LONDON CORRESPONDENCE. LONlx >N", TuriutiiAT Ni'tii Aa I begin to write the diplomatuta are g,t irg around the semi-circnlar table in Prinoe marok's palace, across whieh the fate of TV* y aj:d of Europe u forthwith to be daeided. (Joni have so mas; leading «UU»men boeo fer. together under one *x>f. Kour Premier* »- there, and all of the. of real eminence. W ever may be (aid of their policy, there il no il that Lord BeeoonsSeld, Prince I;ortachal. Prince Bifmarck, and Count Andranny are me- < genios, one or two of them men of genius. I donbt if ever before so tntth reputation was ataked npon impending diploic v event*, and focused to 8° tmall a p that the world's drama seems to \;0 pr v* to its it sue in one room. Oas may say that side the door of that stuccoed chamber the n of civilised liumauity is wailing to huar result. The congress can hardly be called a gather of old men. Some 01 the plenipotentiaries inJ are very yonng. But tho ago, of the fuur t'rein added together make 27-1. The oldest i8 Pri: C.ortsohakoff, who is, 1 believe, the only Berlin who is of the last century. He in 81) re j of & The youngest is Cuunt Andrasay, « thongh bo has lived to tam from a rev tiocist in rebellion against his aororeign that lovereign's chief Mi-ist-, number, ,1 ) M yes". Lord Besoonafield il about 75. pri- Biemarck ia C-i. France, perbap,, sonil Minister who haa done least to prove nis ab;l;;y M. Wadding ton was almost unknown afewj ago, and is a rvry young diplomatist. Bat Krv cannot help herself. The Empire ,ncce«ftj prevented the true development of able Kn, r. men, and thoM who now take the lead are BK tarily lnexperienoe4. Of what the diplomatist* are doing, of cot: I can say nothing; but the impres«ion still < that the informal SohouTsloU Treaty give, L: i Beaoonafleld, within the lillu of his remain: freedom, an absolute veto and almost anlimiu, power. Austria oannot move a step without g., Germany oan hardly oppose no. Prince Diem. cannot afford to bring about her war in orJ,T to suppress dissatisfaction with hia doaituv polioy. Fran06 ia with UI. Itossia, after t j. guarantees,h, haaobtained from o», will hardly „ inclined to run many risks for the remainder (if L,, treaty. I snppoee that the next anxioni melll" of the congress, after all, will be Count Andr»«n Carath^odori is fighting for his plaoe, not for f country. Italy only desires to got a part of t spoil if anythirg i. to be divided, and ConntC >M is pretty certain that Italy will uot be harmo t • f whatever arrangement is oomo to. M. Wadd". ton simply goes to tbecongross to got juitieod LC. Lord Beaoonsfield's great aim will be to or*»w his Queen Protectoress of Turkey. If he cm turn to Englsnd with that diploma of style m locket, bo will, lam authoritatively informed, tin; s oi ly of nationalities in the aoheme which 1< t j >■ adopted for the re-arrangement of the rar;: Umpire. Mr. Gladstone will notijuarrel witlil result. He called upon the Government to a, friends of the rising raoes of the Kait, tu ) L d lieaoousfield, after many refusals, ha, content i He demanded of the Ministry that it would something to put ao end to the unlimited puw r which the Forte nsed as the means of amanMr .,i irjustice, and T..ord BcaooDsfield is going to tav- the supreme arbitration of the Turkish tijrun wellt in bis own hands. An important of preferment full ta ■ B:sbop of London for di.posa1 in the vkw ijfo f St. John's, Netting-hill, vaostod by tile dettu the Rev. Crauford Tait, eon of the I'riaisu blr. Tuit barely took possession of the p,it «• ull, having only receutly sucoeoded the li.i J. r, GtlJ, acd being forood