, previous to his departure for A ic1na, dlespatched his first aide-de-camp general, Count Bellegarde, to the ?? ambassador, Lord Bloomfield, vwith ...

... LAST DAYS OF CAPTIVITY IN ABYSSLvIA. CAMP BAFBA, DALANTA, April i9, xSG6. LTONG cre you receive this the welcome news of our release will Laave reached you by telegram, and I suppose the letters of the new>. Faper correspondents will have put you in possession of the principld details. I have, therefore, nothing to add, but simply to takee adva'ntqge of a few moments of leisure to give you my ...

... T'he Ulster Orangemen are still in a state of effervescence. On Friday and Saturday last they took offence at the presence of three members of the Redemptorist order in Banbridge, who have been performing religious services twice a day in the Roman Catholic chapel of that town. So they marched in from the neighbouring villages, smashed the windows of the Roman Catholics residing in Banbridge, ...

... TILE MITRAILLEUSE, OR MULTIPLE CANNON. THOSE: who take an interest in the ingeniouis novelties to which, toe pre- vailing activity in everything connected with the art of war is continually givin ri I haepoal pclated upon the amount of importance to beatace to thmnypaagahs which have lately appeared in our own and foreign papers respecting a certain mysterious cannon, said to be in process of ...

... THE CAMBRIDGE ADDRESS TO THE ARCHBISHOP OF CAN2TERBURY CAMPPIDGE has followed the example of Oxford in menmorializing the Archisho ?? against the University Bill. It was not to be expected that Mdr. W17alpoie, Mr. Beresford Hope, and the other speake who addressed his grace, should add very much to -what has already been said upon01 the subject, or that the' reply of the Archbishop to his ...

... MoTnday, 2 O'cloce. arftd Obuitmtd v ew. Two weddings in which members of the Orleans family are concerned are arranged to take place this summer. The Duke de Penthievre, son of the Prince de Joinville, and brother of the Duchess de Chartres, is betrothed to the Princess Amelia of Saxe Coburg. The Duke is at present travelling in Brazil with Duke Philip of Coburg, but is expected home in May. ...

... luesday, 2 o'cIOCk. Chid Obtnntq,4 flewd. The Dublin town council yesterday adopted an address expressive of their detestation of the attempt to assassinate the Duke of Edinburgh, and condoling with her Majesty under the circumstances. It is their desire to present the address by a deputation consisting of the Lord Mayor, the mover and seconder, and as many members of the council as wish to ...

... A-1,nJr, 2 O'Cb-k.2 C, laid ?? Vtwd- The Irish Conservative journals exp ress satisfaction with the vote a gainst Maynooth College, and in.ist that if disendowmient as a principle is to prevail, it shall be carried out completely, and all Ch urch institutions, as well as Churches, severed from the State and deprived of their grants. The Royal Commission on Primary Education in Ireland is ...

... A FEW months ago we went over the various arguments for and against the employment of Indian troops in our colonial and military depen- dclncies, a question which was referred to a Select Committee of tile I-ouse of Commons in February, 1867. While the balance of evidence saas shown to be decidedly against the general use of Indian troops, it appeared that the experimental trial of such a ...

... SIR NOR TON PE TO. TinpEr years ago Sir Morton Peto and a party of friends made a run diimi gh the United States on a sort of self-appointed mission. They gave tl Liselves out to be distinguished representatives of British capital and (rterlirse, and were received accordingly. Their progress was a series of ,auts, at inhich the lofty character and beneficent achievements of the TIC s (a fond ...

... EPITOME OF OPINION IN THE MORNING JOUD\\1 THE WEEKLY CRISIS. The -Times does not interpret Mr. Hardy's notice of his il; the rejection of the Suspensory Bill as a declaration of *,war. ment may oppose it for the sake of recording their hostiiitv u,( ' he trifling -with Parliament to do more. The diffiiculty a. to w sufmiage in Scotland, which appeared so alarming at t Ah b the week, is now ...