... STATEMENTS OF ARABI. DEFENCE OF HIS ACTS. PROTEST BY M. VICTOR H1UGO, MBY EASTERN TILEGRAPH.J ' (PROMX OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) CAONw, mosDAY. I have already sent you a summary of some of the statemnents made by Arabi. These state- ments consist mainly of testimony -given, in court, but partly of words spoken in interviews with a friend, which Arabi wishes to be made known to the English ...

... Lectures-Gresrnbwn (Astronomy), Rev. Mr. Ledger, S; M6erc hnts' Weigh' MOIBSe t:'hapel, jRev. Dr Aveling 12~ Westbourne~pxk institute (Birth and Deathl a *orld)h Mr. Pctoctor, 8.l15; Weigh Hoase Chspei (~ennuOn's Poeiry), Dr. Macdonald, 8: South. placa tsiItOt, Eiusbur5y (Liberty of Printig), 1Lr. PoliticalSpdohsA-Wellingbrcg, (MMr. RusseU, Q.C, Mj.P., and H~on. 0. 11 Spencer, ?? DUbliD (3 ...

... M1ADAME DORVAL. -4 The present epoch may almost be called one of remi- niscences, and, without intending to make any comparisonrs, which, after all, serve no practical purpose, it is perllitted to us to remark that the French stage of the present daly has not the same splendour to boast of that it enjoyed in the first half of this century. At the Comedie Frarqaise there are uudoubtodly a few ...

... NATIONALIZAT.ION OF LAND. To the EDITOR of 'tue PALL MALL GAZETTE. SIR,- Agreeing with you that the above theory as propounded by Mr. George is likely to tempt the masses much more than is comlrnm0ol imagined, ILregret extremely that Mr. Fawcett, in his mention of it the otlhe day, did not put forward the real argumnent against it. Mr. Fawcett said tiht lthe aeisiver- tcit was, Would the State ...

... THE- SALVATION ARMY AND. ITS CONVERSIONS. Seo the EDIToR of thie PALL MALL GAZETT. SI-R,--Let me. exp~ress my surprise at the extraordinary doctrine which you lay down as to the -worthlessness of ail conversions which a-re not effected by preaching the Gospel in: simplicity and- in truth.; I would ask, How do you appraise the -wiorth of a conversion ? If you judge it solely by its bearings ...

... ? ?? vli4? , b -i ;I tt.-q I q. St t.b) do TURKEY AND ENGLAND. The Constantinople correspondent of the Daily. News is assured that thle Turkish reply to Lord Dufferin's last note is one long protestation of friendshlI 'foiE'ngland, 'an 'ckhowfedgnleft of what has been 'done for Turkey in times pa'st, Rand 'th'e hope' that the ties of frendship will be drawn more cloye future. No allusion is ...

... 'T IETRIAL OF ARABI. T. E CHARGES AGAINST TlE EGYPTIAN PATRIOTS. A gairo telegram of Monday says:- It is necessary to repeat the warning respecting Arabi's imprisonment. He considers his life unsafe. In any case his treatment is still 'unnecessarily harsh. The British Government should interpose. Such incidents, harmless in them. selves, as the remark of a member of the Khedive's nt ourage ...

... ?? 0 0 MT ?? ~~C)o THE QUEEN will leave Balmoral on November 16, according to present arrangements, returning to Windsor on Friday morning, November 17. On Saturday Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Beatrice, the Duchess of Connaught, the Hereditary Grand Duke and Princess Alice of Hesse, drove to the Gelder Shiel, and in the evening the Marquis and Marchioness of Hamilton dined with the ...

... As you stand upon the hill above Dunbar, from which the Scotch rushed down to their doom upon the pikes of. Cromwell's infantry, the wide stretch of land and water over which the eye ranges, albeit but little known to the generality of Englishmen who rush through it on the Scotch express in the small hours of the morning, is yet as full of interest, and in its way perhaps as impressive, as any ...

... 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 ...