... There is much uncertainty when the debate on the new Rules will begin, but It is thought probable that they may be introduced either on Thursday or Friday. The Standard ?? was ?? in the Liberal Clubs yesterday that Ministers anticipate securing a majority in the division on Sir Stafford Northcote's amendment to the first of Mr. Gladstone's resolutions on procedure, inasmuch as that amendment, ...

... SaCIETY AND POLITICS Ifr PARIS. PARIS, I'dll'raiy 7. Tile Cabinet has an appearance of fragility that may prove deceptive. It has some elements of strength which may perhaps enable it to live long and in relative tranquillity. One of them is the bogey cf M. Gam- betta's Ctesarist designs,; at which the Chamber has taken alarm and will for some time continue to be frightened about. Another is ...

... THE NA TURE OF THE EG YPTIAN CRISIS. TITE mail from Egypt brings us letters enabling us better to appreciate the significance of the recent protest or reserve made by the Controllers on the publication of the ministerial prolgramme. In that document the Anglo-French Control was referred to as if the only object of its existence was to secure the revenues assigned for the service of the ...

... PARLIAMENTAR Y SJUAJIAR Y. HOUSE OF LORDS. IN the House of Lords the business was merely formal. Their lordships adjconrned at twenty minutes past five o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS. flfESTIONS and other preliminary business having been disposed of, Mr. ;l;dstone moved that the orders of the day be postponed until after his 1ton on the Land Act, and remarked that the Government were fully zensible ...

... TU)IE M7HISTAKE OF THE PEERS. T aE dccision arrived at by the House of Lords last night in favou1r of appointing a Select Committee to inquire into the Ad orking of recent legislation in reference to land in relad, and its cffect upon the condition of the country, was epposed by Lord CAR:lINGFORD and the Lord Chancellor on what, fromll the peers' point of view, ?? sound arguments. Lord ( ...

... xflid obtuiuald Rewd. TIlE ATTACIK ON BRITISH OFFICERS IN TURKEY. Capltain Selly, of her Miajesty's ship Falcon, who was Seriously wounded at 1t v a Ibjow fromi an axe hy an Ailbantan, is in a very precarious state, but te ?? alc not considerecl such as to preddcle tile hope of recovely. , pie me lin have decided that thle operation of trepanning Would l)C too 1\ to jusicn htify the attempt. ...

... 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 ...

... ElLECTTOX INTELLIGhTCM. WEsTbIINsTEi.-Under the presidency of Lient.. Colonel Sir James M' Garel-Hogg there was a meeting of the members of the London and Westminster Work- ing Men's Constitutional Association, when Lord Algernon Percy appeared as the Conservative candidate for the borough, and spoke upon the principal political questions of the day. On the motion of Mr. J. Ross, seconded by ...

... E1'JOHiIE OF OPINION. '3I1E P'ROGRAMME OF '1T:1' SESStOX. , yisl s sa s ?? The Queen's Speech will unfold a thoroughl]y business- O prori..nln, of which all, or nearly all, oughlt, if no accidents occur to be I ltting~ the session. Much, of course, dcpends on the attitude of the ; t) of thl CIouse. But still more, we venture to think, depends on the it of thC Govrnment itself. If it is ...

... CNRVTV R ITIC-,IS ON . R CONSERVATIVE CRITICI.SMS ON THE MINISTRY. SIR STAFFORD NORTHCOTE. Sir Stafford Northcote dined with the members of the Balham, Upper Tooting, and Streatharn branches of the East Surrey Conservative Association at Balham last evening, and responded to the toast of his health and the Con- servative cause. In the course of his speech Sir Stafford said that the Con- ...

... A PLEA FOR PADDING TON PARKv TjH3IRU is a chance now, whicb, if lost, may be lost for ever, of obtaining fot north-west London, where Paddington, Marylebone, and Willesden meet, a permanent lung il the shal)e of a new park Tche district is already populous, containing about 130,000 people, ar d is rapidly growing. In the midst of this district lies an open space of some eighty acres. This ...

... CORRESP ONDENCE. DRAWBACKS TO ALPINE SUNSHINE. To thle EDITOR of thle PALL MALL GAZETTE. SIR,-Your correspondent, the Editor of 'Davos-plat,: , & letter in your issue of January 23 objects to Mr. Symondss' In his St. Moritz as an alternative to Davos-Platz in winter, . suggest15 Of objections may be taken to St. Moritz on account of the tr it ut winds which blow there for days together ...