... P, 1n e-i 'N N1 NQ I I I. 5 1 I D z I P TIIF CR.ECihE AT STErNEvy THE CrGcje, as its name implies, is an institution of foreign growth, and it has recentlv been transplanted foro Belgium to the East End of London by Mrs. Hilton, a lady whose labours in connection with the Friends' Mis- sion Institute, among the poor of that district, are well known. In the course of her mission worfc she was ...

... AAl-z_ ~ _; I ?4 I FROM GLASGOW TO OBAN 'SEE Naples and die,' says our artist, is a Neapolitan pro- verb that must have been made before the Zoea was built-anyway before you die try a trip from Glasgow to Oban, and you'll con- clude to take a fresh lease of life. Suppose you start from the Broomielaw-at Glasgow there is very little to be seen beyond ships and shipbuilding yards, outside ...

... T-l THE new writ for Dover is to be issued on the 15th instant. Mr. Barnett, the Conservative candidate, has sailed for Venezuela, under the impression that the election would not come off for some time, but his friends have held a meeting, and determined to support him whether he is in the town or not. The Liberals, however, are confident of returning Mr. Forbes, who is very actively engaged ...

... ST. PA UL'S CA-THEDRAL , an engraving of which we publish to. day, was, as every Englishman knows, built by Sir Christopher Wren on the site of an ancient edifice of the same name destroyed in the Great Fire. The Dean and Chapter at first attempted to patch up the ruin, and Bishop Sancroft appears to have preached for some months in a temporary choir hastily fitted up at the west eni. Three ...

... ?? A I-- CENTENARY OF THE ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY UPWARDS of a hundred years ago a benevolent physician of London, named Hawes, had observed that persons apparently dead from drowning, hanging, lightning, cold, heat, foul air, and excessive drinking, were not always really dead, and that it was possible to restore their suspended animation. By way of testing his theory practically, he offered a ...

... IN the midst of the din and turmoil of the great war in Europe, the Red River difficulty, as it was called, which at one time threatened to give us a good deal of trouble, has well-nigh been forgotten. Some of the leading points of the, business may therefore be profitably brought to the reader's recollection. Between the great Lakes of Superior and Winnipeg there lies on the banks of the ...

... Hon. George H. Williams J. B-ncort Davis Hon. E , Hoar Ln Right Hon. Eorl de Grey and Ripon Prfe-ssor Buo-at flaad * Justice S-muel Nel o Thc Right Hon. Lord 2 Sir Edw-rd Thotntou Sir John A. Macdo..ld I Tha Riglt Hon. Sir Stofford IL. NorthMote, M P Hon. Macnuion Fih Hon. Robt. C. Sch-nk A SITTING OF THE JOINT HIGH COM:VMISSION FOR THE SETTLEMENT OF THE ALABAMA CLAIMS THE ALABAMA COMMISSION ...

... 3M2NEl BEFORE T'HUg PA.LACTE, ?? A..TET TlIJE )EJLARA'TION OF MWA'. KING TWILLIAM THE FIRST Ok PRUSSIA AATi) HIS -1IMY WE islanders, who are, in a great measure, guarded from sudden invasion by the girdle of salt water which sur- rounds Great Britain, can scarcely appreciate the impor- tance wx hich the patriotic native of the Continent attaches to the military a*rm. in proportion to our ...

... IT seems almost impossible to induce the mass of home- keepilg Englishmen to take a real hearty interest in Indian affairs, otherwise the lamented death of the late Lieuterant-Governor of the Punjaub would have been felt as a national calamity. Only eight months ago he was chosen to govern cur most important Eastern province, a state containing seventeen millions of people, and forming, so ...

... FRANCE.-Tn face of the three great disasters of the week- the defeat of Bourbaki, the utter rout of Faidherbe, and the failure of the Paris sortie of the i9th-the French have at last shown some definite signs of giving in, and though M. Gambetta has been busy in the North preaching guerrc 3 outrance, with the usual as- surances of a speedy reorganisation of the defeated forces for his ext, ...

... TIE CHA TEA U DE DIEPPE : DIEPPE, one of the prettiest, andby far the least hackneyed of the French northern watering places, has just come into notice from its being the only seaport which the Prussians have occupied during the present war. Like Boulogne and Calais, it once belonged to the English, and its old castle, which we engrave this week, has seen many a hard battle. Even now bullets, ...

... PL A N 0 F C HI IC AGO - (The shaded part shows the portion destroyed) THJE IUR VING OF CIGCAGO ALTIHOUGTI the ?? on of the City of London in the year i66G wY as proportionately a more severenational calamity because London was the metropolis of the country, and at that period the sole great English city, the recent conflagration at Chicago desolated a far larger area, destroyed buildings of ...