... L1TTIM. news has arrivced this week. Sir Garnet Wolseley, on his arrival at Cape Town, determined to go at once to Natal, where he woluhl be immediately sworn in as Commissioner, and, after issuing a genieral order announcing his appointment, would take command in' the field, and proceed to the front. He will devote all his encrgics at first, to the transport difficulties, which he proposed to ...

... bEURNILAM BEECHES - . . L .. ALLT lovers of sylvan beauty and noble forest trees must have experienced a sense of intense relief on hearing that Burnhan Beeches will be saved to the public, as a recreation ground, by the timely intervention of Sir Henry Peek, M.P., and the Corporation of the City of London. Not many weeks ago this well-known spot, with its congregation of grand old beech ...

... 0 - 0 ? 0 0 II-4??sUUI?I J? ?? C)0 ?? .7 0 , 0 0j? ,/1 TuE QUEEN held a private investiture of the Order of the Bath at Windsor last week, when Her Majesty invested General Sir A. Conynghame with the insignia of the Military Division of the First Class, and Sir F. Sanford, Mr. Lingen, and Mr. J. Lambert with the insignia of the Civil Division of the Second Class of the Order. Subsequently ...

... SIXTY years ago, when Tennyson was a boy of ten and Carlyle nearly five-and-twenty, was born one whso, long since welcomed as greatest of art-critics, is now being more and more widely recognised as ranking amongst the chiefest of the world's life-teachers. It is possible to collect from Mr. Ruskin's writings a number of auto- biographical passages, many giving us actual facts in his life, ...

... THE ZULU IVAR A GRE T victory was obtained over the Zulus on the 4th inst. by Lordl Chelmsford, who completely vanquished King Cetewayo and his army and burnt Ulundi. To resume our chronicle, the general advance of the three columns had been continued, and on the 26th ult., several large military kraals were burnt. Next day Cetewayo sent irk messengers with ?? cattle taken at Insandl- whana, ...

... k * ?? 4 THE COMING LLECtION. -- Preparations for the coming struggle between the g eat political parties become daily more manifest. Lord Hartington, taking time by the forelock, has formally accepted the requisition from the electors of North Elast Lancashire, and evidently metms to make as vigorous an attack on thisstronghold ?? as IMlr. Gladstone threatens to (lo farther north. In a recent ...

... | SN 4PRLI AM E NL i X D S11111111 THE Army Bill is through at last ! It has received the Royal Assent, and is safe in the recesses of the Statute Book. So far as the House of Commons is concerned, it was not delivered from its custody till four o'clock on Saturday morning, and then only under threat of the Government being prepared to sit till it was finished. The Lords had a brief sitting on ...

... - -- 4-- TIlE BRITISH ARCHIEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION will hold its Thirty-sixth Annual Conference at Great Yarmouth on the I1th of August, under the Presidency of Lord Waveney. M. VICTOR HUGO has made an ascent in the captive balloon at Paris, which has resumed its aerial journeys, although, owing to the bad weather, they have been very few and far between. VISITORS TO THE PARIS EXHIBITION last ...

... ER W?? ?? M I OWA THE INTERNATIONAL REGATTA AT OSTEND NOTWITHSTANDING the unpropitious weather the International Regatta at Ostend was highly successful. The proceedings were inaugurated on Tuesday, the 24th ult., by a Channel race from Dover, in which nine yachts competed, including, amongst others, the Prince of Wales's schooner Ili/degaide, Mr. A. B. Rowley's yawl Latona, Mir. F. Cox's ...

... !? 4, ;2?1141 A STATUE OF RAIBELAIS is to be erected at Chinon. TlrE CONTRACTOR FOR TIHE ST. GOTHARD TUNNEL, M. Favre, has just died of apoplexy. MR. CHARLES LANDSEER, R.A., the elder brother of the late Sir Edwin Landseer, died on Tuesday evening, in his Sist year. TnlE INTERNATIONAL ART EXItII3TION AT MIUNICHI was opened last Saturday by Prince Luitpold, the uncle of King Louis. HANDEL'S ...

... A IWORD FOR THE .SHOPKEEPERS By a strange oversight the Committee appointed to inquire into the system and operations of the Co-operative Stores has quite omitted to take into consideration the interests of those who love to gaze into shop windows. What is to become of us, what pleasure wvill remain to us in this dreary world, when the delightful exhibi- tions which now ornament, and, as it ...

... I ?? K-11 RLJAMEN'I?? ' AT twenty minutes past one on Wednesday morning the Army Bill passed through Committee. Like much else in the Bill and the manner of its management in the House this progress is illusory. All along, the Government, harassed by continuous and deathless opposition, have been putting off the evil day raised by successive knotty points in the clauses. If they could not make ...