... Ji e r e r a 7 a a. a r a 5. e f The Queen will arrive at Windsor shortly before two o'clock on Thursday afternoon from Osborne. The State apartments at Windsor Castle were closed on Saturday in anticipation of her Majesty's return to the palace. Her Majesty is expected to visit Cannes this spring, instead of florence. On Saturday evening the Prince of Wales and the Duke and Duchess of Fife, ...

... JUVENILE LECTURES AT THE RIOYAL INSTITUTION. -9- At the opening lecture of this Olnistmllas course ou Saturday afternoon there was not so good au attendlance as usu:sl. The subject this year is ''Frost and Fire, and the prevalence of the former may have induced many persons to stay at home by the latter. In the warml aud cosy theatre of the Royal Institution, however, frost, if present, will ...

... L.LBOUR MOVEMENTS. THE S;COTCH RAILWAY MIEN. in aeco d snne Ivsith the resolution of the ial previous nighit, thle Nsorth British strikers returned to thc their work yeserday moensag.As wvas anticipated, a fol considerable number of mnicafound ltheir places ffiled up, oil anid hail to rest content with leaving their names acid t addresseswith a isw tofuture vacancies. Befor tic going bakto St. ...

... LONDOY, FRIDAY, March 6. On the motion of the Archbishop of Canter- bury, who was suipported by the Archbishop of li York, Lord Grimithorpe, Viscount Cranbrook, h and Lord Hersehell, the Clergy Discipline tj (Immorality) Bill -was read a secondtienth h House of Lords yesterday.meinth In the, Commons Mr. Atkinson raised a S question of privilege. He alleged that hie had h been libelled in fle ...

... THE LABOUR COMUSSION. ?? C- DEPUTATION TO SR. W. Tl. SMIT. U . Yesterday afternoon a deputation from the f Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Union Congress fo s hadl an interview with Mr. W. H. Smith at his official of residence, Downing-street, on the subject of the pro- b 1 posed Roval Commission on Labour.-Mr. Fncnriek, bk M.P., Parliamentary secretary to the Committee, intro- f duced ...

... OuR Special Correspondents record the perfect success of yesterday's ceremonial at Portsmouth, and of the launch of the two great battleships, one of them the largest in the world. The success of the ceremonial was to be taken as a matter of course, since the QUTEEN was engaged in it. The success of the launching operations was hardly less certain, in view of the increasing . improvement of ...

... Warwick) the tkilg,-Maker. Wmwicic, the King-Maker, is the title of the latest published volume in the series described as English Men of Action, and published by M 'Messrs. MA.CM;ILrLAN and Co. The author of st the biographical sketeh is Mr. CH.ARLES W. OMtN, and we may say at once that the bio- grapher has done his work faithfully, lovingly, and well. We say lovingly, not because he L ...

... THE DUKE, OF CAMBRIDGE ON MLI- | T ARY PROGRESS. I . The Easter banquet at the MFansion Heuse took place yesterday evening, under the presidency of the Lord Mayor, the company including the Dulke or Cambridge, the Italian Ambassador and the Countess Tornielli. the Danish Minister, the Swedish and Nor- wegian Minister, Sir I. N. Fowler, M.D., Sir H. A. s Isaacs, Sir Whittaker Ellis, M.P., Mr. ...

... MD. Gladstone at MastingS. MR. GADSTON'S great speech at Hastngs yesterday afternoon was partly criticl and partly constructive. He indicated his own policy as it would be, and examined the policy of the t Government as it had been. He made a just and sound discrimination between two of the chief Ministers in the Cabinet. Lord SAUSEiuY as z Foreign Secretary has been on the whole a success. Mr ...

... I @,qui A largely attended public meeting, of the 4 ratepayere of Paddington was held at the Vestry Hall, La' Harrow-road, last night, ?? to protest against the injury top proposed to be done to Kensington Gardens and the 16s trees there by the Kensington and Paddington Subway Air Bill now before the House of Cccmuons.-Mr. Calder ma Turner, who presided, said that the meeting was con- der ...

... THIS : lORNTTNTEW I NEWS Itir q 01- The Queen ?? Castle at'half -past one o'clock to-day for Derby and Belmoral. She is dlue shortly before nine o'clock to-miorrow morning at the Bailates- Station of the Deeside Railway, whence her 'Majesty drives to Bal- moral. The Grand Duke of MAsse is expected to visit the Queen in Scotland. The Duke of Clarence and Avondalc -will arrive at the Greet ...

... TEE PEINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALE& 1 SANDRINGHAM, WMNZDAw NIGHn, e His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, e attended by Major-General Ellis and Sir Frances ,Knollys, arrived at Sandringham this evening from D London, and joined the Princess of Wales and Prin- cesses Victona and Maud for the Easter holidays. Her Imperial Majesty the Empress Frederick of' Germany, accompanied by the Princess ...