... is tto inquire into the education, training, and general condition of the blind, the deaf, and the dumb, and, Y generally speaking, to consider and rep6rt how they scan best be rendered self-supporting. The' Com- a missioners leave for Dundee and Aberdeen ...

... Sproc~edinus of the comnilttee were confirmed. ~j Sit, W. AIRMSTtRONG AND TFill - ORDNANCE DEPARTFuIENI'. Sir William Artmetroec, speaking on 'Thursday atthe annual meeting of the Els'ick Coinpeer, -indignantly denied theB charges brought; egelO? his firm end ...

... Hungarian vintage festivals have been recoguised as a Indian by Oriental travellers. To-morrow Professor Si Karabacek will speak on the great Fayonm Papyrus. O: MAR. CIIrBrnUmALIN AND TEE IRISH QUESTION. V. A gentlemau at Mansfield having written to Mr ...

... can excel this dress in simplicity, style,acudelegance? . . Theprincipalbcaige observable is in chapeaux, of which we shall speak later. Toilettes and mantles remain much the same, but cor- sages cantinne toofter considerable variety. It is odd hew scirv ...

... without its own r quaint humour, which has nothing forced in it, and is a necessary part of the narrative. It has no plot to speak of, no very strikinge situations, Y and no mawkishness. It may be that Kate, the senior heroine, for we regard the two sisters ...

... composers, from Rossini downwards, and the concerted writing, is alvays ingenious and often dramatic. It vollld he difficult to speak in too high terms of the manner in which the opera Wvas placed before the public, whether at regards the stage mountieg or ...

... her manipulator's rudeness Mr Cole added a new feature to his entertainment oi the night of which we are new particularly speaking. Moving a practicable window with curtains to the from of the stage, he asked Cite audience to imagine that hI was in a room ...

... communicate this statement of Mr. Gladstone's wishes to Mr. Parnell. Dr. Playfair replied: 'I am *not a Cabinet Minister, and speaking] before the general election it is impossible to make any statements on such a subject in a shape that would justify -you ...

... all their assembled friends, is wedded to her faithful Adolphe. As regards the merits of the opera, we are sorry we cannot speak in terms of praise. The music is not at all original, and all through snatches of the music and business of other productions ...

... French ?? e, wonderfully faithful. Of the mount- ing it would be impossible, also, to speak in terms other than of admiration. M. Perrin, with the choice, so to speak, left open to him, naturally selected the Renais- sance period as the epoch in which ...

... and absorb the Canaanites from their -fierce conviction that they of-all races were Heaven's especial favourites. When he speaks of the legend of Sen. nacherib, and adds according to the old Hebrew story this was the fulfilment of Isaiah's prophecy ...

... last night was that at times the laughter-provoking incidents came too fast and furious, almost on top of one another, so to speak ; whereas at other times there was a tendency to dwell too long upon little passages of by-play. These and other slight defects ...