... T. I QN TnIE CRISIS IN TlE EAST.--The British fleet duly entered the Dardanelles last week, and Admiral Hornby, leaving two vessels at Gallipoli to keep the passage open, steamed with four ironclads through the Straits, and anchored oft the Princes' Islands. The Turkish Government, though pro- testing against the forcible entry, did not fire upon the fleet, but considerable consternation was ...

... i- x ' -.ot, as the Athenians had, a month Gamelion, in , *.c fashion and the habit for young folks to get *are the winter onths conspicuous above all others ,ive number of weddings. Yet they are second to noe asa season for serious engagements. Ask the mothers of married and marriageable daughters whether this is the case, and tyilt not only admit, but also, if they choose, explain the reaon ...

... ?- ?6-- ?11-- I- ?? - ?? j Tile PAS'Al.IIIFR FOR SCOTLAND.- On Tuesday pe Pius IX ratified the plan decreed by the Propaganda for ?? of the Scottish hierarchy. The Rlght Rev. John Strain, Vicar-Apostolic, becomes Archbishop of St. AndrewVs and Edinburgh, and the most Rev. Dr. Eyre, Apostolic for Scotland and Administrator Apostolic of the estgern District, is to be Archbishop of Glasgow, ...

... IT can scarcely have escaped the observation of those who have an eye for curiosities of advertising, that, as the time of year approaches when winds grow unruly and storms at sea prevail, there reappear in the columns of the newspapers offers to dispose of that sovereign preservative from drowning, the so- called caul, in which certain privileged babies are born. Children come into the ...

... T11E election of a Pope is a ceremony well in keeping with the solemnity of the occasion and the importance of the result Considering that its rules and regulations were settled long before the modern science of election was understood, and long before the ballot had found its way into the institutions of Europe, the scene, with all its formalities, is interesting, not only from the ...

... H. M. STI4NLEYS EXPEDITION MR. A PERSONAL NARRATIVE HE hearty congratulations with which Mr. H. M. STANLEY has everywhere been wel- corned after his long and ! toilsome travels in the heart of Africa have been so unanimous and so well- deserved that it is difficult for us to add anything to them; but we cannot let slip the opportunity of here recording oar tribute of admiration for the ...

... IsCouC~c THE Queen will remain in the Isle of Wight with the Princess Beatrice and Prince Leopold until the middle of this month, spending the anniversary of her wedding day, the zoth, at Osborne. At the end of last week Her Majesty gave audience to Lord Henry Somerset, Comptroller of the Household, who presented the address from the House of Lords in reply to the Royal Speech, while the Queen ...

... I THE WAR IN TIlE EAST WITH THE RUSSIANS-THE WAY THE PRISONERS WENT THIS sketch was taken by our artist, when, together with Dr. Sandwith, he paid a visit to Putine, through which the great mass of prisoners taken by the Russians have passed, and where hospital barracks have been erected by Dr. Sandwith with the funds of the Russian Sick and Wounded Aid Society. Literally thousands, writes ...

... r /5 yeasFA U OTESn THE LATE SIR WILLIAM STIRLING MAXWELL.-It is not the place in this column to say anything about the literary merits of Mr. Stirling, of Keir ; but certainly it is within the province to state that no man ever did more to promote good breeding in shorthorns and in Clydesdale horses; and no one, aided by his clever factor, Mr. Young, did more to bring both shorthorns and ...

... THlE gentleman who spoke of a certain church on a certain holy day as a species of hybrid, the result of a cross between a chandler and a greengrocer, was rather irreverent in expression than inexact in idea. Candles seem in all ages to have had a remarkable connection with the Church ; but at the festival of Candlemas this connection is especially apparent. No longer indeed do we now light ...

... VALE, POrTIFEX MAXImfEi THE ENTOMBMENT OF PIUS IX. The arching dome of Michael Angelo, almost a lesser sky within the sky, rises dim and shadowy above the basilica dedicated to the Galilean Fisherman. The great, grim mosaics waver in the uncertain flicker of torches; and the huge letters of the inscription show fitfully, like the writing on the wall at Belshazzar s Feast. 4i; e Pasts, et ...

... i E I Q?N THE WAR IN THE EAST.-The peace preliminaries have been accepted by the Porte, but as yet no actual armistice has been signed. Officially, the Russian conditions have been kept studiously secret, the Porte having engaged not to let them transpire until the treaty is signed, but the general tenour of the terms is pretty well known. Roughly stated, they include the autonomy of Bulgaria, ...