... PARLIAMENTARY RE VIEW. HOUSE OF LORDS. IN the House of Lords yesterday Lord Granville called the attention of the Government to the fact that only one of two sets of papers had been laid upon the table of the House last night in reference to the Eastern Question, whereas both sets had been laid upon the table of the House of Commons, and had been published in the newspapers. He thought that ...

... SUMMARY OF TI-IS MORNING'S NEWS. There is news to-day of a Servian defeat. Hafiz Pasha succeeded on Mon1lday right, after two days of sanguinary fighting, in reoccupying Kar- schumli. T'he Turks under E-youb Pasha, who commands the Civic Guard at Novi-itazar, have also encountered and defeated some Servian troops, pursuing them to the frontier, burning six of their military stations, and ...

... THE EASTERN CRISIS. The Times remarks that the anxious suspense of the last few days with respect to the immediate course of affairs in the East still continues. Everywhere, in short, there are to be discerned a suspicion of opinion, a grave anxiety respecting the immediate course of events, and a vigilant attitude of observation. All the movements of other Powers are sup- posed to be so many ...

... Ga/ltignani states that a party of Chinese operatives who arrived in Paris some weeks ago have commenced work. A portion of them are engaged oa the foundations of the structure which is to be erected on the Trocaddro, whilit the others are occupied with fitting together the portions of the edifice, all in wood, which came from China properly numbered as a guide to the workmen, A temporary ...

... PARIS, Szuid1iy. GREAT satisfaction is expressed here at the prospect of the termination of the war, for it is generally declared that it may now be considered over, and that diplomacy will settle what remains to be settled. No pleasant view is taken of the part which England has played in this drama. And France, it is said, is enchanted, because, she says, she has been missed from her old ...

... CITY OFFICE, Cha~fo -ab'ey, CorktzhiM AMonday, HaZf-pcast Onte. Increased firmness was apparent in Home Government Securities at the opening this morning, and prices exhibited a further slight improvement. This rise, however, was not maintained, and Consols for irnaiediare delivery are now the same as on Saturday at 95 ,2 to 95/s, while for the account they ate I-i6 worse at 95 7-16 to 95 9-16 ...

... A letter from Tiflis in the Cologne Gazetle says that very little news is received there of the Russian military operations before Erzeroum. Most of the officers who arrive from the front agree in stating that, notwith- standing the extraordinary cold, the troops still occupy the heights of Deve-Boyun, which are 7,ooo feet above the sea-level. The reinforce- ments from Batoum are coming up ...

... III.-THE MAN OF THE WOODS. TnH keeper would be a tall man were it not that he has contracted a slight stoop in the passage of the years, not from weakness or decay of nature, but because men who walk much lean forward somewhat, which has a tendency to round the shoulders. The weight of the gun, and often of a heavy game-bag dragging downwards, has increased this defect of his figure, and, as ...

... UTRECIIT, TRANSVAAL, 2:. 3,. Tnr sudden change from intense excitement to comparative tran luillity i; curiously felt just now. A week ago no optimist would have veoturel to predict a peaceful termination to the crisis, and now we afc ccoparatively as free from danger as we were before the Blood Rivi conference. Such is the uncertainty of native politics. It is difficult to convey to an ...

... OUR READERS WILL DE IINTERESTED TO LEARN TA. THE SALE OF LLOYD'S ;NEWSPAPER Dunna T'E YEA3s 1877 Reached a Total of TWENTY-EIGHT MILLION, ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY- EIGHT THOUSAND, TWO HUNDRED & THIRTY-FOUR COPIES. LLOYD'S WEEKLY LONDON NEWSPAPER. I Russophiles are a strange set. Russia having courteously rejected the mediation of England for the restoration of peace be- tween her and Turkey, ...

... .XLGE:o IION ILrELLZ4E 1CEX. MARBOasOoGH.-It has bean arranged that Lord Charles Bruce shall offer himself as a caud'date for the seat rendeied vaecat by the succession to the peerage of hiis Ialfbrother, -Lord Ereest Bruce.- Lord Cbar es re- Tsresaoted North Wtilts until the fist election, when he lost his seat by the return of M; Reorge Estcourt. SALIIswuRy.-The Liberals of this city, taken ...

... OUR New Year's Day is distinguished by no special festivities. It was not always thus. In the time of Elizabeth, that maiden Queen furnished her wardrobe for the year from New Year's gifts. It is true she was obliged to make presents in return, but the praiseworthy economy, which is attributed to her with one con- sent by all historians, beyond doubt produced a balance, after the accounts were ...