... _ In?__1 Ra L} Am EN L _=c W1'-s __ bt --01t _ IT seemed on2 Moniday as if the dogged oppositi6p o progresI with the Piocedutc Rules had collapsed. At a glanc the Order Book will show, this is maintained linost single-haiifd by Lord R. Churchill. On the Ninth Resolution, passed on Wednesday afternoon after a long discussion, Lord Randolph had seventeen amendments out of twenty-eight that ...

... Vide Coapay Xicbie. of the 'Xtioxrp fromi (Egypt Cy HI. II. S. PEARSE THqE GA THIERING OF BAETTAL1ONS IN A WHITE FROST FOG so dense that objects a few yards off were completely obscured from view, and figures close at hand loomed large and seemed distorted out of all semblance to their own proper form, the mustering of troops for a pageant that will long be memorable in British History began. ...

... POPULAR though Scotch and Irish whisky is now becoming all over England, it was with difficulty that one could find a country hotel where it was kept fifty years ago. Even the name does not seem to have been known in Dr. Johnson's time, at least it is not to be found in his Dictionary, but perhaps the Gaelic name aisle bhealtha, not being then Anglicised to whisky, was unworthy of the notice ...

... LET US have toast and wine, not toast and water, wrote Thackeray. He had seen, as he related, the head physician of a hydropathic establishment on the banks of the Rhine, after proposing the health of His Majesty the King of Prussia, toss off a bumper of sparklingwater. Whatwonderthat the proceeding had seemedwant- ing in enthusiasm ? Toasts must be vinous or they are nothing worth. The ...

... APZI -4?? TuE PICTURESQUE LITTLE VILLAGE OF GRINDELWALD has been almost entirely destroyed by a hurricane. M. DE BRAZZA, Mr. Stanley's rival on the Congo, has been decorated with a gold medal by the Geographical Society of Paris. THE MAJOR PART OF THE DUKE OF HAMILTON'S COLLECTION OF MANUSCRIPTS has been privately purchased by the Prussian Government. MR. FREDERICK VILLIERS, one of our special ...

... TO THE GREAT NECROMANCER who wrote the Lady of the Lake and Waverley, Scotland is under a bheavy load of obligation. The work that Scott did has poverfully helped the land that he loved so well. His writings have made Scotland and Scottish scenery familiar and endeared to all wanderers in search of the picturesque from southern and sunnier climes. The cloud-topped hills, the streams that ...

... If G THE QUEEN has returned to the South for the winter. Before leaving the Highlands Her Majesty gave a ball at Balmoral to the servants and tenants in honour of the Prince of Wales's birthday, at which both the Queen and the Princess Beatrice were present for a short time. On Saturday night the Rev. A. Campbell dined with Her Majesty, and on Sunday morning fie performed Divine Service at ...

... :6161,R? ?- 4V BOSTON SOCIETY IS FAMED FOR iTS REFINED LANGUAGE, anct now even the prosaic fact of taking boarders is delicately termed having a few remunerative guests. A MODERN CoPY OF THE QUAINT OLD VIKING'S SnIp, now in the Christiania Museum, is to be built for Lady Brassey's use at Cowes during the next yachting season. ANOTHER ROYAL AurlIORtESS is added to the list. Arch- duchess ...

... MOSES IT is said that the number of dogs in Constantinople was once upon a time so great that some ten thousand of them were sent to a desert isle in the Bosphorus with provisions for three days, and that before leaving them there, an Imam or Muslim clergyman delivered to them with all due formality a pious address, exhorting them to patience and resignation. There is little more in the way of ...

... EgA THOUGH somewhat retarded by the recent cold weather, the Primate's recovery still makes fair progress. He is now, we hear, permitted to converse freely about business connected with the See. CAVENDISH COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, first opened under the title of County College, with three students, in 1873, has now been admitted to the rank of a Public Hostel of the University-the more honourable ...

... I °cSotkmW THE CLOSURE. --The Conservative leaders in the House of Commons have been blamed by some of their followers for not fighting against the first of the proposed Rules of Procedure with greater determination. Before the question is disposed of, however, the majority of Englishmen are likely to be of opinion that they have had considerably more than enough of it. In the speeches of Mr. ...

... GilRLI AM E N TSII HE K > ?? THE Autumn Session has thus far proceeded with a decorum closely -verging upon the dull. It was anticipated that the prac- titioners of disorder, making the most of their last opportunity, would keep matters pretty livelyj and even the approach of business was not looked for before an interlude of a week or ten days of obstruction. That anticipation was falsified, ...