... By most persons engaged in commerce and trade the year on which we have just entered is looked forward to hopefully, as promising a revival of en- terprise and greater opportunities of acquiring profit. In no branch is it anticipated that 1870 will be productive of more important events than in enterprises bearing upon telegraphic communica- tion. On the 1st of February the British Govern- ...

... For some days Europe has again breathed more firely. All last week it was matter of doubt whether there would be peace or war. The with- ?? of Prince Leopold's candidature seemed to avert the danger. Gambling capital, and all the hungry troop who wait upon its looks and words, laughed aloud for joy and cried, To-moriow shall be even as yesterday, or yet more abundant. Half-employed industry ...

... jtus zf TIe Afitefh, Rome Notes. In the Roman Catholic chapels, on Sunday last, an archiepiscopal letter from Dr Manning was read, describing the invasion of Rome as a violation of all right, and an attack which is both sacrilegious and politically unjust. The pastoral further declares, from evidence which the writer says is beyond suspicion, that the plebiscite was not genuine. Mazzini's plan ...

... Sir,- I think exaggrerated ideas are prevalent as to the dangers to which our commerce would be exposed in the event of our being involved in war. O1ne hears it constantly asserted, and not disputed, that the temptation to prey on the floating wealth of England would be irresistible, that the ocean Would swarm with Alabalnas, and that our flag, whllich now covers every sea throughout the world ...

... While awaiting the final blow which is to decide the fate of Paris and the extent to which France shall be humbled by her victorious enemy; and while hourly expecting fresh accounts of death and de- struction, wve turn with relief from the sickening tale to contemplate for a moment events which are passing on the distant shores of the Pacific. There, as in Europe, a revolution is taking place ...

... The feverish and fretful jealousy of everything like local liberty of thought and action, by which Government is beset, finds an unexpected and un- timely expression in the ULkase just issued from Wbitehall. It purports to come from the Lords of the Committee of Council on Education, which, as every one knows, comprises only the President and Vice-President of the Department. It is ad- dressed ...

... We must congratulate the House of Commons on its fine assumption of official gravity. Any one who reads the report of the brief debate on certain sunis voted in the Supplementary Estimate will be grateful to see that, with tempting opportunities for sarcasm lying on every hand, the House scarcely relaxed into a smile, and finished off its business in a highly decorous and formal manner. There ...

... ENGLAND: April 7.--The infant son of the Princess of Wales, born day before, died at Sandrirngham. FRANCE: April 6.-The Commune issued a decree, orderhig:- 1. That all persons accused of complicity with the Government of Var sailles shall be immediately charged and imprisoned 2. Tlat a jury of impeachment shall be summoned within twenty-four hours; to take cognizance of the crimes with which ...

... The fatal termination of the assault on Marshal Prim has materially altered the nature of the experiment that is being worked out in Spain. So long as the Dictator lived it was to be presumed that the direction of affairs would have remained under his control. Now an actual as well as nominal transfer of power has been suddenly rendered inevitable. The author of the scheme for establishing a ...

... Another week of comparative uninterest in the details of the mighty struggle in France has passed, and we are not yet in sight of the end. The Ger- mans are taking things leisurely in front of Paris, and, with characteristic Teuton caution, are securing themselves in the positions they occupy. With such a gigantic task before them as the siege of Paris, they are not likely to retard ultimate ...

... CORRESP O ND EN CE. BRITISH GAME LAWS AS VIEWED FROM ABROAD. Sir,-Some time ago I wrote you an account of the happy and prosperous condition of the Austrian Tyrol, where I have spent several summers, and where game-preserving is most happily unknown. I have now been reading a packet of the Anti-Game Law Circulars sent on to me here. I am glad to find that MIr Peter Taylor is intending to ...

... ALLAHABAD, 14TH MARCH, 1874. This is harvest time-although to English ears it may sound unseasonable. But, then, what has India to do with English almanacks? Just now, when not only in woods and by hedge sides, but even in smoky London, the dingiest, most distorted old trees are clothing themselves in fresh green, we, -who through the winter months have triumphed in a glory of leaves and ...