... F~e,41 ICED WATER is in future to be supplied gratis to all passengers on the Midland Railway. SIR RICHARD WALLACE has been elected a Corresponding Member of the Paris Academie des Beaux-Arts. THE LIT ...

... LLOYD'S WEEKLY LONDON NEWSPAPER. v _ ?? .. I The death of Maria Christina-la Mala (the wicked one) as the Spaniards once dubbed her-will recall to many who have passed the prime of life a time when the doings of the Carlists and the Christinos filled the public mind with horror; or to a more recent period when the Spanish marriages brought England and France to the brink of war. Men who have ...

... TZM SPMZAD Or CIVILIZATrON. The London corres3ondout of the New York Irish Wobrd writes as follows:- Get together a dozen of half-ellerly ladies that have been dabbling in Bible lore, who are familiar with Bible phrases-' theM ab Stone,' for instance. To these in. vi~o in a couple of gentlemen who have travelled some among the 'heathens,' and who have kept diaries. Stanley, of the New York ...

... w- N - ANO!3EES nOYAL vAN I=FAMOUS JOB3. Another job, as bad, or perhaps worse, than she Lorne business, is about ueing perpetrated ..1t the instigation and for the behuof of royalty. The word scandalous is nut strong enough in its cpplieation to these incessant and, we may 'tbl, cruel acts of jobbery. No less severe a term than infamous' should be applied to them. We care not who it is at ...

... FIRMWORK ORATORY. 1O THE EDITOR. OF nEYNOLDS'S YEWSPAPER.- Six,-At the banquet recently given by the Carlton Club to the British plenipotentiaries, the Marquis of Salisbury, in responding to the toast of his health, indulged in extravagant language, considerably in excess of the kind generally employed in post-prandial speeches. - admit that the occasion .was more than usually exciting, and ...

... THBE ALHAMBRA COMPANY, LIMITED. The Annual Meeting of the Alhambra Company was held at the Cannon-street Hotel on Thursday. Mr F. WAKEFIELD (Chairman) presided. The Report of the Directors stated that the affairs of the Company showed a great improvement. The number of visitors to the Theatre exhibited an increase over the previous half-year of 18,699, and the profits were5,772 us. 10d., and ...

... - ~ ~ ?? q'tU1 CTTV~ THE PILENIPOTENTIARIES IN THE CITY. The Jfiorning Post observes that the civic honours bestowed on her Najes ?? Plenipotentiaries and the ovation which they received in their progress to the Guildhall were the fitting sequence to the triumphant majority with which, some hours previously, the House of Commons declared that they had deserved well of their country. In one ...

... The latest event in Bosnia is important, and may have important results. Serajevo has been occupied by the Austro-Hungarian troops after severe fighting-how severe may be gathered from the despatch of General Philippovich, who describes the struggle which took place after the entry of the town as being of the most horrible kind. Our troops, he says, were fired upon from every house, ...

... SOMiE misapprehension seems to exist on the subject of the neutral zone which eight or nine years ago it was proposed to establish between the British possessions in India and the Russian possessions in Central Asia. It appears from the correspondence on this subject laid before Parliament in 1873, that in March, 1869, Lord Clarendon, after several conversations with Baron Brunnow in ...

... FIRST EDITION, 2.30 p.m. (RELFTER'S TELEGRAMS.) CONSTANTINOPLE, August 17 (delayed in ?? have been sent to Caratheodori Pasha to sign the Austro-Turkish Convention if the Austrian Government will agree that the occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina shall cease when the Powers declare that the reforms promised by the Porte in those provinces have been satisfactorily applied. %/IENNA, August 18. ...

... Elvid Obtainald 13twd. FRENCH FINANCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAM.) Is, August 7.-The Official Yournal publishes to-day the ministerial LtCCCth povsions of which were telegraphed yesterday evening, ret'htn tbe issue of the Three per Cent. Redeemable Rente required to complete the m of 4i4,cco1ocO f., provided for by the law of the 18th of June last, for the ,,,purchase of the railways by the State. ...

... The series of articles which has just appeared in various Italian news- papers throws no new light upon the Italia Irredenta agitation, but it recalls attention to an aspect of it which has not been sufficiently borne in view. Those who have kept themselves informed of Italian opinion, as manifested in more ways than one during the last few years, and notably on the occasion of the English ...