... ?? 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 ...

... 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, ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... IOWA A CHILDREN'S FLOWER SHOW THE love of flowers is a beautiful and humanising sentiment, and all must rejoice that the taste for floriculture is so rapidly spreading; and is meeting with so much encouragement. In the rural districts there is little need of organisation or artificial inducement; but in the narrow streets and bye-ways of London where there are no gardens, and where there is ...

... I 0 I ?? I, ?? ?? ?? THE coming visit of the Empress of Russia is now the chief topic of Court circles. The Czarina will leave Livadia in the Crimea, where, as usual, she has been spending the autumn, on the 12th inst., and will travel, via Odessa and Breslau, to Berlin, arriving on the 18th inst. After a short stay in the Prussian capital Her Majesty will go to Calais, and thence cross the ...

... Tim enterprising publisher who issued some years ago a new tdition of the once popular sketches of Seymour did not, we believe, find much encouragement for his venture; but the volume served to remind the curious that there are fashions in humour as in other things. What, indeed, but the caprice of fashion could account for the extraordinary interest which the humourists of forty years ago ...

... THE sudden arrest and imprisonment of Count Arnim, one of the most able and successful of modern German diplomatists, on the 4th inst., took all Ger- many, and indeed all Europe, by surprise. It bad long been known that he and his former fast friend, Prince Bismarck, were not on the best of terms, and that the Count had had to retire in disgrace from the Embassy at Paris, and thus the fact of ...

... Az?o 'C r I i i MARSTIAL BAZAINE anu1 his famnily have gone to winter in Portugal. CALCUTTA is going to erect a statue to her native poet, the late Rajah Kali Kxiishna Bahadoor. TiIE Two REIUBLICS is the name of an English news- paper recently established in Mexico. Al, CHARI.ES LECOCQ is at work on another opera bouffe, Don Yunan XIV., to be produced this winter at the Paris Folies ...

... WOLVERHAIPTON. STREFT OUTRAGE-Another aggravated ssault, likely to result fatally lias occurred in IWolverbliunpton. It appears that Samuel IALiyea; (40), labourer, Stafford Street, was walking in the neighbourhood of hone on Strvtlnlay night, when lie was aceosted by several women of disreputable character. After knocking bins down they kiicked and further shaisefully inaltroatedl him Rs lie ...