... EASTER GOSSIP. There are three Bishops to take their seats in the House of Lords before Dr. Ityle can do cu. At a Council at Yariutruth, it has Leen decennium* to roma the beach singers to one corntway,tat their position !rum the centre Leach too place ...

... EASTER W: t ic ; k Lane Ader ri t ' is & ing P A LA g iT en ' c 7 Gracec 31huoaretuh Street ; s ; This Paper is regularly Fi led at the followin g Advertising Offices in London :—G. &rages, 30, Cornhill; S. & Co.'s, 154, Leadenhitil street: 0, a N o w= ...

... ; EASTER, Mr. H. Shute, collector of customs at Galway, ham been appointed Mr. Woods successor at Harwilb. The of a man named Evans, coschman to ?dr. C. Kew on, of Holton Hall has been found drowned in the river Blythe. A young man named John Hayward ...

... THE EASTER VOLUNTEER MAN.EUVRF.S. It is understorsl that with sanction of the Mar.shal f'ommanding in-Chief a meeting of Mg of volunteer in the Iloine District will til..ely be held at the li,-e tluanls to consider certain prop. oats respecting the vo•unteer ...

... scrambled for on the Thursday before Easter, a custom which also prevailed at Paddington. A similar practice is still ohaerved at Biddenden, near Staplehurst, Kent. Immediately at the close of the afternoon service on Easter Day, by endowment of old but unknown ...

... AN EASTER CUSTOM. A Naples. Correspondent of she flatly Ana writes 1— Among the mountains of the Abruzzi there yet prevail many primitive superstitions and religious ceremonies which are slowly dying away, and of which an interesting account is given ...

... brigades with the regular troops on Easter Monday, but now, as always, it is found • difficult matter to arrange tactical operations at Portsmouth, the space available being limited: and the late period at which this Easter falls causing landholders to be ...

... THE EASTER MAN(EUVRES. It has now been decided that of the two columns of volunteers marching on Dover at Luter, the strong e r of the two - that moving from Ashford shall be who has charge of commanded ITC. Methuen, the whole of the arrangements; and ...

... TIIE EASTER NIAMEUVItEs._ had been anticipated arranging fur wan.. uvr-s by volunteers on I•ster thiesday at Portsmouth have very &wham, and, though there is little reason to tear a tireskdowr, it is certain that the condition of the hind used the a of ...

... THE QUEEN'S EASTER BOUNTIES. The ancient Royal charities designated the Royal Maundy were distributed on Maundy Thursday in Whitehall Chapel during Divine service, with the usual formalities, to 63 aged men and 63 age a wvmen, the number of each rex ...

... CAPTAIN DOITORTY AT EASTER ISLAND. The Rector of Woodbridge. (Rev. R. C. M.Rouse), kindly sent to the preps a very interesting letter, bearing date March 14th, 1884, from Captain Dough , y, • Woodbridge gentleman. and magistrate for Suffolk. now in commend ...

... A VISIT TO EASTER ISLAND. Commander Bouverie F. Clark, in Her Majedty's skip Sappho, visited Easter Island, that remote out. lying member of the Polynesian island groups, so remarkable for ltd stone sculptures sod remains of native architecture in June ...