... TEE Zimes lately published two columns of closely printed matter purporting to be the translation of a memorial presented to the Chinese Government by Mr. Hart, Inspector-General of Customs, respecting the changes which increased intercourse with foreigners have rendered necessary. It is not to be wondered at that Mr. Hart, in the responsible position he occupies in the Chinese service as the ...

... THE WASHINGTON TREATY. The Times, referring to the discussion which Sir Stafford Northcote has raised concerning the misunderstanding of which he and his fellow Commissioners seem to have been the victims, ?? cannot avoid the conclusion that the fault of a misunderstanding belongs to those who suffer from it. It is the duty of those who negotiate any contract to take care that the ...

... SECOND EDITION, 2.30 p.m. REZTTER'S TELEGRAMS. SPAIN. MADRID, May i5, Evening.--The result of the attack directed by Marshal Serrano against the bulk of the Carlist bands near Durango is shortly expected. In the other provinces the insurrection is dying out. ITALY. ROME, May ?? to-day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies, Signor Visconti-Venosta announced that the Government had taken steps in ...

... SECOND EDITION, 2.30 p.m. FRANCE. Aix, July 17.-The court has pronounced sentence upon the band of La Taille, which committed such atrocities last year. Garbareno and Galetto have been condemned to death, Fringhieri to ten years' solitary confinement, Bellora and Montegazza to twenty years' penal servitude, Montaletti to five years' imprisonment, and the woman Arese to hard labour for life. ...

... SECOND EDITION, 2.30 p.an R EUTER'S TELEGRAMS. GERMANY. MUNIcH, July {S.-The Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Germany left here for Berchtesgaiten soon after nine this morning. The Dowager Queen of Bavaria accompanied their Imperial Highnesses, who were loudly cheered by the assembled multitude, to the railway station. SPAIN. MADRID, July 17, Evening.-Sefior Zorrilla has issued a circular on ...

... PARIS, Fridary. YESTERDAY the discussion on one of the three most important articles in the Army Bill was commenced. It was more than once feared that M. Thiers, who was exceedingly restless during the debate, was going to reappear in the tribune, but he confined himself to shrugging his shoulders and frequent intercourse with the Marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat. The article before the Chamber ...

... UNHZAPPY PlINE-O WNERS. MR. FOTHERGILL has been one of the principal opponents of the Mines Regulation Bill in the House of Commons, and he yesterday favoured us with a full account of his objections to this kind of legislation. We are obliged to him for the opportunity he has aflorded us of restating our views upon this subject, with the certainty that we are in possession of all that can be ...

... PARIS, Fridaay. ,,'ITDAY the Assembly made up for the time which it lost in the general scussiof of the Army Organization Bill by voting no fewer than five ;inportant articles with hardly any discussion. Compulsory service was greed to with an amount of unanimity which showed how wisely g Thiers acted in withdrawing his opposition to that measure, which even 1,'gr. 1)p11nlorip considered it ...

... or It (? C-beninald otb3q. MR. JUSTICE KEOGH'S JUDGMEN-r ON THE GALWAY ELECTION PETITION. Mr. Justice Keogh gave his decision yesterday on the Galway election petition. His judgment occupied nine hours in its delivery. He unseated Captain Nolan on the ground that his election was procured by undue influence and clerical intimidation. No jury, he said, could hesitate to say that Captain Nolan ...

... THE VOLUNTEERS. To the EDITOR of the PALL MALL GAZETTE. SIR,-My attention has been called to an Occasional Note on the volunteer debate in last Tuesday's Pa/i Miall Gazette, in which it is said that Lord Elcho and Colonel Lindsay would like to keep us in a state of apparent efficiency and real inefficiency, with an imposing force upon paper, and less than half its members attending brigade ...

... OUR NAVAL ADMINISTRATION. The Times remarks that the state of our naval administration, which Mr. Childers properly abstained from discussing before his constituents at Pontefract, is likely in the coming session of Parliament to receive a full share of public consideration. It is to be hoped the discussion may not degenerate into a partisan struggle. What the country wants to know is whether ...

... IPITOME OF OPINION IN THE MORNING JOURNALS. I THE AMERICAN NEGOTIATIONS. The Times observes that a strange misconception pervaded the speeches ff Lord Granville and of Mr. Gladstone yesterday evening. The point I' rot, as Lord Granville and Mr. Gladstone laboured to establish, 1hether the Senate agreed in accepting the words of the supplemental article, but whether they are agreed with our ...