... A CRUISE IN THE LANCASHIRE IZITC'I, 1I. AFTER spending three pleasant days at Zanzibar, Mr. Francis Francis and his party proceeded in the Lacaashir-e Wich northwards to Formosa Bay, as we are told in jovial, even rollicking language in his book. They took with them Dr. Kirke, H.M. Consul- General at Zanzibar, whose portrait, with a general view of Formosa Bay, will be found on our ...

... THE SErYCHELLES THE opening of the Suez Canal was not merely a boon to merchants and tiavellers, but brought within the pale of civilisation many countries which had, till then, little intercourse with other parts of the world. Amongst these was a small group of islands in the midst of the Indian Ocean, 4' below the Equator, and a thousand miles from any land-the Seychelles. This little ...

... Ik~; ?? gm 4 - x? iu +\W-Lw K,` ?? -v ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ F CHURCH REFORMf. The Bishop of Manchester, writing to the National Church Reform Union, says that his hopes of Church Reform are mainly to see-Ist. The evils of the existing system of patronage remedied by giving to the Bishop on the one side, and the parishioners on the other, a more effective voice-probably in the way of a veto-in the ...

... K FRANCE.-M. Gambetta has had what the Americans would call a bad time of it this week. The Committee appointed to consider his Revisionary proposals was almost unanimously opposed to them, and in particular to the restoration of the Scrzdins de lisle. M. Gambetta was summoned before it on Saturday, and was well baited by the Radical members. He held to his point, however, with characteristic ...

... RURAL .NOS MIDWINTER.-A Scotch correspondent assures us that on Christmas morning boys were skating on his ponds, the ice being fully two inches thick. On the same day three roses were in bloom in the garden, and many wild flowers, the dandelion, and the daisy. The black and flowering currant-bushes are in full bud in many places. CROWN LANDS for 1881 show a return of 370,oool. against 390 ...

... !0 l~w W ollol MINISTERIAL VACATION SPEECHES.-Politicians no longer bybernate, as of yore; they are wide-awake and full of chatter all through the year; Parliamentary debates are continuous, with this difference merely, that out of Session the various parties do not assemble under the same roof. In his speech at Burton-on-Trent Sir Henry James pleaded that, instead of wearying at this ...

... RU??QTESd l ly-.>9>K E h ?? a THPE PROMISE OF A MILD WINTER.-SO many farmers are 3eard expressing themselves in terms of apprehension concerning :he mild weather, which, on the whole, has prevailed since October, that it may be as well to look back a little and see what grounds there are for alarm. Eight years ago the winter was singularly pleasant and open. This winter was followed by the ...

... 1. THE Winter Exhibition at Burlington House consists exclusively of oil pictures, and is somewhat smaller than its predecessors, but it is by no means deficient in variety and interest. The 275 works composing it are for the most part good examples of the schools to which they belong, and among them are some masterpieces. In accordance with what has become an established custom, the third or ...

... ~UA'A3~ws ?? THE DAY OF HUMILIATION FOR IRELAND was observed on Friday last in obedience to the Pastoral of the Episcopate of the Disestablished Church. The Archbishop of Dublin preached at ChristChurchCathedral; calling on hishearers to examine their hearts and repent while there was yet time, and pointing out that we were as answerable to. God for the use of chastisement as for that of ...

... RED HAIR AND LARGE MOUTHS are fashionable across the Atlantic this winter. A SUBMARINE TUNNEL UNDER THE STRAITS OF MESSINA is to be constructed between Sicily and Calabria. THE COLLECTION OF INDIAN ART lent by England to the new Berlin Museum will shortly be sent to Stockholm for exhibition, and will thence go to Copenhagen. GOURMETS will be in despair. Truffles are very scarce this year, ...

... DRAWN BY WILLIAM SMALL MIr. Crocker, said Lord Hampstead, if you will remain here for five minutes I will ride on ; or if you will ride on I will remain here till you are out of sight. I must insist that one of these arrangements be made. . I I MARIO N FA Y.* A Novel By ANTHONY TROLLOPE, AUTHOR OF FRAMLEY PARSONAGE 'ORLEY FARM, THE SMALL HOUSE AT ALLINGTON, THE WAY WE Live Now, ...

... EVERY ONE must admire the chivalrous pertinacity with which Mr. Blanchard Jerrold fights for a dead cause. The cause of Imperialism is as dead in France as that of the Stuarts is in England; and yet many, even on this side of the Channel, would fain know whether Mr. Kinglake's sparkling epigrams are true or false. Mr. J crrold is satisfied with proving that Napoleon, so far from driving France ...