... FOURTH' :DITION. THE OUEEN'S VISIT TO ETON TO-DAY. The Queen proceeded from Windsor Castle to Eton College shortly after eleven o'clock this morning to lay the foundation stone of the new school buildings. The ceremonial tool place in the presence of the college authorities and students, the school volunteers furnishing the guard of, honour. Her Majesty, who was received by the governing body ...

... PARLIAMENT KEEPING ITS PO WDER DRY, BY A SPECTATOR. rise House spent a quiet evening in Committee of Supply. It was a benefit ight for the few specialist critics, but the other people who were there-not very many-found little excitement. Even question time was dull. Mr. Theobald, who is determined to distinguish himseif, and who labours under the idea that England looks to him to confound the ...

... How SOCIETY EXPERTS ArrANGE AND LEAD IT, THE other day we printed an interview with Mr. George Groesmith on the subject of waltzing, not forgetting the cotillon. Apropos of this dancing, men and women will be interested in the following account-taken from the PhiladelAhia Peck/y Tinmes-of the german, which is the American name of the cotillon. To begin with, said a society leader, the ...

... FRRNCHWOMEN: PAST AND PRESENT. II.-MARIE ANTOINETTE AND THE COMTESSE DE PARIS. THE last Queen of a ruling Bourbon was Marie Antoinette of Austria, and now that the Comtesse de Paris seems disposed to play an active Dart in the efforts, of her husbands QUEEN MARIE ANTOINEflE. party to restore the Monarchy in France it is worth while to take note of the wide difference which a century makes in ...

... CORRESPONDBNCE. QUIEENSLAND AND THE AUSTRALASIAN DEFENCE BILL 7ith EDITOR ,/ AR PALL MALL GAZErTT SIR,-Baron Henry De Worms is reported to have informed Mr. Shaw Lefevre in the House of Cemmons that the Government confidently anticipates that before the first payment towards the expense 6f building the cruisers for the Astraian squadron becomes due, Queensland weill have joined the other ...

... I DR. PARKER AND MR. STOPFORD BROOKE. TO fie EDITOR Of tine PALL MALL GAZETTE. DEAR SIR,-That a man should put a pulpit to such uses as Dr. Parker did his at Sunderland, if the report in the Parl ddae Gazette of last night is correct, is simply astounding, and makes one ask howb a Gospel made pathetic and mighty by the cross of Christ can fare in such company, that Gospel being known by its ...

... TO-DAY1S TITTLE TATTLE. Every one is iaughing this morning at the ludicrous plight of the Bir- hningham Tories. A seat becomes vacant, They decide to contest it, and choose their candidate. They could no doubt easily carry him: when, lo and behold I mr. Chamberlain and Lord lartington meet in conclave, settle the aftairs of the local Tories for them over their heads, and send their deputation ...

... THE BLA CA'CAP. THERE is no song-bird we have about which the books say so much and the public know so little. I mean, of course, our own public-the English public. Abroad be is a great favourite. Here in England he is rarely caged, andwhen he is heard in the shrubbery is generally mistaken for a nightingale. There is a well-known nightingale that generally appears in the flower-walk in ...

... TIIE WATCHWORD OF THEE NEW ERA. THE decision of the Court of Appeal, that a clause expressly ;declaring that women shall vote in municipal elections is equivalent to an express interdict upon their election as County Councillors, clears the way for effective action in Parliament. It is somewhat paradoxical that a section expressly framed to enfranchise women as electors should have had the ...

... LE. I' Do you think, writes a correspondent, that our friend at the Bristol would like to hear what the man in the street is saying about him ? Last might I happened to be passing the letter-box there, when the collector arrived. ' AII the Genezal's secrets there ?? I remarked. 'Some of them, I dessay, sire' he replied. 'Ain't much of his coin, though. 'E's a receiver, le is; 'e don't issue ...

... THE WAZENING OF THE WEST.-1 By THE EDITOR OF THE 1 WESTERN DAILY MERCURY, PLYNOTUTTI THE great dream of waking up the West is to be realized in the course of the coming week. Remote from London, and slow of access, the countw of Devon and Cornwall ran their political course without much incident Unt4 Reform ?? became once more the watchwords of the Liberg party. The descendants of Drake, of ...

... I WORD FOR A NA 7TIOAL ARMY. By ONE wno BaLIEVES IN IT. X gavE long been aware of the violent opposition that awaited any one in high office who should propose the introduction of universal military service into England. It was to~be expected that financiers would raise the alarm of ' national bankruptcy; that the Manchester school of Liberals, if it still exists, would cry out that ...