... THE ALABAMA AWARD. The award of the Geneva arbitrators has surprised most people. It was generally understood that England would be held liable in damages for the career of the Alabama (whose fitting out is a disgrace to all concerned in it); but very few were prepared to hear that wve were to pay for the depredations of the Florida gad of the Shenandoah. The Lord Chief Justice, in refusing ...

... Ad - _ I _ _ _2 _ -A AolQa!_ _ On Mlonday evening, at the Htal of &lience, Old- street-road, a.congreass of. the Federal Council of the International society was commenced. The members were ?? and Germans, though amorg the audience there were a few Englishmen and Poles. Several speakers disclaimed.all revolutianary spirit on the part of the International. Citizen Lundy moved the following ...

... LO)D CAEN&1VON ON WOREING MEN'S CLUBS. On Monday afternoon Lerd Carnavon laid the founds- tion-stone of a working men's club at Carlton, near Not. tingham. The building is to be erected entirely at the cost of the Hon. and Rav. 0. W. Forester, vicar of the parish. Lord CARNARVON, addressing the working men pre- sent, said if there was ore institution in England more particularly English than ...

... TO LIGE _ 0. THE NEW LICENSING ACT. persecutions and prosecutions are at present rife throughout the lid in conllection with the Government abortion known as the 1 EjLicensing Act. The gentlemen invested with magisterial power are making full use of the extra liberties granted them, and pteer~ceeding with a. vengeance to carry out the law in what they eiased to coil its integrity, and to make ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... '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 ...

... GREAT ;'FIRE AT CANTERBURY ' , . _ .. . I A A serious fire took place in Canterbury Cathe- dral yesterday morning. It appears that at about halfa past ton a plumber was at work in the roof of'the east end, when from some cause his coke fire got upset and set light to the dry timbers of the roof. Finding his own efforts to extinguish the flames were unavailing, he rushed down to the office of ...

... I THE -CONGAESS. OF: TH IT.USA ?? N.TONAL-ASSOCIRION. (rnox OUR sroroA Ceasr.op..) THIHAC*IJD, ItN r !i Mt¢ w T a The fact that: the tague hiab^ehaloated as of thevredidevouas- of the ?? of tbe tpWrk- |w ?? International Msooiatibn s ile ex-fr. Itidf of some' wag amiongqt tht leaders o re GeneralCouncil. Thevery name of heh6 .iqciation ;6i premises the faot that it in composed of men of | hi ...

... .NEWS ROM PARIS. . ?? REPUBLICAN CELEBRA`h)ON. (FRoU ouw owN oonan oirDBMr.- PARIS, SUZnAT NIGHTr The 22nd of September has gone off as quietly as the 4th-not only in Paris, but, so far arwe at present iknow, in all Prance. The projected ban- quet in Paris, to which only 160 guests wereb in- vited, having, as I said yesterday, been objeotbd to by General Ladmirmult, and the Governmen6 having ...