... OF all the social pests that human nature is heir to, the most afflicting, destructive, and devouring is the Bill of Sale ; for it battens upon the miseries of the unfortunate when they are at the last stage of their helplessness. Hundreds of families are at this moment drifting through a stormy sea of petty troubles to the in- evitable whirlpool of its destruction. As naturally as the gnat ...

... XXAN ENGLISHMAN AT ST. DEZVS I PROPOSED on leaving London to stop at St. Denis for a day or two before going into Paris, and to ascertain what probability there might be as to getting away again, especially as the gentle- men of the Commune are getting very severe with regard to English passports, as they imagine that a great many Frenchmen have escaped by this means. I found St. Denis ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...