... BRIBER Y. TH1E House of Commons rightly thinks it of more importance to pass the Bribery Bill than to improve it. The members who, according to their lights, devoted themselves to the latter object on Tuesday might conse- quently have spared themselves the trouble of moving amendments.' Though the Government has behaved well in the matter, it is not desirable to try its virtue too severely; ...

... IPr is as rare to hear a sportsman as a farmer thoroughly satisfied with the season, and doubtless the September shooting of iS68 will not be so bad as has been feared. Nevertheless, we greatly doubt whether any large bags will be made either on the ist or for some weeks to come, except where birds are driven into gorse, fern, or short wood, which at this time of the year is hardly fair. No ...

... IROME, Jwze r9. THE clay before yesterday was the anniversary of the Pope's accession, and brought to the Vatican all the hierarchy and functionaries of the Eternal City, together with the diplomatic body, to present their congratulations to his Holiness. Those of the Sacred College were delivered by Cardinal Patrizi, the sub-dean, and drew from the Holy Father the following response :- The ...

... The United States have had enough of buying foreign territory for the present. Perhaps it would not be a bad plan for them to pay for Alaska as a prelim inary to a similar transaction with another Power. The Danish Wtst India Islands were offered for sale to the United States, and Mr. Stward had set his heart on obtaining them. A plenipotentiary was sent from Copenhagen to arrange the transfer ...

... 'IfOIdey, 2 O'clOCA. TRW Obellingld plewd. The Queen starts for Scotland to-night. Her Majesty will leave Windsor Castle at half-past six. The directors of the London and North Western Railway Company, at the express command of her Majesty, have remodelled the arrangement of the special train, and by the alterations thus carried out increased comfort on the long railway journey will be secured ...

... THE RAIL WVAYS AND THE PUBLIC. ALTHOUGH the House of Lords has allowed the bill for the amalgamation of the South Eastern and Brighton Railways to pass to a Select Committee in the usual way, this concession has been accompanied by a strong expression of opinion which augurs ill for the success of that measure, at any rate in its present shape. The bill is only a local bill, but it opens up ...

... TTIF TWO SIDES OF THE CHA NNEL. 1 JJJ t a v A_-- - AT the present time members of both the Corps LUgislatif in Paris and of Parlianent in London are beginning to shoW evident signs of weariness, and to look forward with wistful eyes to the time when they may be released from their duties, and so be enabled to seek health and pleasure in a cooler and iliore in vigorating atilmosphere than that ...

... UA7IFOR1IITY OF PUBLIC WORSHIP BILL. Till' debate on Lord SIHAFTESBURY'S bill on the uniformity of public worship came to the end which its author must of course hae expected, and a great part of the short debate which it occa- sioncd w-as taken up in a discussion of little practical importance as to the particular shelf on which it would be most convenient to lay it. It was, however, of very ...

... Friday, 2 o'aock. rIjq4 obtaa LI t _qd jotW#. A Dublin jury yesterday found a verdict for 75 damages against Lord Vaux of Ilarrowden, at the suit of a cab owner of that city, for injuries inflicted upon him by the defendant, an officer on the Prince of Wales's staff, during the late visit of his Royal Highness to Ireland. The defendant hired the plaintiff's vehicle, and was paying him with a ...

... HER JIA7ESTY'S OPERA. WuENT vwill there be somethning new, or partially new, to criticise at either of the opera houses? The literary critic has only too many new ?? to claim his attention the dramatic critic has two or three new pieces-original or adapted, but new all the same--to describe and com- mernt upon every week ; the pictorial critic has work to his hands in endless galleries, whose ...

... rTHE PURCHASE SYSTEM. E ITiOR of Ie PALL MALU, GAZETTE. } In the first letter which he did me the honour to write to the Gcs//e, criticising my speech on purchase, J. O. said that I I lot read the report of the Commission of 1856. In reply, ' r 1tat I had read it. He now accuses me of garbling and ctii X5Speeches. One always doubts a man's confidence in his \ 10 spports it by unfounded ...

... TI-IE POOR LA WS OF NE W ENGLAND. TxEF States of New England pride themselves upon doing more for the education of the young and the relief of the poor than any other section of the Union. Nor has it hitherto been difficult for them to prove their claimn to this distinction. Of recent years the enterprise and liberality of the West have enabled it to compete in educational efforts with the ...