... -- - - . A 1: LInnDflv THE DEPOSITION OF KING JA-JA OF FUUsU ACCORDING to the last adv ices, the Government have decided to send that West African potentate King Ja-Ja, who was seized and deposed in September by our naval authorities, into exile at St. Helena. Our sketches are by an officer of H. MS. Gosh.uzwk, who writes from Opobo:- Some years ago Ja-Ja was aslave, and after the war between ...

... 9 TiE ROYAL INSTIIUTE OF PAMEIrpS INr WVA-rr.CoLOURS was open to muembrers Of the Sunday Society lst sunlday. There were 248 visitors in two hours. TIlE AMEER OF AFGIIANISTAN is not a dees rals!c p.tient, if We are to trust a story in an Indian journal. Lately hie swas verv ill with a boil at the back of his neck, and his doctor ptescriled sorei lot ion to lring the boil to a head. Naturally ...

... y cT1IE COURT TilE Queen visited Cowes on Saturday to receive the Jubilce greetings of the town and neighbourhood. Accompanied by the Duke and Duchess of Connaught and the two Princesses of llesse Her Majesty drove first to the Square, where an address and bouquets were presented and Jubilee anthems sourg. and next to the Castle to receive an address from the Royal Yacht Squadron, headed by ...

... 1111111 III I I ?? Jill Jill RLIAMEN I. SIR G. TR t.VEIYAN's return for the Bridgeton IDivision ?? is 'v isthe Palaliamiieiitaryevent ofthe week. The aniomlaluis cold(litnll ott'tc front Opposition bench is curiously aggravated by his entrantc. It has by no means been a band of brothers that has lately he!(l Llit seat, and it cannot have been without touch inward eluban Is m.ijt that even such ...

... DRAWN BY WILLIAM SMALL Charlie made a clean breast of his troubles to his host By HAWLEY SMART, AUTHOR OF 'BREEZIE LANGTON. POST TO FINISH, BAD TO BEAT, &C. IX. A LITTLE GAME AT BILLTARDS 1:qtui .thillg, but it is ne^-ertheless most generally the -: t:l.1 NU- genitlenn gets into difficulties he is apt to -: iitl~llcL md take advice, ii all probability from the ' t hC S0h1tl1d select To ...

... r. 61 ?Al PRESENTATION TO MR. ARTHUR CHAPPELL IN our last issue, under the head of Music, we gave a full account of the Thousandth Popular Concert which took place at St. James's Hall on the evening of April 4th. We therefore need merely say here, as regarding the entertainment, that it took almost the form of a family celebration, and the note of enthusiastic approval struck when Messrs. ...

... 4j~ ?? Sucia SALISBURY, writing to the Sccretary of the Workimen's .ociet for the Defence of British Industry, says be does not iethat differential duties in favour of our Colonies, whatever e]aa>e said for or against them, can be properly described under te term ' protection. 'Irit CglNlEs BILL OF THE GOVERNMENT.-The Glad- 9torlflfl everywhere throughout the country have been, and are, , ...

... W E may find sermons in stones, but who would look for fairy tales in a sand heap ? Nevertheless, in the lost tomb of the last King of the Twenty-sixth Dynasty lies buried the original story of Cinderella and her slipper. There is, indeed, only one variation of any consequence between the two versions, and the an- cient one is certainly the moreromantic. Cinderella's princely admirer finds in ...

... If- MRLIAMEN 2 it Alit rlOuGH1 in Parliament we have Ireland always with us, there heave been one or two refreshing changes of theme lately. The bsd(g-ct debates, notwithstanding their relation to dry figures, have 1,,cn peculiarly grateful in this respect. Mr. Goschen did what for slme time lately Chancellors of the Exchequer have somehow failed do-produced the surprise that is necessary to ...

... The unveiling of Haydn's monument in front of the Mariahilf Church in Vienna took place on Tuesday morning, in the presence of the Emperor Francis Joseph, the Crown Prince Rudolph, and several Arcihdukes, as well as numerous representatives of all the Vienna musical societies. The monument, with its pedestal of yellowish marble and base of grey granite, is twenty-three feet in height. Haydn's ...

... ALONE IN LONDON (Original).-T. R., Plymouth. ALONE IN LONDON ?? R., Wolverhampton AN IRISH ELOPEMENT.-Queen's Theatre, Manchester. A MOTHER'S SIN.-Tbeatre Royal, Leicester. ANDERSON, 3lary.-Prinae of Wales's T., Birmingham. A NIGHT OrF.-Swindoa. A BRAVE CowAnD.-Theatre Royal, Barnsley. A RUN OF LucK.-Theatre Royal, Manchester. A SINLESS SHAME.-Theatre Royal, Weymouth. BARRY AND HOGARTE'S Co.-T ...

... We can scarcely imagine a more pleasant spectacle than was presented by the gathering at the annual meeting of the Actors' Benevolent Fund, which was held on the stage of the Lyceum Theatre last Friday week. Upon a spot hal- lowed by many artistic associations, walled in by gorgeous crimson curtains, and overhung with the scenery of Faust, were assembled a goodly number of the most talented ...