... 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, ...

... . .- - -- - - |SELTLEMENT OF BESSARABIAN t- AND MOENTNEGMN QUESTIONS. FRIfLUTInts SiTlrlAIIS.] 1 LtB-u!.js, TUaESDYv. a An entertaiinment was giy en in the Zoological a Gardens yesterday by the editors of the Berliu psreas to tue foreign journalists at present in lierltin. Herr von Ste rheniarg, holdnhg the raink L vt Austrian Minister, and 1. lhllaugae, Greeo M Minister tere, Were oa1o011 thc ...

... STOCKITON TOWN COUNCIL. ThTe mL ,tlly meatin:: of the Stocktou Council fe y Was hehl last ?? IMayor (11i: Ahlerainu o Rlichardsoo) iu1 the chair. HI to T'E WVATEIRI ?? Si,.TICE QUlI in.bl- 3d The mintes of R Sl)ecifl Meeting of the l nunc - o Conlialittce vere also read,fromil which it eppeered | D that it had htoejj ?? that al agreeuient betw een the Corporati fu and the Aliglo-Foreidli o- ...

... TFHE CHAT OF THE FAIR. (From Mcaef(t'i.) That is a very curious case which wa u darkly hinted a by Mr. Forster during the discussion last week on th Cattle Plague Bill. According to the existing arrange ments with respect to cattle diseases the Privy Coucn have prohibited the import of live cattle from (amens, other countries) France. If cattle are brought ever frr France they must be ...

... THE ChAT OF THE FAIR. (From Mafair-) The regret which Sornnini expressed in 1800, that his m siter, Naioleolfl, had no, seculrerl C'yprus before the went to Cairo, is evidently still inforgotten by the French: nation. Foreigns officials in Cyprus knew three weeks ago that preparations were being made in the island for the reception of British troops, and they informed their respective ...

... WHAT THE S. i' Everyone agrees that the garden parties at Marl- borougj-house are an improvement on Chivwicic, which could only be reachedby along dusty drive, Tho garden itself is charming at Uarlboxough-lo0use. The number of inv ites was increased this year through the suggestio(, of her Majesty. who thought the party too mnall on the last occasion. The Queen carried, as she did last year. a ...