... THE EMPRESS EUGENIE AND MARSEILLES. (EXCHANGE TELEGRAPH COMPANY'S TELEGRAM.) PARIS, Wednesday.-The Empress Eugenie has generously made a present to the city of Marseilles of the Pharo Chateau and Park, her right to which was recently upheld by law. The property is said to be worth 3,ooo,ooof THE TONQUIN EXPEDITION. (REUTERS S TELEGRAM,) PARIS, Dec. 2o.-The Jozinzal des De'bals to-day publishes ...

... No place could be found less pleasant or more instructive than such a vale of Hinnom as that to which duty consigned us for a holiday in the declining autumn days. It is within four miles of one of the most notable of manufacturing towns, on the side which rises towards the wild rugged moors. Wc came upon it in the dark, and were much impressed by its aspect of terribly earnest purpose. Rows ...

... FUNERAL OF LOUIS BLANC. (EXCHIANGE S7ELEGRAPH .COMrPAN'YS TELEGRAM.) PARis, Tuesday.--The funeral of Louis Blanc is now taking place. Immense crowds line the Rue de Rivoli. Nearly all the Republican deputies and senators are present in the funeral procession. There are more than one hundred deputations bearing draped lags and colossal wreaths. Military honours arc being shown to the deceased ...

... ArOTICE.-AION7DA Y ANEXT beh~zof Clrizslitas Day, thc PALL HALL GAZETTE will not be Publishced. THE HEALTH OF M. GAMBETTA. (SPECIAL TELEGRAAM.) PARIS, Saturday.-None of the Opportunist morning papers speak of M. Gambetta's health, but the Gautlois says that he yesterday had violent crises, and for a quarter of an hour the doctors abandoned hope of bringing aim through. M. Allain Targe ...

... rfrid (#bejjijyq#d gewdo THE SULTAN'S ALARMS. The situation at Constantinople is, according to news which comes from, different quarters, considered to be critical. The Standard's corresp. Aent says:- Although the excitement at Yildiz attendant upon the discovery of the so-called con- spiracy to dethrone Abdul Hamid has somewhat subsided since the disbandment of the Circassian body-guard and ...

... THE PALL MALL GAZETTE. SA TURD)A ; DECEMBER 2, SS2. Tfllu STOR Y OF AN IRISH SIE CREl' SOCII!!'K. It, je seck to know what manner of men they are who organize tlie,1selves in Ireland for the commission of murder-their habits, their ?? their practices-we have a complete and accurate wirror of it all in the recorded doings of one of these Irish organi- zations in the United States a very short ...

... To-day is the fiftieth anniversary of Mr. Gladstone's 'first return to the House of Commons as member for Newark. At a special meeting of the Newark Town Council yesterday it was unanimously resolved to send the following congratulatory address to Mr. Gladstone Fifty years ago to-morrow you were elected as one of the representatives of this borogh, annd the corporation, in reminding you of the ...

... . TUE CROWN AND THE CABINET. The Ivzachles/Cr Ex-aminer ?? commenting on the hypothesis suggested 10 account for the delay in Sir Charles Dilke's admission to the Cabinet, savs The truth is that our glorious Constitution is in some of its aspects rthler tantalizing. It puts upon the people, and still more upon Ministers, a burden w,,hich it is not always easy to bear. After the Cabinet have ...

... ALARLUMING COLLISION IN THE MERSEY. AN OCEAN STEAMER SUNIK. (LLOYD'S TELEGRAM,) Li vitroot., Dec. ;.-The Peri nvie (steamer), from Montreal, entering the Mersey at 5 ?? this morning, was in collision with a steamer, name unknown, and sustained considerable damage. She now lies sunk on Crosby beach. Her crew and passengers were saved. The Peruvian is an iron screw-steamer of 3.038 gross tons, ...

... THE ST. ALBAN'S CONTROVERSY. To the EDITOR of t11e PALL MALL GAZETTE. SIR,-Permit me to offer a contribution to the controversy about St. Alban's, and that from the pen of another. Mr. Mackonochie's torttiosities in obeying and disobeying the ecclesiastical law of the land conteniporaneously with the extremest language of contempt for the authority of the State over the Church and of rebuke ...

... SPANISH POLITICS.-A CHANGE OF FRONT. The Times publishes the following telegram from its correspondent at Madrid MADRID, Dec. 14.-To-day's session of the Congress has been one of much excitement, and fruitful of surprises. Linares Rivas, one of the leading dissentients of the Constitutional party, and a supporter of Marshal Serrano, in the course of a long speech in favour of the policy of the ...

... FRANCE AND ENGLAND IN MADAGASCAR. The EcCwowsi;' says T--- There is no reason for our interference, while t'ire arc ?? Dmost sohi(I rcasons against it. One is that it is essential that ic fissure wbich is spreading between England and France should not be siytncd until thc two peoples, after thirty years of amity, once more grow cspi ious of each other ; and the other is that thc Malagasy can ...