... I LLOYD'S WEEKLY I LONDON NEWSPAPER. _ _ ?? ETHE DIFFICULTIES OF THE SESSION The approach of an unusually active and exciting session is indicated by many signs in many quarters. The official banquets of the Ins and Outs are announced; Ministers are beginning to settle down in London; Sir Stafford 1 ortheote is in close confabu- lation with his chief the clubs are filling and exciting ...

... R2rOM OP Tab LUNACY LAWS. At a meeting held by the members of the Law Amend. ment Society, Mr. Aar:x. E.MIoanEc, Q.C., read a paper on the Reform of the Lunacy Laws, Mr. JosaPr DODDS, M.P., presiding. In opening the proceedings, that gentleman said it was evidently considered by many persons that our lunacy laws were in an unsatisfactory eondition, as, during the last Fession, when there ...

... TWIM nZLEASED nummns. ?? 4 -1 - - - . -- - - , - 15i representaclve ot the Press Association saw one of the released mlen, who declared that at Holloway espe- cilly they were treated with the most rigid adherence to prison rules, and, as he thought, with even undue harshness. He states frankly that he did pay sums of money in order to secure votes-a practice which, he declared, had been going ...

... ARISTOCRATIC INSO- LENCE. The by-election in the North Ridiug of Yorkshire, no matter how it ends, will probably int to a new departure in our political life. it is clear that the blood of the farmers is up, Ind that in the determination to seek the elec- lion of their own order they are proclaiming ,he death-knell of feudalism. It is a battle between aristocracy-the aristocracy of the d-aind ...

... FOREIGN ifNTELLIGENO. I FRANCE.-The Senate on Monday re-elected M. %con Say as President by 141 votes So 5members bataiaing from voting. MAI. lamlpon, Le Royer, naid Calmon Were re-elected vice-president5 The Chamber of Deputies on Monday approved the 'Treaties of Commeree concluded with Sweden and Portugal. The Chamber adjourned until Thursday. after having decided that the Commission ...

... i GuaPu.-You can obtain any Act of Parliament at the Queen's Printers', East Harding-street, Petter-lane. The cost depends ol the size of the act, the charge being by the sheet. A MANY YEARS' SIBSCRIBER.-No ; these is no such institution. G. L. O.-No; the marrisleewould be absolutely void, if it afterwards was proved that you had a husband living at the time it was solem- nized. W. S.-Harriet ...

... I EPITOME OF FOREIGN AND GENERALNEWWSi THE Czar has conferred an order on a Russian l actor. 'l'its is the firtt time the gussian stage has been so honoured. THE total number of immigrants arriving in the United States during the past year is officially esti- mated at 719,00u. Nsws has been received at Alexandria of the assassination of the Greek Consul at, Manfalout, in Upper Egypt. The crime ...

... LET C;}IAP33TY EBMGZN AT :xoEg!I. A miovemellt has been set on foot in this country by Lord Sb aftessury, the Archbishop of Canterlury, Cardinal Manning and other ecelesiastics and philanthropists to succour the 'cTs of Russia. While wve do not question the motives of these dignitaries and are just as much shocked as any tb them Can be at the cruelty and jersecution which ?? e been visited on ...

... WMETIN.1 OF PARLIA31rn-T. I Ine ?? letter has been addressed to the members of the Opposition in tle House of Commlions by Sir Stafford Northoote:- Pynes, Exeker, .an. 5. Dear Sir-As there can be no doublt that. in the present critical state of affairs, the opening of thei next session wilt he very important, I trust yen may be able to be in your pllace on Tucdiday, Febroory 7. I remain, ...

... ISTRCILESS AD ?? LIXTIGA- TZON'. Lord Randolph Churchill rebuking Mr. Gladstone for not making the subject of here- ditary pensions a C overnmental question could scarcely be more incongruous or absurd than English journals sneering at the judicial pratc- tices of A merica and other foreign countries. The everyday occurrences of life tend to the conviction that our own judicial system is about ...

... STATE OF IRELAND; Mr. Parnellr M.P., Mr. O'Kelly, MiLP., and Mr. W. O'Brien, having underg-one three months' ins- piasounment, on Thursday received formal notice from the Executive Government of afurther remand On thondy motrs. Highland was arrested at Balli- namere, county Leitrim, for participating in a Ladies'land League meeting. She was remanded by the resident macistrate. Mr.John Mealy, ...

... THE MIiADO OF FRANCE. As we announced in our latest edition last week, M. Ganibetta, on the 14th inst., read his project for the revision of the French Constitution-a Constitution that is little more than six years old-to the Chamber of Deputies, in a chilling silence, broken only now and then by expressions of dissent So bad was the reception given to the Presi- dent of the Council, that he ...