... 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 ...

... I ?? rams~~ 0 0 it~TE~O~ THE QUEEN received at Osborne at the end of last week the chief officers holding commands in the British expeditionary force to Egypt, while Her Majesty has sent special messages to the troops on their departure. The Duke and I)uchcss of Connaught also went down to Osborne for the Duke to take leave of the Queen. On Saturday Her Majesty gave audiences to the Lord ...

... . cNot,, Wa- -- W ?? MINISTERS AT THE MANSION HOUSE.- When the Lord Mayor entertains in his civic palace the furniture and hangings are, metaphorically speaking, coltlezr de rose. If there are any skeletons about, they are all carefully stowed away in their several cupboards. The Lord Mayor and Aldermen have a skeleton of their own, meditating as they must do, in the presence of a terrible ...

... THE WAR IN EGYPT FILLING THE ROMAN CISTERNS As the enemy are in possession of the greater portion of the Sweet Water Canal, on which, in time of peace, the city of Alexandria was entirely dependent for its water supply, great anxiety has been felt lest the stock of this necessary of life should fail. Water for the soldiers can be supplied in sufficient quantity from the vessels employed in ...

... RECONNOITRING nY BALLOON is to be tried at Alexandria. THE BETHNAL GREEN MUSEUM now contains a valuable collection of modern paintings lent by the Duchess of Edinburgh. THrE ITALIAN ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION, which recently started under the command of Lieutenant Bove, has been wrecked off Cape Horn. Happily all the explorers were saved by an English vessel. A SALVATION ARMY CAMPAIGN IN INDIA will ...

... ?? iQN i -~ THE WAR IN EGYPT.-The occupation of the Suez Canal has been the first step taken in the active phase of the campaign. Sir Garnet Wolseley has lost no time, and three days after his arrival the majority of the British troops-the Guards, 6oth Rifles, &c.- were shipped on board the transports, their destination being ostentatiously given out as Aboukir. Indeed, the plans for the ...

... ;s T1,1555,11ili, I LIAMENT,) 11111U1111111111111 I It might reasonably have been thought that after a prolonged and busy Session, and with an Autumn Session in the near distance, the last week of Parliament would have proved uneventful. This has certainly not been the case. With due allowance for its situation in the calendar, the last week need not shun comparison with any that have gone ...

... \VITHiN a few days' tilme we shall hear and see much of game, and particularly of grouse. If we live in town we shall see every poulterer's shop-front covered with them-if in the country, we shall either see them alive, whirring over their lonely moors, or dead, and borne by gillies or carts to the shooting-box or village inn in which the sportsmen reside, and from whence they are sent off to ...

... ,on? THE WAR IN EGYPT THE FIRST PRISONER OF WAR THE first real action with Arabi's troops occurred during the reconnaissance of August 5th, concerning which we give further details in another paragraph. The accounts vary as to the number of prisoners taken from the Egyptian forces on this occasion. According to one statement, one officer of the 1\lustaphezin Regiment and fourteen men were ...

... HOME IRELAND.-After the tenant farmer the labourer. Under the sounding title of Irish Labout and Industrial Union, Messrs. Parnell, Dillon, and their friends have started this week a new League, which is to extend to other classes of the Irish population the efforts which have proved so fruitful in the direction of land reform. The labourers, to whose co-operation the farmers owe so much, ...

... 11,21I TlE LITTLE BRIDESMAID.1-Messrs. Beckmann Brothers, of 26 and 27, Cow Cross Street, have published an oleograph of the painting by j. N. Lee, bearing the above title. It is a very creditable specimen of this kind of work. HOUSES ARE BUILT AT LIGHTNING SPEED in the Great North- West. At Winnipeg recently the foundation of a house was laid on Tuesday, and the building was completed on ...

... 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 ...