... It is evident that a very serious crisis is ap- proaching in the history of our parliamentary institutions, and it is not the people who are to blame for the probability of a contingency. The Lords in one direction, the Commons in another but both acting against the people and their rights and liberties, have produced a con- gestion in the public mind, which will only be removed by great ...

... THNE COXRT. Queen Victoria on Wednesday completed her sixty. third year, an age which has been exceeded by eleven only of the Sovereigns of England, dating from the Norman Conquest-viz., Henry 1., Henry III., Ed- ward I., Edward III., Queen Elizabeth, Jamnes II., George I., George II., George III., George IV., and William IV. On the 2eth June next she will have reigned over the United Kingdom ...

... NOTES ON rARLIAMENT. LBY A SPECIAL CONl'IBUfTOR.J THIE STUPID PARTY OBSTRUOTING. The iriends of the Irish landlorlds, to whom the nation intends giving charity, are not content. They greedily accept the proffered alms, but they are anxious at the same time to make I.ohtical capgital out of the bene- faction. So, on Monday, aiter the Arrears Bill, which is one of the simplest proposals ever ...

... SUNDAY L ECTURB. ?? stchuld reacish oheaofce net later than Sat.rday N l-Dr. Perfitt, Co.operative Hall, 18.9, Copenhagen-street, Caledoniu..road, at 7, lecture, Reformation ia England; R~eligious and Political Cauee.-Clhremoout Hall, Penton. street, Pentonvillo, at 11.30 r.m., discassion; at 7 p.m., Mr. Corris B. Grant, John B:a^mpdsn.-Clalreuldon ritlb, an, High-streot, linyton, at 11.30 ...

... WORDO 1rOr ?? WOKXBSOP. THE BLADES CLUB DISCUSSIONS. TO HE EDITOR OF RETNOLDS'S irWSPwAYsi. SIB,-This week me and my mates have been talking over the unsatisfactory nature of the position in which the wprker stands to the master. In our opinion things are getting worse, instead of better. Masters now only too often try to oppress their men. It ain't as if both stood up fair and square, and ...

... THE nAtEL.WAY ACCIDENT AT MCOnNST,, Major Merindin has issued a report containing the re. sult of his inquiry into the causes of the collision which occurred on January 25 at Hornsey Station, on the Great Northern Railway, during a dense fog. Two passengers in the train were killed upon the spot, and one has since died in consequence of the injuries re- ceived; while fifteen persons were ...

... r2ANcE. The organs of MI. Gambetta are evidently changing their language in discussing Egyptian affairs. The Republique ltrsaise says:- The Tenmes is a most extraordinary newspaper. We have followed with attention all the opinions manifested by that journal on the Egyptian questioa. They are so numerous and so different that it would take us some time to enumerate thbgu. That jonrunal ...

... UP to the hour at which we write, the situation in Egypt is practically unchanged, except that the panic-strice4en efilux of Europeans, and espcinlly of French people, continues. 'Arabi holds to his posi- tion on land, and our ships maintain a masterly inactivity in the harbour. But though no shot has been fired, war preparations are going on with so much briskness in the English arsenals, ...

... UPROAPZOUS WMETM a AT CHELSEA. . .. . - ?? . -- - - . 11 .1 I Sir Charles Dilke and Mr. J. B. Firth, the members for the borough of Chelsea, addressed a crowded meeting of their constituents at the vestry-hall, Chelsea, on Tuesday night, Mr. J. N. Higgins, Q.C., presiding. The bail was densely crowded long before the hour up- pointed for the commencement of the proceedings, and the earlier ...

... 'T IETRIAL OF ARABI. T. E CHARGES AGAINST TlE EGYPTIAN PATRIOTS. A gairo telegram of Monday says:- It is necessary to repeat the warning respecting Arabi's imprisonment. He considers his life unsafe. In any case his treatment is still 'unnecessarily harsh. The British Government should interpose. Such incidents, harmless in them. selves, as the remark of a member of the Khedive's nt ourage ...

... A CALL OF TH1E MOUSE. The autumn session commences on Tuesday, and it cannot fail to be eventful in the history of the House of Commons. If the house of the people desires to prove that it is capable,of doing the business of the people it will be by ain extreme exercise of sell-denial. The Corn- mons has e of late years said too much and done too little, and it would gratifythe country if a ...

... THE BECENT' CAMPAIGN. The con iction must come upon the mind of everyone who reads the descriptions of out soldiers' return from Egypt that the campaign is over none too soon. The appearance of both men and horses of the household troops, as they made their triumphal passage through London, was indeedpainful and pitiable. 'the former looked thin, gaunt, and careworn; the latter in such bad ...