... i--)M THE IMPROVEMENT in the health of the Primate, which so happily succeeded the discouraging increase of feverishness' reported towards the middle of last week, continues to be well maintained, and the tone of the daily bulletins is decidedly more hopeful. Although all danger cannot be said to have passed away, there is clearly now considerable confidence that the Archbishop's great ...

... ?? THE CA.MPAIGN IN LGYPT.-The Khedive has been restored to his capital; and, as the last shadow of resistance has been quelled at Damietta and Ghemileh, the military side of the question is giving way to political considerations. Now the most difficult part of the task is to conie-the establishment of a stable Government amongst a perfectly untrustworthy people. The ostentatious greetings and ...

... - - ?? ?? V z I'll TEE DAILY BULLETrl\S of the health6f the Archbishop of Canterbury, which were not a little disquieting at the commence- nuent ofthe week, have again become somewhat more favourable. The blistered mouth and relaxed throat, which had troubled his Grace much on Monday and Tuesday. are now better, and there has been a slight recovery of ?? Bishop of Ripon, though still unable ...

... LA UGI-TER MUST sunny laughter be accused of selfishness? Do we laugh, for the most part, because we are fallen sons of Adam irritated at our neighbours' good fortune, and elated when dignity topples and grave seniors look like fools? Apart from the laughter which proceeds from mere exuberance of animal spirits, or from physical tickling, which is irrepressible in healthy children, and of ...

... HOME NE 11S SIR. BAXTER'S ADDRESS AT BRECHIN has been the solitary speech of any mark among the political utter- ances of the week. Mr. Baxter defends the policy of the Government in Ireland and Egypt, while regretting that such a policy should be necessary, on the ground as regards Ireland that the safety of the people is the supreme law, and in Egypt because Arabi and his adherents are a ...

... EOWI THE PRESTON GUILD FESTIVAL OLD ceremonies and quaint customs of Merrie England are dying out only too fast, so that Preston mnay well be congratulated on her success in maintaining the spirit of ancient tradition by her late Guild Festival. For over 550 years Preston has kept her 'Guild Festival, first at irregular intervals, but within the last three centuries regularly every twenty ...

... THOSE who are familiar with the aspect of the great sporting county during the winter months, when the meets are in full swing, and house-rent at Melton and Market llarborough is at its maximum, may be pardoned if they experience a certain amount of disenchantment should chance lead them thither in August or the early part of September. So complete is the change, and so startling the ...

... IQQkriiIL5?I THE WAR IN EGYPT SHE'P1EARD'S HOTEL, CAIRO WE have already illustrated and described this well-known resort of Eastern travellers, and here depict the aspect of the hotel from the gardens rich in their semi-tropical foliage. CONSTANTINOPLE-TURKISH TROOPS FOR EGYPT MARCHING THROUGH PERA TiIE troops, writes the Hon. Major Colborne, to whom we are indebted for this sketch, were ...

... ftO7R..EI Gc?N -- ?ttj1 TimE WAR IN EGYPT.-The military operations of this week have been insignificant. Forced by a variety of circumstances to advance from Ismailia before being suitably prepared, the British expedition is now obliged to remain temporarily quiescent until the transport service is fully organised, and supplies, artillery, and reinforcements are brought to the front. Vexatious ...

... KILDARE is not a cheerful town. An old county history says with the magniloquence of the period: On entering it it dashes to the dust the hopes it had excited, grins ghastly derision on the enthusiasm of the antiquarian visitor, folds round him clouds of offensive odours, and huddles itself up in so squalid and tawdry a dress of cabin-masonry, grotesquely patched with deformed and clumsy ...

... SCIEN1VTIFIC NicOTES IN june last we gave some account of the aid which the spectro. scope affords to meteorologists in indicating the advent of rainy weather by a certain shaded appearance across the spectrum. We pointed out that this method of observation was initiated some years ago by the Astronomer Royal for Scotland, Professor Piazzi Smyth. The accuracy of the method has lately received ...

... ARTANE AND CA BRA IF the misery in Dublin is great, very great also are the efforts to lessen it. Hospitals, old and new, from Madam Steevens's and Swift's and the Rotunda to the huge Mater Misericordix ; refuges - penitentiaries ; blind readers' societies ; schools of all kinds ; every sort of effort, both by Protestants and Catholics, to raise people out of that low type which is inevitable ...