... THE PRESENT STATE OF THE GREAT DEERHOU)ND CASE. To the EDITOR of thre PALL MALL GAZETTE. SIR,-Jonathan Yank, of Yankstow, out yonder, had a quarrel not long since with his brother and co-heir, Jeff Yank, in the course of which Jeft killed some of the Yankstow deer. The brothers had hardly made matters up, when my bailiff, here at Britworth, received notice frown Jonathan's steward that as the ...

... THE TROCHIU LIBEL CASE. The Times does not think that the witnesses brought forward by General Trochu's enemies in justification of their libel will throw any new light on a subject with which the general himself has taken the utmost pains to make us thoroughly familiar. He was as little of a Republican as of an Imperialist. He thought nothing of party, and had success crowned his, perhaps, ...

... THE career of the Ministry between the opening of Parliament and the Easter Recess has been decidedly chequered. They have had their successes; but it is doubtful whether they are of a nature to neutralize the effect of the censures they have incurred. The one have been matters of administration; the other of morality. And our whole parliamentary history shows this: that able administration, ...

... 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 ...

... SECOND EDITION, 2.30 p.m. BELGIUM. BRUrSSELS, March 30.-The MAenteatr of this morning confirms the state- ment already announced yesterday that the French Government, availing itself of the power given by Article 40 of the Treaty of Commerce with Belgium, has notified to the Belgian Government its withdrawal from the Treaty, which will accordingly cease on the 28th of March, 1873. AMERICA. ...

... CfTiq Obtning'q Otbjq. THE ATTACK ON THE QUEEN. EXAMINATION OF THE PRISONER. yesterday afternoon the prisoner Arthur O'Connor was brought up at Bow-street. The following report of the proceedings appeared in our late edition last evening :-The prisoner was undefended. On being asked whether his name was Arthur O'Connor, he replied in a loud sharp voice, Yes, sir. In opening the case, Mr. ...

... 06Cr! CA 0. Jv zlL 17O EiS. Mr. WN. Forsyth, brother of Mr. Douglas Forsyth, the Commissioner of ('rnballa, communicates to the Timts some important information about the Kooka insurrection. He says, A few days ago I received from my brother a letter, dated Umballa, January 26, 1872, and therefore written before he could know anything of what might be thought of the matter in Eirgland, in ...

... a GERMAN ACCOUNT OF SIR -I CHARLES DILKE'S NIHT. The London correspondent of the Ailgemehne Zeilung wrote on the 20th inst. :-The member for Chelsea yesterday attempted to justify his presumed 'Republican agitation, and repeated in Parliament his Newcastle assertions concerning the reckless expenditure of the Civil List, which he supported by certain statistics. If the question had really ...

... OCCASIONVAL NOTES. Mr. Gladstone undoubtedly displayed no little astuteness yesterday in speaking so early as he did in the debate on the second reading of Mr. Fawcett's bill. He rose immediately after the seconder of the notion had sat down, and intimated, after considerable periphrasis, that the Government would not oppose the motion, because they could not oppose the abolition of tests in ...

... THE WASHINGTON TREATY. The Times finds it impossible not to watch the continued negotiations of our Ministry with the Government of the United States with a certain jealousy and apprehension. If their fault last year was one of pure inad- vertence, we might (the TYmes says) rely on what has since happened to protect us against a repetition of it; but we cannot believe this to be the true ...

... --m PROMOTION IN THE ARMY MEDIcAL DEPAR TMENT. Now that the promotion of the officers of Artillery and Engineers seete about to be placed on a proper footing with reference to the important duties which they are called upon to perform and the standing of the officers of the rest of the army, our attention has been called to the promo-. tion of the officers of the Medical Department. This ...

... PARIS, Tlzicrsdey,. THE mutual concessions made by M. Thiers and the Committee on. M. Victor Lefranc's Bill are now said not to have led to any final arrange- ment; but then the phases of this contest change every twelve hours, and as neither the President nor the majority are inclined to fight, the pro- bability still is that matters will be amicably settled. Now that ther majority appears to ...