... LONDON CORRESPONDENCE I Losnoir, Wednesday Night. Pas5CE Bismarok, I hear, has conveyed to Lord Salisbury a broad hint that Germany could not contemplate with indifference any overt action towards Portugal until that country had been given the fullest ...

... Yarley's pictures at the Japanese Gallery, New Bond Street, will take special interest in the collection of that artist's work, which will be on view at the Same gaflery next Monday. The new show is illustrative of India and Ceylon, and Mr. Varley's ...

... account of volcanic and earthquake phenomena there. This will be Illustrated by photogphic lantern slides, and it wrill be followed by an exhibition of a large series of such slides, illustrating Japanese life, customs, and scenery. Mr. J. D. Hosken, the young ...

... note how small a winter-season public there seems to be in London for anything outside the popular concerts. As Christmas Day this year falls on a Thursday, many of the business houses in London, including some of the largest wholesale concerns, intend ...

... approach close to these birds in their nests. In the fossil gallery two new moas' skeletons have been added to the series of old wingless birds from New Zealand ; and dlose by a new and gra nd Giyptodon, from South America (a huge handless kind of armadillo) ...

... Hogmanay ! This celebration of a time-honoured Scotch custom of New Year, which has hitherto exclusively taken place hefore St. George's Church in the Borough, had been transferred this New Year's Eve by the more sober and respectable portion of Scotch ...

... minister in succession to Dr. Crosskc-y. Mr. Ja5tks studied at Man- chester New College and University College, London, from 1882 to 1886. In 18'23 he graduated B.A. of the London University in honoors, and in 18&6 graduated 31, A. in moral science, taking ...

... now oom- menced, will make little difference to either London or Birminghamrn for at each the hour for despatch will be the same by both Stranraer and Holyhead, while to Belfast and Londonderry the new route 'will save only twenty minutes on the old. But ...

... situation, therefore, is regarded as extremely grave, and serious news may come at any moment. Tlie' S'panish Consul-General (Senor U. Montejo) I hadoanintevirw to-day with the Lord Mayor of e London inev Joseph Savory), in order to request thi 'ai& of, the Mansion ...

... the proronntion, in order that the turmoil of the con- - st maw be over before the New Year holidays, as' ch are of far more importance in Scotland than tlos at Christmas. It is understood that a son of lahe IiSir Wiflliam Pearce will, if possible, be ...

... LONDO OREPDEE. 1 ha, S ?? oinoN, Friday Night. T appalling news received in London this Vorning of the sinking of her Xajes's ship Victoria. by collision with the Camperdown, has been the all-absorbing topic of conversation in the Metropolis throughout ...

... founded by William of Normandy !I THE CoNisSn CHRISTMAS IN LONDoN. X There is great satisfaction in beholdinig the revival f of the old jollity of approaching Christmas as now l ?? in the streets of London. No man stops to' enquire the cause of the evident ...