... PEDANTR Y IN POLITICS. THE reception of Mr. GRANT DUFF'S speech at Elgin is, we hope, a sign that the nation is beginning to discover the practical uses of political pedantry. In quiet times it thrives unchecked; for in quiet times there is no irregular incursion of facts to disturb the easy current of dogma, to endanger prophecy or arraign the prophet. But as soon as some new chapter of ...

... 1 (2ueauR AmrrZa AGENCY.) 1 MBRDEB OF GERMAN SOLD1:EIRS IN FRANCE. BERLIN, DIn. 21, Evmrm, X Prince Bismarck has addressed a despatch to X Deunt Arnim, the German Ambassador in Paris, ( Rated the 7th inst., in which, alluding to the acquittal of murderers of German soldiers in Prance, he declares that in future, should the French authorities refuse to give up assassins, the Germans will be ...

... THE ALP.' I acrambles amongst the Alps 1, the very title will reall to many of oar readers glorious hours of severe toil, of some peril, but of intense enjoy- I mert, although none may-. have achieved such I success upon the Playground of Europe as that recorded by Mr. Whyrmper. How Alp-I climbing becomes a passion may be readily uuder- stood even by men whose own feats as moun- taineers ...

... ,I By the arrival of the above mail we have advioes from Bombay to Dec. 2, Calcutta Nov. 29, Madras Nov. 30, Ceylon Nov. 15, Hong Kong Nov. 16, Melbourne Nov. 6, &o. INDIA. The Bombay ?? of Dec. 2 states that tbe troops ordered to take part in the Camp of Exercise ?? have now nearly all reached the neighbourhood, atid Lord Napier was expected to join the camp at once.- In ordinary course (it ...

... * The Emperor of Austria was to deliver his speech from the throne to-day. it Was expected also that the estimates for 1S72 would be presented to the Lower H-ouse of the Reicbsrath. A telegram of last night says that, according to these estimates, the expenditure will amount to 359,380,933 florins, and the revenue to 308,599,859 florins. The deficit will consequently amount to 50,7S1,074 ...

... . . ?? TO TMt 33rrI OD BAMY MM. S,-Can you afford mee space in your journal forth. followingletterarelativato'the inconvenieaces ei- perienced by travellers en the Underground RHilway ? The following is a copy of a letter written by myself to the aetingmanager of therailway, and explains itself: Bayowater. Dear Sir,-I called at Mr. Fenton's offlce tbis morninw e and being told that be was out ...

... srr~i'GI,' 7.1WLDTAXID RA.JIuATAX 'NORlMIJ22. *v ta MWfIhiji 1' 'e v ' Wohs, Derby, tototed out k body, tO, oo1. CI 0't( vow-iue dlssati~l'atcica eeespwivtiii itle it )dizoerAGe 'pvrnion'rs 'utf. their, hounts of, 1ihuIxnr-vix, dVA bonwd wae.,gv. A few weeks otlo the 'Mdlano~ ?? in diredotr n Ct' prsexi their vcdl~ioqtsse to roesoedo ~ 'thtlJ vi 1vrltt oi'tt U (lien Loous' sy.Aste but Bonad ...

... IrfttO C-beninalO Ottod. THE AMERICAN CLAIMS UPON ENGLAND. The 0Ilorziing Post says there is an unpleasant rumour, as yet whispered only in unusually well-informed circles, concerning the extent and nature of the case submitted by the agent of the United States Government at the recent meeting of the arbitrators under the Treaty of Washington at Geneva. If our present information is ...

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... HOME NE WS THia best news of the week is that the Prince of Wales is grow- ing steadily better, the bulletins are being issued at less frequent intervals, and in spite of some renewal of anxiety at the death of the Prince's fellow-sufferer, the boy Blegg, there is good reason to hope that we shall not again have to spend such a black Christmas as that of ten years ago. The late frost was ...

... a WORKHOUSE CHRISTMAS DEPRATITY. I : A_+ - , my Yesterday morning I happened to look in upon it my friend hardknat. Hardknut is of the grocer persuasion; he is a strongly pronounced political ,I economist of the pitiless school, and may be de- bt scribed as Brutus, Cassius, the typical hard-hearted :tb vestryman, and the skipper of a Yankee emigrant liner rolled into one; with the additional ...

... TO IMITOa OX TH1* DAILY Hl;WB. SIR,-There is surely something wrong about existing telegraphicarrangements. Myhouse islenssthahi eight miles from Charing-cross. Tooting railway station is within a few flelds of my garden; Balbam and Wim.. bledon railway stations are each' within half an hour's walk; omnibuses pass my door, and there are half-a-dozea lines of railway which can be. made ...