... 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 ...

... S m ARL AM- ENT - ?? am Titi House of Commons resumed its work on Monday after the Easter Recess without notably displaying any of that enthusiasm with which a patriotic body naturally regards opportunities of serving the State. The Easter Recess had proved to be longer than was at one time anticipated. But it is never so long that there are not some members who take the liberty of extending ...

... R.RAL ANOTES AGRICULTURAL PROSPECTS.-A correspondent writes us fromn Nottingham, The high drying easterly winds have reduced the stony clays into a case-hardened state ; hence it has been a very difficult task, and an extremely irksome proceeding, to obtain any- thing like a suitable seed-bed. The wheat plant on sandy soils still leaves something to be desired, but on the stony wet clays the ...

... I AUS ERIAN TOADS are largely imported into England for killing insects, &c., in gardens. They fetch from 31. to 41. a hundred, and are sent over in wooden boxes stuffed with moss. PRINCE IISMIARCK has founded two patrimionies for his sons. The one consisting of his large possessions in Lauenburg, with the title of Prince, will go to Count Herbert ; while Count Bill will inherit the ...

... I* LNS m ?? TIlE LAMBING SEASON has been not only a most favourable one, but it has also been marked by great prolificacy. A correspondent, writing from Yorkshire, tells us of a ewe which has just had six lambs at a birth, five of which are living. Two instances of five lambs at a birth are also before us; while there have been recently recorded in the provincial Press several cases of four ...

... 1. AT no time am I altogether a believer in the pedestrian tour pure and simple. I have known some ardent pedestrians who have refused to avail themselves of a lift over a long stretch of barren and uninteresting country. In the Pyrenees at least, in order to see the country thoroughly, the walking tour must be combined with the diligence and the railway. But there are many places where the ...

... PROFESSOR W. E. A YRTON, F.R.S. PIROFEssOR W. E. AYRTON, ?? who, with Professor John Perry, is the joint inventor of the electrical railway of which the illustration appears below, was educated at University College School, where he gained numerous prizes, and entering subsequently into the College gained the Andrews Exhibition in 1865 and the Andrews Scholarship in 1866. Passing his ...

... K.;. ENGLISH HERRINGS are to be intro luced into Australian waters, under the management of the Victorian Acclimatisation Society. PET POODLES IN PARIS now wear tiny gold or silver bracelets on their fore legs just above the tuft of hair ornamenting the paws. M. VICTOR IHuGo's LoNG-UNPUBLISHED PLAY, TORQUE. MADA, will appear in Paris next month. It is a three-act drama, with a prologue, In ...

... 0%? IS-E a p V INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION AT PETERBOROUGH SO-m5 months since, with the object of liquidating the debt on St. Mark's Working Men's Club, Peterborough, it was resolved to hold an exhibition of work. Gradually, this small and unambitious conception fructified, the Committee worked arduously and per- severingly, the biggest building in the town (formerly a skating rink) was appropriated ...

... o f - ?? ?? _LM ?? i I_ _lYL__ILI M WALLABY HUNTING, QUEENSLAND A VISIT TO MEXICO-IL THE present irregular building of Chapultepec was mainly erected in I785, on a site where formerly stood the palace of Montezuma. It was also inhabited by the ill-starred Emperor Maximilian, who made considerable additions to it, by way of terraces and balconies. It is now occupied by the National Observatory. ...

... /10 ?? oC THE Queen and Princess Beatrice duly arrived at Windsor at the end of last week after a rough passage across the Channel. Hier Majesty stayed a night at Cherbourg, where on the ?? morning Princess Beatrice was serenaded on board the Royal yacht, in commemoration of her twenty-fifth birthday. After the Royal departure bad been delayed for a short time, owing to the stormy weather, the ...