... EPITOME OF OPINIONK RECONSTRUCTING THE CADINET The Slandard says :- There seems to be reas1 '-ImLUnd for the belief that the process of reconstructing the Cabinet ia. . commenced. On the 1ist of nexth month Mr. Childers, it is stated, will become Chancellor of the Exchequer, and will be succeeded at the War Office by Lord North. brook. The further changes in, and probable additions to, the ...

... trilw House of Commons approaches the discussion of the second resolution with altogether different feelings from those with wrich it encountered the Rule of the Closure. The abuse of moving the adjournment of the House at question time is admitted, even by Mr. WARTON, but no one has ever pro- fessed to see in the irregular discussions provoked by the action of private members a serious ...

... TIlE analysis of the decisive division on the closure compares favourably with those that have preceded it. The majority Avas five in excess of that recorded against Mr. MARRIOTT'S amendment, although the number voting showed a slight falling off. The salient fact of last night's division was that the Irish party went almost to a man into the lobbv against the Government. If they had remained ...

... 7 THE 4:PRESS ON. LORD SALISBURYIS SPEECH. The Times ,says :--I The gist of Lord Salisbury's speech was the familiar one that all that the Governmeiit has done was either wrong or borrowed from its opponents; either disastrous or inconsistent with Liberal professions. lut no fair-minded man can admit the accuracy of his account of the origin and causes of the E wyptian var. It is Lord ...

... EPITO.MlE OF OP'INION. THtiC GOVERNMENrT AND MR. GIBSON'S AEIENDMENT. The Times says :-i Undoubtedly the manner in which Mr. Gladstone has met the demand for giving an appeal on the question of the closure to a two-thirds majority is not calculated to abate the bitterness of party feeling. Mr. Gibson's speech brought together forcibly and compactly most of the arguments against closure: by a ...

... filed ?? otwd. NOTES ON THE SCHOOL BOARD ELECTIONS. The first of the School Board elections in the great cities has had very satisfactory results. At Manchester an attempt was made to modify the board in a sectarian direction, seven Church candidates being started as against si unsectarians. As there are three Roman Catholics on the board, the unsec tarian party were in a minority in any case, ...

... THE QUEEN OF SPAIN. (REUTER'S TEUEGRAM.) MADRID, Nov. 13.-The Queen and the infant Princess are doing well. It is expected that the baptism will take place on Wednesday next, and that the child will receive the name of Isabel. (CENTRAL NEWS TELEGRAM,) MADRID, Monday.-I regret to have to state that the latest news respect- ing the newly-born Infanta is of an alarming character. The child is ...

... THE NEWEST PHASE OF IRISH CRIME. The Frreoean's Joarna (L.) says: -- That a body of desperate men is in our midst seems no longer doubtful. What their object can be is beyond even conjecture to us. But this mich is certain-they are desperate men, carrying their own lives in their hands, and as ready to risk then as they are to sacrifice those of others. Something of the Nihilistic spirit of ...

... CORRESPOSDENCE. A STORY FROM A BLUE-BOOK. To the EDITOR of the PALL MALL GAZETTE, SIR,-Your Story from a Blue-Book is a little mixed. re nil more arrested some 1,50oo persons than you have arrested the Llamla of Thibet. We arrested Te Whiti and half- a dozen others and told the rest to go about their business and live quietly on their reserves ; which they imme.. diately did. It ...

... THE NEW JIZIDLOTfZIL4N SPEECH. T)} ainnouiccmlmnt that Lord SALISBURY would speak at Edin- burgh last night was made, by a curious bit of irony, on the iery day in August on which the Conservative leader in the 1-louse of Lords published the fact that his followers had thrown him over. We ventured to predict at the time that the bitter and self-inflicted discomfiture of that day would damp the ...

... ?? ?&btninalf; otlud. THE ROYAL REVIEW. It is now officially announced that her Majesty will hold a review of troops returned from Egypt on Saturday, the i8th inst., at noon, on the Horse Guards Parade. The following is the official detail of the regiments as far as possible, in their order of marching past :-The Naval Brigadc, the Household Cavalrv, 4th Dragoon Guards, A BatterylA Brigade, ?? ...

... HOUSE OF COMMONS. IN the House of Commons yesterday Sir S. Northcotc gave notice that he Will call attention, on the earliest day he can obtain from the Governmnent, to the present employment of a portion of her Majesty's forces in Egypt, and will move that the House is entitled to a fuller explanation of the nature, proposed duration, and cost of such employment than it has hitherto received. ...