... EPITOME OF OPINION IN THE MORNING JOURNALS I --r-UT~)AX'JAT AlW' TUTR WT1TNRIAN MTsRqaN TA rAnr, THE WITHDRAWAL OF THE RUSSIAN MISSION TO CABIUL. The Times, referring to the orders which it is stated have been sent for the withdrawal of the Russian mission from Cabul, says it is a matter for the greatest satisfaction that the firm protest on the part of the British Government has met with ...

... PARIS, ThUrsday, IT will not be forgotten how vehemently the Liberals denounced the system of virements indulged in by the Empire, when sums voted, let us say, for public instruction were employed by the War Minister. M. Pouyer. Quertier, the indefatigable Minister of Finance, who aided M. Thiers in carrying out his financial arrangements for the payment of the war indemnity, having at a ...

... PARIS, Tuesday. AL ST. GENEST gives a very striking description of the lengths to which party warfare is carried on in this country. He says : For a long time we have seen something worse than a want of patriotism-patriotism (mployed as a political weapon. To-day everything is absorbed by politics: a thing is nothing by itself-law, right, justice, have no absolute value. If a principle can be ...

... THE CLOSING -YEAR. 1878 is dying, and in a few days more will be numbered on the tablets of the past. It has been a bad year-a year marked by retrogression in everyform. We have bad a spirited foreign policy' and a spirited foreign trade. We have spent much money abroad, and have received none in return. Every form of calamity has been present with us during the year, and every form of ...

... These three passages, the first from a sermon reached by the Rev. Mr. Shore, one of the Queen's chaplains, on the death of Princes Alice; the second from the report of an agricul. tural meeting in Kent; and the third from an official communication, taken together as a whole are very suggestive, and give cause for reflection. The elergyman said, Nowhere was there 9 brighter, happier, more ...

... O THE EDITOR OF BEYNOLDS'S NEWSPAPER. Snt,-What is the cause, or causes, of the repidation which has attacked several crowned teads of Europe? Is this sudden, and appa. *ently violent, seizure real or assumed P Upon t thorough survey of the subject, it appears to ne that this monarchical mama is due to various ibnormal conditions of the social system, al. hough I will not'deny that the royal ...

... Some extraordinary disclosuares as to the opera Iihoes of the City of Glasgow bank were made on IJ,11,sday at the bankruptcy examination of 111onlsi lathew, of the firm of Mathew and Thiel- assi, merchants in Leoth and Glasgow. He ex- ?? transactions of the firm with William Hfav and Soss, James Morton and Co., Mat- thewv Buchanan and Co., and the City of ?? basak. Messrs. Hays were indebted ...

... o ttwW i I THE OUEEN'S Si'EECH.--As was generally antici- pated, Her Majesty's Message is of a vcry brief and of an eminently business-like character. Parliament has been summoned at this early date chiefly, if not entirely, for the purpose of granting supplies for the Afghan Campaign, and though the Ministry cannot avoid, and probably have no desire to avoid, a full and exhaustive discussion ...

... ?? ?? Ic4 G~~~IUH~~~WS ~~1 p -~ LK , CUDDESDON COLLEGE.--The lay memorialto the Bishop of Oxford, alluded to last w'eek, has been met by a counter ineu. rial from 277 old students of the College, and the lishop, rep!y. ing to the latter, remarkis that the imputations on the teaching of the College proceed from persons who have no opportunity (,f knowing what it is, and the conltradliction from ...

... ?? 0fl~~il CALIFORNIAN TESTIMONIAL TO LORD BEACONSFIELD THIs casket has been subscribed for by a number of British residents in California, and contains an address expressive of their high appreciation of the brilliant statesmanship *which the Earl of BeaconsfielH evinced during the late European crisis, and the interest and pride with which they have watched the successive triumphs which ...

... C- OFFENIACH'S NEwV OPtrIA, Afadaite FabavI, comies out at the Paris Folies-Dranatiiques early next week. UNCLE TONS'S CAPIN is being played at the Drlin Vic- toria Theatre by the negro Zrolpe lately in England. PARISIAN BON-BONS in readiness for the New Year are invariably named after some contemporary celebrity or event. So this year M. Lecocq's latest opera, La Camnarpo gives its name to ...

... I - . THIE PARTNER OF PROrEsTANTISM.--IThe Rev. Ilely If. Smith, Rector of Tansley, Matlock, in a letter to the Record, contends that - Protestantism and Prosperity have always gone hand-in-hand in the history of England, while a pandering to Popery has invariably been either accompanied with or quicdy followed by national calamities. In proof of this assertion hle cites the fluctuations il ...