... FRANCE.-The calm that succeeded the violent storms of last week was devoted by all parties to reviewing past events and looking forward to the turn that things might take on Thursday, whe ...

... LAST Friday was the day set apart by general consent of the whole Anglican Church for prayer to the Almighty on behalf of mis- sionary effort. There was scarcely a congregation in the me ...

... TEE MXOMUS OPRU3M L&BOUREES M I BRAZIL. A correspondent, says 'the Daly News, ie'as tE that a series of letters of a peinfully intereotLV character have been received in Warwickshire fto several members of a batch of agricultural emigrantc i Brazil in May last. The families, were collected :j Mr. Alsop, an emigration agent, lodging in Forfiep, place, Leamington, close to the o Offices o the ...

... SJVM:'^. GALMS LAD MLOODS. Tho snowstorm which raged in the north of England on Mondayoiught caused serious damage to the telegraph wires. In Worcestershire the Severn has again over- fowed its banke, flooding the low-lying lands, and doing considearable damage to property. Mr. Essex, Leigh Sinton, Worresterehire, lost a valuable flock of sheep by the floods, and a pnpil of hin was drowrned. A ...

... TE3LIFIC GALE. Tle gale which blew over. London on Sonnb gt and continued with itejtriso ilno on Won. Iday' will lon.o be remembered as the moat severe which bae been ex ierlenced for many years. The a~pp irsuoce of the 6tre',t3 at daybreak on Monday morning Was ench as Laes only bcen A itnessed once during the last Siit years Tles, ,rhimueo3 -pots cf eartheic,.araroao n ine, asgzp ise In ...

... 3 A A D a M i f i., A1Y G. W. P GLENNY, aMi, DUE WidRliLY CALFINDAR, FLOWxnM.-Ni0. at. THE AUSUICDLA, This flower is propagated ?? by slips or seted. The bunt tune fur taking off, the blips is the firet or second- week inl August. This shiould he done by removing only as much of the patrentt root as can be, dons without icJury, an~d the opeirat ion cau be best performed wvith a blunt pieco at ...

... THIE;W COm IECI&UL TnATY. The Mancmchester Examiner makes the following im- portant statement - It is understood that the Manchester delegates who have given evidence before the Joint Commission in Paris have made a most decided impression upon the project of the French Gove:.smont in respect of compensatory duties. They have shown the inapplica- bility of this term to the duties affixed ...

... MR. GLADSTONE ON STRA USS. I ONE half of Mr. GLAbSTONE'S speech-if it should not rather be called his sermon-at Liverpool consisted of a set of remarks upon Dr. STRAUSS'S last book, Der Alte und der Neue Glaube. In every respect they are eminently characteristic of one and not the best side of their author's mind. In advocacy, in the management of details, in the power of appealing to ...

... CYPRIAN ANTIQUITIES. To the EDITOR of the PALL MALL GAZETTE. SIR,-It was with much pleasure that I perused lately an article in your journal drawing attention to the important archaeological acquisitions of General de Cesnola in Cyprus. I join with you warmly in regret that that collection could not be secured for our country. The value of antiquities must, however, largely rise in England ...

... UNAISI-IMNvT FOR CRIMES OF VIOLENCE. FOR several years -past an apparently increasing number of crimes of violence has been the subject of much loose and scattered observation. We are conscious ourselves of having contributed a good deal of this kind of occasional remark. Whether such crimes do really increase in number or in recklessness we cannot at the moment undertake to say; but either it ...

... Count Beust had arrived at Brussels yesterday on his way to Vienna. He eras expected to reach his destination to-day. According to the New Free Press, the object of his visit is to furnish the Austro-Hungarian Government with materials for a reply to the Duo de Gramont's letter asserting that Austria was on the side of France at the outbreak of the war in 1870. In Saturday's sitting of the ...

... DOTI1E DISSOLUTIONIST MOEMENT IN I :FRANOE. - i , _ _ (lacK ' on oWN CaORUPONDri T.) ' ' ?? EVERSAUlES, TaB aAY NIGRT. The expectations of the result of the great battle on the dissolutionist movement to- come off on gaturday vary, as is natural enough, according to the hopes and desires of different political parties. It was very suddenly that the Right resolved to put forward M. Lambert de ...