... FORESIGHT AND NEGLECT IN ASIA. I EDITOR of the PALL MALL GAZETTE. S'T5,-3lhe extract from the Pioneer which you printed in the Pall G17(/1(. of Saturday with reference to Russian naval resources in I~. rstful) confirms the view you have taken for months and even ~~s ?? the danger to which we may be exposed in the ?xcl Oca at the commencement of a war. According to the ,.i-Ci'l jculal of the ...

... TIlE WELLINGTON MONUMENT IN ST. PAUV'S TiiE monument to the late Duke of Wellington is at length thrown open to the public. We have been kept some eighteen years in expectation of this event, and we fear we must say that the result, although to a certain extent satisfactory, does not justify so long a delay. In the first place, the monument is erected in a most inappro- propriate situation ; ...

... ? M ?? ?--ZAA otat THE WAR IN THE EAST THE ROAD TO CONSTANTINOPLE OUR sketch will give but a faint idea of the horrors of the road the Russians traversed from Philippopolis southwards, along which thousands of refugee families had for weeks been flying, before the victorious Muscovites. Seventy miles of utter desolation, writes a correspondent of the Daily -ews, seventy long miles strewn ...

... NTh LAYABD .ANID NR GLAP?TONE. The following further corxespondonoe respect- tori' the n'lancs of Turkey has boon laid before Paartffteoitt Mi; JAY tiaD s-a tot: nuar, ?? Match 1.) Contatntictrqalo, ]cb. 19, 1878. I' ij' Taacd.?-I cairn ctt Iterittit to jttts.'a nitiitltcsd a letter ft'oit Plc, I lad ?ton to Levi Tent colon, lintel lbs 28111 tall toio, at ?, laid before Paiciiaa tent, with the ...

... ]3LAKEi V. ALBION LIFIE ASSURtANCE S3OcI';TY., I VO 11W ?DhtOD ON Nfl WIT NUW& Sin-Will you silloew me, as one of the jury in this clii'- -which, alt' r last nig sic do s and excihily g--iieral interest, resulted iii ait isniiiedi?itii vee bet for the ?? last week-to call the atlenhjois of this public lion ugh your coliiioiis to fbi' serious Il-iw ?? this c-ice tljor-losce in the wirkuig of ...

... tl lE AMEICRlAN SILY I. B3ILLT. -- 1(FvnwM 01551 OWN CORI1E5I'OND}EhT.) . NE.W YORIC, Mlarnn l. Theo Silvcr Bill wns pendinlg in Congress a little mnore thanu a year. Whtat e. change has taken placo in pulblie opinion sinco Mr. Bland first drew it out Of. hiS psoket anld subm~itted it to the Ihouse of 1;epresentatives. Then hardly a manm at the 13ast bolitaved thlat such an extravaganlt ...

... GENERAL FOR1EIGN NEWS. (THROUGQI REUTSACS AGTNOY.) THE, PARL EXCHIBITTON. PARIS, h.Lutce 26. i.: Xmartz has given renewed nasurauceo this luorning that all will ba ready for the opening of the Exhibition Ou the 1st of .Ay. ITALY. ROME, Atxnuui 2.5, EVnNn*. Count Ourousoff has ?? arrived, beariug the text of the T'rilty of Sua Stefano aud a loter from the Cear to the Pope. It is stated that ...

... A - ' . NAVAL, AND STAR' I? .. . . .WOOLWICE, fnm 22. The projeotile's *hW44in' kn' lied to the Turldi sagentd for.tho Armstrong guns on board the iron- li ?? d a~,na b as to their'&P nu teib = tbyb' a tot t'oredwbola~i~i1 toethe projiictll~enof tite ?? d~if' tftaI thuem in some essenwtial peraclisir. ?? 8000 have arrived, of which POO ar of'ho $2-nceh calibe for the 26-toin gani ,supplied ...

... GENERAL FOEIGN NEWS. (Ti OVGE HW1IT=? AGlEUOT.) IRWS EMU ROME. ROME, MaMnd' lI In consequence of the appointment of Cardinal Franchi as Pontifcal Scoretary of State, the Baron do Baudc, French Ambassador to the Vadican. has applied to his Government to be recalled. Cardinal Franeoi has sent a circular despatch to the Papal Nuncios abroad, requesting dotailod ?? upon the rolations in which they ...

... Yestarday nfternoon ai speciali meeting of thie Court of Aldermon wee held tit Gjildhall, uider the ipresidencty of thle Lord Mayor, for the Inirpoec of pro- ceeding wvith thle election of the Recorder of the Citry of Londont. in tilt reoom of thoe Iiight Hoit. Rus-sell Gurney, Q.0. 11., who had resignld.' All the Aldeimen, withx the exception of Sir Trhotttns White, wvere r sent, and there ...

... ST. PATRIOK'S DAY. Thi anniveysary wasi celebrato ateae .by the usual banquet at the WestmstrPaeHto under the presidency of Mr. A. M. Svcvn L.wh wasm supported by a compiany of about16. moghe preentwer th fllowing membbrs fPriaetM '3.De~hint, r.Ward, Sir P. OBin r .A at te lat moenta letter, in whichh rrr u inablilty to attend Was ?? totecmiteo h banquet, The C=xccswr proposed thefirsttoast, ...

... BETTINIG-HOUSES M THE CM's At the Mfansion House yesterday Timuothy 3ohn (otlerwlse Justicel, Thomas'Smith and Herbert. James Clairk attended before the Lord MRayor upon1 adjonrued summonses charging them with infringingth 0 Act by 'permitting a room to be used for the puroe of betting. Mr. Poland was counset for the proseautiop; Mr. Mox- tagn 'WlilAm for the defence. . It will be remembered ...