... AlN INSPIRED HISTORY OF THE LATE WAR.-Hi. Wa resume to-day the version of the events of the late war which the friends of the Grand Duke Nicholas wish to pass current in Western Europe. Two questions have already been dealt with. The third question which the vindicator of the Grand Duke attempts to answer in La Vouvelie ,7z ue is why the crossing of the Danube was effected with such facility. ...

... THE GRANT TO SIR BARTLE FRERE, The T2imes cannot blame Sir Wilfrid Lawson and those who thinik with him for asserting their own opinions, even against their political friends and their official leaders; nor, on the other hand, if the Ministers are willing to accept the responsibility of maintaining Sir Bartle Frere at the head of affairs at the Cape, would it be reasonable to say that they ...

... I .1 - It now appears to be doubtful whether, after all, the motion for the recall of Sir Bartle Frere is to be dropped, as was supposed yesterday. Sir Wilfrid Lawson assumed that an opportunity for discussion would be afforded in taking the vote for Sir Bartle Frere's salary. This vote will not now, for reasons given by Mr. Grant Duff, be necessary. Sir Wilfrid Lawson, therefore, is able to ...

... ? . - -- -f- I . 'The attempt to make party capital against the Government out of their reported intention to have the evacuation of Afghanistan completed by the f nd of October is not well judged. The withdrawal of our troops is well known by all who take the trouble to inform themselves to be a matter of necessity. Lord Cranbrook knows this as well as Lord Hartington, and he not only knows ...

... MR. BRADLAUGH'S CLAIM. The Tihnes thinks that, if the seat of Mr. Bradlaugh is not rendered vacant either by his own act or by the act of the House of Commons, there remains only the alternative of the Rothschild and Salomons Flecedent, which would leave Mr. Bradlaugh member for Northampton. As matters stand at present, this would exclude him during the term If the present Parliament from all ...

... IT must have struck many persons, even those least interested in political machinery, as not a little curious that while several members on both sides of the House have been unseated by the election judges, in no case have the victims been declared guilty of personal corruption; and no prosecution has hitherto been instituted against either the actual givers or the actual receivers of bribes. ...

... S The foreign telegrams to-day are full of ?? and speculations respecting the cause of the delay in the reception of Mr. Goschen by the Sultan. A Daily ?? telegram from St. Petersburg says that in official circles there the opinion ,ras that the postponement of Mr. Goschen's reception was dle to the Sultan, who refused to Ieceive the Ambassador's speech. Other reports state that the Sultan ...

... ?? Obtnin2ld titb),q. THE UNITED STATES AND MEXICO. (REUTEI'S TELEGRAM, ) WAStJItNGGToN, June 18.-To-day the Cabinet referred to Mr. Evarts, with obtaining the consent of Mexico, a request from General Hatch for aiev n to follow the Indians into Mexican territory. ?? had also been received by the Cabinet that an expedition was being nied in Arizona to seize Sonora, and Mr. Ramsay, the ...

... With the discussion on Cyprus last night we have probably heard the last of the question of restoring the island to the Turks. The question indeed was hardly raised, or raised only to be unanimously negatived. Mr. Rylands's motion suggesting improvements in the administration of Cyprus took for granted that it is henceforth to be governed as an English dependency; and Sir Charles Dilke ...

... MR. GLADSTONE'S RESOLUTION. The Daily News thinks that the course which the Government have resolved to take with regard to Mr. Bradlaugh is probably the best way out of the present difficulty. But it does not seem by any means an ideal way of settling the question. We might complain of it if there were time to make a better choice. Many objections can be suggested. It is not desirable that ...

... PIR. GLADSTONE'S BUDGET. MOST of the anticipations which we expressed in our article of yesterday were fulfilled. Mr. GLADSTONE told the House of Commons that he had decided on maintaining, and indeed on slightly increasing, the income tax for the purpose of enabling kimn to recast the wine duties and to substitute a tax on beer for the excise on malt. Sir STAFFORD NORTHCOTE naturally reserved ...

... SLAVONIC SPELLING. To the EDITOR of the PALL MALL GAZETTE. SIR,-It is one of the difficulties of those who have given more or less of thought to a subject for forty or fifty years that, if they go on doing as they have been used to for forty or fifty years, they are charged with innovation by those who have thought of the same subject for only four or five years. This is true among other ...