... IT is quite worth notice that, when the President of the United States: himself has had the courage to denounce the Silver Remonetizatior Act as dishonest and a blow to public credit in America, the measure should find apologists in England. Of course it is intelligible enough that there should be strong Stock Exchange influences in favour of maintaining the price of American securities-for a ...

... TlE P~EACE AND TIlE CONGRESS. TIHE TREATV OF PEACF. n'o , -e,erani in the Tnwms says that the Sultan has ratified the SG that the last clause is to the effect that the contracting t e neat) bcttenc them as .v?/idaiC. This implies that with the , . # t~ b ~question and the appointment of a European Commis- Ire ti. boonnda es cf Montenegro the contracting parties will not : 'h i e ?;.t c y ...

... OCCA SIONAL NOTES. The namnes of two more of the Poles who have been hanged by the Russians in Turkey have reached us. According to a correspondent at Lemberg, who wrote on the 26th of February, they are-Dr. Jaczynski, the surgeon of one of the Turkish regiments, a married man with eight children, and Major Kancli, who served as an officer in the Anglo- Turkish contingent during the Crimean ...

... THE CRISIS IN VICTORIA. To the EDITOR of the PALL MALL GAZETTE. SIR,-I venture, as one who has had some personal knowledge of Australian affairs, to ask you to allow me to offer some observations With reference to your article on the subject of the crisis in Victoria 11 Saturday's Pall Mall Gazette. I do not wish to discuss the main ?? on its merits, about which we-have at- present but ...

... THE subject of debate in the House of Commons last Friday night could hardly have been brought forward in a more incon- venient form. Sir JOHN LUBBOCK'S motion was so general in its terms as to invite and almost to necessitate a joint discussion of two questions which separately present quite enough diffi- culties to deserve to be considered apart. As it was, however, the discussion of a ...

... The semi-official Fremdenb'latt of Vienna observes that the more closely it examines the preliminaries of peace, the stronger is its conviction that the ratification of the Treaty of San Stefano by Europe would be equivalent to the recognition of Russia as the residuary legatee of Turkey. Whether there is a secret treaty or not, the public treaty is amply sufficient to make the Czar ...

... SUMIMARY OF TillS MORNING'S NEWS. Cf d l(natichfrs tlisaion to Vienna continues to be the principal topic of t te lcicý,lals relfting to Eastern affairs. According to news from Berlin, hi o~e' urcs nic ?? received at Vienna. A St. Petersburg tlegram says that t r iaticins Il11. tthe CoTI'er-ss are not vet brol:en off, but there is no, little l-.pe ef thcif being succc sfui. The Cabinet of St. ...

... A RIXEiD MABRIAGE. Never since the legalization in tb-s colmtry of the I ceremony of civil marriage did a regis rar-odice present such an animated picture as the s ght witnessed on Wednes,,ay morning in Mount-street, (3rosvenor-square; on the occa ion of the marriaue of the- Earl -of Ioscbiry and Miss flanvab de Bothschiid. lb kee orted almost fabulous wealth of the bride in a greatb4detce ...

... ~~~M EJMNT~s HON. MEMBERS are beginning to take advantage of the circumstance that Parliament met earlier than usual this Session, and treat themselves to a little abstinence from attendance. This is more particularly marked on a Monday, though on other days, except when some crisis in the Eastern Question is at hand, there are many gaps on the green benches. The business before the House on ...

... U; ?? i ?? THE RrrtUALISTS.--Another step was made in the case 0 Martin v. Mackonochic on Saturday, when Lord Penzallce was asked to enforce obedience to the monition made in June, 1875, and of which no notice had been taken by the defendant. Dr. Stephens showed that Mr. Mackonochie had been suspended by Sir R. Phillimore and the Judicial Committee, and asked that punishment might be ...

... E [., -, by P-l A 3 0 N R 'a UyN'ITED GRAND LODGE. 'floe OffiffilY mm ilsio of Grand Lodge of' English Fdcisi~~ ~ :1 Ma~vr and LoritSherburne a Pn tGp1%1, cliaeral~e~il0 .pic by P Aintou and tilc J. W. chair- by lie ~~ There ~were present iieisiiy 700 Brethren, aiiioisg jet'l ~ V-f~sirC:rawd or P'ast G'solid Officers. Airnolig theos ollel i~.~I~eni ifinins lFeili, S. RItiteet, Dr I fogg-, WV ...

... LON4DO)N, MO.VDAY, Ar ?? 18. A special telegram from our Correspondent at St. Petersburgr annunlllces that tbe ratilicaltions of tho treaty betwveen Russia and Turkey wvere exlchaig£ed yesterday at the Winter Pahlce, and tbat the conditionsq will at once be commnunicated to the Powvers. The Russian Goverunment has ordered the formaltion of twenlty newv divisions, , ankingo in all 2630,(000 ...