... A Swiss telegram says that the English Minister at Berne has formally thanked M. Staempfli, in the name of the British Government, for the inde- fatigable activity he displayed as a member of the Court of Arbitration. A telegram from Melbourne, bearing the date of yesterday, is published this morning. It states that the Education Bill has passed the second reading in the Legislative Assembly. ...

... PARIS, Thursday. ALTHOUGH the Bien TublZic at first declared itself satisfied with the result of the recent elections, it soon abandoned the theme, and is now being quizzed on this account by La ReyubZique Franraise. The organ of M. Gambetta says that the organ of M. Thiers has passed very rapidly to other subjects, as if the elections were of little importance, and that in speaking of the ...

... LATEST SUow Another meeting of the Cabinet was held yeste-'- afternoon at the official residence of Mr. GQIasan Y in Downing-street; . tei The London Fire-brigade only received One cell Friday, and that proved to be a false alarm oh A further outbreak of cattle plague was yesteda reported from Pocklington, oneof theinfeeted datlictI The Claimant addressed a crowded meet;t 4 Huddersfield on ...

... WHAT H|AS ONARCHY DONE FOR EUROPE ? -9-- To TMe ?? OF ?? lSrAPIL t Si',-Wlat has monarchy done for Europe' *What are the results of the prolonged sway o crowned heads over us? If a tree is to be judged by the fruit it bears, the monarchical tre, would be uprooted and destroyed to-morrow And if, on the other hand, republics are, to b, b judged by the results they have produced, why then, the ...

... TZEI 73XS3OP OF GLOUCESER, AMD TU I LABODR~ngBS- A conference was held at the Bishop's Palame, Glouoed. ter, between eight agricultural labourers, wih tho die- triet secretary, Mr. Yeats, and the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, to consider the best means of improving the condition of the agricultural labourer. DIr. k'rice, .P. chairman of the Midland Railway Company, and Eome leading ...

... . TH _ AT: ,2 li.3 5 Mr. Iassey, the ?? &andidato for Tiverton, ad- dressed the'electors. He'on6ii'nlatead them upon beind about for the first liineto ekerciie theif franchise nader the protedtionlof tie lballot, whicb he had always sup. ported'during his parliamentary career, and which he considered to be essentially necessry to the frees and ip dependent exeziiee of the vote. *Bt ...

... WHO SHALL BE RANGED? Some two hundred and odd years ago, whilst Charles the Second was merry-making with his courtiers and toying with his mistresses at White- hall, a Dutch fleet entered the Medway, and triumphantly swept everything before it. It seems not at all unlikely that the next visitation of th is sort will come from Russia. Oarl relations with that country are of a very ticklish ...

... RALMWAY ACCEDENTS. ?? Mr ASS TRAIN THROWN OFFTHE UI.ML terrible railway accident occurrqd near elvedon -atison a feiw minutes before one o'clock on Thursday efictutosl. A lady named Hainress, of Graffham , Sues- Iuskilled,andaRnumber of otberpassengers dread. ije t7is;ured., The damage done to the Great Eastern 050tny'sptoPertYiaalsnvery cousiderable. The train slsed the Yarmnoulth express. ...

... LORD SAISBURY., ON1100a0ti'; . , I? l I K I l (paoyt OUR ?? OOUtBS5ilONDI~WT.) 50 MANCUESTRAt Th5IAX EvMWGxca. hic This afternoon the Marquis Of Salisbury attendaed i meeting in the, yica Trade Hall, to distribute, prizes and II certificates, awarded as the result of the' Oxfordo Utllvr- a! sity examination in the M&PO'hester,cantra. .1 The Mayor of X&eORii5TB (Mr. WI 'Booth), took -the'h ...

... TO THE rifol Or DAWT lOEO NM. Sm,-It is ver'y seldom I see the Stacsdqrdo but the other day & gentleman called my attention to an article in it professing to criticise your Special Corre- spondent's desoription of the Pearhyn Slate Quarries and the social position of the ?? appears thatithe passage in your Correspiondont's able letter which scan- daliaed your ConBervative contemporary is that ...

... tM, E, 3. ERED AND Ot RONCLADS, F ON TO 5'0 RDIT TOs3o TM 'DAny S. 13t,-Xr. Reed, in his second letter to the 2Titane, published on the 24th inst', has done bis best to reconcile Us to the want 'of the ironclad ships which, he tells us, Mr. Gosohen to his discredit has failed to lay down during the last 2k years,' by lis assurance that, had they'been built, as they are now only ordered, ...

... GREAT RELIGIOUS DEMONSTRATION AT, LOURDES. 8 (1aY SUBMAiRLXE THraAr.1rn.) ' (snoN OUR SPECIAL CORRESONDrENT.) LOURDES, SUNDAY EvEmNoG. A great procession in honour of Notre Dame de Lourdes took place to-day, and passed off in a very iv peaceable manner. Threo hundred and fifteen ban- D ners, headed by a black velvet banner from Alsace, and one crape-covered from Metz, were carried t in ...