... PRO VINCIAL 70 TTINGS I HOPE I shall be excused for saying that though we pro. vincials are almost entirely destitute of that indefinite some. thing -I should say, perhaps, that inexplicable compound of virulent cynicism and afflicted indifferentism-which renders the capital the centre of whit nOW goes by the name of culture, we, nevertheless, when we come across an eccentric man of ...

... OIOWA~ THE FESTIVITIES AT ST. PETERSBURG THE- GALA PERFORMANCE OF ROMEO AND JULIET AT THE THE OPERA TEis was the first appearance in public of the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh after their brief honeymoon at Tsarsko6 Selo. The house was crowded to overflowing, and what is extremely unusual with a Russian audience, the spectators were most demonstrative in cheering the Imperial party as ...

... - ~ ~ M~ - AmJ fmC6 ?? ?? THE DIFFICULTIES OF THE FRENCH ASSEMBLY.-- Is there a chance after all that the Assembly will perceive while there is yet time that in the union of the Centres lies probably the only way to a legal escape from the actual dead-lock? Of course there are the alternatives of a coup ?? or an appeal to the people without consult- ing the Chamber-not unlikely contingencies, ...

... IN one sense we very deeply regret the decision the Newcastle master engineers have come to upon the com. promise offered to them by their workmen. Through Mr. Mundella the men said, If you think we are trying to rob you in any way, be assured you are wrong. We want time rather than money. You offer us two hours out of the five we insist upon. We will meet you by consenting to a ...

... IT used to be said in the days when England's naval power was a mattermoreopenlybragged about than in thepresent day, although the sentiment which lay at the bottom of our highfalutin is still as strong as ever, that the best specimens of naval architecture in the Royal Navy were to be found in those vessels which we had captured from the enemy and converted to our own use. We have now to ...

... PAISLEY has erected a statue to Wilson, the ornithologist. AN ACCOMPLISHED LINGUIST has just died at Munich-the Abbe Richter, who could speak nearly eighty languages. DION BOUCICAULT has written a new Irish drama. It is to be produced this winter at Wallack's Theatre, New York. ONE PENNY is to be charged for admission to the International Exhibition on and after next Monday (Wednesdays ...

... 7HE BUSHEY PARK REVIEW ALTHOUGH, numerically speaking, the Review in Bushey Park on the 3oth ult. could not be compared with the tre- mendous displays in which our German and French neighbours have lately been indulging, it was a splendid spectacle, and nothing could surpass the magnificent ap. pearance of the troops or the precision with which the various mancwuvres were executed. The force ...

... to MAMMA'S BIRTHDAY MUCH-IDOLISED Mamma' really seems to 'be in danger of suffocation. An organised assault is being made upon her. Johnny-has scaled the approaches in front, and in the fervour of his affection is ready to garotte her. Katie has attacked from the rear, and has already captured the beloved enemy's tresses; Nelly, older, and therefore less lemonstrative-beside that she is ...

... I E I Q FRANCE.-The Assembly has resumed work quietly, and at present the political atmosphere of France appears clear and peaceful; though there are plenty of dark clouds looming in the distance. Foremost of these is the Constitutional Question, for the solution of which every Frenchman seems to have a distinctly different plan. Thus the two sub-committees of the Thirty ' have been ...

... THE , TWO GREEN LEA VES How many readers of The Mystery of Edwin Drood will be able to remember the first appearance of those monthly green leaves which are indissolubly asso- ciated with Mr. Dickens's monthly appearances as a serial story-teller? The author of Pickwick is, we are glad to think, not yet an old man; and yet so early were his successes that, looking backward to the ...

... 19?2JL?L1Z??YJ ONE OF MR. FOLEY'S latest portrait-statues-that of John Stuart Mill-is to be placed on the Victoria Embankment. A NEw DIsTINCTION-the Order of the Lyre-for persons eminent in the musical and dramatic professions is, it is said, to be created in Germany. A FEE OF 150,ooo dols. has just been received by an American surgeon for removing a wen. The operation was performed with ...

... ?? A NEW society, The Academy of Catholic Religion, was in- augurated at Manchester last week. The Bishop of Salford (Dr. Vaughan) gave an address on the irreligious tendencies of the age, and the political position of Roman Catholics. He said that the teachings of such men as Huxley, Darwin, Tyndall, and Mill have poisoned the minds of hundreds of thousands, and dissolved their belief in the ...