... I [BY TmnGRArn FRO[ OUR OWN COiRESPONDWNT.] LONDON, Thursday night. Lord Hartington declines to form a Cabinet. 'The task will therefore be undertaken by Mr 1 Gladstone, if the Queen should scud for him, i which is regarddd as probable. At ten o'clock this morning Earl Granville, in Carltoni House Terrace, and the Marquis, of Hiar~rtgo u, at Devonshire H ouse, sat, each waiting for the knock ...

... A MOST ATR':AOCIOUS CRIMINAL. Thle anti-Chineso feeling is forcibly expressed in a speech made two years since by Mrr Sargent in the Senate of the hnited States. The Chinese, re marked the orator, work for wages that will not support the family of a white labourer, while the Chinese themselves are more than well fed on a hand. ful of ric , a little refuse pork and dessicated fish, costing ...

... THE GENE1RAl; ELECTION. -e --------S THE 'UNIVERSITY' CONTESTS. GLASGOW AND ABERDE EN. , , ~GLASGOWv..' Thevoting at Glasgow continues by the twenty- five votes arrangement of mandates; Both parties have still a pile of these, but signs of exhaustion, it is expected, will begin to show themselves to-day. At four o'clock yesterday afternoon the figures were- Dr Campbell (C) 848 Mr Asher (L). ...

... THE MfORALITY OF blD-LOTHIAN. Morality1 was a ood deal invokced in the course of the late elections, and nowhere so frequently or vehe. mnently as in Ilid-Lothian which was urged to set an example to the world of righteousness, ti uth, honour, an d al the virtues. It is true that the force of this' advice in the abstract was a good deal blunted by L various concrete qualifications to the ...

... | I ~-. o. RieViC;Wes By ONE OF'THEMASELV'E1 S. mtTruio EASTER MONDAY - HAMPSTEAD HEATH- amserog ARISTOCRACY AND MoBoCRAcvA, DACIPYR of-being TO BOTANISTS-EASTFR WrEIZ HOIIbAYS-~ iretietiiB. THE ELECTIONS: HASTING-tRAiSSEri'S SONY- SHINE- SEASIDE I COENTRICITIBSLIUFFS ibiins01 AT DINNER-ARTIST GOSSIP-FASnIrO2NABIE 5STBRaT i '1 BONNETS-GOL LACE-CFTIFIA TiE8OF 3'sLane, COMPETANCY FOE SERVANTS ...

... [By T=raPrH FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] LONDON, Friday night. Had the present Ministers remained in office they would have forwarded amongst. the first measures for the consideration of the new Par- liament a very extensive plan of reforms and changes in the organisation of the Indian as well as the home army. Should the Govern- ment scheme ever come into force the present system of short ...

... THE TAY BRIDGE INQU-[1y. The Board of Trade inquiry into the Tay Bridge disaster Nvas resumed in Lonmlo': 0o1 Mon- day before Mr Rothery, Wreck Comirtimsioner Colonel Yolland, ancd Mr Barlow. C.E. Mr Trayner appeOHred for the Board of TrAde. Mir Balfour for the Nor']h British RsaillvaY Cdon- paoy, MIr Bidder for Sir Tolinai lUouch, engineer of the Tay Brid,,e, and Mlr W ebstrI for the ...

... A TOUGH FOX yARN. l The Kingston New York Freeman tells this story *1 st5 -Jaires Pine, a veteran fox-hunter, sixty-ix years l and old, residing in Marbletown, has killed this winter c fourteen red foxes, one cross-bar, and one grey fox. E IHe is probably the best fox-hunter in the county. He has two dogs and hunts over long stretches of V country, ranging all over the hills of Marbletown, 8 ...

... AIEiIPTED SoICcrn.-Yesterday apesor named Archibald M'Kinnoni cut his throat in Dewar's 'Temperance Hotel. He arrived at the hotel on Thursday last, and nothing unusual Iwas Inoticed about him. He did not come down to breakfast yesterd ay morning, and a servant who- went up to his room lfound him lying in bed, which was Soaked with blood, with a terrible gash on his throat. Informiation was ...

... oUR LONDGN CORMFORDENDm.| RESIGNATION OF THE MINISTRY. 65 FLEET STREET, Sunday Night. r MA.J.ssTY having arrived at Windsor last gighs, the Earl of Beaconsfield went down to Wjiadsor Castle this morning, and at an d an ience which he had immediately with the Qreea he tendered his resignation. It is ,Ldersto od that the noble Earl's resignation I was at once accepted, and lie now simply holds 3 ...

... tEE TED STATES. Washington, March 25. .rgi hopes of the Free-Traders of the country, h~n which at the opening of the session were mode.- B 2ltely sangtoine, have been frustrated, for the El present at least, by the action of the Ways and Y lycans Committee. That body, which byI el courtesy and usage has the contrbl of subjects 1a ,t12nected with the Federal revenues, and 5' thereby with the ...

... LGED HPARTMOTGON (i THE ELECTIONS. The Marquis of Hartington lst.-night-aldressaedj almesting held in the Assembly Eaeans at C-awj shaw Booth, which is situated Aix miles from JBurmley. Considerable interest was manifested-on the occasion, and the principal streets of -the town were decorated with fags, and a triumphal arch was erected bearing the names of the Liberal can- F didates. The hall ...