... THE UDlUntetOf at Rrorigull-th II GENERAL ZD!.1 Ir has been taken for granted by all recent purveyors of alarmist militasy literature, from the author of The Battle wf Dorking to Captain Barrington in England on the Defensive, that if our fleet were either destroyed by torpedoes or decoyed away, a foreign foe would most probably choose to effect a landing on the coast near Worthing ...

... ?? THE GOOD FRIDAY AND EASTER SUNDAY SERVICES at the various Metropolitan places of worship were well attended. On Good Friday the morning preacher at St. Paul's Cathedral was the Rev. J. H. Coward, in the afternoon Prebendary Dyne, and in the evening the Rev. W. H. Hutchings. At Westminster Abbey the preachers were Canons Prothero and Dean Bradley, while at Holy Trinity, Clapham Common, the ...

... /Zll?;o 'I 0 ? I 1 4 THE HUGE ELECTRIC Lic~tsr TowlER. at Hell Gate, New York, which is to illuminate the harbour, will be finished in January. TIlE QUICKEST DELIVERY OF TIlE AMERICAN MArLS IN PARIS on record was made last week, when the letters and newspapers only took nine days in transit. TwVo FINE AMlERICAN Bus'rALOsare being brought to Scotland for the Duke of Argyll, who intends to house ...

... THERE are a considerable number of places in Sussex which are visited so reverentially by pilgrim tourists that in a sort of way they may be spoken of as shrines. Of course a good deal will depend on the particular tastes of the tourist, and what his notions of a shrine may be. Having visited a number of the memorial places in the county, I give some impressions respecting a few of them. ...

... IF you will give my cook a slice of bread to dress and prepare with all those additions of wine, spice, butter, and sauce, she will make you a far more delicious dish than that Bah ! the fish is beneath contempt. My friend was perfectly correct ; the fish, a very fine carp, was beneath contempt. He was a glorious fellow, and we caught him- that is to say, I hooked him, played him. in the ...

... W . . . MR. GLADSTONE AT HOME AGAIN.-Some of Mr. Gladstone's opponents, with questionable taste, have rebuked him for his prolonged residence at Cannes. There was really rio very urgent reason why he should have come back at an earlier date. It has been said that he wished to be out of the way when the Affirmation Bill was being discussed; but he could not have imagined that a measure which ...

... ?? . ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ' ' ' ?? . ?? ?? NoRTIIAmrTONsHIRE, though badly off for seaside watering- places, was, and is, exceptionally rich in county families. Notable amongst these were the Treshams, to the Rushton branch of whom belonged Sir Thomas, father of Francis Tresham of the Gunpowder Plot. The mania for house building to which we owe Longleat, and Bess of lar dwjck's Hall More Glass ...

... ?? ?N. 44. ?? ?. - - ?U?If ?WS >? I / ? AT A LUNCHEON given to the clergy and newly-elected chdrch- wardens at Canterbury the Bishop of Dover took occasion to explain away some idle rumours as to delay in his re-appointment a, Suffragan. The Archbishop had never thought of dispensing with a Suffragan, but while Archbishop designate he could not issue a new Commission. He was confirmed, as all ...

... ?? Q THE rivalry between PORTUGAL and ENGLAND in CENTRAL AFRICA has entered upon a more serious phase. 'While diplo- matic arguments go on leisurely at home over the respective claims in Mashona-Land and the Zambesi region generally, Portuguese agents in Africa proceed to fresh annexations. Thus Major Serpa Pinto's arbitrary conduct in the Shire highlands complicates the situation considerably ...

... AeOBkERzI' BROWtUNING ON Thinusday, December 12th, the world welcomed a new volume of poems from the pen of Robert Browning-poems which tshowved no abatement of mental vigour on the part of their author. But his bodily strength had long been waning, and on the very same evening he passed away at the Palazzo Rezzonico, in Venice, where he had been staying with his son. Robert Browning was born ...

... NOTHING more gratified the Shah of Persia when in Paris than the attention he received from the inhabitants of Belleville On the occasion of his visit to the Buttes Chaumont all the population of the Red Revolutionary and Socialist quarter turned out to greet him, their numbers and animation calling forth the remark, When do these Parisians find time to work ? The holiday aspect of the ...

... ./ ~ ~ ~ . THE QUEEN will not open Parliament in person this year. ller Majesty continues to suffer considerably from rheumatism, ?? otherwise well in health, and the fatigue and exposure caused by a full-dress ceremony in the winter might increase her malady. At present the Queen remains at Osborne. Lord George Hamilton dined with Her Majesty at the end of last week, and on another evening ...