by failiug health ba non-retident. The choice of the parishwii r' was largely in favour of the Rev. Robin- Thornton, D.D., who had tor some ti n" been well known to tUem from ministrations at St. John's, and in this instance the patron and tho liners have been at one. Dr. TlurDij;) the new vicar. The appointment, tharefore, », give general satiffaction. Dr. Thornton's s- oedents are distinguished. He graduated and lecturer op to IbiO, holding, at the s- time, a parochial charge in Oxford. Ho wa» ti; head master and chaplain of the Royal .\I: College, Epsom, from 1b5 to lb70, and \V*r j of Trinity Cullese, Olenalmond, from I'; I t 1873. As vioe-president of the Victoria Instr.1)1 be has written largely in defence of ni", religion, bis woiks against siMspticism bUl:>j( known but his contributions ti gsneral liters' have been copious and varied in their A better appointment could scarcely havo Y..■ J made. I am beginning to donbt whether there is a thing extant as a real original pieturo. I b that they must ull have been copius (rJul other, unless they are by disciplo, of .-i men. Mr. Sala, for eOIl1I,le, com". forw i' deelore that bo haa seen fifty 001"6 o: t .do¡¡na Loei Cand40lalJri," by 1'-11." recently bought in" at the Novar ijal JZ20,(M\ and since offered te the Govcma e; t that sum. These statements aro not lJkeJy crease the value of the picture. Of that I tt j torry..tO,(¡(¡() Ùla IIwr. fancI !lflce. I.. at that cost become l:r"o8 wealth u.<d f ,i poses of ostentation. Nor, to tell the truth, like the sale. I do not believe, though tin: a ticneer said it, that i, wan bid f "Madonna Dei Candelabri" and ref used. binoe quaint, vain, tin.e serving Soui. i' drank hi. first memorable cop of tea, on • u of September, IljljO, what a revolution ire 1- beverages—aud espet.al y in tea drink: passed over the British people. Tee wmui. in Kttgland 230 yeara ago. Some I:tHtti II" it was introduced in Ie. and others i.-i I' was then sold from JcC to illu per lb. in* » kind 01 tea oan lie obtained from t > and very ;rood toa from .'i, to 1,. p'r lCOj only a foA pounds d tea wure > Kngland io 1741 it had increased b 1" in 176C to 4.040,1X10 lbs.; ia 11'«i ti SM/jOO,«iO Ib».; in I'-yi to upwards of i, I lbs. and last year, lf>77, it had reic;,t enormous quantity of 1 lb*. 1 U-oughts and couirasts have been j.. me by asnoet intercHWIC 1'1 tIe IWJU juet I". my hand, entiiled, I. its Mystery to;, l tory." It is written by a rieing author, s ■ Phillies Day; is enriched with nuaier -u. and instructive illustrations, and is with an exoelleni, although tomewha' uv ■ preface, first in Chinese, and then in a b, Lo Fong Loh, secretary to the 1;1. cational Mission in Korope. The li tti, ■ written teeatlse is dedioated to the" 1. jvcre tea," nndgivta tI. 011 t: rc history 01 the iu l(g<ndaiy origin to our own day. 1 I tr,ortoOH,r, the botanioal ebaraover of th.; Uiode of colonriiig it its -,il ohar^ ;t r virtue* and on every ac>et sap; h- ,Olu.ble .lid interesting informa' ion. i ■■■■ ■ .eribed to te* some two htiodred year- pats all the claim. of the greatest ])•-•! a the pre*ei:t age. Thomas Oarraway—the fo of Oarrawav s Cofln* Hwiw in adver.isi tea in IIAO, deelanla that it makes active and loaty helping the headaohe, g. and heavine* removing difficulty of breath clearing tbe bt; removing laeaitade ;«tr- j ilff the stomach and iiyer; reY"1 sleepiness, so that whole nights may be ai" 1 study without hurt to the body," I<-anwa- t recommend this little trwaus*. but forgot to n. tion that it is pobliahsd by bioapkio, Mar. and (Jo.

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