... THE AUSTRIAN BLOOD TAX IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. To the EDUroR of fite PALL MALL GAZE.TTE. Suz,-Among the somewhat optimist statements to be found in a letter hi to-day's Times on B Iosnia as It is, occurs the following paragraph ?? Christians and Mahommiredans have now both to serve in the Austrian army. This compulsory service, though the insurrection would have burst forth without it, ...

... The French Government has adopted an English fashion of shelving a vexed or troublesome question. So strong has the agitation for thie purchase of the railways by the State become that the Government finds thle question embarrassing, and has got it put off by appointing a Commission ot thirty members of the Chambers to inquire into the working of the comn- panies and report upon the ...

... THE IRISH NATIONAL LEAGUE. The Freeman's Journal (L.) says:- The English press daily announces that the Irish agitation is at an end. It is an absurd and ridiculous deduc- tion. The Irish-agitation can never close, will never close, until amidst the plaudits of an emancipated nation an Irish parliament assembles in Dublin but like all agitations the Irish movement has its periods of ebb and ...

... THE GO VERNAIEVT AND THE CLOSURE. NEXT week the House of Commons will be busily engaged hi debating, the proposed new Rules of Procedure. Already for some days the public has been discussing somewhat anxiously the prospect of the success which will attend the Government in its attempt to apply an effective check to the practice of persistent obstruction. It will perhaps conduce to a more ...

... IE Ty i 4 ?? Odeb-. THE IRISH LAND LEAGUE IN AMERICA. There is (the New York correspondent of the Daily ?? says) a growins dissatisfaction among the Irish Land League organizations with the Irji I Vorld's action. Many branches protest against it as unpatriotic. The Central Council, the highest authority of the League in America, has issued a circular denving the dissolutioin of the League, and ...

... SPECIAL MORNING SUNDAY EDITION. SUNDAY MORNING'S TELEGRAMS. THE VERY LATEST NEWS. Reynolds's Newgaper Office, Snuday, 4 a.ms [REUTr'eS TELEGRAMS, XTC.J ARABI'S TRIAL. APPOINTMENT OF ENGLISH COUNSEL. Cairo, October 14, 9.40 a.m. Mr. Mark Napier will defend Arabi Pasba before the court-martial, the Egyptian Government having con- sented to allow I im to choose his own counsel, whether native or ...

... TIME IMPENDING MINERS' STTIKE.- There seems now to be small chance of the miners and mine-owners of the country coming to any agreement before the period fir cd by the Manchester conference, a few weeks ago, for a general strike, arrives. Since the last advance in wages was conceded to the miners, coal has irisen in price two or three shillings a ton; but our coal kings refuse point blank ...

... ?? RnEBELS. If we do not take care, England will be called -upon to act as hangman in ilgypt. Now that the danger of Arabli Pasha's rebellion is over, a good many people seem to wish to close his mouth by the surest process. Last week the British Government sent out instructions to Sir Edward M3alet that no one was to be executed except with the consent of the Go- vernment at home. We had ...

... WORKING XEN AND THEIR WANTS. TO THE EDITOR OF REYNOLDS'S NEWS1'PAlER. SiN.,-Haxvig now been at peace- or, rather, unoccupied in the wholesale massaere of com- paratively speaking defenceless people strug- iling for their rights and liherties-whioh Mr. b-ladstone says is not war-during the per'iod of three weeks or so, it is not impossible that before the meeting of parliament we may be plunged ...

... Pr,%r1Ars no composer for the stage has ever retained a firmer hold upon the British public during a long series of years than Michael William Balfe. Born in Dublin on the i5th of May, t8o8, he, almost in his nonage, exhibited so strong a bias for music that his parents, themselves musical, instead of opposing, as too many are apt to do, their children's early prepossessions, strove their best ...

... pRaNOE AND HER CLIM8 IN MADAL GASOAR -4 To 5SZ =isS OF q= Day ssfl 5x_,-I your Oorrespondent's letter from Paris the claims which France makes asginat l0na. gaseasere set forth; and by your per ioa themv. 1. aunsmade on 0aD ohT aeand her France-Axab crew. Thisdsnw wan engaged in bringig firearms and ammuition tO the north-west coast, and not slaves, as it has bea supposed by same. 4t was ...

... ,ONDOI9 FRIDAY, O*Ur 13.,j Our Special Correspondeit in Cairo telegraphs co that to-morrow is appoisited as the first day of it the public trial of Aiabi and the leading rebels, on the threefold chage of massacre, incen- diarism and violation of the white flag. a No one fromi the Khedive downwards, adds our p Correspondent, is at any pains to onceal his in confidence that these chargesfian ...