... 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 ...

... I ?? ebtningld Iltb3d. THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL ON LAW REFORM. The Attorney-General's paper on Law Reform was the principal feature in the proccedings of the Social Science Association yesterday. The following is an abstract: our English law was unscientific, and bore the impress of many minds living at different times, and this was the cause of much slovenliness in our legislation. Nine- tenths ...

... The French Government, replying to representations which have been made to it, has promised that no more arrests shall be made in connection with the Paris Commune, except in the cases of the leaders of the insurrection and of persons guilty of crimes against the common law. It is expected that the President of the Republic will return to Paris about the 20th inst., and remain there for some ...

... CALCUTTA, SePt. 3. I HAVE seen a copy of Mr. J. S. Campbell's report on the penal settlement at Port Blair, and it appears to be a plain-spoken and sensible document. He admits that, though the experiment dates only from x858, it has not been as successful as it might have been, and this he attributes to the want of continuity and system in management, to the undue limitation of the. powers of ...

... SECOND EDITION, 2.39 p.m. _ ?? RE UTER'S TELEGRAMS. FRANCE. VTERSAILLES, Sept. 4, Evening.-Telegrams from the departments state that perfect tranquillity reigns everywhere. No banquets or other demonstrations of any kind are reported. AMERICA. NEW YORK, Sept. 5.-Mr. O'Conor has positively declined the Louisville nomination, and the Convention has adjourned until to-day in order to fill the ...

... BABIL AND BEIO U. JUDGING from such probabilities as can be estimated by the non-theatrical world, it would have been pronounced a very hazardous speculation on the part of Mr. Boucicault when he chose the last week in August for bringing out a spectacular novelty in London on the largest possible scale. Would it answer at any time, it might have been asked, to introduce the Parisian ...

... THE GENEVA AWARD. The Times observes that acquiescence in the decision of the Geneva Arbitrators does not require us to accept without criticism all the reasons and opinions expressed in the course of the award. Now that the standing dispute is settled by the conclusions of the award, these reasons become of primary importance. They constitute a precedent of more or less value for the future ...

... PARIS, Y71tu`sdly. M. THIERS is expected here this evening, and he is to be received with military honours at the Elysde, where he will probably remain till the beginning of October, when he will go to Fontainebleau. The fact of M. Thiers taking up his residence in a city which is under the ban of the Assembly is to-day merely noticed by the papers opposed to the Govern- ment as extraordinary. ...

... - -- I -I PARIS, Zaesday. WHILE the ibgats approves the conduct of the Government in announcing its determination to oppose any manifestations on the 22nd of September in honour of the declaration of the First Republic, the organ of M. Gain- betta refuses to believe in the Ministerial circular, which has not yet made its appearance in the Offcial Jfurnal. This is a growl from a dangerous ...