... I PRZVMEViIOTON P aUEyT TO ANmALS.; On Molnday the jubilee* aunil meetin'gofU the Society for the Prevention of Crutltyto Animals weas held at ?? hall, special 4eoet being given to the proceedings by the presence of the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh. Lord Harrowby, the vene- rable president of the society, occupied the chair.- Mir. Colam, the secretary, read the report, which gave a &i*ms of ...

... | T FOREuIG INTELLGENCE. 'FiANCE-The Permanent committee met on. bondayr but nothing of impdtance courred. Its next sitting was fixed for the 1st April. The Duke ?? stated that thb Bureau of the Assembly was euggged in conjsehction With the Government.in exfaniining the ?? of theinstal- lation of the two Chambers'at VeIrsalles. , He added that he wvould inform the coomittof the-decision arnred ...

... LLOYD'S WEEKLY NEWS OFFICE. |_ - SUNDAY MORNINGI [THROUGH BEUTER'S AGENCY.' PRINCE ARTHUR. PARIS, Saturdqy Night. His Royal Highness the Duke of Casmistgbtar- rived here this morning, and paid a visit to Marshai Mdaclahon. The meeting was very cordial. Mes Rtoyal Higlnes's will leave either this evening or to- morrow for England. - DEATH OF EDGAR QUINET PARIS; Saturday Night. * Edgar Quinet, ...

... I _]ROYAL GEOGRAPHIAL SOmT. _, On Monday evening, at- the meeting of the Royal Geographical society in the University of London, a paper was read by Admiral G. H. Richards, C.B., n the Route towards the Pole for the Arctic Expedition of 1875. The theatre was more than usually crowded. The Prince of Wales was present. evft H. Rawlinson 'introduced the subject of the evening by an allusion to ...

... I - *Ministers got over that almost meaning- less thing-a Speech fr the- Throne-and the Address in reply to it, easily and airily. Any judicious civil service clerk could have written'it. The assurances of a good 'under- standing with the Greaf Powers all rbund; a guarded reference to Spain; a declaration that her Majesty's Government would always be found in the ranks of the pacificators ; a ...

... t THE QAdEV AND OY FAY. l uee 's visit to Aldemshot as pogtpoced, .t Th 'e of the principal medical officers hswir coneequleab desf for her Majesty to enter the Boyaa reported AtU a-s case of Scarlet fever has recently pavilion. whene occurred.& 'lay afternoon en'twin Al Her Majesty. Won E. 'ian 20 juvenile member, Windsor a party Of mc 6 an d the children of th of the Royal aiy Prince and ess ...

... I TiE LOCK-OUT IN SOUTH WALES. I : Ali accounts from the coal fields of South Wales are of a nature to make the thought- ful anld kindly man lament the epoch of inac- tivity and of distress on a large scale to which the Vale of Aerthyr, Tredegar, and Dowlais. are doomed. W.ho is to blame for the waste of wcalth-that is of work which is wealth- ?? is going on? How comes it that with both' sides ...

... EPITOME OF Po IGN 7XD G ROCHIIORT in Sti at Ilift1epillo ls, ?? - ?? atsarceiy SF0 l5~ppear TimAustralian paperslstate ''Un t THE ?? that a, bil c1 passed for the andT~a' il O4 Adelaide university. 'oan d 1 THE bandmaster whowae wur by the Rhyber tribes has ?? off fo from Calcutta, been restored Kayoa Tecs telj GAuennLDn hae Published'arp 'I brought against him in the repy t h th rec ...

... A SUNDAY WITH THE SHAKER& A corrofldent of the T peqphi describee a YbA to the Shakers, and after giving an outlieo h sermonl, says :-The service was not to pas ulion -etrdinarymaiestatons for Mrs. g no sooner uttered a few sentences of a ?? than the peouliar in-drawing of the breath raet teriiatic of hysteria euddenly steeord her, and th brethrenr exchdined together and with apecial f, s Your ...

... | THE PIULfO XALTE . From the Registrar-General's return we learn tha during, the week ending February 13th 5.624 birth and 4,294 deaths were registered in London and 2. other large towns of the United Kingdom. The na tural increase of population was 1,330. The mortalit- from an cauger 'was at. the average rate of 2 deaths annually in every 1$J)00 persons living. Tbh annual death-rate was 29 ...

... -. SYLVAIN VAN DE WEI ER.; The life of M. Sylvain Van de Weyer, which terminated on the 23rM inst., is one that de- serves more than a passing notice; and it is to be hoped that it will be the subject of a popular book. M. Van de Weyer was the architect of his own fortunes. His father was a humble civil employs at Amsterdam, and he himself was intended for the Dutch navy. But the early ...

... ENGLAND iND CnnAfa-Respecting thp possibility of a quarrel between England and China, the Standard remarks. that there' is one potentate in Asia to whom such news will be most acceptable. )Takoobbhan, .Ataligh Ghazee, the ruiler of Kash-. gar, who has built up for himself, after the manner of his hardy ancestors, of the conquering race of Zhengis and Timour, a kingdom amidst ?? valleys of ...