... -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 ...

... its OF f6 Ill ?? o ak. ..11 .'A4'A - THE PHCENIX PARK MURDERS. Writing as we neces- sarily do so long after the event, expressions of sympathy and abhorrence appear stale, flat, and unprofitable. Every- thing of this kind which can be said has been said already by hundreds of newspapers, and by thousands of speakers, public and private. Murders of an agrarian or political type are ...

... -I ROUND THE WORLD YACHTING-XVIL MANILLA or Manila, the capital of the Philippine islands, which are among the most importalnt of the Spanish Colonies, is, with the exception of Goa, the oldest European town in the East. It consists of an old fortified city, with narrow rectangular streets, and extensive suburbs containing the mass of the population, who in all amount to about 150,000. The ...

... 1-1-11-1? I p RLIA- MENT, - - - - - I . . . . I ? THE House of Commons has had another busy and exciting week. The Prevention of Crime Bill, brought in on ?? week by the Home Secretary, proved to be a measure which left nothing to be desired in the way of completeness or severity. As was probably anticipated, its introduction was followed by signs of the breaking- up of the compact which Mr. ...

... THlE ROYAL ACADEMY ?? IV. ON entering the eighth gallery we first meet with a picture by Mfr J. R. Weguelin, in which the influence of Mr. Alma-Tadiema is clearly to be discerned. It is called The Feast of Flora (766), and represents a graceful Greek girl playfully thrusting a bunch of flowers under the nose of a bronze Egyptian statue as she descends the marble steps of the temple. The ...

... A HO USEHOLD DEMON THERE, dear, you see; I told you so, and you would hardly believe it. Look at it. The tablecloth is covered with blacks, and we were obliged to sit with the door open all day. Look how the smoke is pouring out now. It was my Prime Minister who was speaking, and I was already looking at 'how the smoke was pouring out now. I ran to the bell, and rang it furiously. I'he ...

... ?? ?? N j THE CRISIS IN EcYPT.-The combined English and French fleets are now before Alexandria, respectively under the command of Sir F. Beauchamp Seymour and Rear-Admiral Conrad, but at the time we are writing the crisis has reached a more serious stage, and still more active steps are said to be imminent on the part of England and France. At first there were no official corn- mtnications ...

... -~ ~~?o ?? THE Queen and the Princess Beatrice returned to Windsor Castle from town at the end of last week. On Saturday, Her Majesty decorated with the Victoria Cross and distinguished conduct medals Lieut. Alan Hill and eight non-commissioned officers and privates, for gallantry during the recent campaigns in Zululand and the Transvaal, the Queen, accompanied by Princess Beatrice, receiving ...

... 4 ,; ?? vz-, 1? MR. MALLOCK'S IS LItE WOR'r! LIVING.? has been translated into French by a Gallic priest as Vivre: La Vic vaut-elle la Peine ? THE PARTS ARC Dr, TrnOm1'11E is to be surmounted on the National Fete Day by the modcl of a huge triumphal group, in order to judge of the effect. The original group itself, by M. Falgui&re, now exhibited in the new Salon of Decorative Art, is said ...

... .S WHEN we consider the great variety of opinion which prevails among the wisest men about the most ordinary matters, we are often sorely tempted to believe in that uncertainty of all things which was preached by the Sceptics two thousand years ago. Entire suspension of judgment seems to be our only course consistent at once with modestyand mental tranquillity. The toad in Shakespeare is the ...

... * *Ho * ?? POLITICAL SPEECIIES.-Lord Salisbury in addressing a meet- ing at Stratford on Thursday, condemned the Arrears Bill as unjust to the English taxpayers, anti said that Mr. Gladstone's fatal error was that he had made lui.sh legislation and administration a means of purchasing the support of the liberal partv. On the same day at Hanley the Earl of Carnars on, referrinug to the ...

... E I !IN FRANCE.-The Chamber has reassembled, but the real business of the Session will not begin until next week. There is no lack of important measures in prospect, each of which will produce a most vigorous debate-not, as heretofore, simply between Republicans and Conservatives, but between the various sections of the Repub- licanis themselves. During the recess the divisions amongst the ...