... y~i ft0 siEE EASTERN AFFAIRS. -The Treaty of Peace has been ratified by the Czar, who has issued a peace manifesto, and has now given orders for the withdrawal of Russian troops from Turkish territory. The evacuation therefrom was to begin on Tuesday last by a forward movement on Burgas, where the embarkation would take place. D1deagatsch, in the AEgean, also was to be vacated, and the Turkish ...

... THERE is little or no military news. At Jellalabad all is well with Sir Samuel Browne, while the Jhirgas of the Zakka Kheyls have been into the city to make terms with General Cavagnari, as those indefatigable robbers have now been severely chastised by Colonel 'I'ytler's column. Some 12,0oo hostile Mohmunds assembled to the north of the Cabul River and attacked a friendly chief's village on ...

... DIRECTORS AT EDINBURGH SOUTH AFRICA- ENCAMPMENT OF FINGO LEVIES THE strong probability that ere this hostilities have actually begun between the British forces and the military monarchy of the Zulus under Cetewayo (undoubtedly the most formidable nation of Southern Africa) adds much to the interest of sketches from that part of the world at the present time. The engraving now under notice will ...

... HUNTING ON THE SUSSEX DO WNS- THE BRIGHTON HA RRIERS CROSSING THE DE VIL 'S DYKE. TWvicz a week with the Brighton Harriers, twice a veek with the Brookside, and Friday with the Foxhounds; ample oppor- tunity for breathing the pure and invigorating air of the Sussex Downs for visitors during the winter to the Queen of watering- places. The present season, with its long dreary frosts, ...

... IF there should be any person existing who suffers from too great an exuberance of spirits, he can easily restore himself to his proper balance by a course of British Museum, which is, with only one exception, and that is the Catacombs of Paris, the most depressing place under the sun. Probably from a dread that pure fresh air would have a perishing effect on the natural history specimens, ...

... PRINCE BISMARCK'S PORTRAIT is to be painted for the Berlin National Gallery by a Munich artist, Herr Lehnbach. PROFESSOR NoRDENSKJoLD's ARCTIC EXPEDITION, now blocked in Bebring's Straits, is to be succoured by a vessel from San Francisco directly the navigation is open. FRENCH PREFECTS are to have a new and splendid uniform instead of the ordinary silver-embroidered coat at present in use. ...

... .,O SEHfOLD WORK IN the last phase of agitation on the subject of wom01ell's empl ismvcnt, one odd feature AWas the proposal to replace ordinary servants by Lady Hlelps, and some practical organi- sation was even attempted for the trial of the experiment. I (do not know if any previous home training in domestic and imenial duties was part of the plan; at all events, such could be the case ...

... PALLISER TWELVE-INCH AND TEN-INCH RIFLED GUNS USED IN THE SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TVA 7ERTONS WANDERINGS IN SOUTH AMERICA WE have already given under the heading of The Reader some account of this delightful book, a new edition of which has just been published by Messrs. Macmillan and Co. It is very prettily illustrated by the editor, as our specimens will show, and the ...

... I _ ?? CONVOCATION.-The Convocation of the Province of Canterbury met on Tuesday, and again on Wednesday, the Primate presiding in the Upper House, and the Dean of Lich- field Prolocutor in the Lower. Both Houses agreed to an address of condolence to Her Majesty on the death of the Princess Alice, the Archbishop of Canterbury remarking that the last letter written by the Princess was one of ...

... THE ROYAL ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY have elected Professor Flower as President in place of the late Marquis of Tweeddale. THE VILLAGE OF MEYRINGEN in the Bernese Oberland- so well-known to English travellers-has been almost entirely destroyed by fire. THE MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION is to be opened on October I, s88o, and will close in the following March. The Exhibition building has been ...

... fWR.EIQ III- FRANCE.-France is once more agitated by a serious political crisis, and by the time that these lines appear in print, Marshal MacMahon will probably have resigned, and M. Grevy will be reigning in his stead. Ever since M. Dufaure obtained his vote of confidence the Marshal has been manifestly uneasy, and has several times essayed to oppose the various changes of officials which ...

... ?? X, I 4l Ilc a G -1u mx j i A~ws ~P ~ ~ a'eaRW RITUALISM AND LAW.-Dr. H. Julius, the aggrieved parishioner, of Clewer, has obtained a rule nisi in the Queen's Bench Division, calling on the Bishop of Oxford to show cause why a commission should not issue to inquire into the alleged Ritualistic practices charged against the Rev. T. T. Carter, Rector of Clewer. The Bishop has chosen to ...