... TirE Inspector handed me a large volume, loosely bound: Have a look through this, sir, to begin with. This, turned out to be an album, of the kind used by the Stereoscopic Company for cele- brities and professional beauties, containing photographs of the unknown and unclaimed dead. Each card was dated and num- bered, and referred back to a book where all the details of the finding of 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 ...

... \ K ?? ?? THE HEALTH OF THE PRIMATE, we regret to say, again inspires considerable uneasiness. The cold weather of last week seems to have seriously affected him; and on Monday Sir WV. Gall and Dr. Carpenter had a consultation, and issued an alarming bulletin, in which it was stated that there was a return of feverishness and a diminution of strength, and that the condition of the patient was ...

... ROUND LI.NVCOLN'S INN AN ordeal through which all newly-appointed Queen's Counse have to pass is that of being admitted within the Bar, a ceremony that has to be gone through in all the Courts where the judges are then sitting; and on several occasions I, sitting among the stuff gownsinen in the rear, have been witness of the scene, always a rather ludicrous one. When they enter the Court the ...

... foRI Q THE WAR IN EGYPT.-Alexandria is fast filling with British troops, and in a few days the whole of the main force will be assembled, while the Indian contingent may be looked for at Suez. Since the arrival of the Guards, with the Duke of Connaught, at the end of last week, fresh detachments have disembarked daily. They were inspected by theirchiefs, and received a few words of advice ...

... MR. ANDREW MARSHALL PORTER, Q.C., M.P The New Solicitor-General for Ireland ST. GEORGE HENRY LOWTHER, EARL OF LONSDALE Died Feb. 8, aged 26 THIE LATE EARL OF LONSDALE ST. GEORGE HENRY LOWTHER, fourth Earl of Lonsdale, whose early death from inflammation of the lungs occurred on the 8th ult., after an illness of brief duration, was born October 4th, 1855, educated at Eton, succeeded his father ...

... ~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 ...

... THE PEL TZER TRIAL AT BRUSSELS THE Peltzer case is causing a great sensation at Brussels. The elder of the two prisoners, Armand by name, with a profusion of black hair and black beard, has an appearance which is decidedly impressive. Leon is slightly made, with fair hair and fair beard. Leon has already admitted that he killed Bernays, but he declares it was done by accident in a struggle ...

... THE A UTUMN SESSION TiH hero of the Autumn Session which closed so abruptly and unexpectedly during the dinner hour of Friday last week is undoubt- edly Lord Randolph Churchill. Whatever fineness of distinction maysometime be established between his actual lead of the House and the titular position of others, it cannot be disputed that in the debates on the Closure Resolutions he was the ...

... ?? ~ ?It~ R- FINE WEATHER and the general belief that the time-honoured procession from Guilthall to Westminster would be witnessed this year for the last time, drew even greater crowds than usual on Thursday week to the popular spectacle of * Lord Mayor's Show. Blusiness commenced with a breakfast at the Guildliall, and at noon precisely the procession commenced its journey through the ...

... - ?? i 0 II h~OUO o TIrE QUEEN and the chief members of the Royal Family renmain in the Isle of Wiight, where the Royal circle has been joined by Princes Albert Victor and George, onl their return home. Oil Saturday Her Majesty was visited by the young Princes in- mediately on their arrival, and next morning the Queen, with the Duchesses of Connaught and Albany. Princess Beatrice, the two ...

... 'I THE PIANO ON WHICH THE WACHT AM RHEIN was first improvised by its composer, Carl Wilhelm, has just been sold at Berlin for 751. THE DAN ISit EXPLORING ARCTIC VESSEL Djimphna has been lost, it is feared, near the Waigatz Islands, and the Marine Ministry has asked the Russian Government to co-operate in a search for the crew. A CHARTERHOUSE CONCERT, supported entirely by old and present ...