... Medllesday) 2 o'clock. (r-( Ift i d o- b c IT 1 t I -q, 4 0 t w d. REUTER'S TELEGRAMIS. I PAPAL ALLOCUTIONS. ROME, Oct. 3sc.-The Pope has distributed to the Cardinals two allocutions delivered by his Holiness in the Consistory held yesterday. In the first the Pope deplores the persecutions of the Church by the Italian Government, the suppression of the religious orders, the secularization of ...

... IN the turmoil of a continental war, and in the midst of territorial changes and dynastic revolutions, absorption of monarchies and depositions of monarchs, which in their range and rapidity seem to bring back again the days of the first NAPOLEON, Ireland has nearly dropped out of sight. In comparison, it would appear to have been almost quiet, and an optimist or inexperienced politician might ...

... PATERFAMILIAS AND THE RITUALISTS. To the EDITOR of the PALL MALL GAZETTE. SIR,-There is a great deal of truth in your article wi ith the above heading. The latter half of it, which most forcibly points out the deficiencies of the ordinary English father of a household, suggests one consideration of the utmost importance towards ascertaining the real sub- stratum of national opinion on which ...

... The vital statistics of the Punjaub, collected by Dr. Dallas, Inspector-General of Dispensaries, and given in the Homeward Mail, are one more instance of the futility of mere figures. They have been got up quite en rogle by the district officers, through the village police. The people gave information very readily. And yet the death rate through the whole country figures as only 1.71 per ...

... OUR MILITARY DIFFICULTIES. The Saturday Review says that, whether the system of purchase is retained or discontinued, there will always be an abundant supply of officers The well-dressed professions are likely to be more and more crowded, and, as long as officers are recognized as gentlemen, a commission Will offer many attractions to ambition and vanity. On the other hand, it is idle to hope ...

... PERFIDIOUS ENGLAND IN TURKEY THERE never was the least occasion to take any serious notice of that charge of territorial ambition in Turkey which the Russians thought fit to throw in our teeth the other day as being so notorious. Its author, being official, must necessarily have written with the most entire and profound disbelief in such an accusation, and only brought it forward for certain ...

... EPITOME OF OPINION IN THE MORNING JOURNALS, MEXICO AND NAPOLEON III. The Times, commenting upon the failure of the Mexican Empire, thinks there is little cause to pity the occupant of the tottering throne. A crown in our days is often better lost than found, and Maximilian of Austria will certainly find in his archducal competence at Miramar a contentment whicl he could never have enjoyed in ...

... CORRE SP ONDENCE. ALPINE CLIMBING. To f/ke EDITOR of the PALL MALL GAZETTE. SIR,-I wish, with your permission, to ask the members of the Alpine Club a question. I have no doubt that I shall receive from those accomplished gentlemen a courteous and explicit reply, for I well know that they use their pens quite as effectively as their legs. I am a strong, active man, Sir, twenty-five years of ...

... WE have been curious to see how that portion of the Catholic body which is composed of converts would face the late attitude of the Conservative party, as indicated by Lord DERBY'S successful opposition to the Catholic Relief Bill. The opinions of the class to which we refer are, we believe, represented by the Weekly Register, which a few days ago contained some rather strong language with ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS. A large number of bills yesterday received the Royal Assent by Com- mission in the House of Lords. In order to facilitate the passage of the private bills that remain to be considered, all the Standing Orders which obstruct their progress are to be dispensed with for the rest of the session. Lord WESTMEATH, who had a notice on the paper for the second read- ing of a bill to ...

... WHA T IS TO BE DONE WITH 5EFFERSON DA VIS? I As the Federals have been unlucky enough to succeed in catching JEFFERSON DAVIS they will now have to consider what they will do with him. The whole matter is surrounded with difficulties, not only moral, but legal. In almost any other country the law of the case at all events would be clear enough, but in the United States peculiar and very serious ...

... PAUL GIRARD, of the Chai-ivari, thus continues his amusing description of the despondency which pervades London on account of Lord PALMERSTON'S rumoured resignation *- My last letter broke off at the moment when a deputation of the electors of Tiverton, headed by their mayor, had gained access to the veteran statesman. On seeing them his lordship briskly inquired whether they had come to ...