... A SATURDAY AFTERNOON AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY. (By a Colcestbian.) With brilliant sunshine, and a clear, almost cloudless sky, it was much more tempting to take a run down to the green lanes of the country, and enjoy in solitude the works of Nature, than to saunter in the dose, crowded rooms of the palace of the works of art. However, Saturday is the Londoner's holiday, and as I knew I .-should ...

... On November SOth. a grand ball was given at the 1 Athenaeum, Bury St. Edmunds, by a Committee of 30 gentlemen in acknowledgement of a very successful «• Rose Ball given last February by ladies of West Suffolk. The invitations, which were very numerous, were issued on behalf of the Committee by Lord Franck Hervey, M.P., Col. Ibbetson, Mr. W. Gage Blake, Dr. Macnab, and Mr. W. E. Lake (Hon Sec ...

... BELGIUM. INAUGURATION OF KING LEOPOLD II The correspondent of the Times describes the scene in the Belgian Chamber at the Inauguration of the new King of Belgium : — The President was among the first to take his seat, and round him clustered all the members of the Senate in full official uniform, and generally covered with decorations, those of the Lower Chamber coming only in plain evening ...