... The Paris Correspondent of the Daily Telegraph writes Parisians were favoured with delighttul weather for Easter Sunday this year. To-day and yesterday were the finest we have had this season. At one moment a cloud passed ever the city and a few drops of rain fell, but otherwise the fairs and fêteø of various kinds in which the population Beek recreation on the great annual festival were held ...

... At the morning service the sermen was preached by the Rev. Henry White, one of Her Majesty's chaplains, from the text St. Matthew xxiv, 85, Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. After expounding the text the preacher alluded in the following words to the death of the Princess Alice -.—England mourns to-day the passing away of one of her choicest treasures of ...

... The county Dublin Grand J ury,on Monday, passed a resolution, by fifteen to six votes, sanctioning the proposal of the Dublin Southern District Tramwav Company to use steam power on their Blaekroek line. A labourer named Hugh Maguire has been charged at Manchester, with biting his wife's lip off. Prisoner and his wife had been drinking, and in a quarrel he seized her under-lip between his ...

... OTTAWA, Dec. 14. An extra edition of the Canada Gazette, issued to-night contains the following announcement :— His Excellency the Governor-General and her Royal Highness Princess Louise have received with deep grief news of the death of her Royal Highness Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of He8ile.-By com- Smand, F, Da WINTON, Major R.A., Governor- S General's Secretary. Govern uient-houae, ...

... A French statist has come to the conclusion, after very laborious examination of the number of leaths from railway accidents in all parts of the world, that if a person were to live continually n a railway carriage, and spend all his time n travelling the chances in favour of his dying from -ailwav accidents would not occur until he was 960 fears old. John Martin Wall, accountant, was charged ...

... To the Editor of the Free Press. Dear Sir,I observe, by the last issue of your paper, that Mr Peach, grocer, etc., of this neighbourhood, intends applying at the next general annual licensing meeting, to be held at the Town Hall, Pontypool, on the 25th inst., for a licence to hold a six days' additional excise licence, to sell by retail, beer to be consumed off the premises. Now, for my own ...

... On a stone, placed at the eastern wall of Bromley Church, is the following insonption, which, independently of its being written by so excellent a man as Dr. Hawkesworth, merit! much attention m respect of the nseful instruction it was no doubt intended to hold forth Near this place lies the body of Elizabeth Monk, who departed this life on the 27th day of August 1753 aged 101. She was the ...

... Mr. D. 8. Richardson, secretary of the United State* Lega tlon In Mexico, having (the New York World says) scaled the famed mountain Popocfitapetl, determined upon at- tempting the ascent of Oriziba or Citlaltepetl, tbe Star- mountain of Anahuac, as it was called by the Aztecs. He contributes to a newspaper published in the city ot Mexico on account of his journey. Accompanied by Mr. Eustace ...

... Last night there was a serious alarm at the Bowery Theatre. A part of the ceiling fell down. An alarm of fire was raised. The crowd rushed to the doors, and there got jammed. Several were nearly trampled to death. Had there been a fire, not a solitary person would have escaped. This applies to every theatre in New York city. If any one of our public places of amusement was to catch fire during ...

... A peculiarly tragic occurrence formed the subject of a coroner's inquest at Birmingham on Saturday evening last. The following are the particulars A few days ago a young man, named Thomas Stevenson, an only son of highly respectable parents residing at Market Harborough, was carried in a help- less state to his lodgings in Birmingham. He was there attended by a girl named oar ah Morton, with ...

... PIRACY THEN AND NOW! In a leader of the Times on the late trial for murder and piracy on the high seas, we find the following interesting observations:— Mr. Froude in the latest volume of his History of England has dedicated an entire chapter to the development of a proposition which will probably take the present generation by surprise. He tells us, and tells us truly, that the maritime ...

... The special correspondent of the Cape Town Daily Telegraph, in a despatch says :— The Colonial wal with the rebel Basutos is causing both anger and grief here. It is only the wisdom of the policy which sustains the popularity of Government. Officers in Basutoland, as in Zululand, seem incapable of doing anything the only difference is that in Basutoland we fight and are defeated, and in ...