... (arkRAL JNOTES . ?? THE SEASON.-From the 8th to the 16th inst. the weather over the entire kingdom was very ungenial. In the Midlands most of the rivers overflowed their banks, doing severe injury to the standing grass, and with still worse effects on the mown. In the North the cold was intense. Snow covered the hills about Balasoral, and also invaded the Lowlands. The hill-tops in the Lake ...

... ?? UIR i~ I lOSItI.TAL SUNDAY.-Special appeals were made last Sunday in about ?? places of worship in the metropolis as compared with I,600 last year. At Westminster Abbey the Dean preached in the rning, Canon Barry in the afternoon, and the Bishop of Carlisle in the evening; whilst at St. Paul's Cathedral there were also three Eer* Vices, the preachers being the Bishop of London, Archdeacon ...

... ?? 1 M]LI IRELAND.-After a brief interval of comparative peace the agrarian terrorism has broken out afresh, and there is sonrething remaikable and significant in the fact that on the very day wh-cr br. Walter Bourke and his soldier escort, Corporal Wallace, were shot down at Ardrahan, a number of other outrages, of only less enormity in that they fell short of murder, were committed in Kerry, ...

... IF any traveller to or from the Riviera wishes to realise most thoroughly that he is not at home, let him stay at Arles. Lyons may be chlrnsing, Avignon full of interest, with its old Papal Palace, but at Arles there is so much to see, and that not only interesting totheordinary traveller, but alsoin thehighestdegree to the archreologist and the antiquary. Thus, at one side of the Place du ...

... A WASTE-WA TER METER Tuip apparatus illustrated below was exhibited at a Tecent lecture delivered at the Society of Arts by Mr. George F. Deacon, of Liverpool, on Constant Supply and Waste of Water. It is designed to prevent the waste of water which constantly goes on at the joints and fittings of almost all water-pipes. To prevent the waste various plans have been proposed; among ohers ...

... THE ALANUFACTURE OF OPIUM THESE engravings are from drawings by Lieut. -Colonel Walter S. Sherwifl, late Boundary Commissioner, Bengal. They were made by him during a visit to the Patna Factory, and were aftcrwadid. lithographed, with accompanying descriptions, il a volume printed for private circulation. They are of especial interest at the present time, when a number of persons, more or less ...

... U-1 MUNICIPAL FESTIVITIES See page 632. THE CRISIS IN EGYPT PLAN OF THE HARBOUR OF ALEXANDRIA ALEXANDRIA has two harbours, one on the eastern side, called the New, and the other on the western, known as the Old Port. The latter, a plan of which is annexed, is by far the most commodious, being provided %with a breakwater, a jetty, lighthouses, 2CUNS aCUhOTC~ U FORT FOT 1AcUNS ucuiys ?? 0 roRr ...

... E1QN??? I THE CRISIS IN EGYPT-Thernission of Dervish Pasha has been a practical failure. At first it appeared that he was about to carry all before hin ?? was received with great pomp and apparent popular enthusiasm, and began at once by treating the ?? with marked coldness, and behaving with absolute rudeness to Arabi PaslIa. lie received the Consuls cordially, and emphatically declared his ...

... Y' ?? ;00 ?? t R3 Tiie Queen continues to make short excursions round Balmoral with Princess Beatrice and the two Princesses of Hesse, the Royal party having visited the Linn of Muich and Glen Gelder Shiel, and having called on the Misses Farquharson at Invercauld. On Sunday Her Majesty and the Princesses attended Divine Service at Crathie Church, where the Rev. Principal Tulloch officiated, ...

... TIlE CRISIS IN EGPI'T THE CAVASS AT SEA TiE Cavass is a great feature of Eastern lire. He is the armed attendant-a species of bodyguard-of some Ambassador, Consul, or other foreign or native official, is always seen in a gorgeous uniform, and is a factotum of immense importance both in the estimation of himself and of the minor members of the household. His great characteristic is his enormous ...

... i60 1 - - I ?? AN AUTUMN SESSION.-Mr. Gladstone announced the other evening in a roundabout way that if the Rules of Procedure were not passed before the usual time of proroguing Parliament they would have to be con- sidered in autumn. This intelligence was received with dismay by the House of Commons, and Mr. Gladstone himself probably realises as fully as anybody else the Dboections to the ...

... k;o MIZr 1 ?? TsiiE NATIONAL SOCIETY held its annual meeting on Wednesday, under the presidency of the Archbishop of Canterbury, who said that the importance of Church Schools was shown by the fact that , 500,ooo children were educated in them, whilst the Board and Denominational Schools together only mustered about 1,357,000- The new Educational Code made so many changes that it wmlld be ...