... (Our Iltustrations ARRIVAL OF REGIMENTAL DRAFTS AT GIBERALTAR To regiments with a prestige to be maintained-for esprit de certs still exists, although somewhat modified by changes of late years -the a ...

... cllu tl pitanbtr S/and by.-CAPTAIN CUTTLE BY J. ASHBY-STERRY IT will be noted that the contents of Wood's Hotel, Furnival' Inn, are shortly to be sold, and the we'l-known hostelry is, it is said to be disestablished. It is by no means unlikely that the remainder of the inn will be demolished. There is but little antiquity attached to it, as the whole place was rebuilt about seventy years ago ...

... All a Nirmillatlaill frolliaorlt5 THE first journey through the Black Country of England at night is one never to be forgotten if the traveller has reaches the age of observation. If he is a passe ...

... ADUA, WHERE THE ITALIANS WERE DEFEATED: VIEW FROM THE NORTH Ev~e Italianxs in 3bgssinia DISASTER still follows the Italians in Abyssinia. In desperation at being superseded in his command, General Bar ...

... NEWS O THE WEEK HOME NEWS TJute election for D.)ublin took place on the i8th inst, sultiag in; n easy v ictory for Sir D. Corrigan, who took a1 (l*if.,d lead from the beginning and beat his opponent, ...

... FOREIGN NE WPS RoDTEN, Tuesday, ANOV. 29 WE are in a doleful state of expectation. The news of our reverses at Amiens has damped all our hopeful feel- ings, and we are indulging in despondent anticipa ...

... OCTOBER TERI! AT OXFORD, 1870 THE d swift transition from the century of slumber expe- rienced. by the Princess of Mr. Tennyson's poem to the reawiakening to life* that the .Prince's kiss inspired, ...

... GENERAL , who died on the 9th inst. at the age of 83, was one of the few remaining veterans of the Peninsular War, and with him we lose one more connecting link bctv ...

... 2 ! PARIClAMECNTX, 2 ?? IT is a part of the British Constitution that the House of Lords shall, in the occasional recesses of a Parliamentary Session, have a longer holiday than the House of Commons. ...

... UNSCIENTIFIC WEA THER WARNVIN,'GS IT is a singular fact, and one established beyond all doubt, that birds and animals are much better weather prognosticators than man, except when his calculations are ...

... - -- ~ ~ e g , t i-i -COU E0 I~X - THE QUEEN will leave Windsor on the i9th inst. for Osborne, where she will ramain a month before going on her usual summer trip to Scotland. On Saturday Her Majesty, ...

... I- C- ~ - SUMMONED FOR ACTIVE SERVICE AND) IN FOR A SCRAPE See page 36. THE FRENCH LOTTERY AT the commencement of the Paris Exhibition the Govern- ment, wishing to enable provincial working men to ...