... THE THAMES TUNNEL AND THE EAST LONDON RAIL WAY IN the year i863, the year of the opening of the Metropolitan Railway, London was invaded, as the allegation was, by multitudes of railway-projects. The late Earl of Derby appeared in the breach: but one scheme, which has involved the obstruction to the view of St. Paul's, was too firmly established; and the Committee of the House of Lords were ...

... PARIS, .7anuay 26 TIu prosecution of M. Rochefort, authorised, although reluctantly, by a large majority of the Legislative Body, was proceeded with promptly, and the deputy for the first circumscription of Paris has been condemned to six months' imprisonment and 3,000 francs fine. But the general situation is thereby in no degrec modified: the new Ministry are not more firmly seated in ...

... RuMOUR has been busy during the past week with electoral matters, many changes in the future representa. tion being shadowed forth. The retirements of Colonel Wright, M.P. for Nottingham, the Hon. F. H. F. Berkeley, the veteran of the Ballot, and Mr. F. W. Russell, are announced. Some one, whose appetite for change was not satisfied with these rumours, thought fit to report the coming ...

... CHARLES MA THE WS THE bright face that makes so pleasant a presence on our page needs but little introduction to the reader. Nobody can mistake the portrait, and everybody knows the man. Do we speak too broadly? Well, we will be more precise, and say, everybody who frequents theatres or goes out into the world. And the number includes not only London men and women, but the inhabitants of our ...

... A SON of Victor Hugo once wrote a very charming book about the Channel islands, to which he gave the appropriate title of La Normandie Inconnue. English tourists are tolerably familiar with the insular territory which we so 0oddly possess close to the coast of France; but few can tell us, with .Mr. John Bertrand Payne, that the etymon of Jersey is Cesarea, and that it was a favourite ...

... LAUNCH OF THE FETHI BULEND AT BLACKWALL FIVE years ago the launch of a new ironclad would have awakened considerable interest, not only among professional men, but among the public generally. We should have had angry controversies in the press and acrimonious discussions in Parliament and at the meetings of learned societies; gallant admirals and captains would have run foul of eminent ...

... ROME, .7anuar 1869. ART is, to a certain degree, mixed up with all1the great ceremonies of the Roman Catholic Church, and the picturesque element, in all that is gding on just now at St. Peter's, is increased and varied by contributions of Oriental costumes and physiognomies from the scattered churches of the United Greek,Armenian, Syrian, Maronite, Chaldawan, and other Eastern congregations ...

... A PANT011OIME PARTY THE holiday season affords no pleasanter sight than that of a family party thoroughly enjoying a pantomime. And hundreds of persons are enjoying pantomimes just now, quite as much as the one here represented. They form no unimportant part of the entertainment to any person who has paid his money in a proper spirit, and is prepared to sympathise with real as well as ...

... A MASILLERADE and a Fancy Dress Ball are two very different entertainments. 'The former has been seldom seen of late years in London, and it has fallen off even in Paris, where the famous Bal de ?? becomes more vulgarised with each succeeding year. The thing seems iather sad when you have to hire people to make up a crowd and to do the more animated part of the dancing; when you know that the ...

... A SERIOUS colliery riot took place on Friday morning at Westwood, a station on the South Yorkshire Railway. A band of nearly a thousand union-men from the collieries in the neighbourhood of Barnsley made a well-planned, but fortunately not an unexpected attack, on the houses of the non-unionists in the employment of Messrs. New- ton, Chambers, and Co. For some time past rumours of an ...

... DINING CAR ON THE UNION-PACIFIC RAIL WA Y 'TIus Railway being, as regards length, together with the nature of the countr through which it passes, of so exceptional a nature, it has been found neces- s:ry to modify many of the traditionary railway arrangements: one of the most important of these modifications being the introduction of the dining car, with its necessary adjunct of a kitchen. ...

... THERE is much talk in the diplomatic world concerning an autograph letter reported to have been written by the Emperor of Austria to the King of Prussia. Francis Joseph is even said to have been so anxious to secure the secrecy of this missive, that he has confided the task of giving it into the hands of King William to Colonel d'Eggefeld, a companion of his youth. BY a recent Khddivean order ...