... 0 0 TiE Prince and Princess of Wales have been spending this week in Warwickshire, where they have had a most hearty reception. On their return from the Continent last week they stayed a few days in town. The Czarewitch lunched at Marl- borough House on Saturday, and in the afternoon the Prince and Princess drove to Kew to see the Duchesses of Cambridge and Mecklenhurg-Strelitz, while in the ...

... ?? - - - - ?M?! i ,um 0 ?? PLAYS OF THE DAY THOSE who have seen the grand spectacular drama of Richard Coaur de Lion at Drury Lane Theatre will remember that one of the most important perjormers in it has four legs, and when he wishes to say anything expresses his sentiments by barking. In short, he is a dog, and every night he gallantly defends the standard of England, which King Richard, to ...

... I 1lC A BISHOP ON CHURCH TENDENCIES.-More startling and outspoken words than those addressed by the Bishop of Gloucester to his clergy have rarely fallen from Epis- copal lips ; anid their significance is all the greater for the contrast they present to the contemporaneous utterances of the Primate of All England to the students of Durham. For while the Archbishop can see only the grand com- ...

... - Xr-St'- 4 Ttlls pear and apple season in Jersey has been the most prolific ever known. PARISIAN Box-KEEPERS form a veritable army of Amazons. There are 987 ouvreuses in the theatres of the capital. THE WIMBLEDON TROPHIES won by the Scotch volunteers last July have been placed in the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Arts. THE SHEFFIELD LOCAL ART EXHIBITION which has just closed is likely to ...

... * C Ai* FRANCE.-At the second ballot for the Pas de Calais M. Delisse Engrand, the Septennalist-Bonapartist candidate, obtained 84,46o votes, against 74, 1Si polled by Ml. Brasme, the Republican candidate, the latter having secured nearly 12,0oo additional votes. The success of M. Delisse Engrand is due to the cause to which every political success in France is now due-a coalition. Al. Engrand ...

... DISSOL VING VIEWIVS FRoM a recent obituary we learn that Henry Langdon Childe is no more, and at the age of ninety-three. \% hatever he has done he Wlas at least left time to do it in. Childe was the inventor of dissolving views. Alas I that he who had this mysterious power over nature, and could, with a sort of imper- ceptibly quavering motion, cause the Lago Maggiore to melt softly into the ...

... 4 W _ ( jii (A + w(6& I FUTURE PROSPECTs.-Bishop Ellicott, in concluding his Visitation charge on Friday last at Yate, explained how he should exercise the power given him by the Public Worship Act. On receiving a complaint he should first send to the clergyman, advise him as to the law of the case, and ascertain if be was willing to be guided by him. If this were unsuccessful he should do his ...

... n; ?? ?? t .M !, ?? . .. F? M ? R ME. PARTY POLITICS. -The death of Mr. Laird, a biography of whom will be found in Our Illustration columns, creates a vacancy in the representation of Birkenhead. The Liberals have chosen Mr. S. Still, a local merchant, as their candidate, and the Conservatives, after asking Mr. W. Laird, son of the late member, who declined, have decided upon Mr. David M ...

... 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 ...

... Un C- ?? FRANCE.-The prospects of the coinig session of the National Assembly, which returns to work on the 30th inst., form the chief popular topic. An important Message from Marshal MacMahon is expected to open the camoaign. In this he will propose a Press Bill and the raising of the siege of Paris, while the members will be asked to plunge at once into the inevitable Constitutional ...

... ?- EPPING FOREST.-It has at last been decided by the Master of the Rolls that the various lords of manors have no legal right to enclose their lands, but that a right of common extends over the whole waste lands from Wanstead to Epping. The effect of this decision will be to throw open more than 3,oco acres of land which have been enclosed since 1851, if the plaintiffs choose to pursue their ...

... ?? I 0 I ?? MR. GLADSTONE AND THE ROMAN CATHOLICS.-- Was it to warn us against perils we were likely to under- rate, or to define his own position as leader of the Party which has suffered some obloquy in maintaining and extending the civil rights of Romanists, that Mr. Glad- stone penned his appeal to his Roman Catholic fellow- countrymen against the recent policy of the Vatican ? Possibly ...