... IN the House of Commons, the Chancellor of the Exchequer informed Mr. Ashley that although the precedents were not held to justify the Government in proposing a funeral at the public expense for the late Lord Lawrence, arrangements had been completed for his interment in Westminster Abbey. Mr. Stanhope said, in reply to Mr. Fawcett, that the statement that the native army of India alone would ...

... It seems that the Government of the United States has resolved to take a serious view of the project of M. de Lesseps to cut a canal through the Isthmus of Panama, and that the Cabinet has the matter now under consideration. But this interference is surely premature. There is certainly nothing to show that the European Governments intend to give attention to the subject. The whole business is ...

... Lord Cranbrook's speech at the meeting of the West Kent Conserva- tive Association at the Crystal Palace yesterday carefully omitted all reference to the progress of the Russian arms in Central Asia, land to the difficulties we have to encounter in Zululand. This may be justifiable enough at a purely party gathering, but the Secretary of State for India has higher duties than those of mere ...

... PARIS, I 'estay. THERE is nothing very astonishing in M. Jules Simon intriguing to upset a Ministry devoted to M. Gambetta. M. Jules Simon and M. Gambetta have been at daggers drawn ever since the close of the Franco-German war, when the former was deputed by the Government of National Defence to go to Bordeaux and wrest the power from the hands of the Dictator, who ,vished to continue the waL ...

... The reception which awaits the Irish University Bill of the Govern- ment at the hands of Irish Catholics was never reasonably doubtful; but if doubts on this point were anywhere entertained, they have been removed without loss of time. At a meeting of the Roman Catholic bishops of Ireland held in Dublin yesterday it was unanimously resolved that, having fully considered the Irish University ...

... SOPS FROM THE IRISH CHURCH SURPL US. THE discovery that the Government propose to apply 1,300,0:3 out of the Irish Church surplus to the creation of a pension fund for Irish National school teachers has taken Parliament itself no less than the country by surprise. How long the project may have been in the contemplation of Ministers we cannot say; but certain it is that the secret has been very ...

... FIRST EDITION 2.30 p.m, RE U TER'S TELEGRAMS. RUSSIA. MoSCONW, July 23.--The Moscow Gazette announces that a young revol1- tionist named Glatoonoff has been captured at Taganrog after firing three times from a revolver upon his pursuers. None of the shots, however, took effect. RUSSIA AND CHINA. ST. PETERSBURG, July 24.-The St. Petersburg Gazette to-day states that the news recently published ...

... 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 ...

... THE'Il ZULU WAR. PROGRESS OF TEE BRITISH ADVANCE. FREUTER'S TELEGRAM.] CAPETowN, June 24 (via Plymouth).-The latest intelligence from General Crealock's column states that the Umlalazi river has been successfully bridged over with very slight opposition from the Zulus. It isexpected that the whole division will be moved forward and take up an entrenched position on the north side of the river, ...

... 0 - 0 ? 0 0 II-4??sUUI?I J? ?? C)0 ?? .7 0 , 0 0j? ,/1 TuE QUEEN held a private investiture of the Order of the Bath at Windsor last week, when Her Majesty invested General Sir A. Conynghame with the insignia of the Military Division of the First Class, and Sir F. Sanford, Mr. Lingen, and Mr. J. Lambert with the insignia of the Civil Division of the Second Class of the Order. Subsequently ...

... SIXTY years ago, when Tennyson was a boy of ten and Carlyle nearly five-and-twenty, was born one whso, long since welcomed as greatest of art-critics, is now being more and more widely recognised as ranking amongst the chiefest of the world's life-teachers. It is possible to collect from Mr. Ruskin's writings a number of auto- biographical passages, many giving us actual facts in his life, ...