... j VISIFfOF THE QUEEN TO GERMANY. (BY s5 La5b55f T=GAPEnaL) (noe OnE srECTAL cormEsrONDENT.) CE1sBoTJRG, SummAy. The Royal yacht Victoria and Albert, with the 5 Lively-, the Alberta, and. the Trinity vessel in 6 attendance, arrived here at three p.m., nearly an . hour sooner than was expected, although tie weather was hazy. The yachts bad a smooth passage. The Queen's .reception here will be of ...

... 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 ...

... SuIE ?? is d5os ?? Otli Sqit 01T1W5 1i ' ero llO ipjression, arising frain MitE~srol;.irc ll iritle, ws eottrlilel by a Plnrlgl-ftVP fO ideatity oi first cliristins mtht SI ltOi , f tls ooli iai a weekly ceontemptorary of tile in which it woe ?? ?? bekl ?? ?? :t tile Collrt Thetnre, all notol^, 'lowY that in Brolcs Spells,, %tohoprod ticrt wofto Ca tbe aso octet', Davine to Loudil, of 31o1 ...

... I ?? The House of Lords was last night mainly ocou- tied with the consideration of two or three mea- rires either directly ecclesiastical in. their character Dr bearing upon ecclesiastical subjeots. In the House of Commons, Mr. Cardwell was able to announce that all the difficulties connected with the holding of the Brighton Review had been removed, and that the committee of ommuand- ing ...

... 1. NEWS F I R -S ?? (FROM ova OWN conRRsrONDENT.) PARIS, TuwaY&y NiGar. The bureaux of the Assembly met to-day to appoint a comnmittee to consider and report upon B M. Lefrano's Bill, for which urgency was voted B yesterday, pro osing to postpone the meeting of the Councils-General from April 2 to April 8. It tl Seems a small thing, but the principle involved is considerable. By one of the ...

... --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 ...

... MIR. GOSCHEN AND LORD HENRY LENNOX. IN the course of the discussion which followed Mr. GOSCHEN'S statement last Thursday the question of naval efficiency was pre- sented in a new light. We are accustomed, in criticising the Estimates, to consider chiefly what the Admiralty propose to give us in the way of new ships. It is assumed that the navy is in fair order to start with, and that all that ...

... SoEDUT or THEB PBOPLE AND ROYAL D)EBTS. I TO THE EDITOR OF REYNOLIDS'S NEWSPAiPER. Sir,-There ba8 just been issued, as a parliamentary paper, an estimate of the sums required to bA voted for the expenditure of the year ending on the 31et of this month, in addition to the sums provided in- the estinsmate presented in the session of 1871. I find amongst the items the Sam of 10,0001. for the ...

... THE PUBLIC WALT- During the week ending Saturday,the 16thinatant, 5,576 birtbs and 3,584 deatba were registered in London and 20 other large cities and.towns of the United Kingdom. The aggregate mortality in these towns was at the rate of 25 deaths annually to every 1,00 persons estimated to be living. The annual rates of mortality lost week Sa tbe T8 English ;cities ?? towns were as follows : ...

... ITH T1 M]WRICKSHIME 4.Bo9URB1' STK1. T There. arex iniieations that this strike ivill not termioate. just at'pesen and that a confliet betw een the farnmers generally anud thg, newly-formed Labourers' 'Union is impending. The. farmeisare detegrinately op. 'posed to the union, whiolh, they assert,: by organizing a general strike t'a critical season, might put them to great incbovenienee,.and ...

... TiE THEUNDERE 1 1%he launch of 'the Thunderer; which is to takei: piace' this morming at PembrAke, is important onl various' grounds. It adds, in the flitst.place, to. the Navy, the 'most powerful ship but one in' the n world; and that gne, 'theDevastation, also belongs to our service; but it is remarkable as being the. g first shipiot iimportance wbioh has been constructed P at Pembroke. ...