... B s-- O fwW ?? . -K I STREET PROCESSIONS.-It is a little difficult to believe that any impartial person can seriously object to the measures adopted by Mr. Monro with regard to the route of the procession on Saturday. No one calls in question the right of any number of people to demonstrate in favour of their ideas, but surely it is obvious that their demon trations ought to be conducted in ...

... iQ??jI?i?I -.PHEASANT SHOOTING SELDOM1 have partridges been so disappointing as this yesr. result has been great scarcity an~dipeoort spor oun allds eacep the ms carefully-preserved lands. It looks, however, as if the pheasants were going to make up to some extent. for the partridges' failure. Plenty of birds and good sport are reported from moat places where shooting was indulged in on the ...

... ROMIE IN ?? THE bird's-eye view of Rome published to-day is supposed to be taken 2,000 feet above the Via Appia, within the city wall and near the Baths of Carocalla. There have been many drawings of Rome made, perhaps of no place more, but this view looking north has not, to our lnowledge, been published before. It is rather remarkable that in the palmy days of the Renaissance, when Raphael ...

... - - - - - ?? - ?? THE failure of the Anglo-Italian negotiations causes much appointment. As anticipated, Kassa a proved the rock whih wtrecked the settlement, for otherwise the delegates found littcl difficulty in selecting a satisfactory boundary-line between IL11 and EGYPT in Africa. But whilst Kassala remains in ?? hands-as at ?? cannot feel her Red Sea pos teri'h secure, and accordingly ...

... El PREPARATIONS for the Labour Conference in GERMANY are neaily complete, and the foreign delegates are shortly expected at Berlin. Hungaiy will press the question of Sunday labour, as at present she is perplexed by her different nationalities having each their own holidays, while both Spain and France are represented rather from courtesy than as expecting any useful result. The Pope will have ...

... 0 I I. fi age °~is OF A 11 ?? ?? -l L%|zJ|ls|l|ll@|||ll|§fnlle . 'IitE IRISH ScHIsM.-Whether the Parnellites or their opponents are to he regarded as the orthodox representatives of the Nationalist tradition, is a question about which there will be much bitter dispute in the immediate future. Mr. Parnell has been deposed by a majority of what was formerly his party; but his deposition was ...

... To lovers of woodland scenery in all its various phases, no place in England can give greater pleasure than the New Forest, from early spring to the time when The last red leaf is whirled away. Nor even in winter does the charm altogether cease. There are fine effects produced by the frost lying thick on the pines; and clear moonless nights, when the stars are seen through the bare trees ...

... ?l ?? -- rv NAR&gal THE DINNER BOAT-AN INCIDENT FROM THE NAVAL MANCEUVRES BOTH officers and men in the Royal Navy are equally fond of getting ashore. Jack, whether before or abaft the mast, is no- toriously fond of a gentle, exhilarating, constitutional walk, and he can only enjoy this in perfection by getting on to terra frma. Some officers, under these circumstances, having been on shore, a ...

... F9 ~ W EM 1, M ?? (~CU(~NW ?? THE LATE CARDINAL NEWVMAN.-Cardinal Newman was buried, on Tuesday, in the private burial ground at Rednall, attached to the Edgbaston Oratory, from which it is eight miles distant. The interment was preceded by a high Requiem Mass in the Oratory itself, which was crowded, the celebrant being the Roman Catholic Bishop of Birmingham. The many Roman Catholic ...

... THE hedgerow pheasant is the wandering member of his race who, while the majority, some younger, some older, are safely ensconced within the green jungle of hazel which still protects them against systematic shooting, offers a First of October chance to the sports- man strolling in the old-fashioned way round the hedgerows. But these must be genuine hedgerows of bramble, hazel, holly, and ...

... ?? THE EMPEROR OF JAPAN proposes to make a European towi next year. He has been recommended to try the Wiesbaden waters, so will take the opportunity to visit the chief Western countries. WHITEBAIT IN CHINA just now are as common as herrings with us. Owing to the floods at Tientsin, the raised racecourse is inundated and the water swarms with whitebait. So the Chinese ire busy all day filling ...

... I OZ EI N THE settlement of EAST AFRICA still absorbs those Continental Powers who advance any pretensions in that region. GERMANY is planning the organisation of her share of the spoil,atog iiothing can be settled definitively till Emperor William returns from his cruise along the Norwegian coast, where he experiences very rough weather, and is somewh at indisposed. Most probably the German ...