... M ~ HM TrIm E EGYPTIAN QUESTION has again been the sole absorbing pol it i. cal topic, and though the policy anrd action of the Government have been subjected to much criticismn as to details, al ost the only down- right condemnation of it comes from the London Positivist Society, who have issued a protest, drawn up by Professor Beesly, in which the various reasons given for armed intervention ...

... ce. I FRANCE.-The question of religious teaching in the national schools has been once more briskly discussed in the Senate. Last year M. Jules Simon amended the Bill for primary education, as passed by the Lower House, by carrying an addition providing that the masters will teach their pupils their duty towards God and towards their country. The Chamber, desirous of eliminating all ...

... ~ ?? ?? ?? ?? THE FIRST BIsHoP OF NEWCASTLE, the Right Rev. Ernest Roland Wilberforce, was consecrated in Durham Cathedral on Tuesday by the Archbishop of York, assisted by the Bishops of Ely, St. Alban's, Winchester, Carlisle, Manchester, Liverpool, and Durham. Canon Basil Wilberforce, brother of the new Bishop, preached the sermon, and offertories were taken in aid of the cathedral church of ...

... THE UDlUntetOf at Rrorigull-th II GENERAL ZD!.1 Ir has been taken for granted by all recent purveyors of alarmist militasy literature, from the author of The Battle wf Dorking to Captain Barrington in England on the Defensive, that if our fleet were either destroyed by torpedoes or decoyed away, a foreign foe would most probably choose to effect a landing on the coast near Worthing ...

... ?? THE GOOD FRIDAY AND EASTER SUNDAY SERVICES at the various Metropolitan places of worship were well attended. On Good Friday the morning preacher at St. Paul's Cathedral was the Rev. J. H. Coward, in the afternoon Prebendary Dyne, and in the evening the Rev. W. H. Hutchings. At Westminster Abbey the preachers were Canons Prothero and Dean Bradley, while at Holy Trinity, Clapham Common, the ...

... 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. ...

... EE f THE CAMPAIGN IN EGYPT THE ADVANCE OF THE DUKE OF CONNAUGHT S BRIGADR, TEL-EL- K EBIR THE Brigade of Grenadier Guards under the command of tie Duke of Connaught were stationed in the second line of the British army during the attack on Tel-el-Kebir as supports to General Willis's Infantry Brigade. Though not nominally in the post of danger, as the assault was naturally begun by the first ...

... I lTimE GROSVENOR GALLERY was open, free, to the public last Sunday, under the auspices of the Sunday Society, when 1,140 persons were admitted, most of the visitors belonging to the poorer classes. lTHlE NEW REPLY POST-CARDS will be issued on October 2nd, at the cost of a little over id. apiece. The cards will be made like a return ticket, so that the half intended for the reply can be ...

... _ In?__1 Ra L} Am EN L _=c W1'-s __ bt --01t _ IT seemed on2 Moniday as if the dogged oppositi6p o progresI with the Piocedutc Rules had collapsed. At a glanc the Order Book will show, this is maintained linost single-haiifd by Lord R. Churchill. On the Ninth Resolution, passed on Wednesday afternoon after a long discussion, Lord Randolph had seventeen amendments out of twenty-eight that ...

... Vide Coapay Xicbie. of the 'Xtioxrp fromi (Egypt Cy HI. II. S. PEARSE THqE GA THIERING OF BAETTAL1ONS IN A WHITE FROST FOG so dense that objects a few yards off were completely obscured from view, and figures close at hand loomed large and seemed distorted out of all semblance to their own proper form, the mustering of troops for a pageant that will long be memorable in British History began. ...

... ?? I ?? ?? 0 I.A.-B THE ARMY ESTIMATES.-Mr. Childers' statement of our military position may be regarded as fairly satisfactory. Recruits are somewhat younger than could be wished, but they come in freely, although the period of service has been raised from six to practically eight years. Allowing for the growth of population, the Army is pecuniarily less of a burden on the country now than ...

... -I - Ntx > -|ghR~~LI AM E N T, WE have from time to time many scenes in the House of Commons, not a few of a painful character. But the memory must go back a long way in search of parallel to the one of Monday night. Less than a week earlier Lord Frederick Cavendish had been in his place on the Treasury Bench arranging the business of the House. On Wednesday it was scarcely noticed that he was ...