... THERE are a considerable number of places in Sussex which are visited so reverentially by pilgrim tourists that in a sort of way they may be spoken of as shrines. Of course a good deal will depend on the particular tastes of the tourist, and what his notions of a shrine may be. Having visited a number of the memorial places in the county, I give some impressions respecting a few of them. ...

... IF you will give my cook a slice of bread to dress and prepare with all those additions of wine, spice, butter, and sauce, she will make you a far more delicious dish than that Bah ! the fish is beneath contempt. My friend was perfectly correct ; the fish, a very fine carp, was beneath contempt. He was a glorious fellow, and we caught him- that is to say, I hooked him, played him. in the ...

... W . . . MR. GLADSTONE AT HOME AGAIN.-Some of Mr. Gladstone's opponents, with questionable taste, have rebuked him for his prolonged residence at Cannes. There was really rio very urgent reason why he should have come back at an earlier date. It has been said that he wished to be out of the way when the Affirmation Bill was being discussed; but he could not have imagined that a measure which ...

... ?? . ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ' ' ' ?? . ?? ?? NoRTIIAmrTONsHIRE, though badly off for seaside watering- places, was, and is, exceptionally rich in county families. Notable amongst these were the Treshams, to the Rushton branch of whom belonged Sir Thomas, father of Francis Tresham of the Gunpowder Plot. The mania for house building to which we owe Longleat, and Bess of lar dwjck's Hall More Glass ...

... ?? ?N. 44. ?? ?. - - ?U?If ?WS >? I / ? AT A LUNCHEON given to the clergy and newly-elected chdrch- wardens at Canterbury the Bishop of Dover took occasion to explain away some idle rumours as to delay in his re-appointment a, Suffragan. The Archbishop had never thought of dispensing with a Suffragan, but while Archbishop designate he could not issue a new Commission. He was confirmed, as all ...

... ?? Q THE rivalry between PORTUGAL and ENGLAND in CENTRAL AFRICA has entered upon a more serious phase. 'While diplo- matic arguments go on leisurely at home over the respective claims in Mashona-Land and the Zambesi region generally, Portuguese agents in Africa proceed to fresh annexations. Thus Major Serpa Pinto's arbitrary conduct in the Shire highlands complicates the situation considerably ...

... AeOBkERzI' BROWtUNING ON Thinusday, December 12th, the world welcomed a new volume of poems from the pen of Robert Browning-poems which tshowved no abatement of mental vigour on the part of their author. But his bodily strength had long been waning, and on the very same evening he passed away at the Palazzo Rezzonico, in Venice, where he had been staying with his son. Robert Browning was born ...

... NOTHING more gratified the Shah of Persia when in Paris than the attention he received from the inhabitants of Belleville On the occasion of his visit to the Buttes Chaumont all the population of the Red Revolutionary and Socialist quarter turned out to greet him, their numbers and animation calling forth the remark, When do these Parisians find time to work ? The holiday aspect of the ...

... SKETCHES IN THE LA WV COURTS-IL OF all the courts, the Admiralty Court is perhaps the least known, and yet the best worth knowing. Thrilling stories of the sea are often told here, and Mr. justice Butt sitting with or with- out the Trinity Masters has no easy task in deciding the rights and wrongs of many a case on the conflicting evidence before him. There is a hearty partisanship anmong ...

... E I - Now that ?? European rulers have opened the winter political season with speeches from the Throne, President Harrson reviews the policy of the UNITED STATES in his Message to Congress. The President reports most favourably on the general situation, both international and domestic. Ile lays particular stress on the satisfactory relations with Great Britain, all Anglo-American iffi- ...

... ?? , - Z !~ ?? ~~- o - TrlE COMING; GENERAI. ELECi I ION.- Tlle excitement of the country is daily and hourly inicreasing, and the torrent of political ramtory still flovs with unabated viulence and bitterness. Among the -anifetoes issued since wve last wrote ale that of the National Ieform Union, which states that Lord IBeaconsfield's Administration lms ea nted an unenviable notoriety by ...

... & - q ~'THE ORC ~d I) ?? ALL thle Icn meui 01 tie Jivoa, I ail.i ?? c Windsor to observe the anniversary of the Prince Consort', cail, The Princess of Wales and her three daughters arrived on a visit the Queen at the end of last week, and on Saturday morning acc/ a) panied Her Majesty to the Riding School to inspect Mr. J. J C.i. man's bullock, which took so many prizes at the late Cattle Show ...