... 3 ~ ~ ~ Ei, THE EASTERN QITESTIoN.--ThoughtheBerlin Congress has not brought its labours to a close so soon as had been hoped, the members have been working hard, and the sittings have been more frequent and far more prolonged than during the two first weeks, the Batoum Question being somewhat more difficult of settlement than was expected. Frontier delimitations, also, and other minor details ...

... THE BUTCHER'S BILL DEBATE, The time which the House of Commons has given to the Cattle Diseases Bill has most assuredly not been thrown away. In the course of it the prominent speakers of the Liberal party, the metropo- litau members jealous guardians of the poor man's Sunday joint, and uncompromising Free-traders wvho could look upon the spread of cattle disease with more sustained erluani- ...

... . PANCX. Twelve hundred and sixty-nine Ommuniats, who had earned indulgence by contrition, subusi sioss,. and Idiligence, have been allowed remission or commutation 'of punishment in bonour of the If te. Since the present Cabinet took office 890 prisoners had previously been ob- jtcts of clemency, 4db of them receiving a full pardon. -Nor were the poor forgotten att.theffte of Sunday. They ...

... The fitst day of the Meeting, which naturally brings its anxieties to the staff of the National Rifle Association, passed off remarkably well. The weather ras delightful for visitors, and for the competitors there was just sufficient light and shade to keep the marksmen on the alert. Those who shot in the evening were able to aim dead on the bull's-eye, even at the 6oo yards range. All the ...

... OCCASIONAL OBSER VA TIONS ON THE QUESTION OF THE DA Y. It is believed that after the Greek question has been disposed of (probably on the judicious principle that the Turks must not be irritated by the claims of weak States as well as of strong ones) the next great question will be as to the fate of Batoum. Here we are in some difficulty. It is pretty generally acknowledged in England that it ...

... LORD BEACONSFIELD. The Sa/urdo)y Rezriw observes that the popular verdict on Lord Ueaconsfield's conduct and on the foreign policy of his Government was rot grien on special and distinct issues. But for once the multitude anti- cipated and expressed the judgment of the country that the Prime Minister has at hcrre and abroad sustained the honour and protected the interests of England. Whatever ...

... THE RESERVE FORCES. To the EDITOR of the PALL MALL GAZETTE. SIR,-Your article on The Reserve Forces raises a question of extreme importance in the eyes of all who believe, with myself, that the maintenance of a large and well-organized reserve force is essential for the security of the nation. I cannot doubt that you are right in believing that the distress which has been brought upon the ...

... tE EFFECT OF THE BERLIN CONGRESS ON OUR INDIAN SOLDIERY. thc EDITOR of the PALL MALL GAZETTE. SIR,-There is one side to the arrangement now being negotiated erlin which, although it is obscured for the moment, will, I venture to k, make itself unpleasantly conspicuous ere long unless the representa- of Great Britain at the Congress contrive to secure our interests in a ner far more clear to ...

... tilid obtuilluld jatwd. NEVS FROM INDIA AND CHINA. A ihe U-.eriard Mail has brought news from Bombay to June 21 ; Calcutta, 01 , tane 8 ; Hong Kong, June l; Shanghai, May 2;. c I NDIA. 0o T'he ?? 2 ]of Ind!ia, in its overland summary of June 2i, gives the following t} jIty.Is of news ?? 'I Lit famine in iladlras has been succeeded by a plague of locusts. In many of the ?? Ks the young crops ...

... FIRST EDITION, 2.30 p.m. RE UT E R'S TEL E G R A MS. FRANCE. PARIS, July 18.-The Reibublique Franfaise of to-day regards the success of the new issue of redeemable Three per Cent. Rente as a proof of public confidence in the present form of government, and says that this confidence will infallibly lead at no distant date to the conversion of the Five per Cent. Rente, a measure which cannot, ...

... DREADFUL FACTION FIGIIT. -oo or -,-r ',Iralf ,Ffl ?? . ?? T-N he TIE Limerick ?? of the 1Free1nma's JoU? naf ,st last week said:-l1erhapo the most shocking faction of fight that Ihas occurred within the memory of man took n place oil Sunday night at Gortavalla, between Pallais and , Doon. Siace the time of Conwavy' homicide at the same bt6 place and the extermieaticu of his slayers, groat ...

... GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS4 (TEMOUGH AEUTEVP'8 AGENCY.) THB ATfTMM AGAINST THE EMPERO1 f -- ST. PETERSBURG, .Tr 9. An autographmiorandarvwrit.tn by PrncePeter ol Oldenbarg is circulating in high quarters in this city. Ila connegtion with the meeting of the Congress delegates ir erelin it mqntiona the painful circuwntancei (the attacl on the Emperor Williai) under which their meeting teel plaeo, and ...