... THE CHANCES OF THE WVAR. ETll last defeat of the French Army of the Loire and the retreat of I)-ucirXl behind the Marne-supposing that movement to be as decisive as was represented on Saturday-finally settle the fate of the first combined operation for the relief of Paris. It has ccmpletely miscarried, and people begin again to ask whether this new series of misfortunes does not prove the ...

... PARIS, ZVOZI. 29. IT is impossible not to feel for the thousands who are fighting andt dyir g at this moment perhaps, and to think of the great questions whidc. are being decided. I have known for the last two days that to-day a great sortie was to take place. The foreknowledge makes one feel more nervous still, I think. Last night I could not sleep, waiting for the cannon of the forts, wh ich ...

... F NdE Ki. BUTLER deserves some credit for having stated the case of the t nited States against Great Britain in the plainest possible terms. Their icvaice against us is not, he says, that we recognized the South as a iCllirreiut. It is not that we suffered the Alabama or the Sheizzimloal to escapes He is willing to admit, for the sake of argument, that in both tyese respects Great Britain ...

... IWednesday, 2 o'clock. Iflid ObtlTingld Otwd. PRINCE ARTHUR'S VISIT TO IRELAND. The Lord Mayor of Dublin has been officially informed that Prince Arthur ill 1trve in Dublin on the 5th of April, and remain at the Viceregal Lodge until the i3th. The Prince will, it is stated, be present at the annual Iris; Masonic Ball, and at Punchestown races. He will subsequently be the of the Marchioness of ...

... , THE CONFERENCE. The Dailor ATews remarks that until Greece can -withdraw her action from European cognizance, it is to little purpose that her Government withdraws from this Conference. If the Powers are only unanimous in their determination to prevent the disturbance of the peace by either party, they can do so, and it is their interest, as well as their duty, to avoid doing substantial ...

... MR. BR UCE'S CON VERSION. FOR a Cabinet Minister to change his mind is not an occurrence without precedent, but it does not on that account become an occurrence without importance. No reasonable person will deny that Mr. Bruce's speech last night marks a step in the direction of the ballot. Of course the argeunents for and against the change remain just where they were, but such a decla- ...

... 7O7'Cf.-A THIRD EDITION of tke PALL '1ALL GAZE KTE is P2ubish1ed Every Evening during the Session at HALE-Pd ST SIX O'CLOCK, z.hkich confains the Parliameiitary Proceedings and the Telegrams receivred up to that time. S:[aZZlrdg, 2 o'lAeo-k. lywi? C-bmill'a'd Newd. It is not likely that the Prince and Princess of Wales will pass much time at Sandringham in the ensuing autumn, as Sandringham ...

... PROSPECTS OF THE (ECUMENICAL COUNCIL. A CURIOUS story reaches us from Rome, on authority entitled to every respect. We are informed that from a quarter whence it was little expected a serious effort is now being made to induce the Pope to prorogue indefinitely the (Ecumenical Council. Special Congregations have been appointed to prepare and digest the various opinions which the Vatican ...

... nTR. CHILDERS is undoubtedly taking a right course when he insists on being the supreme and sole responsible Minister of Marine, but it is unfor- tuilate that he does it in a way which is either inaccurate or unconstitu- tional. The old Board of Admiralty is retained, with, it would appear, no alterations in the terms of the patent Now the existing patent does not malke the other members of ...

... Friday, 2 o'clock. WITid obtninuld Ptbjd. The Lords Justices of Ireland have intimated by circular to the ministers of the Presbyterian General Assemblv of Ulster that in future the Regium Donum will be paid by the Bank of Ireland. The post of distributor, occupied by the late Rev. Dr. Cooke, is not to be filled up. We are asked to say that on the occasion of the Archbishop of Canterbury being ...

... Among new Prussian postal and telegraphic regulations we observe two, which we commend to the attention of Lord Hartington and Mr. Scodamore. The one is the issuing of post-office orders to America; the other is the handing over of the sum paid by the sender of a telegram for the eventual answer to the receiver of the telegram, if he thinks an answer unnecessary. It has always struck us as ...

... CORRE SPONDEN CE. WHAT WOULD THE BALLOT DO? To I/ze EDITOR of tihe PALL MALL GAZETTE. SIR,-There can, I believe, be no doubt that the late election h3as greatly improved the chances of the ballot. The question is certain to be brought forward shortly after the meeting of Parliament, and to be advo- cated with renovated zeal and hope. It is even rumoured that it may not impossibly be proposed ...