... ,Rttvs of I?t Mth, Home Notes. An influential meeting of the Liberals of South Essex has been held at the Green Dragon, Bishopsgate, for the purpose of selecting candidates. After a full discussion, Mr Wingfield Baker and Mr Andrew Johnston were in- vited to offer themselves to the constituency of the new division. The re-election of the Chancellor of the Exchequer (George Ward Hunt, Esq.,) ...

... al'b~a: 6rnlOie SUMMARY OF RAILWAY NEWS. TRAFFIC RETURNS.-The traffic receipts of Railways in the United Kingdom amounted, for the week ending April 25, on 13,226 miles, to 722,3821., and for the corresponding week of last year, on 12,913 miles, to 728,9521., showing an increase of 313 miles and a decrease of 6,5701. The gross receipts on the fourteen principal lines amounted in the aggre- ...

... Saturday Evenng. PARIs, Feb. 8.-In the latter part of yesterday's sitting of the Legislative Body MM. Picard and Jules Favre strongly dwelt upon the necessity of establishing trial by jury for offences of the press. The debate upon Article 10 will be continued to-day. FLORENCE, Feb. 7.-At the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies to-day the report of the Committee upon the Budget for Foreign ...

... RUITUALISM AT BRIGHTON. ?? seems to havemade ?? atDIgilbt, for, according to a statement contained in a contemporary, the young people of that town ' almost to a man or woman, or rather almost to a boy or girl, are ritualists either actually or in tendellcy. Notorious as St Paul's used to be in the earlier days of the ritualistic movement, it would seem that the cpremonies at Mr Wagner's ...

... Bpatbilia. Mes's3 W. and E. Chambers entertained a large corn- P`IY iu the Douglas Hotel, St Andrew Square, last week, I'elebratin of the completion of Chambers's Eneyclopedia. 1b5e 21Ontyon prize of 2,ooofrs. has just been awarded by t Pren'ch Aeademy to 21. Mlezi6res, Professor of Foreign Li ?? in the Paris Faculty, for his ' Life of Petrarch.' 'Lie Jv dcl ]hcaris has reason to believe that ...

... ,flE ERUPTION Op VEBuVIUS. Cn- N-ne --rre.nemd.mt wridino ounthe 2' L. s#v Our Nsples correspordmint writing on the ' 2i., sgy: 'f This town has been afflieed by sidrecdfulcatasrophe, :lby whi ch mlany perstoe have lest tce'r liT'eo. Tloe of your readerswho hsebeen at Y.tpes will roicrutbor th wayby Santa lftacia to thi Chir orrune, ?? betweeu ?? anciert Villges of Ltcullhit, iow Ctia ...

... FId B t E E: !T O UGIET T IBRID-E. iwo 7.rtIIItT)tIS ONT01 To DOSOTO. On \iOondry morniing, nijunt ir ooci ch-, A Urn rvs de'novered in oito U' rop ci M.r IV i. ?? hewcrtr, orbiriot lod 0a. i ru, I' 1w ', U 1 nmltihridirn. .Ir. rr'1:erlr rr'' his Fe n hr't.etr' e. e dite Sin i Id eroitngi63,trot Ii evil pic ly of wrur. I ao ?? tho Dcigtltonvn 5rerongud to eO(!flUD tL Li to; tlten V 1,1O) ...

... kTHEE CON DUNED DNSE isflD2. FALSITY-OP TiE GLASGOW iAL -:i ,t;. (From thoe Gloasw liorae ofd:.f Sstatd:) iS -Our readers -.vill no doubt rememeoir thst4h6 iriao hei keewai0r uliebtael Dl'Nul'y waO3 apO aalpal~wbtaessii ut' ?? ?? alibi ait the m ?? tn-favour hle oP tbo trieoner-ij3rrett. MANi71ty n-yore a nt eiieiv iu' ad. ,open court tbht bc kne w Barrett; that bebaid .eee leon td, three ...

... ARCHIEPISCOPAL LOGIC. To Sie EDITOR of ?? PALL MALL GAZETTE. SIR-Perhaps, even after your article of yesterday, the letter which the Archbishop of Armagh has addressed to Mr. Gladstone may deserve a word of comment. It is the expression of an alarm that, considering the position of the writer, will appear extremely natural. He looks forward to a time when many Irish Protestants will have no ...

... 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 ...

... THE SUPPOSED MILTONIC DISCOVERY. To the EDITOR of the PALL MALL GAZETTE. SIR,-The interest excited by the supposed Miltonic discovery con- tinues, it seems, unabated. The quiet and modest letter of S. M. P. to the Times ought now to set the question at rest. He argues against the lines being Milton's from the recurrence as many as four times in them of the neuter possessive its. It has ...

... IVE referred lately to the opinions that Dr. Knox has promulgated concerning the Celtic race, and the odd way in which some of thein at least prove themselves as true at the present day. His views of the Saxon race are no less worthy of considering at this moment. He recognizedas Saxons the English, Dutch, North German, and United States mlen, to which he would no doubt have added the ...