... ?? ---v -. - ~ t / * ?? ~u~ 1 WS I ~ 7 / THE REUNION OF CHRISTENDOM.-At the Pro-Cathedral, Kensington, on Tuesday, Monsignor Cape!, allding to the recent meeting on this subject at Oxford, said that he hoped it would be understood that the Roman Catholic priests who appeared upon that occasion were not there in a representative character. The Roman Catholic Church could not witness such ...

... F ?? THE ENGLISH CHURCH UNION. --On Monday night com- memorative services in connection with the English Church Union were held in various parts of London. The congrega- tions were large, and the ritual in some cases elaborate. un Tuesday morning there were high celebrations of the Holy Communion in a large number of churches ; and in the afternoon the annual meeting of the Union was held ...

... ELECTRICITY AND SOUND-THIE AMICROPhOE TiE wonders recorded of Aladdin's lamp must sink into insig- nificance when they are compared with the doings of that modern necromancer which we call Electricity. It instantaneously con- veys our thoughts to distant places, it enables us to travel in safety by express speed by the warning vwhich it flashes to the next stage that we are on the road. It ...

... EXAMINA TIONS AND PHYSICAL COMPEZYTIONS ' A Joue'r Committee of the War Office and the Civil Service Commissioners has recently been considering the intereiililg question whether the present literary examinations for the Army should be supplemented by physical competitions. A general impression has prevailed for some tine past that the principle of competitive examinations was being carried ...

... t - - . . I -- POLITICAL AFFAIRS.--It is now confidently stated that Count Schouvaloff's mission to St. Petersburg has had the effect of smoothing away the difficulties which stood in the way of an understanding between this country and Russia, and that a Congress of all the Great Powers will shortly assemble at Berlin. -Last week Mr. Gladstone received a deputation of Scottisis ministers, ...

... TiE claims of Irishmen to be permitted to enrol themselves as Vsolunteers, under regulations similar to those governing thle \'oli!cer Forces in England, Scotland, and the Colonies, have recently been laid before the Chief Secretary of State for Ireland by an influential deputation headed by Lord Monck. It cannot be said that the pleas set forth in the memorial which the deputation presented ...

... * .. *~ - 0 1) * a: HOE POLITICAL AFFAIRS.-The Earl of Beaconsfield left Lon- don on Saturday, and the Marquis of Salisbury on Monday, to represent England at the Berlin Congress, which was to com- mence its proceedings on Thursday. It is thought that a pre. liminary understanding has been arrived at, and that the business of the Congress will be completed in about a fortnight. No doubt ...

... DESTRUCTION OF OLD BUILDINGS, LINCOLN'S ,N ?? Ve ANIONGST other ancient buildings which are diestinecn to ut; 1improved off the face of the earth we are sorry to have to include the anciet gateway of Lincoln's Inn, and the adjoining buildings, welt known to the members of the legal profession under the title of Old Buildings. odupnaarerk Lincoln's Inn gateway cannot be looked bupon at ...

... : J -- ~~ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __fll 4' ' RITUALISM.-Mr. Mackonochie is not yet driven to earth Thinking that he has found a flaw in the proceedings under which he has been suspended, he has obtained a rule nisi fromf the Court of Queen's Bench, calling upon the promoters of the case against him to show cause why a writ of prohibition shall not issue to restrain them from proceeding further in ...

... A T T ROLLHA TTEN TnE words of Spenser, in the House of Sleep, are fully brought to remembrance at Trollhatten, for there Tethys his wect bed doth ever wash. Far away, up the broad Gotha river, a village stretches itself out on the banks to overlook thick woods sloping down to the series of falls by which a broad, full streain churns itself in a broken descent of over a hundred feet, and ...

... THE TESTIMONY OF AN EYE-WITNESS BY VICTOR HUGO. CONCLUSION-THE FALL VI. TEis diaster of Sedan was easy of avoidance by any other man, but impossible of avoidance for Louis Bonaparte. He avoided it so little that he sought it. Lexfati. Our army seemed expressly arranged for the catastrophe. The soldier was uneasy, ignorant of his whereabouts, famished. On the 31st of August, in the streets of ...

... gPAR AMRIINII II THE House of Commons separated on Friday for the W'hitsun- tide recess, with the satisfaction of knowing that the question which had so long agitated it was in a fair way of final settle- ment. The glad tidings were communicated simultaneously in both Houses on Monday. In the House of Peers the Prime Minister, with characteristic modesty, put forward his bosoui friend, the ...