... FIRST EDITION, 2.30 p.m. (PL'EC[AL TELECRAM.) ,1,SE iT,, Friday.- Tbe new Army Bill prepared by the Imperial Govern- rreri t is to be submitted to the German Parliament in its next session. As the Corsec vativcs are in a majority, the passage of the bill is considered assured vithout material mcdifications. The new bill again, like the last law passed, f :es the strength of the army for a ...

... The fall of newly erected buildings in London is now becoming so common an occurrence that it attracts but little attention beyond the neighbourhood in which it happens, unless several lives are lost. Yester- day one of these accidents took place in the Seven Sisters-road, Finsbury Park; and although no lives seem to have been lost, the result might have been serious enough. The story is ...

... RUSSIA AND EUROPE. The Satr/day Reviewc considers that the warlike designs in Europe which have lately been attributed to Russia are improbable to a degree at which they almost beco me incredible. A Russian general could scarcely hope to win a skirmish or a combat against the armies which would be encountered beyond the frontier. It is certain that at the end of the war the aggressor would not ...

... AlL DE FREYCINET'S POLICY. TViL appearance Of M. DE FREYCINET'S statement has not Tremoved the veil which rests on M. DE FREYCINET'S intentions. I-le might have said a great deal more, but he could hardly have sai les. he ish with which the statement opens is not one that is likely to be realized. The sincere uinadareet of the different fractions of the Republican majority may be as ...

... NE WS FROM TEHERAN. TtnRRAN, Dec. i6, I879, PRITISH conquests in Afghanistan are as pleasing to Persia as Russian conquests in Turkestan. A dream of many here is: the Turkomans dis- persed, all Turkestan under Russian rule, Afghanistan kept in order by England, and Merv and Herat Persian property. The Russian retreat to the shores of the Caspian a short time ago and the lately reported ...

... The T1imes correspondents in India, in their weekly telegrams of news, state ,hat the latest reports received from Ghuznee, which is now the rendezvous of all sccmrtented ard intriguing Afghans, indicate that dissension has arisen between te nilitary and religious chiefs of the late combination. Attempts have been made orevive the combination of tribes against us; bat it is statedthatthe ...

... MILITARY TRANSPORT AND SUPPLY. 7'o AWe EDITOR Of the PALL MALL GAZETTE. SiR,-Few questions connected with our army organization demand dckzer attention than the system of military transport. Were our previous military history a blank, the events of the past two years should be sufficient to prove our inability to understand or to cope with the varied require- ments of armies campaigning in ...

... The Indian telegrams state that the Mohmunds are gathering, and the 7s correpondent at Cabul says that it is reported from the Kuram Valley 'nt Captain CoilY has warned the troops at advanced posts to expect an ?? the tribesmen. Little anxiety, however, appeared to be felt, as General Tytler, commanding the valley, had gone to Rawul Pindee on ten days' ave. A Lahoe telegram in the Daily News ...

... AT the time of Prince BISMARCK'S visit to Vienna most Germans expressed strong confidence in the maintenance of peace. At present they look forward in a much less sanguine spirit. A vague sense of danger pervades the nation, and men of all political parties watch the currents of European opinion with an anxiety which they have not displayed since the conclusion of the Treaty of Frankfort. The ...

... CONCER TS. THE programme just issued by the Phiharmonic Society announces the usual eight concerts, of which four will take place before Easter, the first being fixed for February 5. The scheme of the four first concerts com- prises a remarkable number of novelties. At the opening one a new over- ture, called Hero and Leander, by Mr.Walter Macfarren,will be produced;. also an overture by ...

... Mr. C. S. Read seems to have had what the Americans call a good time in the United States, and last evening at Diss he gave some of his constituents a pleasant account of his visit. His chief cause of complaint was the newspaper interviewers. The courtesy of the business class and the intolerable rudeness of the serving class struck him as it has struck others. The whole country seemed to ...

... MR. GLADSTONE'S CONDUCT DURING THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR. 7o tile EDITOR of the PALL MALL GAZETTE. SIR,-It appears that Mr. Gladstone is extremely particular as to the correctness of any allegation which may be preferred against his public acts, and therefore I trust that he will condescend to explain more fully the accounts which he has himself given of his conduct during the American Civil War. ...