... I IRELAND AN THE VOLNTER FORCE. Yesterday a deputatioa from it tommittee ap- pointed in Dublin for the purpose of promnoting the for- mnation of a volunteer force in Ireland, waited upon Mr. Lowther the Chlef Secretary for Ireland, at the Irish Olaice, 6reat Queen-street, Woestaiuster, to present a memorial which has been siged by between 700 and 800 ilading oitizzenS of Dublin aild itt ...

... theofirst part of this oentury the Royal Family, s theirpatronage, made Ascot what it bas since I,0sc. George IV. aud his brother, the Sailor ,Lieg, wero both of them staunch supporters of tie estitg, vhich oven in their time had acquired the h f , of 'oyal, and the earlier records of g F1iog cbreniolo rmany a victory achieved by Y ?? to both those Sovereigns, whoso c1 ^(,oaurs werc c ynta ...

... GE NERAL FOREIGN NEWS. (THROUTO REUlTER'S AGENCY.) ITALY. ROME, Jin 17, EvzTNG. The elections yesterday for municipal counoillors re- sulted in tho return of ten Liberals and two Clericals. In the eloctions for Provincial Councillors threo Liberals were successful, In to-day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies, Signori Branca, Ercolo, Luzzatti, and Autonibon interrogated the Government on the ...

... FRENCH MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS. To the EDITOR of the PALL MALL GAZETTE. SiR,-There are one or two points in a recent article on the above subject in the Tall Mall Gazette which claim a few words of comment. No foreign medical man can practise in France under the existing law unless be either obtains special leave (a practically impossible thing just now) from the Minister of Public Instruction, ...

... BLACK DOTS ON THE HORIZON PARIS, June i 2. THE French Chambers have been prorogued after an uneventful but important session. The Lower House has not done much legislative work, but it has quashed the elections of a great number of Conser- vative members returned owing to administrative pressure; and in the majority of cases it has seen these acts of retributive justice ratified by the country ...

... The second sitting of the Berlin Congress is held to-day, and it is under- stood that the Bulgarian question will almost exclusively occupy the attention of the Plenipotentiaries. The questi n of the admission of the Greek delegates will also, it is believed, be raised. Friday and Saturday were devoted to private interviews between the members of the Congress. Lord Beaconsfield conferred with ...

... G3ENERAT4 FOREIGN NEWS. TtfbtB0 lI IUiuE1Vs Aarl ?? TUB BRLGIAN MINISTRY. BRUSSELS, Jus 19, 7.22 P.M It es stated that the Cabinet has been dolenitively eon- stituted as follows -M. Frdre Orban, President of the Council, and Minister for Vrpign Affairs; M. Bars, Ministor of Justice; M. Van Htunibeok, Minister Of TablioInstruction; M. Sainctelette, Ministor of Public Works; Ml. Grauer Minister ...

... aETEOROLOM4OAL7 1 MOTh,: - 4e- DAILY NEWS i O Iorim. - Readings this madnnig yi NEGRETTI AND ZANDRAS BDAROMIO TEE- 17. . w . . 20. ?? . ~ ?? The blaokllinoq show tire heignt of the barorarter at I a..m. oa thisiand three rrrevionrr morningr. The dottol line3 indicate the extrcee variations daring yesterday eanl thr two Iprevious dayse The initial letters show the direetion of theo wind. Tho ...

... FRENCH ALLIANCES BEFORE 1870. fie EDITOR of tie PALL MALL GAZETTE. SIR,-There are three articles which have been published since the Ot of April, 1878, on the alliances of the French Empire before the war 187 between Germany and France, which, considering the quarters fwll hlich they emanate, are deserving of notice and comment. ? ITlhe first, in the April number of the Revue des Deux Mondes, ...

... The Roman correspondent of the Botsen Zeilung of Berlin says that the representatives of Italy at the Congress have received instructions from their Government to insist on neither Bulgaria nor Montenegro being allowed a seaport. On the same authority we are told that a con- siderable change of feeling in regard to Russia has taken place- among Italian politicians since the publication of the ...

... TILE ANGLO-RUSSIANV BARGAIN. \\I !Sitr STaYFORD NORTIICOTE was asked in the House of Cenmlols 5 yesterday whether the document published in the ?? purporting to be the full text of the terms of an agree- t L, ?? Elngland and Russia relative to the Congress, was ?? 11c made a reply upon which he cannot be congratulated. It ;as anl uvasive and uncandid reply ; and yet it altogether faird t(i ...

... The P/iar;;zacgzutca o r itrnal, referring to the prosecution at Epping for tie sale of poisonous violet powder, ?? appears that the shops where this arseni- cated preparation was sold were not those of chemists and druggists, or such as are commonly supplied with goods by wholesale druggists, but rather of that order in which patent medicines and various drugs or preparations used as popular ...