... ?? POLITICAL AFFAIRS. --The Metropolitan Conservative Alliance held an enthusiastic meeting in Lambeth on Tuesday. Colonel Beresford, who presided, said that he believed that Lord Beaconsfield and his colleagues ha(l taken the measure of the time, and had provided a citadel, and a field of action in which to do our best to control the deluge, whether of brutal military tyranny or of wild ...

... THlE ZULU WA R THE general advance of the British troops had been fixed for about June i when the mail left on the 27th ult., and Lord Chelmsford's headquarters had already been transferred to Land- man's Drift in readiness. General Wood's column started on the 26th ult., and General Newdigate's troops were to follow, and join forces beyond Ibabanango, a supply depot being made on the way at ...

... A TuF SULMMER FETE of the Earlswood Asylum for Idiots ill take place on Tuesday, July 22. LES TRIBiULATIONS D'UN CHTiXOss is the title of M. Jules Verne's forthcoming new work. MR. ALMA TADEMA was elected a Royal Academician last week; and Messrs. G. 11. ?? and Hubert Herkonier, Associates. THE LATEST FASHIONAnt.E me/n ?? is ahandsome fan, on which the list of dishes is engraved, so that ...

... ?¾V? '?M?PZiRE ICr?N AFFAIRS -IN THE EAST.-Aleko Pash; ,vas formally inve.4ted as Governor-General of Eastern Roumelia on Friday at I'hilippopolis. Amidst an assembly of officials and a small crowd of the inhabitants, who were not over-enthusiastic, two firmans of the Sultan notifying the appointment were read, followed by a proclamation from the new Goverisor, bidding his subjects to maintain ...

... Tr..7 v- o ? . I 0 91 ? I ? I Tq-ff=Wf 1 I I I aI , ~oxa 4.-DyMrs. wwu and oaDN, at Nervic.-NrJ-4~ I folk.: Uligh-0-A ?? seta oatilininir 1729. Sr. Ivy, may =09M&M. hoaua, te~S Iand Ia, S9. 12.*eOI% boatit-1'WO anloe n of land, clontawns 0g lO. 1.1 fraold Id ?? A0II ?? reehold builigeland, boanlanolt S.op-~r.-Ild far ?? eltand, 1onaiin Is. I. Sip. 19P.-ld adld for £10730. jereehold bouse ...

... mu ,7 _1 I 1 .. -- e - ?? The dull annals of the New York courts have been lately enlivened by the introduction of a small legal comedy, in which the chief actresses were Mdlle. Marie Aimde and MdUe. Gabri- elle du Sauld, artistes not unknown to fame. It appears that Mdlle. du Sauld coveted a black silk dress of Worth's make, belonging to Mdlle. Aim6e, and after some bargaining, the latter ...

... TO THE EDITOR OF THE ERA. Sir,-You will excuse me taking the liberty of writing to you again, but as the present Bill now in the House of Lords is of a very serious nature, I can only Make that my excuse for troubling you to insert the following. In Mr J. Kinghora's letter to you last week there are several statements which, when explained, will throw a very different light on the subject. Of ...

... THE oEANg??9?Q? ?&J?'A1?8. The eleventh annual b?ssqnet of the Towe? Hamlets Couatitntional AssocIatIon and Connervativs Club tonic place yesterday evening at thfi Dow and flrtsrnley Institute, Bow-road, the institute bring, In foot, otvr'the I Bow Railway Station, the alden of which, leading by atair- easee to a tar5e room above, whore the dhmer wise I nerved, wore decorated with ?? In honour ...

... TIlE R1JSSL4N EXPF4DLTLON. -o IARU, MAr 29. V~ Aftet niny inexplioable detlays the Russia Er-sp yidition from the Osapian to the beart of Contral na Asia has at length received thebofm d'ordre to s aldvance. In two dayst(enerlsr Iereff and his me staff leave Babku for Tchikialar, the starting point tb wrhere the troops are hourly coneentrating. lfhy dr its march bas been retarded until the ...

... THE ROYAL AGUBAL EX ITIO~I Tb'e prevailing wet veather during the past 'week has had a very serious effect upon the propects of the International Agricultural Exhibition. The site eilected being pure meadow land, with a dah clay bottom, belonging to the Ecclesiestical Commissioners, nat rally 'required a perfect systemn of dralnage at the oaset,.and no paine have been spared by the Council of ...

... ir? 0OTh?XME?T ?A?IKINc* ?IIL. D?P?TA'?rO?? !PII SIlt SPA, D cit of ?oto1? a ? inemN?ej? J uf'&otlait4 £aa ?? ('AtiIl? of tile ?xotisqu.e, at Ike Ut maui 6?tmairai ?i* w? ? QoIoeiel AIexnndo?r, Colonel More, the Mazqijie ut itaSsad, 8w ?? ?nui? ?. Aizeeu, Mg. W Uam Mah? Sir Goadon.' ?az1? ?ya$, ?M. ?Jwymplei 'anti 'I and ?? Do? qf;coa.uir?w Joint Stock Cowpeniee Dill now before Parliament the ...

... CAPI'UIRE OF A FRENCH BU1RGLAR. ON Friday last Alplhonsc Ovide Lechlabert, a Protnch. man, was elarged at the Lftnbllethl P'olice-court With being in the area of a house for an unlavwfnl purpose, filnd also withl being in possession of houso-breaking imiplements, supposed for the purpose of cornmiating a felony. Confitable Veole, 30:3 P, stnted that about five minutes paet cleven o'clock on ...