... It is tolerably plain, judging alone by the state of the Consols market, that no geat confidence exists in the favourable development of affairs. Stock is arce for settlement, or rather it is wanted by those who have engaged to delielR and that is as much as to say that Consols have been sold by operators for the fall. For some time past the Stock Markets as a whole hae becll supported to a ...

... A REPLY TO LORD PEMBROKE. To the EDITOR of the PALL MALL GAZETTE. Sly,-In a letter which appears in your columns to-day Lord Pembroke once more combats the argument in favour of the compulsory liquidation of arrears which has been drawn from the late frequency of evictions in Ireland. At the same time he has also in a letter to the Thntes stated: most fully and ably the case, such as it is, in ...

... PARLIAMENATAR Y SUMVHMAR Y. HOUSE OF LORDS. LORD GRANVILLE last evening stated that on' Friday he p roposed to move 'he adjournment ?? House from that day to the 24th of October. A' similar motion would'be made in. the other 'Hpuse. It was not the imtention' Df the Government to introduce in the House of Commons at ?? sitting any business except resolutions connected with the procedure of that ...

... - . I Considerable alarn was felt 'or some time at Dover yesterday with regard to the Belgian mail packet, the Parlea.ent Bel/g. She left Dover, with mails and passengers, at ten o'clock on Tuesday night, and should have reached Ostend early yesterday morning. Wben she was considerably overdue and was not sighted, telegrams of inquiry were despatched all round the coast, and a boat was sent in ...

... INDIAN FINANCE AND INDIANr POLICE ALTHOUGH the only Indian subject in which the public is at present interested is the arrival of the Indian contingent at Suez, it is not too late to bestow some consideration on one or two subjects of importance suggested by the discussion on the Indian Budget. The discussion itself wvas somewhat uninteresting, as was perhaps natural with financial proposals ...

... IrfTl ebtenig'i OtdI. T1HE WAR, IN EGYPT. TIlE BRITISH VICTORY AT KASSASIN.--SEVERE FIGHING Full particulars are given this morning of the repulse of the enemy's attack uponl Kassasin on Monday. The enemy, who are said to have been directed by Arabi in person, appeared before the British position at daybreak, but did little more than keep our forces exposed to the heat of the sun till towards ...

... FROML AN ALPINE SPUR. MONNT'MER, UPPER SAVOY, jil.y 20. Ti-E adventurous Alpinist who can rough it on maize bread and sheep's milk cheese, or the scarcely better fare of the remote and unfriended hostels of which every Alpine village contains one, has no need to be told where he will find his billet. That other class-people who go to Cham-ounix, Interlach.en, the Engadine, Ragatz. &c.--have ...

... THE 'NEW EDUCATION CIRCULAR; THE circular just addressed by the Education Department to . her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools is a useful summary and reminder of the changes recently made in the code. And it is marked by the same, spirit of, practical common sense ..that made: these. reforvs widely welcome. Projects are spoken of for the special training of future inspectors, and arrangements ...

... MITid EOebitai'd Oebid. RUSSIA. (CENTRAL NEWS TE.LEGRANt.) ST. PETERSBURG, Tuesday.-The Afessager Offliiel denies the reported remission of the payment for .882 of the Turkish war indemnity. A large quantity of valuable jewellery has, been stolen from the Exhihitio at Moscow by means of a subterranean passage made by the thieves into the building. WEST COAST OF AFRICA. (REUTFR'S TELE(;RAM.) ...

... Sir Charles Dilke, M.P., and Mr. J. B. Firth, M.P., addressed a meeting of their constituents last night. Mr. J. B. Firth said on Tuesday next the House of Commons would undoubtedly disagree with the Lords' amendments, and there seemed to be a greater probability that Lord Salisbury would adhere to them than he did in a parallel case last year. If the House of Lords persisted in them he ...

... 71.E PRESS ON THE PARLIAMENTAR Y CRISIS. LONDON. I-lic Times says:- In substance, if not in form, the amendments carried by very large majorities in the House of Commons last night represenlt what the House of Lords have nov to accept 'or to reject, and, on the whole, the ministerial offer is probably as fair as any sober- ,,mided politician can have looked for. If Lord Salisbury is not bent ...

... IV lVES AND THEIR PROPERTKP Aio-IG the Acts which have just received the Royal assent perhaps none is of more importance than the Married Women's Property Act. This Act marks the end of a long series of statutes, legal decisions, and equitable devices. It is the last turn of the wheel in a great social revolution. The wheel has come full circle. According to the ancient common law of England ...