... for the noble and powerful British nation. Gentlemen. let us drinkt to the health of Queen Victoria, to the Royal Family, to the pros- perity of the British people, to the first navy in the world, and to the gallant British ocffiers.-Mr. Jenner, the British ...

... GOSSIP FROM THE WORLD. The Queen's decision to forego. her intended visit to the Italian Riviera affords one more evidence of she keenness of the self -sacrificing sense of duty which has characterised her at at periods of her reign. Although her Majesty's ...

... met a ready silo. In addition. elderberries have been sen. usE fromn dis;tant Por-tozal ;and A'e learn upon gxood authority that lazge quantities of these two fruits ant W be 12bipDed to 'England this ceason,. ...

... the remainder of her absence from England her Majesty would stay at Coburg, where she would occupy the same apartments in the Palace as on the occasion of her iast visit in April, 1894. The Queen would return to England direct from Coburg, and would probably ...

... GOSSIP FROM TEn WORLD. A notion prevails extensively that the Queen had in- tended to pay another visit to C .:.ies net spring, and that her Ma sjesty's pians have only beenz changed in con-. soquence of the fiout attacks of a base sec~tion of thwe| French ...

... owner, it being a point of honour that it should th Us e exposed to the risks of an accident. AR a matter of-fact, the glass goblet which is known as the Luck of Eden Hall is kept at the Bank of England in a casket thiklyhin.ed with velvet, and oa' the ...

... GOSSIP FROM TEE WORLD. The friends of Major-General ESir Edward Woodgate bezin tocherish hopes of his ultimate recovery fronm his serriblewonnd-a gurnsbot shunl fracture over the left eyebrow. He seems to have retained or regained con- sci:ousness while ...

... Lodge in Riclmond Park was lent by her Majesty to the Duke and Duchess of T'eek, ?? asked for it when they returned to England In 18S5 after a long residence on the Continent. They had pre- viously surrendered their apartments in Kensington Palace. ...

... it is scarcely likely that Colonel Plumer will hawthdrawn item his special sphere of useful- ness, where there is so much for him still to do. The Boers have given us many reasons, since the present war began. to question wbether we are justi- fied in ...

... subsequently7 conducted into St. George's Hall, whes tea wvas wvaiting fotr them, th}e mesa being served or the tahlea'*h!ich were used for the State banquet ?? visit of the German Emaperor and Empress. The ball' was brilliantly lighted by electricity, and there ...

... between elementary and ad- vnrqced education. The union urges the friends of education, and especially members of Parliament to- use every opportunity to make tbe facts with regard: to the code widely known, and to demand that the ?? be not put in force before ...

... beautiful or significant. Artists had an important function; they made the world perpetually new for us. Art not only gave us pleasure, and thus added to the value of life, but it gave us power and enriched our intellectual moral end spiritual being, cud extended ...