... -I - Ntx > -|ghR~~LI AM E N T, WE have from time to time many scenes in the House of Commons, not a few of a painful character. But the memory must go back a long way in search of parallel to the one of Monday night. Less than a week earlier Lord Frederick Cavendish had been in his place on the Treasury Bench arranging the business of the House. On Wednesday it was scarcely noticed that he was ...

... I THE JEWISH HOESPITAL AT ODESSA An Austrian pbysician who bas visited the fo Jews' hospital at Odessa gives the following X account of what he saw there: ti In the Jews' hospital in Odessa 125 mutilated as persous have been received within a few days, and a L still greater number are still in the ruins of their hi 0l homes in Eozolo, Balte, and smnaller places in tla ti neighbourhood. Most of ...

... 21' STATE OF EGT. (BY EASTN TELEGRAPH.L) ERaox Olm OWN CORnEsPOs)ENT.) CAIRO, T sUMAX Nxe, The situation is quiet and unchanged. Work in the Government offices is completely ses- pended. The meetings of the Ministers usually attended by the Controllers twice a week, no longer take place. The fleets are expected on Friday. The delay in their couiing, the small numberof vessels, and the ...

... The annual dinner of the Herts ?? As- art sociation was held: last night, the chair being takeneby Of the president Mr. RoBEMT PaYOR, who was supported v b the Hon. if. CowperM.P., Mr. H. Br dMP r. G. W. E. Russell, M.P, Sir T. Chambers M P Sir T. Fowell Buxton, Bart., Mr. F. Xeebohmt an! eo others. The toast of Heir Majesty's MniGsters was fat proposed by Mr. Brand, who said that the ...

... IEWS IROM PAM. THE GRISEL BAQUT.: (BY.SnL M TELEGRAPHM) ?? ?? oUP oWN ?? PONDNT.) PAI W==s= N=s The Grisel banquet fixed for May 10 is a verW extraordinary and exceptional event. - in Ceommon fellow, this grimy enghne-driverq who has passed thirty years of his life on tho smoky engines of the railway, was recom-. mended long ago for the ILegion of. Honour, on account of£ his presence of mind ...

... THE aMY MEBTINGL CONGREGATIONAL UNION OF ENGLMAN .AND WAL~rS. Laat evening, undwr the presidncl of th .ev. Dr. Macadyen, of Manchester, there was a seq large attendance at the Memorial HAll, FarringdanA sreet, at the lrt meeting counetionwith the Spring aesdon of this Union. After devotional exercises, the Chair offered a walcme to the Church vepresentas tives, and expressed the conuvicti that ...

... EPITOMIE-- OF- OPINION. THE CRISIS AT CAIRO. The Tinres says ?? Ourabi Pasha having served his purpose of reconi iling Europe to the idea of a Turkish intervention ' and rendering 'such an intervention inevitable, may be expected shortly~to disappear. He will be I replaced-by Turakish authority., asd the task pf.Europeandipiomacy will then l be to effect a return-to the sta fts quto. It would ...

... i THE PRESS ON THE NE W POLICY FOR IRELAND. LONDO N. The Daily N1'eBs says it is understood that MIr. Forster still adheres to the system which has been hitherto adopted. Should he persevere, it is not likely that he will meet with much support in thc Cabinet. The Lord Chancellor and Lord Kimberley are believed to be in favour of existing arrangements, but they are not, however, supposed to be ...

... elli.d ?? oewq. THIE CRISIS I N EGYPT. THE SITUATION AT CAIRO. There is very little change in tthe position of affairs at Cairo. A Reuter~s t'elegram, dated lo o'clock last night, says:- The panic is somewhat subsiding heres but continues unabated at Alexandria. The homeward-bound steamers, which are alwvays full at this season of the year. are at pre- sent crammed with passengers of all ...

... fluid ?? Otwd. THE CORONATION OF THE CZAR. The Berlin correspondent of the Daily Telegraph hears on good authority that the coronation in Moscow is definitively given up, as the authorities are unable to guarantee the Emperor Alexander's safety. Some time will elapse, however, before this fact is officially admitted. THE EGYPTIAN COURTS-MARTIAL. The Khedive yesterday signed a decree ...

... ; TIHE ARREARS BILL. The Times says It can hardly be doubted that while both the principles and the details of the Arrears Bill will be severely criticised, it will be accepted on the whole as inevitable. It offers, at any rate, a chance of some abatement in the intolerable tension of the. Irish situation. Par- hament must not look too closely at the doubtful parts of the scheme. Assuming ...

... CORRESPO IVDENCB THE ARREARS BILL. To he EDITOR of Itke PALL MALL GAZETTE. SIR,-It is a real honour to me that a journalist of your marl should care whether I have changed my opinions or not. But the fact is that I have not changed them. I am as strongly opposed as ever to a government of force, after the fashion of Carlyle. For that very reason I wish firmly to uphold the government o0 law. ...