... I;,: otVA&I-A121?A1 TIHE ROYAL VISIT TO IRELAND As last week we completed our chronicle of the Royal visit, it is only necessary here to say a few words in explanation of the four pictures publishc(l ...

... LE SIPCLE AVAIT DEUX ANS: ROME REMPLACAIT SPARTE THE above well-known line, written by the poet himself, gives the date of Victor Hugo's birth as 1802. His parents at the time were livin ...

... OUTTINGS FROM THE OOMIOS. ?? ;_ (FromAtoessninse. Tiu Evir OF A BATTz.-A nurse. Tal Princess Beatrice carried her grant lan week. For the minority - Lbouohere, and 8toreytellers. AT Hoz o0n ApRoAD -Boy (who had pre. viously marde the schoolmaster a present of cab- gages, orought up for punishmnent. Rod i9 aboub to be inaffieted upon the trerabling urchin. Bright thought strikes him): Please, ...

... |MR. AAMIBERLAIN6ON9OMEPOLITICS Mr. Chamberlain's speech at 'the Eighty Club opportunely recalls, the nation to a con- sideration -of its home 'interests. These in- terests have been overshadowed by the immi- nence of war, and the President of the Board of Trade has rendered excellent service by vea- tilating those greatdomestic questions which are of the first importance to Englishmen. ...

... IWHE DEATH AND FUNE~RAL Or Vf TCX3 I ~~~HUGO.I 'A Paris letter of Tuesday ?? Hugo's death is, and will be for some days, the great subject of conversation and reflection here. Ckowds have been repairing all day to the house of the deceased from all parts of Paris to inscribe their names. At all the forists' shops and stalls are bouquets and wreaths destined to be taken to the Avenue Victor ...

... TiiE Crimes Act, which ought to have been passed for five years, was unfortunately only passed for three. As it expires in a few months, Ministers and Parliament have to face the disagree- able necessity of providing against an outbreak of Irish crime on the very eve of a General Election. What is to be done ? So far as wc can ascertain, there is no question of the renewal of thc Crimes Act ...

... FOURTH EDITION. (REUTER'S TFLEGRAM.) PARIS, May 27.-To-day's Official Jozernal publishes decrees restoring the Pantheon to its original use as a mausoleum for the remains of great men, and ordering the body of Victor Hugo to be placed there. It is understood that the funeral obsequies have been finally fixed for Monday next. ( REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) THE EVACUATION OF THE SOUDAN.' CAIRO, MIay 27 ...

... THlE MORNING PAPERS. PRINCE BI~SMAIRCK AND ENGLANI). The Til;:.-s says :-1 We are suffering now for the ineptitude which has missed ev:ery opportunity, exaggerated every difficulty, provoked all our neigh- bours whilc enforcing the respect of none, and left every problem unsolved to emnbariass us in our treatment of the next. Prince Bismarck may point the moral, but ate ourselves have created ...

... The House of Commons had a morning sitting yesterday. At question time Lord Hartington, in reply to Mr. Ashmead-Bartlett, said that Lord Wolseley had already made endeavours to ascertain whether there were any white captives with the Mabdi, and if possible to communicate with them; but lie would make further inquiries of him. In answer to Mr. M'Coan and others, Mr. Gladstone said it was a fact ...

... A MA Y-DAY FESTIVAL. Tim celebration of May Day is one of the glories which have pretty well passed away from the earth by this time. The world is too much with us; andl as for sports on the merry green we are too old for that sort of thing. Indeed, did not Piers say long ago in The Shepherd's Calendar e- For younkers, Palinode, such follies fitte, lut we tway bene well of elder witt. And, ...

... I THE TRAFFIC IN IENGLISH GIRLS. [SUBJECT OF LLUSTRAtrO.s.J ON Thursday, last week, Mr. W. W. West attended before Mr. D'Eyncourt at W estminster, and saidthat hs was requested by Mr. Benjamin Scott (Chairman of Committee of the Society for protecting Y ?? Girls) to make a statement with regard to the young women who were sent over to an establishli ent at Havre. ...

... ELECTION NE.); Mr. Labouchere, M.P., presided over a crowded meeting at the Shoreditch Town Hall last evening, called by the Hackney Radical Federation of Com- bined Political Clubs, to hear addresses from Messrs. Howell and Cremer, the parliamentary candidates for Bethnal-green and Shoreditch. The chairman, who was cheered, said Shoreditch had for a long time been a thoroughly Radical ...