... .PORTRAITS COATEMPORAZNS, B1. THkOPHILE GAUTIER used to say that he had written articles and tales enough to fill some. three hundred volumes, ce qui fait que tout le monde m'appelle paresseux et me demande d quoi je m'occupe. The boast was perhaps almost as much an exaggeration as that other saying about Gavarni, that he might have built a large house with the lithographic stones he had ...

... LJe Journal ?? states that the mixed commission which, since the conclusion of peace between France and Germany, has beea sitting at Strasburg for the purpose of settling the claims arising out of the cession of Alsace-Lorraine, has nearly completed its labours, It has decided the questions as to the caution-money which had been deposited with the French Government by persons holding office; ...

... PORTRAITS CONfTEJIPORAINS. * AL THtOPHILE GAUTIER used to say that he had written articles and tales enough to fill some three hundred volumes, ce qui fait que tout le monde m'appelle paresseux et me demande d quoi je m'occupe. The boast was perhaps almost as much an exaggeration as that other saying about Gavarni, that he might have built a large house with the lithographic stones he ...

... REPORTED ASSASSINATION OF DON CARLOS. (8PrECIAL TELEGRIAM-BY DIRECT SPANISH CABLE.) SANTANDER, Tuesday, 10 Am.--A letter has been received here from Durango, stating that Don Carlos has been assassinated. He is said to have been shot by scme of his own people. 12.50 F.M.-The report is confirmed that Don Carlos has been wounded. One version of the story is that he received the wound while ...

... TBlE REGENT'S PARK EXPLOSION.-THE ADJOURNED INQUEST. This morning Dr. Hardwicke resumed the inquiry into the circumstances attending the death of the three men who were killed by the recent explosion on the Regent's Canal. There was a large attendance of legal gentlemen repre- senting the interests of the Regent's Canal Company, the Grand Junction Canal Company and others. Major Majendie, ...

... MEIER Y ENGLAND. f MR. HARRISON AINSWORTH, when he takes hold of some period of history. and writes what he calls s a picturesque chronicle, reminds us of nothing so much as a child who has got to himself a large pumpkin, and scooping cut the inside and cutting the rind into some resemblance to a hideous face, keeps it till nightfall, and then sticking a candle into it, hopes to scare, and ...

... SECOND EDITION, 2.30 p.m. FRANCE. PARIS, Oct. 3, Morning.--Marshal MacMahon will, it is asserted, give a series of fetes at the Elysee during next month. M. THIERS IN ITALY. MILAN, Oct. 2.-The Mayor has paid a visit to M. Thiers to proffer his services during the stay of the latter in Milan. M. Thiers thanked him, and con- gratulated him upon the immense progress made by Italy of late years, ...

... The latest series of commercial reports issued from the Foreign Office contains the following report by Consul Blunt on the coal-mines of Dranista for the year 1873:- A party of English engineers baving recently surveyed, on behalf of the Viceroy of Egypt, the coalfield of 1)ranista, and excavated from it some 350 tons of coal, which they have sent to WTales for the purpose of satisfactorily ...

... $ MR. HUGHES is a painstaking and well-informed writer, and in many passages as readable and agreeable as we can expect to find him in a work studiously adapted to the purpose of speedy reference. We must object, however, to the elasticity of the limits he has assigned himself, which inakes i; somewhat difficult to ascertain on what points he may or may not be consulted satisfactorily. For ...

... 1IUGIJES'S GEOGRAPHY OF BRITISH HISTORY. -- . . I X I -- so -- r. -, ! - - :- MR. HGHIIFS is a painstaking and well-informed writer, and in many passages as readable and agreeable as we can expect to find him in a work studiously adapted to the purpose of speedy reference. We must object, howevcr, to the elasticity of the limits he has assigned himself, which makes i; somewhat difficult to ...

... SECOND EDITION, 2.30 p.m. REPORTEI) ASSASSINATION OF DON CARLOS. (>.LECIAL TEIGI;0LAMF-BY TilrECIi SrANItII CABLE.) SANTANI)rp, Tuesday, 10 ?? letter has been received here from Durargo, statirg that I)on Carlos has been assassinated. He is said to have been shot by srine of his own people. 12.50 ?? report is confirmed that Don Carlos has been wounded. One version of the story is that he ...

... A - A .. n L- I Crry OFFICE, Change-a1ty, Cornhril. I Friday, One o'clock. a The Markets opened with a firm appearance, but quickly relapsed. The closing prices of yesterday are, however, fairly maintained, except in railways, and in a few of the securities in the Foreign Market. There is a moderate demand for money in the discount market at a shade lower than the Bank of England rate. On ...