... AN INTERNATIONAL CHOLERA CONFERENCE is to meet at Vienna on the 15th inst. OLIVER CROMWELI. iS the theme of a forthcoming drama bya Parisian author, M. Victor Sejour. CREMATioN is prospering in German ...

... iU'A1 W ) THE EXETER REREros.--Sir Robert Phillimore, the Dean of Arches, gave judgment last week with regard to the Exeter reredos, reversing the decision of Mr. Justice Keating, and declaring that t ...

... THE ASHANTEFS WVAR T11E following extract from a private letter of a military officer from the banks of the Prah will sufficiently explain our sketch of the encampment :- Yesterday we examined the ri ...

... I, THE LONDON MIssIoN.-We have given some account of theprogressof the Mission in our Illustrationscolumnsf The ten days' vork closed on Tuesday morning with a Thanksgiving Se'rvice in St. Paul's Ca ...

... THE COMING CRISIS 1N nRANCE. The state of affairs in France has once moore become difficult, and it is not improbable that the strength of Mr. Disraeli's Government in its foreign department m.ay be shortly tested severely. M. Rouher has addressed a start- ling letter to a journal of his department, in which he refers to the power of the Septennat as limited and almost ephemeral, and hints at ...

... ClJ'FINGS FROM THE COMIC JOURNALS. ,Ftrom unek,' A CoxMol- smno Vrsw.-Depressed Tiberal-BEi don' yer see. Gla'sbonv was goln' to 'bollsh th'.income-taxsh ?- Jocund Tory: 0, bother the tax) Letsh 'sve the income fnstIlI AGONISING, - Damon: Eulo, Pythias! Wbat's the matter?-Pytbiaas: 0, my deer fellow, 1've-tut-t-t-t-(Ob- Jurgatlons)-I've been writing to my tailor to give me another inch and a ...

... I LONDON SCHOOL BOAR; On Wednesday the firstmeetin after the Easterhoff- days weea held in Guidhall. Sir Charles Reed, MP4 presided. With reference to Mr. Peek's offer of 5001. w~hich was to be expended within one year in defray- insgthe cost of examinations in religious subjects, and4 in providing prizes or rewsrds forsach pupil teachers and scholars ino the Board schools as might, after such ...

... LLOYD'S WEEKLY LONDON NEWSPAPER. Public expectation was excited to a very high degree on Thursday night when the Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer rose to make his financial statement. Rumours and surmises had abounded. The enemies of the Govern- ment had industriously spread abroad the idea that all the money which prndent Mr. Lowe had been husbanding would be recklessly used by the ...

... I|- SUNDAY MouNIN4;. THsI MORNING'S TELEWRAMS. ([THoUGH s EUTMRS A3E5Cy]. GERMANY. BERLIN, Saturday Night. The Emperor and Empress of Germany have 1c cepted the invitation of Lord Odo Russell to a gikrate dinner at the British Embassy on the 6th inst. No gold was coined at the Imperial Mint du'ritg the week ending the 21st ult. HAMBURGnStitirday Night. A numerously-attended meeting of electors ...

... I E P T n D A CoBDIIOG to the census or Japan tor 1872, vwhi has just beens published, the countryr osont2 princes, 1,300 noble farilies, 30,0r 0 priests 33,000,000 of inhabitants. ACcoeDlG to advices from Palermo, Bsronr d who had been carried off by a band of ?? returned to his family, afnte having paid a ransos ,2 63,000f. in gofld TAEE more Republican papers have just been i terdicted from ...

... PROHIBITION OF STREET ADVER- TISING. __ .. . ?? . . . - I ?? . The meddling and muddling legislation,' with respect to home questions, which brought so much discredit upon the late Go- vernment, is apparently being revived by the Conservatives. A bill relating to Metro- politan buildings and management has been prepared by Colonel Hogg, Mr. Grastham, and Sir Henry Wolff; and has been reod ...

... TM INDIAN VAMINE. The following telegram has been received from the Viceroy, Calcutta, dated April 4, 1874:-Lieu- teuant-governor's fortnightly report states weather in fortnight singularly favourable; rain done much good early crops, enabled people to prepare ground for later crops; rain wanted in Tirhoot, where water in wells beginning to fail. Western Bengal, prices stationary; Calcutta ...