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Saturday Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 124, 24 November 1877, Page 12

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ojli ii- •;■ (Frovi lruih.) n >ih to •/./.. The,. prince > pf Wales -.has appointee! the Hon. * Alfred Henrj; -.Th,e / siger, () ®fQp -tp-M Attorney-General to His Royal Highness,; vice Georges Xioeh, Esq.; <Q.C.;.deceased. i:: ,iu Mr Montagu Corky intends to .enter Parliament,f’jwhere ,;he, wills suqceed• Sir W- cH* Dylce as a whip of the Conservatiyqparty. SirAY.H: Dyke will be made a peer.: .Does, this point, to the withdrawal of Earl Beaepnsfield from the cares and the charms, of office? } r 1 j ( f * f 1 y The Emperor of . Russia has, it is stated by the German newspapers, threatened to send all Russian officials ; in Bulgaria,, who,* allow atrocities to be committed, to Poland, for “ the eyes of all Europe,’’ sagely observes. His Majesty, “are on Bulgaria." The following dialogue occurred at a school-

board examination of “junior mixed Examiner : “ And who reigned after, Sa,ul 1” Answer “ David!” Examiner :And whocame after David ?" Answer ; “ Solomon.” Examiner : And who came q/’A’rjSolomon ?" Sharp little girl: “ Oh, please sir, the Queen of Sheba!”

If it be true, the most important item of news from Constantinople this month is the dismissal of Mahmoud Dainat Pasha, the brother-in-law of the Sultan. It was he who J contrived the downfall of Midhat Pasha. He was the liead‘of the palace party, and maintained his influence over the Sultan by means of palace intrigue. . ’ . Mr Layard. notwithstanding his Turkish sympathies, appears to hare, hit the truth respecting the “ atrocities.” It isn’t exactly six of the one and half-a-dozen of the other, because the Turkish Government armed the Bashi-Bazouks and set them to work with the Circassians, knowing what the inevitable consequences would be’. Still, the chief difference between the Cossack and the Circassian is in the spelling of the name. Count Schouvaloff telegraphs to St. Petersburg, and to the Russian headquarters in Bulgaria, all the war telegrams that appear in tlie London journals. According to his Excellency, the Russian communications are so uncertain, and the news obtained from the other side so incorrect, that these telegrams are, from a military point of view, most valuable. The tourist seasou in Switzerland has been a dismal failure. The Swiss hotelkeepers are in despair. They fight for a stray Briton like cloys for a bone. At Lucerne, the authorities have had to interfere, and to notify touts, who attempt to drag off “ fresh arrivals " to hotels, that they will be punished if they do not somewhat abate their zeal.

Is it true that the Duke of Edinburgh was ordered by the Government to quit Athens immediately he arrived there on Sept. 1 ? If so, are we to credit Lord Beacqnsfield or Lord Derby witli the ingenious discovery, that a private visit of His Royal Highness to the Ring and Queen of Greece would seem to lend countenance to the war party ? Great is the mystery of diplomacy. I am, indeed, sorry to hear that ill health is likely to compel Mr Delane to retire from the editorship of the Times. I think lam correct in saying, that in the event of his deeming such a course to be imperatively necessary, lie will be succeeded in the editorial chair by Mr Henry G. Calcraft, the present head of the railway department in the Board of Trade.

Mr Gladstone has publicly notified that the excursion season to Hawarden is over. It is sincerely to be hoped that the right hon. gentleman, for the sake of his past reputation, will now leave the “ unspeakable Turk" alone, at least, until Parliament meets again. JDulce est desipere in loco, but Mr Gladstone aj)pears to have overlooked the last two words of the proverb. The Queen has been pleased by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, bearing date the 28th clay of August, 1877, to ordain and declare that the borough of Saint Albans, in the county of Hertford, shall be a city, and shall he called and styled “the city of Saint Albans, in the county of Hertford."