... The Representatives of the Powers in Congress assembled have, taken a resolution to maintain secrecy, and have solemnly explained to the expectant corre- spondents that the pledge will be maintained this time, and that it was not maintained in r878 because the facts leaked out through envoys of the smaller Powers, to whom something was necessarily communicated under diplomaeiteserve. We -make ...

... Party is the madness of many for thegain Ofa few.--SWIFT zo.DON, SA TURDA4 Y, REBR UAR Yq, 2&o. THE OPENING OF THE SESSION. W X T E do not know whether there is any instance on W/ t record of a Sessicn terminating before the Address was voted. Last Wednesday afternoon, how- ever, enabled the historian of Parliament to say that there has been at least one where a whole week has not been ...

... While the Eastern Question sleeps for the time, or seems to sleep, and while overtures are being made from the Greeks to the Bulgarians to join in an attack on what is left of Turkey in Europe-Athens thus offering to sacrifice a great heritage for a very small present mess of pottage-we learn, on the authority.of an eye-witness, one of those little facts which are far more eloquent than many ...

... NEWS FROTAI TURKEY. Constantinople: Jani. 26. Dervish Pasha has been received with open arms at the Palace, and the day after his arrival was invested with the Nichani Imlyaz, the highest honorary distinction in the Sultan's gift. It is not quite clear what he has done to deserve this reward, but it would be vain, indeed, to look for sequence of cause and effect in matters which depend on the ...

... LONDON, SATURDAY, JULYV3, 1880. SELFISH EUROPE. The Berlin Board of Arbitration has agreed upon its finding, and a very remarkable finding it is, but it remains to be seen how the judgment is to be enforced against the party to the quarrel which has steadily refused to recognise the arbitrating body in any other than a mnedia- torial capacity. Sir Charles Dilke's utterance on Thurs- day ...

... The result of Thursday's discussions in both Houses of Parliament, on the question of the abolition of the Chiefships, was a foregone conclusion. Still it might have been expected that the Lord Chancellor would have relied a little more on pure reason, and a little less upon thefail acconmli of the Judicature Act, as an argument for the inevitable. The debate in the ...

... SUNDAY. 4 P.m.-Sunday Lecture Society. A Common Source of Error in Seeing and Believing. By H. Maudsley, Esq., M.D. MONDAY. 5 P.MA.-London Institution. Ireland. By Justin McCarthy, M. P. 8 P.M.-Aristotelian Society. Hume. By W. A. Casson. 8 P.M.-Gluck Society. 8.30 P.m.-Medical Society. 8.30 P.M.-Royal Geographical Society. TuESDAY. 8 P.M.-Institution of Civil Engineers. 8 Pr.m.-Society ...

... LONVDON, SA'TURDAY, NOVEMBER 2n, S80o. TTHE LITTLE RIFT. The little rift within the lover's lute; the little pitted speck in the garnered fruit of the General Election has mouldered inwards, and the Cabinet is divided on at least one of the questions the manipulation of which brought the great united Liberal party back to the sweets of power. It is virtually admitted that our ...

... LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER iS, 1880. SIR C. DILKE AND LORD SALISBURY. Sir Charles Dilke made a vigorous effort, in his most successful style, at Kensington on Tuesday, to disguise the failures and to explain away the weaknesses of the foreign policy of the Liberal Cabinet. The Under- Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs habitually speaks with a courtesy which is calculated to disarm ...

... THE Statistical Society held its usual monthly meeting on Tuesday, the 17th inst. Sir Rawson W. Rawson, C.B., occupied the chair in the absence of the President, Thomas Brassey, Esq., M.P., who is temporarily abroad. The usual routine business included the election of several new members. The business of the evening was the reading and discussion of a paper by Mr. Thomas A. Welton, On ...

... [We are not responsibe for the opinions expressed in the letters zehich appear under this heading.] -i4- C O R E A. TO THE EDITOR OF THE EXAMINER. S IR,-As I am of Dr. Johnson's opinion that no man S was ever the worse for being called Holofernes, I shall not retort on the author of A Forbidden Land by saying that if I am what the modest Mr. Stanley called an arm-chair geographer, he is ...

... o Messrs. Eyre and Spottiswoode, having offered a copy of the Sunday-school Centenary Bible to Her Majesty the Queen, as Patroness of the Sunday-school Centenary, 188o, have been favoured with the following communication: Osborne, July 31, i88o. Gentlemen,-I am commanded by the Queen to assure you that it has given Her Majesty much pleasure to accept the copy of the Bible published by you in ...