... PXOPOSAL TO A PA2L1AXENTARY I The select committee of the House of Commons appointed to inquire into the facts of the special report made by the select committee on the Tower-bridge Bill to the owse, touching upn an alleged breach of privi- lege, met on Thursday, Mr. Walpole in the chair. The other members of the committee ?? Solicitor. General, Mr. Grey, Mr. Dodson, and Mr. Pemberton. The ...

... BRIVISH .- - TEE i . .a Ia. ITS O i-IGIN PROGRESS, AND GRIMES. _ CJ~iHPTER XXXII.-(Continuced). TEm evidence given by the witnesses was of the most extraordinary cbaracters- If they spoke the truth, Queen -aroiiau-lesersrd nl:the obleqn that was heapod upon her. If, as has been so fre- quently and eo strenuously esserted, the testimony was -perjred, what tai wfe think of a man who could ...

... INWIRM TaJIB KrRFACE; OR, FOLLY AND FASHION. Is the Ti. eain its dotage? On Monday last, both in its foreign correspondetnce and in a leader, it stated tbult isbwsh. Bourbaki bad given in his adherence to the republic. There is no such person as Marshl' Bourbaki, but the person alluded to is General Bourbaki, the Bonapartist, who comnmnanded an army during the Franco-German war, and, ...

... A MISCABRIAGE AND WOCOZMRY O JUSTICE. Much of the time of the Rouse of Commons was occupied on Friday night by a very in. teresting and important matter. Forty-three years ago one Edmund Galley was sentenced to death, with another man, for the murder of a Devonshire farmer. The supposed accom- pice of Galley was banged; but as the evi- dence against the latter was far from concla. sive, and as ...

... TLOGGING INX TsH E 1AVY. Lord Charles Beresford, au illustrious officer of the navy, the hero not of a hundred fights, bat at least the hero who once hauled down the American flag, recently assured the House of Commons that if a poll were taken of the officers and the men, they would regard the abolition of flogging with sorrow. A meeting of petty officers was held at Portsmouth to pro- test ...

... TO THE EDITOR OF 1tEYNOLnDS'S NEWSPAPER. SiR,-low long are we to live in a fools' paradise, believing and thinking that all our institutions are the best in the world F It has been incessantly dinned into our ears that everything English relating to oar govern- mental institutions is nearly, if not quite, per-. feet. Justice, we were taught to believe, was oxy attainable in England. English ...

... TO TEE EDITOR OF BEYNOLDSS SWSPAPER. Sm.,-For the past month we have been groaning under a plague of -royal dinners. It has been impossible to open the papeis with- out seeing innumerable paragraphs of sicken- ing twaddle, setting forth how one royal highness proposed This toast and how, another royal highness responded to that. A foreigner who did not know mnoch' 6f SEnglish' public life ...

... THE WILL OF THE PRINCE IMPERIAL.>' It is said that those who find generally know where to go and seek; and this has been the case with the will of Prince Louis Napoleon. A very singular document has been found in a eabinet, and this is said to be the will of the last Louis Napoleon. The pretender, on the 26th of February last., just when he embarked for Africa, wrote his will, and, assuming ...

... SUNDAY, JULY 6, 1879. SUNDAY'S EDITION. MURDER AND MISCHI.EF Military matters appear to be in as great a muddle as ever in Africa. The hero of the hour is Sir Bartle Frere, who seems ludicrously un- conscious of his own position. He is ?? and lionized wherever he goes. And that by the very same people who, when their own lives and chattels were endangered, were the loudest in abusing him ! ...

... G ARD EN I W G FOR, T2OE WEEK TEUM;IOlATIN JOLT 12rxH,1879. BY MIR. GLENNY. (Editor of 44 Glenny'e Illustrated Garden Ablmanack.) OUR WEEKLY CALENDA., TIlE FLOWER GARDEN. ?? seed in the same manner as advised for I iceolarias, and treat them in every respect similar. Pot, and eat at once, plants intended for early blooming, selecting the ttrongest suckers for the purpose, which place in a ...

... AN EMIGRANT'S EXPEZINCES IN U VSTEALA.bI The following is an extract from a letter signedc3. Williams in a Sydney paper *- Just before I left England. some nineteen months ago, I, with pleasure, perused a letter in the Ironworkers' Journal, from an emigration agent for this colony. The letter stated that numerous and extensive ironworks had been established in New South Wales, some at a cost ...

... WORDS PRXOM TEE WORESHOP. TO TaEE EDITOR OF' REYNOlDs's NEWSAPARB. SIR,-The death of Lord Lawrence, who, according to his lights, governed India for us to the best of his ability has made us all in our shop this week talk about India a hit. And the more we've talked about that place the harder we've found it to get really hold of a satisfactory idea of its immense size. Here is a place which ...