... SPEAK UP, SIR!' A REMINISCENCE OF OXFORD COMMEMORATION ...

... THE CITY TO II. R. II. PRINCE LEOPOLD I. The Presentation in the Guildhall Library.- -2. The Luncheon. -3. Prince Leopold Speaking.- --4. The Lord Mayor Proposing Prince Leopold's Health. ...

... *. 1ir4t Siglat cf 1 shng.-2. Preparing the Bunting.-3. Reception at Flushing. - . The Banquet: Prince Henry Speaking.-5. The Illuminations.-6. Dutch Peasantry.- 7. Collapse of the Dutch Band-S. A Rubber in the Smoking Saloon. THE NEW ROUTE TO THE CONTINENT ...

... undertaking to speak in the name of the powerful but multiform and disunited party with whom he sits, declared, like Mrs. Micawber addressing her husband, that they would never desert Mr. Gladstone. Aprls lui le deluge. The speaking that followed was ...

... AND FLUSHING I, First Sight of Flushing. 2. Preparing the Bunting. 3. Reception at Flushing. --4. The Banquet Prince ITenry Speaking. 5. The Illuminations. 0. Dutch Peasantry. 7. Collapse of the Dutch Band.- 8. A Rubber in the Smoking Saloon. ...

... of the greeting which they had given him. Speaking as the president of the Perry Barr Instituie, he congratulated them most heartily upon the establishment of the Harborne Institute. It was not for him to speak in detail to them of the course of study ...

... Bishop of Winchester on the Old Catholic Movement, and that by the Bishop of Lincoln on the Patronage Question. Much of the speaking, however, seemed far below the average, and there was a comparative want of lay readers and speakers. Church Congresses, ...

... called high-pressure bishops. Forty or fifty years ago such prelates were unknown. In those quiet days, ecclesiastically speaking, a bishop was regarded as an administrator, and little more. As an archdeacon was defined by Bishop Blomfield as a person ...

... Swakop river, the last ten miles of the course of that river forming the northern boundary, so the new territory is, roughly speaking, about thirty miles long by ten miles broad. This is, however, only the stepping-stone to a gigantic annexation to the Cape ...

... her as a Bacchante. Northcote described her as the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. Leslie, in his Life of Reynolds, speaks of tier lovely face and lithe, tall, delicate figure with no little enthusiasm. Tbe poet Mason wrote his once well-known tragedy ...

... A CHRISTMAS BOX. The late Charles Dickens, in one of his works, speaking of theatrical management, and the liberal treatment of actors, said, There can be no better means of securing the hearty good will and co-operation of the parties employed in un ...

... I HO ME. POLITICAL AFFAIRS.-- Sir Charles Dilke, speaking at a public meeting at Hammersmith on Wednesday, said that during the last three years the Government had done all they could to inflame the warlike instincts of the people, and had accepted r ...