... -A ?? N I - 4.~ ~ ~ ?? rHE strikes in FRANCE assume seriosdimegSiOns, and havealri5dy spread from Paris to the provinces. Beginning with the Paritian navvies, the movement has now been joined by the carters andthe masons-the latter demanding 5s. instead of 42 for a short daiy's work. At one time the cabmen and the locksmiths seemed likeW to swell the malcontents, but ultimately changed their ...

... 0- ,2 .: .1 ?AiFl couw u I I 41? - THE Queen, with Prince and Princess Henry, reached Florence on Saturday. The Royal party had a fair passage of So hours across the Channel, the Victoria and Albert being escorted by the Osborne, Alberta, and Galatea, and rested the afternoon in Cherbourg harbour, where Her Majesty received the British Consul and the Maritime Prefect on board. Late in the ...

... ---I I--- I fD BY. tOSEPHPHNNELL -,m - TEN YEARS AGO cycles were stared at as curiosities, and their riders known as Cads T on Castors. To-day, Huxley calls them the greatest aid to locomotion of the last half of the nineteenth century. Ruskin is prepared to spend his best bad language upon them. Parsons Dreach about them. Local Boards look to taxing them. Highway autho- rities endeavour to ...

... I RAJAL OTES_ I , - .1 ?? I.. ?? ?? ENGLISi TOBAcco.-Evidence accumulates in favour of tobacco- culture in the United Kingdom. A correspondent writes:- I recently came upon some tobacco grown by a friend in his garden at Teignmouth. I found it in a box reeking with. water. I obtained permission to show him how to tie it up, and also how to hang it up for a month in a greenhouse to cure. His ...

... 1Kt L'Jin ?? THE BISHOP OF LONDON instituted, on Tuesday, to the Rectory of St. Michael's, Cornhill, his new Suffragan Archdeacon Earle, whose episcopal title is, it seems, to be Bishop of Marlborough, not of Guildford, as orginally ?? Wednesday, being the Festival of St. Paul, there was a Communion Service at I I A.M. in St. Paul's, the Bishop of London officiating. The congregation ?? ...

... R.UAL LNOTE S ENGLISH FARMING IN ?? hot summer has greatly benefitted the land, and the autumn has been seasonable in its own way also, so that the condition of the average farm to-day is far better than it was a year ago. The season did not take a really good turn until the end of May, but it has been favourable ever since. Deep good soils which suffer most in wet and cold years like I879, ...

... PI u : 1~~~ THE Queen arrived at Windsor from the Continent on the evening of the 27th ult., accompanied by Prince and Princess Henry of Battenberg. Owing to the improved health of the Emperor Frederick, and at his special request, Her Majesty delayed her departure from Berlin for another day, and took advantage of her longer stay to visit the tomb of the Emperor William in the Mauso- leum. ...

... t AmRL~IAMENt ]Zq| ?? XI PUBLIC interest in the libel case which opened in the Court of p ueen's Bench at the beginning of last week was suddenly trans. erred to the House of Commons, where on Friday the serenity of a morning sitting was disturbed by the appearance of Mr. Parnell, who rose to male a personal statement on matters concerning him, introduced by the Attorney-General in his speech ...

... A meeting of the Executive Committee of the Grand Theatre Relief Fund was held at the offices of the Actors' Benevolent Fund, at S. John-street, Adelphi, on Friday afternoon, 13th inst., the Earl of Londes- borough in the chair. There were present Sir A. K. Rollit, M.P., Mr Under-Sheriff Beard, Mr Edward Terry, Mr Morris Abrahams,' Mr Lionel Brough, Mr W. S. Johnson, Mr A. F. N. Spalding, Mr H ...

... I The fortunate few who are familiar with the Green- room of the Lyceum, the old, shabby Green-room, with Ma its comic Corinthian pillars, its tawdry wall-paper and tri its framed Macready playbills (says a recent interviewer of of the great Sarah Bernhardt), would hardly recognise es it in its present guise. It has been turned for the nones de into the shrine of a stage divinity, literally a ...

... TilE LONDON MUSIC H1ALLS LONDON PAVILION. Toenpore aitlontuo, &c., which may bho freely trans late'l -Times change, and the policy of imusical d' eoc- tors chilnges with them. Its latest development is the dlsestnhlishment of that crusted institution, the chap- Tmo Though this change has been initiated at all beteher.resorts of a similar characterin the immediate Jle~10:lrbood, the maiiagers ...

... THE PRIZE-PACKET ACTOR. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ERA. Sir,-The principal cause of the great distress pre- vailing among members of the theatrical profession, and the general depression of dramatic business all over the kingdom, is to be directly traced to the influx to the calling of (1) the prize-packet actors-e.g., men and women who want to gain what they think a genteel livelihood, and who ...