... President Johmson has been summoned to appear before the Senate Court on the 13th inst. The Secretary of the Treasury has issued the usual monthly statement of the Public Debt of the United States. The total amount of the debt on the ist of March was 2,648,000,000 dols, against 2,651,000,000 dols. on the 1st of February last, being a decrease of 3,ooo0000 dols. The cash in the Treasury on the ...

... THE Caledonian Railway Company has just declared a dividend for the! half-year ending 3ist of January last, at the rate of 2'2 per cen!t. per annum, as against ?? for the corresponding period of the previoes elr. This is the sad result of the reckless mismanagemrient of the directors of the line during the last three or four years. M 1oreover, it nat Only confirms the strictures which led to ...

... CORRESPONDE NCE. THE BADGE OF SOCIAL SERVITUDE. ?? EDITOR of/hfe PALL MALL GAZETTE. SI,-I wish I could engage attettion, amidst the many more or less impl)ortant calls on it to which the newspapers daily give utterance, to ene interference with the freedom of the subject which appears to me to piasn increased severity every year. I mean the restrictive and reactionary Nwhiilh nowe regulates ...

... I POLITICAL PROSPECTS. The z m1s observes that though the readiness of the official members of the Conseivative party to serve under their new chief seems to have been in scine mreasure a surprise, it ought not to have been unexpected after the experience of last session. It was then made perfectly clear that those who rcmained in office were willing to follow Mr. Disraeli, and they express ro ...

... I EPITOME OF OPINION OF THE MORNING JOURNALS THE IMPERIAL PAMPHLET. The Times observes that the closer people look into the Imperial pamphlet on the 1 Titles of the Napoleon Dynasty the more they are at a loss for the reasons which may have determined such a publication at the present moment. So far as such things may be judged by spectators at a distance it is not by any means as to its ...

... OCCA SIOZVA L NO TES. The following is an extract from a letter from Mr. H. Rassamn, dated Magdala, Feb. 9, i868:- You x ill 1 e glad to learn that the Emperor still continues his mock friendship towards me, and constantly sends me very polite messages. I-le is now within eight hours' ride of this place, but at the rate he has been travelling sirce lie left Debra Tabor in October, he is not ...

... Sn j GOV TERNLvMENT AND THE IRISH CHURCH. 0 o not think that any one who has an adequate notion of the vlule of w ords Will waste much time in criticisingf the lan- guage of Mr. GLADSTONE S motion on the Irish Church. The 'ne Clharacter of the issue before Parliament and the nation is so lain and so broad that the precise terms in which it is expressed are of little importance. The gist of the ...

... FRANCE. PARIS. Mllrclz 13.-The Afocitezur of this morning announces that General 'de Failly has been nominated a Senator, and Admirals Reynaud and Fleuriot de Langle grand officers of the Legion of Honour. ITALY. NAPLES, MarcL 12.-A grand banquet was given to-day to Admiral Farnagut, Commander of the American squadron in the Mediterranean, by Admiral Provana, Commander of the Second Naval ...

... MR. BRIGHT'S AND THE GO VERNzvENT PROPO- SALS ON THE IRISH LAND QUESTION. MR. BRIGHT'S speech on Friday was so singularly temperate and con- ciliatory, and his proposals were so modified and were urged so suggestively, that there can be no difficulty in discussing them in a corresponding spirit. They are now reduced to this There is to be no com- pulsion, no gentle pressure even, no invidious ...

... qlji career of the late Dr. Robert Lee, of Greyfriars, Edinburgh, has ?? interest even for Englishmen in the present posture of ecclesiastical irs, Nobody can doubt that, assuming the Irish Church to be doom ed, III( Scotch Church is the next weakest in the three kingdoms, and this fact jjl Les it curious to watch how she meets the difficulties of the time. It ml :st be leimembered that the ...

... OCCASIONAL NOTES, 1 All Engineer writes to the Times to say that he has beell by a large foundry firm in the country to send them down half- LO,'Ki ?? is trimmers or fettlers f that he mentioned the matter to t of a foundry at the East End, telling him that the wages offered ?? t antd that the work was all paid for by the piece. The foremanl le tj there were plenty of trimmers and ...

... FOREIGN OFFICE AGENCIES. To the EDITOR of t/e PALL MALL GAZETTE. SIR,-My attention has been called to an article in your paper of yesterday, in which reference is made to an opinion unfavourable to the system of Foreign Office Agencies which I expressed in the year 1855 in the House of Commons. I think it right to state that a more intimate acquaintance with the subject, and much practical ...