... FRANCE.-Tn face of the three great disasters of the week- the defeat of Bourbaki, the utter rout of Faidherbe, and the failure of the Paris sortie of the i9th-the French have at last shown some definite signs of giving in, and though M. Gambetta has been busy in the North preaching guerrc 3 outrance, with the usual as- surances of a speedy reorganisation of the defeated forces for his ext, ...

... TIE CHA TEA U DE DIEPPE : DIEPPE, one of the prettiest, andby far the least hackneyed of the French northern watering places, has just come into notice from its being the only seaport which the Prussians have occupied during the present war. Like Boulogne and Calais, it once belonged to the English, and its old castle, which we engrave this week, has seen many a hard battle. Even now bullets, ...

... PL A N 0 F C HI IC AGO - (The shaded part shows the portion destroyed) THJE IUR VING OF CIGCAGO ALTIHOUGTI the ?? on of the City of London in the year i66G wY as proportionately a more severenational calamity because London was the metropolis of the country, and at that period the sole great English city, the recent conflagration at Chicago desolated a far larger area, destroyed buildings of ...

... PRO VINCIAL 70 TTINGS I HOPE I shall be excused for saying that though we pro. vincials are almost entirely destitute of that indefinite some. thing -I should say, perhaps, that inexplicable compound of virulent cynicism and afflicted indifferentism-which renders the capital the centre of whit nOW goes by the name of culture, we, nevertheless, when we come across an eccentric man of ...

... OIOWA~ THE FESTIVITIES AT ST. PETERSBURG THE- GALA PERFORMANCE OF ROMEO AND JULIET AT THE THE OPERA TEis was the first appearance in public of the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh after their brief honeymoon at Tsarsko6 Selo. The house was crowded to overflowing, and what is extremely unusual with a Russian audience, the spectators were most demonstrative in cheering the Imperial party as ...

... - ~ ~ M~ - AmJ fmC6 ?? ?? THE DIFFICULTIES OF THE FRENCH ASSEMBLY.-- Is there a chance after all that the Assembly will perceive while there is yet time that in the union of the Centres lies probably the only way to a legal escape from the actual dead-lock? Of course there are the alternatives of a coup ?? or an appeal to the people without consult- ing the Chamber-not unlikely contingencies, ...

... IN one sense we very deeply regret the decision the Newcastle master engineers have come to upon the com. promise offered to them by their workmen. Through Mr. Mundella the men said, If you think we are trying to rob you in any way, be assured you are wrong. We want time rather than money. You offer us two hours out of the five we insist upon. We will meet you by consenting to a ...

... IT used to be said in the days when England's naval power was a mattermoreopenlybragged about than in thepresent day, although the sentiment which lay at the bottom of our highfalutin is still as strong as ever, that the best specimens of naval architecture in the Royal Navy were to be found in those vessels which we had captured from the enemy and converted to our own use. We have now to ...

... PAISLEY has erected a statue to Wilson, the ornithologist. AN ACCOMPLISHED LINGUIST has just died at Munich-the Abbe Richter, who could speak nearly eighty languages. DION BOUCICAULT has written a new Irish drama. It is to be produced this winter at Wallack's Theatre, New York. ONE PENNY is to be charged for admission to the International Exhibition on and after next Monday (Wednesdays ...

... 7HE BUSHEY PARK REVIEW ALTHOUGH, numerically speaking, the Review in Bushey Park on the 3oth ult. could not be compared with the tre- mendous displays in which our German and French neighbours have lately been indulging, it was a splendid spectacle, and nothing could surpass the magnificent ap. pearance of the troops or the precision with which the various mancwuvres were executed. The force ...

... to MAMMA'S BIRTHDAY MUCH-IDOLISED Mamma' really seems to 'be in danger of suffocation. An organised assault is being made upon her. Johnny-has scaled the approaches in front, and in the fervour of his affection is ready to garotte her. Katie has attacked from the rear, and has already captured the beloved enemy's tresses; Nelly, older, and therefore less lemonstrative-beside that she is ...

... I E I Q FRANCE.-The Assembly has resumed work quietly, and at present the political atmosphere of France appears clear and peaceful; though there are plenty of dark clouds looming in the distance. Foremost of these is the Constitutional Question, for the solution of which every Frenchman seems to have a distinctly different plan. Thus the two sub-committees of the Thirty ' have been ...