... varliamat BY H. W. LUCY ON Thursday in last week, upon the representation of Mr. Balfour that the state of public business was growing critical, the House agreed forthwith to institute morning sittings. There is no precedent for this arrangement being come to so early in the Session. In ordinary years, if the Government insist upon appropriating the time of private members when the House ...

... foareigit Fib CRISES AND PLOTS IN spite of Irish Questions and people who want to establish an Eight Hours' day or Disestablish the Church, this country of ours is rather better off than her friends and enemies on the Continent. Italy during the last week or ten days has been undergoing the throes of another crisis. Belgium is undertaking no less a task than the revision of her constitution ...

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... PHOTOGRAPHY AS AN ILL US- TARA TOR OF EVENTS' BfY MAJOR J. FORTUNE NOIT DURING the twenty - one years Tie Graphic has been supplying the public with illustrations of passing events, and pictorially recordin' the history ot the time, there have been few changes more noteworthy than the advances and dis- coverics made towards perfecting the art of photography. During the earlier years of this ...

... C. ?? 91m --0 THE NEW CAaINET.-Even without making allowance for the shortness of the time at his disposal, Lord. Salisbury deserves great credit for the constructing a Cabinet admitted by all experienced politicians to be one of the strongest ever seen in England. Not only are the individual members men of statesmanlike ability all round, but in every instance except one the square peg fits ...

... %b Trafrozor 35UTUR TIrE death of leaves only one survivor out of the little band of famous naturalists who inaugurated the new science. Darwin and Tyndall both are gone, and Herbert Spencer, laboriously completing a monumental work, alone remains. It is true that a host of the once younger generation have grown old in the new faith ; but in the days when this new faith was being thrust upon ...

... 'uarat 3tes THE SEASON THE almond blossom was out this year on Palm Sunday in many gardens round London, being forty-three days behind the earliest recorded time in our own record and twenty-three days behind the average of a number of seasons. We do not fancy that the growirig wheat is behindhand to the same extent or the pastures either; but the almond is a very fait index to the general ...

... Nrabr I?ir 10411 franklill! AN ARCTIC COMMWMORATOV - BY G. BARNETT SMITH THIS week the Royal Geographical Society has commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of the departure of the last Arctic Exploring Expedition under Sir Tohn Franklin. Even in this age-the age par excellence of celebrations and testimonials-never was a com- memoration more abundantly justified than that in honour of the ...

... aht 6p~taicrr Stad by.-CAPTAIN CUTTLr BY J. ASHBY-STERRY IT is to be feared that I made a great mistake in attacking that sacred institution the five o'clock tea, and if I have not already found this out, it has most assuredly been not for the want of telling. Ihave received protestations on the subject from innumerable quarters, known and unknown, and have probably cut myself off for ever ...

... lap o I 0-t at * pllar M. FREDERIC MASSON'S : the Daily Life of the Emperor at the Tuileries, translated by James E. Matthew (2 vols.: -H. Grevel and Co.), is a true feast for all whose interest in great men extends to the style in which a hero brushes his teeth and the contents of his washing bills. And who, after all, howeyer he may affect to scorn such homely details, does not at heart ...

... 94C Antarctica ?? By Dr. J. A. GRAY, Surgeon lo the And?,b dSS As a nation the Afghans are fond of sport. Game of many kinds is plentiful in the country. A short time ago the sport of all sports for the excitement of great possible gain came in, was the picking off of unwary travellers and annexing their belongings. Here was not only sport, but the indulgence of a passion so dear to the Afghan ...

... ODlit ?? tratioits THE HORSE SO110W TIuE May Horse Show at the Agricultural Hall, Islington, is always one of the most popular sporting events of the season. It interests both town and country, and is nearly always attended by the Prince of Wales in his character of a Nor- folk squire. Perhaps the part of the show which is most appreciated by all parties is the parade of the hunters, for all ...