... - 4E Q THE visit of the King of Italy to GERMANY, and the extremely enthusiastic reception which has been accorded to him at Berlin, is looked upon throughout Europe as an event of considerable politi ...

... NALiQ THE CRYSTAL PALACE CAT SHOW ALTHOUGH the Countess de la Torre was not represented at the Show held on Tuesday and Wednesday last week, there was no lack of numbers. More than five hundred cats, ...

... ? 441, ?? WINDSOR CASTLE is to be lighted by electricity, and the machinery is already in working order. THE HISTORIC CASTLE OF CHENONCEAUX, in Touraine, has finally been sold to the chief mortgagee-t ...

... ?? oul THE SHAH IN ENGLAND See page 65. FLOODS AT HONG KONG ON May 29th and 3oth, a terrific storm of thunder and rain took place at Hong Kong, doing a vast amount of injury to the color.y. This enorm ...

... A FEWIV PiPRESSIONS OF A FIRST BALLOON A SCENT I HAD long felt a sneaking fancy to make a balloon ascent, which WI 'ar eoed into a resolve when, on meeting (after many years of th sepo)Mation) my old ...

... IT v i-I 17?. ?? Peace Society has issued, against the con- tentilated measures for National Defence, a protest marked by a bitterness of invective which has hitherto been generally absent from the ma ...

... SOM\IE months ago, very serious charges-which were solemnly formulated in the Daily News by Mr Gladstone-were made against a powerful Kurdish chieftain named Moussa Bey. It is said that in ...

... 14 0 ?? pi 11 al __lt a * reception given by Mr. Chamberlain to a suber of his constituents among his guests being not only the Dcailrr of the Liberal Unionist Committee of West Birmingham, bit thl~ ...

... - f 1-a 11 D- aM e News of THOMAS GODMAN (Feb. 3), who went to New Zealand in 1875, has come to hand, through the kindness of the managers of the Canterbury (NZ) Times, in reprinting our in- quiry. The address sent by them has been duly forwarded to Mrs. Seabrook, the sister who in- quired, and who, in a letter of thanks, says she will write at once to Hawkes Bay. New Zealand, through the ...

... (From our later editions of last week.) -4e 31. JULES FERRY ON GENERAL BOULANGBtR PARIS, Saturday.-31. Jules Ferry has made ano- ther vehement attack upon General Boulanger. Speaking at an ?? meeting at St. Di6, in the Vosges, M. Ferry expressed his views upon the agitation carried on in the interest of the gene- ral in the most vigorous terms, and concluded by declaring that he could not ...

... The weekly meeting of this body was held at the Guildhall, on Tuesday afternoon, Lord Roseberv in the chair. There was a l much smaller attendance of members than at any previous meeting. Mr. Firth, MI.P. (deputy chairman), intro- duced a report from the provisional Stand- ing committee, which stated they had pro- ceeded upon the resolution of the council on the 20th ult. empowering them to ...

... A fatal accident happened at Oxford after the University torpid races, on Saturday. A large num- ber of undergraduates crowded into a punt to cross to the other side of the river, but the boat sank just after she was pushed off, and several of the undergraduates immersed were rescued with great difficulty. Mr. Lay, of St. John's, was only saved by the gallant conduct of Mr. Montague, of ...