... 00 e~ >'7THS OURWT N THE QUEEN has been giving a succession of military dinner parties at Windsor, all the chief officers engaged in the late Egyptian campaign being entertained in turn, while at the end of last week Her Majesty held an Investiture of various Orders at the Castle in order to decorate those who had specially distinguished themselves. A dinner party followed, the band of the ...

... I'd VERY rose-coloured statements of the success of the Salvation Army were made at a series of meetings-morning, afternoon, and evening-held in Exeter Hall last Monday to commemorate the dedication of lox officers about to be sent to India, Africa, America, Sweden, and all parts of the United Kingdom. The success in India was described as likely to overshadow the Army's greatest triumphs at ...

... ( (5, kg I THE ST. BERNARD CLUB DOG SHOW THERE has always been a halo of romance about the dog of th2 St. Bernard Hospice, and the numerous stories of his intelligence in finding out travellers who have been lost iir the snow, and bringing the good monks to their aid, have caused him to be regarded as a very superior being indeed to the ordinary run of dogs. Until recent years, however, he was ...

... ?? TsE CHRISTMAS FAT STOCK SALES this year are being marked by good prices. The London market had a show of 7,370 cattle against 8,150 in 188i, and prices ranged from 4s. 6d. to 6s. 41., being 4d. to 6d. advance on the year, and the highest quotation since 1875. The Arundel Show was remarkable for unusually fine cattle and sheep, though the number of animals shown was disappointingly small. ...

... SOME RECOLLECTIONS OF MR. ANTHONY TldOLL OPE I NEVER-knew a diore industrious literary man, or one of greater fuethod,7than the- late f\rr. Anthony Trollope. Hfe sat down to his novel'.writing as a man of business would sit down to his desk and ledgers ; an he told me that he always made a point of resolutely determinirig to c6ver so many sheets of foolscap within a given time; and that he had ...

... £~~~ A SINGULAR war panic has arisen in GERMANY and AUSTRIA this week. The Colognc Gazette suddenly published the details of the German and Austrian treaty of alliance, which as is well known was concluded in 1879 for five years. According to this, the maintenance of the present possessions of the two Empires was mutually guaranteed. No third Power was to be admitted into the compact, and if ...

... y IN a private letter a lady gives the following description of the collision whicls took place in October last between the P. and 0. steamer Peshaeur and the ship Geknroy, a few days after the fonner vessel left Colomabo in October last. We spent two days at Colombo, and left there on Saturday about 4.30. It was very fresh and rough at sea, so we all felt rather queer. Sunday was rough too, ...

... ON Wednesday afternoon, December 6, the planet Venus transited over the sun's disc. The sky was overcast at Greenwich Obser- vatory and in Paris, but in South-Western England, in South Wales, at Fort William, and in South Africa the Transit was successfully observed. These phenomena are of rare occurrence, the number of years between consecutive Transits being 8, los, 8, 122 years. These ...

... § ?? *~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ?? * * . ~ O M E EE~IMM I WITH THE DISTRIBUTION OF KNIGHTLY ORDERS by the Queen's own hands at Windsor to the lite of the naval and military officers engaged in the Egyptian War the festal ceremonials in connection with the campaign may be said to have concluded Altogether about sixty officers were present, of whom Sir John Ady was decorated with the Grand Cross of the ...

... ?? ON a bright day after the storm, though the ground was still white with snow, the Primate was buried on Friday last, at Addington, by the side of his wife and only son. The Dukes of Connaught and Albany attended in person, Earl Sydney was there as representative of the Queen, the Marquis of Hamilton for the Prince of Wales, Colonel Colville for the Duke of Edinburgh. There was a large ...

... sofk* - t W ENGLAND AND FRANCE.-Almost all Frenchmen seem to be irritated by the position of their country in relation to Egypt, and it must be admitted that their irritation is not absolutely without excuse. Before the war Mr. Gladstone spoke in so lofty a tone about his disinterested motives, that France not unnaturally expected that she would gain rather than lose by our military operations ...

... THE PEL TZER TRIAL AT BRUSSELS THE Peltzer case is causing a great sensation at Brussels. The elder of the two prisoners, Armand by name, with a profusion of black hair and black beard, has an appearance which is decidedly impressive. Leon is slightly made, with fair hair and fair beard. Leon has already admitted that he killed Bernays, but he declares it was done by accident in a struggle ...