... CTTid Obtata,214 OtW. REuTER'S TELEGRAMS. I FRANCWE. PARIS, July 9, Evenirg.-To-day an individual named Verdelet entered the Hall of the Council of State and fied four shots from a revolver. No one was hurt. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, July 9, 8 P.M.-The Porte has ordered the Crown pro- perty in Janina, Tricala, and Prevesa'to be sold without delay. Frequent despatches are being exchanged between ...

... WE were right, it seems, in surmising yesterday that Lord Hartington's proposal of a new preamble to the Army Regulation Bill was intended to prepare the way for an attempt to abolish corporal punishment in the army altogether. Last night Mr. Forster gave notice on behalf of the leader of the Opposition of a motion to the effect that no bill for the dis- cipline and regulation of the army ...

... The bill for the demolition of the Tuileries was sent up to the French Senate yesterday, and, despite the warm opposition of the Right, was declared urgent. ?? Right, however, succeeded, with some votes from the Moderate Left, in getting the bill referred to a Committee appointed some time ago to consider the question of restoration, and this body will probably not report before next session. ...

... A SEAMAN has no higher title of honour to bestow than the name of sailorman. In using it he implies that the comrade or officer to whom he, applies it is indeed a thorough seaman, who knows his work and will do it, whatever risk or toil it may entail. Whether the word is of old usage or has been invented in our own time to distinguish Jack from the fireman is a matter of doubt. It is certainly ...

... - ?? I PARIS, Friday. -d rEST for the moment centres in the tussle between M. Jules Simon and the Government. M. Jules Simon was asked by Mdme. Thiers to make a speech at the approaching inauguration of the statue of the First President of the Republic and the Liberator of the Territory, at Nancy. To the great alarm of the Cabinet, he consented. Fearing lest be should seize this opportunity ...

... PARIS, TUesdday THE anniversary of the taking of the Bastille passed off quietly, the demon, stration on the part of the recently amnestied Communists having been considerably spoiled by the rain. The concert given by M. Gambetta was attended by M. Gravy, M. Martel, and all the foreign Ambassadors and, Ministers in Paris, and passed off pleasantly enough. The only political items of interest ...

... There can be little doubt that Archbishop M'Hale is right in putting the repeal of the Union between Great Britain and Ireland foremost among the objects of the Home Rule party. That is what they want, and Home Rule as a cry and obstruction as a policy are but steps to that end. As we know very well that they have not the slightest chance of getting this, Englishmen sometimes choose to shut ...

... SUMMIER MIANEUVRES IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. IF it is wonderful that a couple of augurs should meet without smiling, it is pardonable in those who observe the affected solemnity of their conversation to burst into laughter. Nothing could be absurder to, anybody who knows what has recently been going on a very jittle way under the surface of political life than the disclaimer of party motives on ...

... The entry of M. Cogalniceano into the new coalition Government at Bucharest is rightly regarded as being of some importance in the present crisis. He has undoubtedly enormous influence in Moldavia, the province most bitterly opposed to the scheme of Jewish emancipation; but unfortu- nately his antecedents are not such as to induce a belief that he will support the cause of the Jews with a ...

... THE NEW ITALIAN CABINET. The Mornit'g Post finds it difficult to understand why Signor Cairoli should have been charged to form a new Italian Ministry. Signor Cairoli's Cabinet may be destined to live but a short time and to vanish suddenly next winter. But Italy and, indeed Europe, have bad enough of Signor Cairoli to know that even a few months may suffice to create serious internal and ...

... REFORMING THE INDIAN ARMY. To the EDITOR of the PALL MALL GAZETTE. SIR,-The Indian newspapers are disposed to cavil at the com- position of the lately appointed Army Commission now sitting in India, because the regimental officers of the army are not largely represented upon it and because it contains some civilian members. That the Government of India attach great importance to its ...

... The appointments of the new German Ministers were gazetted yesterday. Herr Maybach is to be Chief of the Department for the Administration of Imperial Railways; Herr Hofmann, Minister for Commerce and Trade ; Herr von puttkammer, Minister of Public Worship; and Herr von Luzius, Minister of Agriculture, Domains, and Forests. The Gazette also announces that the Ministers Herren Falck and ...