... The Nice correspondent of the Stzapdard telegraphs :-Mr. Benzon's debts, which formed. the substance of other charges preferred against him, have now all been settled, and the receipts are in the hands of his advocate. These items, amorintingtonearly two hundhed pounds, were mostly hotel and tradesmen's bills, for which Benzcn had given cheques in his own name when he had no assets at his bank ...

... FOURTH EDIh-ATION0. MASS MEETINGS IN NEWFOUNDLAND. DELEGATES TO BE SENT TO LONDON. PROPOSED APPEAL TO THE UNITED STATES. An immense demonstration and mass meeting of colonists took place at St. Johni's yestrctlav in connection with the Fisheries Question. Resolutions were unanimlouslv passed, indignantly protesting against the mo1dis 7.4ivenVdZ recently arrived at on the subject between France ...

... Arcadia is this year again to be held at the Royal Agricultural Hall, Islington, N., where this popular form of entertainment proved so successful last year. The entire hall will be converted into one vast garden with beds of uxuriant flowers, fountains and illuminated grottoes, to which will be added the attraction of a switchback railway, and also of a first-class variety entertai' ment. The ...

... 130 T1 P01 A FCTS L.iV POL,22JCS. TilE sayers of smooth things find in the meeting of the K'AISER and the Tz,..uR an opportunity for their customary commonplaces. They assure us that peace is settled, and that the agreement of Poten- tatcs is equivalent to the removal of disagreeable problems. Pride is touched by the notion that two men can thus dispose of the destinies of Europe; but then we ...

... TSE CRY OF THE COSTARS. A CHAT WITH THF SECRETARY OF THE COSTERMONGERS' LEAGUE, .I MAY say,' remarked a gentleman who called at our office yesterday, that I am the secretary and chief orE anizer of the London United CostermongerS' Protection League. A formidable position this of Sec. and C.O. of the ?? but Mr. J. J. Richmond seemed to have energy and conlidence enough to carry him through ...

... THE JUBILEE OF THE PENNY POST FIFTY years ago to-morrow, by virtue of a warrant published in the London Gazette on the 28th December, 1839, was inaugurated our system of penny postage. That warrant fixed and limited the rates of postage to be paid to her Majesty's Postmaster-General for the use of her Majesty on letters posted and transmitted by post on and after the toth January, o840, at ...

... LORD PIGOTT OF] BALFOUR. SLIPS of the tongue, like ?? in-sleep, often tell tales, Wllen the tongue is off its guard, it becomes sometimes the moutth- piece of the real mind. The slip made by M\r. BALFOUR at the outset of his speech ycsterday was a case in point. I-He was beginning to elaborate his argument againstAMr. SEXT0N'S contcntion that the Times and the Government were in working ...

... A CH-AT WITH SARAH-CLEOPATRA. I SHALL HAVE A 'SERVICE DE SERPENTS.' You ofcourse remember, 'said Mdme. Saral i3ern.hardtto afriend in her 1ove the other night, that Cleopatra died from the bite of a real serpent. To tell you that we are going to have an asp in the new play would be, perhaps, going too far; but I assure you it will be a veritable reptile. You understand that I, greedy ...

... THE NEW INDIAN MESSIAH.Y The coming- of the M7vessiah') among the Dakota Siou:s (Saysa r' the IRirndugliamw post) is not to be taken in its religious sen.e T accodin tothe ndin manig, indicates a general-in-chief whO'I the tribes uniting against the comml-on enemly, and ensure success fi~r thl i'd'all cause. And is it not strange, as if in prevision ot this evlent.tta ., savant, M. Petitot ...

... he laze EPITOR of ?? PALL MALL GAZETTE, DEAR SIR,-Surely it is time our Post Office authorities were male aware of the difference in the treatment of the United States and our own rolonies on the matter of book postage. I posted General Booth's In Darkest England to Washington Territory, and paid 8.o. postage. I am compelled to pay 2s. cd. for tl;e same book to Auckland, New Zealand. Is ...

... FROBI SOUTIH AqaICAN POINTS OF VIEW. THE commonplace of the hour is to say that the accession of Mr, Rhodes to the Cape Premiership is a step forward to the future of South Africa. The question is being asked and answered anew, What is thial Future to be ? We have, therefore, instructed the Special Correspondent who recently studied it on the spot to collect together into a single article the ...

... I THE, grocers.. and -tea dealers are very angry with Mr. Goschen. Theyfr declare that his statements as to the profits made by the trade are grossly erroneous and misleading, and that there is no branch of the grocery business in which the public are so well served as they are inr tea. Competition has never been so keen as it is at present, and it is simply impossible either in town or ...