... K ~icsrwW - 1: ?? THE CRISIS IN FRANCE.-The announcement that Marshal MacMahon was morally certain to retire excited no alarm in France, for it was known that a suitable successor would instantly take ...

... VESUVIUS'iS once more in eruption. THOMAS MOORE'S CENTENARY on May 28th is to be cele- brated in Dublin by performances of the poet's Irish melodies. THE ANTIQUITIES FOUND IN rIHE BEt) OF THE TIBECR a ...

... A cAlcroUS COUcCIL. - 1- I - r T_ nXX1 I The Liberal 'Two Hundred of. the borough. of Southwark met on Tuesday night at the Bridge Rouse Hotel, under the presidency of Mr. Parish, for the pur- pose of hearing the views of Mr. Passmore Edwards, Professor Thorold Rogers, and Mr. Joseph Leieester (working man's candidate) prior to making the selection of a candidate to contest the borough ...

... I A ?? A CATWLE DISEASE. A serious difficulty has arisen in the American cattle trade, and one which threatens to close, for a time at least, the whole import of live stock fropn the United States. The Dominion steamer Ontario arrived at Liverpool the other day from Portland, Maine, with 247 head of cattle, and when the vessel was brought into Huskisson Dock it was found that several animals ...

... WAVLL AND MILITARY INTELLIGEiNCE. 1lne stuiaar(t Ior gunners of the Artillery has been raised to the extraordinary height of 5ft. Wlin., which has had the intenlded effect of nearly stopping the supply of recruits for that branch of the service. Some of the brigades are still ?? drivers at 5ft. 4irin., but there ale many rmore candidates than vacancies. The rifle battalions, which have been ...

... TO THE EDITOR OP REYNOLDS'S NEWSPAPER. * Srs,-British philanthropy, like the chame-d leon, assumes divers shades. It is sometimes wrong-sided, and occasionally crooked or per- verse. It does the oddest things at the oddest times, runs counter to public opinion, carries out crotchets of its own, and never wearies of finding some new field of operation. It imitates the flightiness of the flirt, ...

... M. YULES GRE VY. PARIS, Jan. 31. IT is something like a joke of Fate which designates as Marshal r MacMahon's successor to the Presidency of the French Republic M. Jules r Gievy, whose name was for a long time associated chiefly with an . amendment in which he had moved that the Republic should have no I President at all. This was in i848. The 43rd and 45th Articles of the Constitution ...

... Lord Lytton telegraphs to the India Office that there is great distress at Cabul, owing to the disturbed state of the country and the stoppage of supplies. Yakoob Khan shelled the Kizilbash quarter of the city, but afterwards withdrew his artillery on a representation being made to him that a general rising would take place. A telegram from Calcutta states that Mahomed Khan, son of Wali ...

... ?? Obtuinald OtWd. REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 6.-General Loris Melikoff starts to-day for Astiachan, to superintend the measures now being adopted for stamping out the plague epidemic in that district. The trial of M. Goukhautseff for embezzling £200,000 from the Mutual Land Credit Association was concluded yesterday. The prisoner was sentenced to sixteen years' penal ...

... It was stated at a Liberal meeting held at Durham last night that at the next general election, Sir George Elliot, the Conservative member for North Durham, will be opposed by Lord Lambton, son of the Earl of Durham. The Scotsman of to-day states that at a meeting of the Haddington Con. servative Committee it was stated that Mr. Macdonald, Solicitor-General for Scotland, bad consented to stand ...

... ke, The German private railway companies being suspected of intending ba to import, previous to the increased tariff, sufficient quantities of English kn iron to supply their wants for some time to come, the Berlin Post, Prince P Bismarck's organ, recommends the adoption of an antedated import duty po on the article. This extraordinary suggestion is attributed to Herr von Varnbihler, the ...

... THE AUSTRIAN MINISTRY. W VIENNA, Feb. 15.-The Frevidenblatt of to-day states that the difficulties e attending the reconstruction of the Austrian Ministry under Dr. Stremayr have M bcen removed, and that the new appointments will probably be published in the cbi Official Gaznlle on Sunday next. TI SPAIN. no MADRID, Feb. I .-The British ships bound for Barcelona from the East mi have been ...