... 7AiR. RUSK1N. lNAUCGURAI ,LECTURE AT | O| 1 0 RI)D. Y (tcrdar ny r. [Rushin ?? ICed his inanlglorad lcaurc as Slaile Purofessor of F'ine Arcs to a ?? auc',leaco in the Suelnonian Tlheatre at Oxoi-rd. .Aftcr scren prefatory rctarr.es. he proceeded [O po nt icn Chat while it was good l ?? we shouald add sonic p ractice of the lower a] i.; io orl -Lenh'ire of, u(i ecrsat.V caction tI Ot l te thin ...

... Ro.ME, yan. 25. After the Council had been sent to sleep yesterday I)v the to prosy, bishops, Monsignor Strossmeyer a;cendcd the tribune, and, by his powerful voice and ail id cloquence,gave new life to the flagging debate. His speech was equal to that which he delivered on the question of Rationalism on the 3oth of lDccenber, and produced as deep an impression. On the present occasion he made ...

... The new church dedicated to St. Stephen, at Hainpstead, (whioh has been erected on a site given by the late Sir T. M. Wilson for the purpose, and known as The Green), was performed on Friday by the Bishop of London, in the presence of a large congregation. The service of the day- morning prayer, litany, &c.-was conducted by the Revs. J. Kirliman, Charlton Lane, E. H. Bickersteth, and one of ...

... THE FUTURE OF THE ARHZY. WE have lived for some time in rumour and confusion respecting the contemplated army reductions. Through this misty atmosphere diim figures of coming changes loon dimly. But amongst them Reduction itself is unmistak- able enough. That stands out with a distinct- ness which belongs to the substantial. But, after all, it is the shadow only that we see. We know no more ...

... I I left Vail Iffall O'clette. I SA TUR DA .4 AfA IRC~r 1?, 1870. ZIEL DEIBA TE ON THE ED UCA 710 AZ BILL. T1fE success of the Government up to this period of the session is something almost un- precedented. They have introduced two mea- sures of the most momentous importance, and both of them have passed the second reading with a mere show of opposition. On the whole, we cannot but be glad ...

... THE AF1 AIRS OF ROME. . 1I' is generally understood that the Liberal Rooman Catholics, w~iile acutely disliking any declaration by tlec Council at Rome of the dognma of Infallibility, arc of topinion that, in the Schema iu st distributed to thc bislhops, it assumes a form much less objection- able than hcey had reason to expcct. What they ii coc looking for was apparently a formula so pre- ...

... SAN SEDASTIAN, A.AriZ 6. As I told you in my last, the drawing for the con- scription, which was to take place last Sunday, was opposed more or less in all parts of the country, but especially in Barcelona and one or two other large towns, where the opposition assumed rather alarming proportions. Everyone is anxiously awaiting the result of these disturbances, to see whether they will spread ...

... F1{OMOTION AND RETIREMENT IN THE NAVY. The following are the principal details of the new scheme of naval promotion and retirement explained in the House of Commons on Monday night by the First Lord of the Admiralty The scheme is divided into five parts. Fart I. deals with the active lists of officers of the fleet. It is proposed that staff captains shall be retired at 60, or at airy age if ...

... Might we not ask that Lord Campbell's Act for prohibiting the exposure of nasty books and pictures for sale should be extended to nasty advertisements? For example, there is an establishment which has long flourished in London under the name of the Judge and Jury, which adapts every new scandal under some such title as the Lunatic Divorce, the Pretended Petticoats, and so on, as an ...

... PARIS, Sunday. PERFECT tranquillity reigns here after a week of disorder and excitement, and the only apparent squabbling is in the columns of the papers which continue to analyze the recent vote. The Tempss of this evening publishes a table which shows that while the seventeen departments of France which stand the highest as far as instruction goes recorded 450,07i negative votes, the twenty ...

... IRISH OUTRAGES, iS69-iS7O. EY command of her Majesty a statement has been laid before both Houses, giving an account of the outrages committed in Ireland during the past year. Though some of the offences recorded in this paper hardly fall under the ordinary notion of outrages, especially when the scene of the transgression is Ireland, coining, forgery, embezzlement, bigamy, and perjury are, ...

... FRAIN CE. PAR1S, .S'ahfi'dy A- i., There is a great marshalling of hosts in view of the comnlg struggle in the Corps LUgislatif over the questions of hom~e policy to be raised by A\. Jules Favre on Monday. A. Tiriers evidently means work, as he excused his absence at the meeting of the Lcft Centre yesLerday, on the ground that he desired to keep himself fresh. It will be well to remember that ...