... OUR LONDON LIETaTER. _ .a 5. ?? [SPECIALLY TELEGIRAPHED-] mot iu SIR STAFrORD NORTUOCOTE TIRED Or BEING BULLIED: the at HIS PAINFUL PREDICAMIENT-HIS HEISITATION- The HIS DESPERITE RESOLUTION-HIS PATIENCE EX- HAUSTED-A L&NGUID NIGIIT IN THE HOUSE- thD a PRINCE LEOPOLD AND HIS ALLOWANCE: OPPOSI- e TION FROM BELOW THE GANGWAY-THE LORDS Lion AND THE LIBERALS-THE PEBES CAVE IN-THE tl COMMIITTEE ...

... . OUa LONDON LETTER. [SPEOIUTWY TIHLEGR sPEMD.3 TM PATE o0 UR ARSOLD'eS NOTON-UNIVER5ITY TEA&CRING IN 51NLAND-HR GaIBsoN's INCON- SISTiNCY-THE EDITOR 0F PUNC` -PRlNSCE LEOPOLD'S HOUSE LKEEPING 51PENSES-A NEW RE.GiSTh5ING si&CH NE-CONGESTE WAISTS. HousE OF, Coch6Ss, .WEDNESDAY N IGTr. The circumstances under vwhich the county franchise resolution was got rid of at an early hour this morning ...

... TEB industry is fortunate that has no party inta distraction, dividing its objects and hampering its at se interests. From such distraction farming is not prover nf free. Some of its friends would make it a Iast s4 is political machine, not for its benefit, but for the Cornrin ad attainment of their party ends. But farmers As EF have their own wants, and know them. The dis- pected etortion ...

... THE weather has been somewhat boisterous and unsettled during the past week. The rain which has fallen has been rather a help than a hindrance to farming operations. Clayey soils had become so hard as to be unworkable to anything like a rea- sonable tilth for receiving the seed. Owing to the absence of frost such lands are not working at all kindly, and much labour is now being expended over ...

... ETH POLITICAL SITUATION. MEETING OF THE LIBERAL PARTY. On Mondayafternoon, atthreeo'clock, a meeting oZmember.; of Parliament sitting on the Ministerial benches was held at Mr Gladstone's official residence, Downing Street. The ploceedings were strictly private. Two hundred and seventy- eight memberswere present. Mr Gladstone said that ordin- arily in the past such meetings had been commenc^.i ...

... It ahe undignified threats in which the PaU Mzil Ild Ga;ettc indlges because Mr Bradlaugh has been put once more excluded from the House of Commons rts As are rot calculated to do muchl good to the cause of ;he Liberalism. The worst passions of the mob are on held in terrcrcm over all moderate thinking men, isc and we are told that it 'will be an awvkward thing if ith the workmen of the towns ...

... ?n?e | ~ 5SOLAR HEAT. In Ida paper On the Conservation of Solar Energy, read at the Royal Society, Dr 0. W. Siemens holds that all the beat and energy sent from the sun find their way hack to the great solar centre, It wrill comfort mnany timid people to knowr that the sun is not going to burn itself away to a cold cinder. THlE ELECTRIC LIG~R ANDD SH~ORThIGNTEIJNESS, Remarking the number of ...

... SECOND EDfI[~ON TURKISH FINANCE. CossrssnyIorar, TnuawnAr. The Miniter of Finance has recommended Said Packs to acept a compromise between the Porte and Galata ban- kt rs, pr-oposed by M~r Foster, director of the Ottoman Bank, and approval of the arrangements is regarded as certain. ThePorte has written to the Eondholders'Council that the Grectves tel transferring to that body the ...

... NOTES AND COMM3ENTS 1ll The people of Eastings appear to feel strong en subject of robbing the poor mns Df his beer. A' as meetingwas Iheld there on Monday nighr, t;e c-i'cJ- of party ?? a second azfcnpt to a re. 0? ?? re favour of closing publiC-lioi: ies o Sr iT n p prevented any one from speaking, an2 tf She platform. The mo bilg bioke uP in gre -c chairs being smashed and the gas Pu on' C ...

... LOCAL NOTES,- A very attractive play, entitled Amy Itobsart, is it, course of production at the Theatre Royal. Of coarse it introduces the leading characters of Queen Elizabethis Court, including the Queen herself. The title part is taken by a lady with a remarkably fine stage presence. The Queen is not so well delineated. While, howevcr. the play is magnificently mounted, the male ...

... ?? tHE IORTHERN tCHO; E FRIDAyl MARCH 10, 1882, f, _ . _ Mv = -- al t-A. LORD DALHOUSIE moved the other day in el the blouse of Lords for the reappointment u Qf the Select Committee nominated last P Session to inquire into the law relating u to the protection of young girls from a, artifiess to induce them to lead a corrupt pi life, and into the means of amending the a] EnRuc- If any proof ...

... ' I TBLBP~ITEO NORIUOTH. , - -1 E NUS 4XI &W5A The ofoial annonaeemnent on this subject, which appears in the Northra Baho, shows that the Postmaster-eaeral has put his foot down in defence of the powen und privileges of his depart. ment, pnrohaseld at the cost of over £9,000,000 from the old telegraph oompanies. Though the telephone was not in existence when the purchase was effected, it has ...