... PARLIAMENTAR Y REVIEW. HOUSE OF COMMONS. BEFORE the orders of the day were taken Mr. Fawcett asked Mr. Glad- stone whether, as ithad been stated that the Government would consider the decision of the House on the instruction to the Committee on the Dublin University Tests Bill, of which the Chief Secretary for Ireland had given notice, as involving a vote of confidence in the Government, he ...

... PARIS, Friday. YESTERDAY there was some interesting debating in the Chamber on the.- subject of forty-six national museums, which appear in the Budget for 6io,coo f. M. Bardoux demanded to speak on this matter. He would not oppose the grant, but simply ask the Government to distribute the numerous works of art stored in the lumber rooms of the Louvre among provincial galleries. M. Jules Simon ...

... SUBSTANTIAL AND VERBAL QUESTIONS IAr GEOGRAPIZY IT is much to be wished that in these days of scientific congresses those learned assemblages would devote a little of that time and attention which they can spare from employment in mutual compliments and mutual criticisms to one subject on which they might really make themselves useful -that of terminology. More than half the disputes of ...

... SECOND EDITION, 2.30 p.m. AMERICA WASHINGTON, Sept. 12.-President Grant has openly expressed his satis- faction at the result arrived at by the Court of Geneva, not on account of the award, but because principles have been settled and the quarrel has been adjusted impartially and in the interests of peace. NEW YORK, Sept. ?? coalition party in Massachusetts has nominated Mr. Charles Sumner ...

... I The Russian papers announce that a commercial treaty has been con- cluded between Russia and Yakoob Bek, the Badaulet or Khan of Kashgar. A treaty of this kind has long been desired by the Government at St. Peters- burg, but the Khan always refused to agree to one of its stipulations, which provides for the free transit through his country, not only of Russian merchants and caravans, but ...

... lucus a non lacendo. We call it the forest because there are few trees or zone. Only here and there in some sheltered lap of the hills are some battered weather-shattered pines flinging their gaunt roots about the grey rocks where the mountain stream comes leaping from ledge to ledge. Or lower yet, where the stream debouches on the strath, a scattered copse of weeping birches, feathering ...

... 'y IESSON OF THE SAINT BARTHOLOMEW. at Social conflict can come to pass without many premonitory signs. o re ai full of them long beforehand. The importance of the imminent contest between Infallibility and its opponents, or at least the general belief i its imminence, is testified by ominous appearances, small and great. In Arthur KinIeaird's self-imposed mission to Berlin, in order to ...

... SWALLO W-FLIGHT. WHAT time the eel makes of moonless nights for the sea, when the gales of the equinox blow and landladies at the coast feel that their harvest is over, when Parliament is in the provinces and the leaves fall from the trees, the swallows prepare to bid us farewell, for, as the worn German song says, They dare not stay, they dare not stay, they must away. Some, indeed, like ...

... TElE House of Commons has made its first great concession to the mine-owners. The i4th clause of the Mines Regulation Bill enacts that owners or managers of mines who employ or permit the employment of women or children contrary to the prohibitions contained in the Act shall be liable to a penalty of 20, together with an accruing penalty of Li a day for everyday that the offence continues to ...

... ; FRANCE-Tbe Journal ~Oflintl of Wednesday ainounced the resignation af M. Pouyer Quertier. M. Dufaure, the minister of! justice, declared that he would leave the Cabinet un]ess MhI. Pouyer Quertierresigned. MM. Dufiure and Casimir Perisr made a personal question o4,,L Poulysr Quertier's description of the docum its communicated by them to the public proi utor in the trial of M. de ha Motte ...

... LLOY]D'S WEEKLY NEWS OFFICE, SUNDAY MORXING. THI}S MORNINGS TELEGRAMS. ITHROUGH NEUTER'S AGENOY,] THE GENEVA CONGRESS. GENEVA, Saturday Evening. The Court of Arbitration met at noon to-day, all members being present. The Court adjourned at 1.15 p.m. until 2 o'clock on Monday. The proceedings of the Court are absolutely secret. [FDOM TnE SwIss TInmS.] GENEVA, Saturday, 1.50 p.m. The full ...

... Te LORD MAYOR AND ALXANDRA-PAR. A deputation from the worsing qiases, W- itr upon the Lord Mayor on Tuesday, at the Mansion boose,to present tohim anobject of fine art workman- ebiP in recognition of his efforts to secure the Alex- rdra park for their use and benefit, Mr. A. Bolleter m1oanaoer of the German club and managing director 'f the People's Gardens company), after some prefa. tory ...