... An old and interesting controversy is likely to be revived in connection with the successful production of Hamlet, and a general desire to see what can be done with England's Shakes- peare in other quarters. When Hamlet appears, for the first time on record, with a dagger as well as a sword; when the Prince of Denmark stands before us in a loose silken jacket, edged with sable, pronounced by ...

... LAST WEEKrS LATEST NEnv., - - -- _- '77itifoUoirg appeared in our ldijtion of lot SV MR. B0OORD, M.P., AT GRJfrlETWIR. Oa Friday night the Con-crvative te::,r n nhich atldressed a meeting of h 9 con tii tur- ' Lecture Hall, Royal-hill. 'I tho Mr. BooRD met with a h'artv reception fron hjs tupporters. On the subject of ritualihin, he etiut3 .eb may that the votes ho gave on tl e Pablic ...

... THE PRESENT? AN1D THE VT~EEE. Lord Lynti .ton, woha distriha'lei the prizes at the Qucees Institute, orai jarciaid a- Mr. Greg, in Ila- wo k entitled ' R4saks Ahead,' do- snonstrated, be belies-di laaa-est sntoaaalaltha many of the most iffe 1raat IL1C~lenac upon. which this counwry baa-i rhelc Iurso ~ in-my yA~ faa- the iu(,enil of commeircial andrem. n-a iu-',y coa-d no batit lenave pu in ...

... FOREIGN IXTELLIGENOE. ?? FRANCE-The number of municipal councillors elected on Sunday throughout Prance exceeds 428,000. General Ducrot. who commands the army corps of the Centre- issued an order requiring the rmilitary authorities to arrangel with the civil autho- rities for' forcibly repressig any disturbances that might occur before or during the elections. The Minister of the Interior has ...

... I In explanation of the telegram received two weeks ago relating to the expedition of Colonel Gordon, the following has been received from the New York Herald correspondent at Khartoum:- Lieut.-colonel Long was sent from Gondokoro to the Court of Mteea. King of Uganda, a district on the shores of Lake Victoria. Two Egyptian soldiers alone accompanied him, and the journey, though difficult, ...

... THE LATE DISASTER ON THE CLTYDE. The funeral of five of the unfortunate men who perished in the sad disaster which befell the cutter of the Aurnra on Thursday night week took place at Greenock on Mon. day. Their names were James Sharp, chief engineer, a native of Davenport, who died after being taken out of the water; Frederick Morgan, gunner's mate, a native of Plymouth, who at first was ...

... SECOND EDITION, 2.30 p.m, (SPECIAL TELEGLABI.) PAPI ;, Monday.-There was some excitement on the boulevards last night. A slight disturbance occurred at Frascati's, Order was maintained by cavalry patrols. The Radical complexion of the municipal elections has had a stupefying effect. The men elected are more extreme than the Democratic press had rcccnmmended. The b'l7wts is silent. The organ ...

... CiUM DAILY ONTZXPOnAp.I.- ANOTHERS RErunLIcAx TRvTO-w IN FivANCF,.- The 'limes ?? Sonday las' the electii nn to the msuicipal couuloihi were held in every part of France except the capital. Theae conneils ferM cue of the most useful institutions of the country. In every consn une members arie chosen according to its . msnlatiaot, nid the great majority of these are rusics o( quint and simple ...

... THE POLAR EXP DITION. The first meeting oE tee fellows of the Geographial! Society after the inaugural address was held in the Hall of the London University, Bonlingion glrdens, when a large number of ladies and gentlomein, including Lieut. Payer, of the Anstrian Polar expedition, wore present. Sir Henry Rawlinson presided. The SECRETARY having read the names of the nev members, in number the ...

... PRINCE ALFRED 0O EDIURG Twhe baptism of Prinee Alfre'd Alexander W~ilism Ernest Albert, grandson of her Majesty, son of the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, was selemnised at Buckingham palace ata quarterpast one on Monday. Her Majesty, the Empress of Russia, the Prince and Prinaess of Wales, the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, Princess Beatrice, the Czarewitch, the Duke of Cambridge, K.G., ...

... ROYAL PRIVACY AND ARROGANICE. TO THE EDITOR OF REYNOLDS'S NEWSPAPER. SIR,-On accidentally taking up a copy of one of the evening papers, I found, among many other important items in a well knows column, the following interesting piece of news :- The public were excluded from the station in order that her Majesty's privacy might not 00 disturbed. This was dated from Windsor, on the 201h ...

... WEEC:3 OP AN ATLANTXC STEAMER. The American papers give particulars of the wreck of the steamer Dclta, outward bound from London. A de- spatoh from Montreal says :- Some of the passengers of the steamer Delta, of the Temperly line, arrived in town yesterday. From them we learn some of the parti. culars of the mishap. The Delta left London on the 23rd of October. It was soon discovered that ...