... * .. POLITICAL AFFAIRS. --The opening of Parliament on Thursday is dealt with in another column. Lord Derby was not expected to be able to attend, having been unwell for some days. Mr. Mitchell Henry ...

... . C Q- fl RRAL J'~OTES W.I THE YEAR'S FOREIGN FOOD. -The recently-publlished Board of Trade Returns show that last year we expended upol agricultural commodities from abroad the enormous sum b 96,879 ...

... 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 ...

... TH7IE Governor of the Cape Colony is as far as possible from being an alarmist. Most persons, indeed, who are acquainted with his public career would be inclined to say that he leans to the side of optimism in politics. He has a high reputation for tact, for prudence,. for moderation in language and purpose, and he is not in the least likely to cause unnecessary embarrassment to the Government ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...