... 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 ...

... THE sometimes healthy but generally disagreeable practice of fasting. comes to us from the East; and in the present day the Moslems, when they keep fast during the Bairacm, take no food until sunset. Then,. it is true, they recompense themselves for their previous abstinence; but in this respect they do no more than a good number of excellent Christians, who even on the days when they are ...

... 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 ...

... PRECEDENT AND LAW[. TniE law of civilized countries, as we now find it, is to a great extent founded on precedent. In the English system, which prevails, with few exceptions, throughout the British dominions and the United States, the precedents are furnished by the recorded decisions of judges on questions which have occurred in actual litigation. In the system of the Roman law, which ...

... Chid, Obtninald fltwd. REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. | THE PRUSSIAN BUDGET. BERLIN, Feb. 13, Evening.-The Lower House of the Prussian Diet held a sitting this evening, at which the remainder of the Budget bills were read a second time. The matriculatory contribution of Prussia is set down in the Budget at 43,641,753 marks, and the revenue and expenditure for the financial year i88o-8I are each estimated ...

... I TEE SOUtTHWARK ELECTION. The Times says there is no possibility of mistaking the significance of the election [in Southwark. The return of a Conservative candi- date for one of the most Radical constituencies in the kingdom, not only at the head of the poll, but by a majority over the votes recorded for both his Liberal competitors taken together, is a heavy blow for the Opposition. The ...

... THE CENSUS OF i88i. I'ME early censuses afforded but meagre information as to the condition of the people compared with those of more recent date. Indeed, when the first census was taken in i8oI it extended only to England, Wales, and Scotland, and it was not until 1821 that the population of Ireland was counted. The census of i8oi only showed the number of persons of each sex in the various ...