... OLD SIGNS, TABLETS, ?? IN LONVDON STREE TS TtEI ancient memorials of London are rapidly becoming extinct ; scarcely a day passes but some old landmark disappears from its time-hallowed position, to become a mere memory with those who love to linger on old associations of the past. It is perhaps then fortunate for the present generation that a century or more ago there were so many writers and ...

... Tar pzn is so much more efficient an instrument than the brush for depicting the hardships of our present copyright laws, that it is not to be wondered at that so much has been heard from the literary class concerning the grievances of which they have to complain as compared with anything that has been pub- licly set forth on the part of those who are interested in works of art. The Royal ...

... RURAL J\OTES I ?? THE WEATIIER.-It seems almost like an impertinence to speak about this trite subject of common discourse. Everybody, whether they be meteorologists scientifically or in a kind of amateur way, have their notions that they can by the rising of the clouds predict a fine or a foul day. Most of the weather prophets would have been somewhat puzzled to describe the peculiar ...

... 8. POLITICAL AFFAIRS.--The little borough of Wilton has rejected Mr. Norris (L) and returned the Hon. Sidney Herbert (C) by a majority of 751 against t86. Dark rumours, however, are afloat respecting the Earl of Pembroke's influence on the election, and Professor Fawcett, M.P., at one of the electoral meetings went so far as to say that Sir E. Antrobus, the late member, had no wish to retire ...

... OUR ILLUSTRATION'S (ConinuedifrOm pae 490) M. GAMBETTA IfION GAMBETTA, who is of Genoese extraction, was born at Cahors, October 3oth, 1838. Having adopted the legal pro- fession, he became a member of the Paris Bar in 1859, and soon acquired fame as a forensic orator. He was much employed in political causes, and he was very popular among certain classes of the Parisians on account of his ...

... #A THE EASTERN QUESTION THE FIRST TURKISH LINE OF DEFENCE-THE DANUBE IN the event of a Russian invasion of Turkey the Danube will be the first great line of defence with which the Russians will be met, and foremost amongst the many Turkish fortresses which bristle on its banks stands Silistria. At this point the Danube is only about a quarter of a mile wide, and is studded with numerous ...

... I~ fRE N I,, THE WAR IN THE EAST.-Active operations have at length begun on the Danul;e, which has been successfully crossed at Galatz and Ibraila by the Russians, who are now in possession of the Dobrudscha. The forward movement began on the night of the 2Ist inst., ashen a detachment of some 2,000 Russians, under General Jugoff, crossed from Galatz in boats, followed by cavalry on rafts, ...

... KqW71-59 OuAtu TIHE ISI.INGToN DAIRY S1IOW A DAIRY SHOW without cows seems at first blush very like the play of Handdlet with the ti/id nt/e omitted, lbut the inexorable fiat of the Privy Council had gone forth that no bovine cattle sent into London should be allowed to go out again, and it would scarcely have servcd the purpose of the dairy farmers to send their valuable cows to be sold for ...

... OLD FATHER THAMES, at whom so many reproaches are tnrown, a hose sins and offences have been recorded in a hundred blue books, and denounced in a hundred parliaments, has a right to some share of credit as well as a great deal of abuse. Although he occasionally gobbles up the farmers' hay- crops, and washes away some of their flocks, he still more often fertilises with Nile-like libations ...

... - ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ .rrTT f - -- I m mo E X !- THE FRENcH ELECTIONS.-It has often been said that France is the land of surprises, and the commonplace was never better illustrated than in the result of the elec- tions which were looked forward to with so much intense eagerness. Many observers prophesied that the Repub- licans would gain a splendid victory; others were of opinion ...

... El! 1II0 POLITICAL AFFAIRS.-Amongst the most notable political speeches of the week are those of Sir Stafford Northcote to the working men of Plymouth, and Earl Granville at the opening of the Bradford Liberal Club. Sir Stafford contended that the past Session had not been barren, and cited the Universities Act, the Irish Judicature Act, and the Prisons Act, as examples of emi- nently useful ...

... DISTRESS IN DLMATIA. I . . ?? . TO TE EDITOB OV THZ:DAnlr NZ,&' ,Sn'--;lshould be much obligedt if -you could find a place for the uccompanying statement of thedis. tress in ljalmatia, It comes from a letter addressed to Captain Buxftbi by M. Lo'mbardik,;'of Triestb, a uealb'u friend of the sufferers. Miss Irby was a few days back designing a visit to Knin, the oliel seat of the present ...