... I h Lc- REVOLUTIONARY ALARMS.--The elections are now virtually completed, and people are naturally speculating on the composition of the new Cabinet, and on the probable tendencies of the new House of Commons. The surprising defeat of the supporters of Lord Beaconsfield (for everybody admits that the thoroughness of the rout was surprising) has produced in some quarters jeremiads of ...

... THE providing of luncheons and refreshments for thousands of persons at a time, often at, very short notice, has become quite an art. In many cases it cannot be stated beforehand even approximately how many persons will be present to be provided for; and yet there must be enough for all, or grumblers and grumbling will be plentiful. On the other hand, if foods and perishable good things are ...

... I ?? j~~AJLLJ lvi ta.' A( ?? TiE COMING GENERAL1 ELECTION.--The contending political factions are already engaged in earnest strife all over the country and the trumpet calls of the leaders on either side are being echoed and re-echoed by men of lesser importance in every borough and town in the three kingdoms. The most exciting contests will probably be in the counties, where the Liberals are ...

... ?* ? Q k THE GOVERNMENT POLICY IN THE EAST,--The meeting li,,d in the Wellington Riding School, Knightsbridge, to protest against the action of the Government against Turkey, presidcd over by Colonel Malleson, ?? can hardly have been considered satisfac. tory in. its results by even the bitterest opponents of the Government. The attendance was only moderate, the speeches were feeble, there was ...

... IWVA TER CRESSES WViitt opening spring the watercress trade also begins. The imp)ortations of this plant into crowded towns are alvays highly aldIC(I by the lower and middle classes, as, more than any otlier grcell meat, it forms the poor man's salad. livery one can tell a watercress in the greengrocer's shop ; but it is not so easy to dlistin- guisih it amongst its neighbours in the brook, ...

... 5§ THE AGITATION IN IRELAND THE prosecution of the Land Leaguers has been advanced by one or two formal stages, and the trial will probably commence on December 17 in the Queen's Bench before aspecial jury, anorder being made that the days required for the trial shall be deemed part of the Michaelmas Sittings. There will probably be some diffi- culty in getting a jury together, as many of the ...

... THE learned Professor Schupkerl of the University of Brunswick had, from his youth up, been much exercised about the question as to whether it is possible for a man to master the language of dogs. He was a linguist after a new fashion. Disdaining the difficulties of Hebrew and Sanscrit, and indifferent to the beauties of modern Italian and French, he had applied all the energies of his great ...

... . . ?? I - TSE BIRITIs FINE ART COLLECTION lately exhibited at Sydney is to be transferred to the Melbourne Exhibition. THE EGYPTIAN OBELISK presented to the Americans will be p laced on an eminence in Central Park, New York, opposite the Metropolitan Museum. THE ALLEGORICAL MONUMENT OF THE DEFENCE OF PARIS in 1870, which is to be erected at the Rond-Point at Courbevoie, just outside the city, ...

... Hi'' ?? 9tI~t2 Bea 0 ' - SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 1880. MR. BIEVAN'S return of the number of strikes during 1879, as compared with the years 1877 and 1878, is a suggestive if not satisfactory record of the waste which is going on year by year as the result of the increasing disputes between work]men and masters. The total number of strikes in 1879 lie gives as 327, against 277 in 1S8S, and 191 in ...

... Pjlx-??W.X, AND WITIAN?161-? CORPONIATION. hitu: Soulith Lotitl; Atuxit;fIy o(l' this ?? c ...

... &iLARMING STATE OF IfIELAND. ?? STATE' OF Iiih1a-1U ri~t~t4 ?? entertained that serioUS 1115. tory (r Bro roud rave taken place in Dnblin on '100 A 0m'Oy orseqiiei'i onl the action of the Clare Land Tire :1.ur.Mr. l'b. Stackpoole, JaP,, of Ennis, owing l1n10 r> i7a' sction of thle Laud Leaguers, has been coin. A b : ~,o E'~rego hmuting withi the county Chire thoi tcj7Wrda, of which lie '!tutu ...

... Aberdeenshire Dr. Farquharson 1 Aberdeen City . Mr. Webster 1 Aberdeenshire (East) Sir Alexander Gordon .. 1 Argyllshire Lord Colin Campbell . 1 Ayr Mr. Campbell 1 Ayrshire (South). Colonel Alexander 1 Ayrshire (North) .. Mr. Cochrane Patrick . 1 Mr.iJLJinff— JL^ Berwickshire Mr. Majoribanks 1 Buteshire .. Mr. T. lit(sscll Caithness-shire . Sir Sinclair .. 1 Clackmannan ...