... 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 ...

... The question of improved dwellings for the London poor is one that is daily growing in importance and in public interest. The sub- jeat comprehends a far wider field than is at first sight apparent to the superficial observer. The material comfort of the work- ing poor is by no means the only result that will be achieved by their installation in healthy homes. The change would operate upon ...

... I RIOTOUS SCENE, AT A NAVVI,' HOTEL. | At the Bolton-by-Bolland petty sessions on Tnes- day, Geo~ge ?? Robert hiisgleton, Jame, Bfesferd, Thotas .Bfeasdele, and Joceph~ Gardner were chargad with robbery and wilful damage. At Whitewdll over i200 narvies in the employ of the Preston Corporation are making a ressrtoir, and huts have been erected for the accommodation of the workmen. The ...

... -. SYLVAIN VAN DE WEI ER.; The life of M. Sylvain Van de Weyer, which terminated on the 23rM inst., is one that de- serves more than a passing notice; and it is to be hoped that it will be the subject of a popular book. M. Van de Weyer was the architect of his own fortunes. His father was a humble civil employs at Amsterdam, and he himself was intended for the Dutch navy. But the early ...

... ves sthat, ter) it, ?? ivaGES OF AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS. TO T'P3 RDITOR7 OF REYNtOL.DSS YtINV8W&PRPE S1uj,-A most iraportant retur.s has just been printed--a return of the ?? of agricuiltural lsbourer5 in the two quarters erdiog Mlchaelmas p11 Chsianmaz, 1872. It was ordered in May, js73, sent in by Mr. Hibbert on the 28-h of July, pnd next d&y ordered to be printed. Nire monthe giterwarde, in ...

... Own DO&lAT voIrmuOpoxi02Ze, CHuncH DipipxmuxNcX-The Pos 5sys :-The Public Worship Bekuiation Bill passed its second reading on mopday night in the House of Lords without a division, qfter a debhte of considerable interest extending over nearly seven hours. Although no one approved of the Bill as it stood, there aws .a tolerably general conviction tbailegislstiou of eome kind was necessary; and ...

... Mr Richard Edgar does not fail to bring down on himself the contempt of all honest avid virtuous auditors, by his faithful dis- charge of the ungracious task of impersonating the repulsive character of Uriah Heep.-Exa iascr, November 14th, 1S73. Mr Edgar's Uriah Neep deserves also a avord of praise. Ile was as 'umable as 'ulable, and gave fittingrepulsivenless to the secotid villaill of the ...

... BARtRY SULLIVAN in Liverpool. Tule almost tropical wcather wihich we are experiocing in tlis usually fickle nirorith of April had, as miight have beco expected, no cffeet oil the brilliancy of the first ilight of the new cigagellenit at the Aniphithcatrc, which was uncomnfortably crowded last nlight by a host of onthusiastic admirers of Mr Barry Sullivan. The great actor appeared in one of his ...

... ALLAHABAD, 14TH MARCH, 1874. This is harvest time-although to English ears it may sound unseasonable. But, then, what has India to do with English almanacks? Just now, when not only in woods and by hedge sides, but even in smoky London, the dingiest, most distorted old trees are clothing themselves in fresh green, we, -who through the winter months have triumphed in a glory of leaves and ...

... The Emperor Alexander arrived at Stuttgardt yesterday afternoon and was received by the King of Wurtemburg in person. At five o'clock there was a family dinner party, and afterwards a gala representation at the opera. The Emperor will leave on Saturday evening for England. The NVorlk German Gazelle of last evening publishes an article upon the visit paid by the Czar to Prince Bismarck. A new ...

... THE FRENCH SALON, i874. PARIS, May 2. THE 9ist Salon-or the I75th if we count the yearly exhibitions held at theF Louvre from I699 to 179i-was opened yesterday. I attended the private exhibition on Wednesday, varnishing-day, and my second visit yesterday confirmed the impression that this Salon, like those of i873 and 1872, iT inferior to those which preceded the war. None of the pictures are ...

... No change of any importance has taken place in France since the Assembly separated for its long and ill-earned vacation, There are still two extreme parties which know precisely what they want, a large and fluctuating centre which does not want the same thing for two weeks together, and a Government which sympathizes entirely with no party and does its best to shape a zigzag course which shall ...