... 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, ...

... 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 ...

... 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 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 ...

... 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 ...

... At Hull to-day a telegraph clerk named Thomas Bayley was charged with sending a false telegram. It was alleged that he forged a message purporting to be from W. R. Arbuthnot, London, to Lambert and Smith's, Hull, requesting them to send four Zs notes to the Station Hotel, Hull, to be called for by a Mr. Turner, who had left his pocket-book in London. The prisoner Wb Itmanded. In the House of ...

... THE attack which we have long since warned the managers of our railways. to disarm by anticipation has commenced, although in a form which will hardly command general support. It is no new thing to find the directors of a railway attacked with more or less fury and want of consideration as soon as signs of declining profit appear. But that is only another reason for taking the shareholders ...

... I'i' seems that the late King of Hanover's son, formerly Piince Royal of Hanover, is now to be officially designated as Duke of Cumberland. The dukedom of Cumberland is not one of those great historic dignities which have been either always or from a remote period identified with English Royalty, like the dukedoms of Clarence, York, and Gloucester, for example. [Eut it has been more intimately ...

... C 0 A' 1R S 1IONI D C / . OUR COMPENSATIONS. I., 1EDI1TOR of ZINe PALL MALL GAZETTE. Sait,-I cannot doubt that as time rolls on the considerations put ward in your leading article this evening will weigh more and more h the mass of the people in this country. Evidently, whatever we may e secured on our part, Russia has obtained all, and more than all, ,t shc could have hoped for when she ...

... WE are likely to hear a great deal now about the necessity for Englishmen of learning modern Greek, and this question is one which cannot be too, amply discussed. Greek is still taught in our schools much in the style in which it was taught by Erasmus, who learned it from Latin-speaking monks, and then lectured upon it in Latin at Cambridge, where Latin books on: Greek grammar are even now in ...