... descend the lift to the basement that would have done honour to any exhibition, with feelings of horrible pain-at least, I speak for myself. There is not a bad picture on the walls, except- but let me not divulge the secrets of the prison-house. * * * ...

... done by a committee such as that ptoposed by Mir. Charrington and Captain Verney ? Oh, as to that I can't say. Personally, speaking for the Empire, we surely could not have anything to fear because' of the conduct of the hotise. But I -an tell you what ...

... changed a mistress for a master. He attempts to silence her with a sovereign, but as Boffey offers her another sovereign to speak out she exposes the amorous architect, who is at once denied all intercourse with his beloved Ada. He protests his innocence ...

... to have discovered the interesting fact that in at least one instance Mr. Froude, either intentionally or by inadvertence, speaks of Gordon instead of Goring. . * * * * * The new work on which the Duke of Argyll has for some time past been engaged, will ...

... and Mr. Aird will ask if the Government contemplate the erection of a suitable building for the National Portrait Gallery.- Speaking at the Royal Academy dinner on Saturday night, the Marquis of Salisbury said: There is one narticular coilsotion of art which ...

... on the top of platforms raised ten or twelve feet abov ' the- ground, and reached by a ladder. The family of which I am *speaking occupied two 'huts, a large one built on the ground and a small one on the top of a platform. - The large hut was occupied ...

... will h~e produced founded on the ballad of Auld htobin Gray. ; everal correspondents have written to re- mind us that in speaking of the recent perfornm- ances at Saudilighara we overlooked the fact r that Mr. and Mrs. Kendal played befor e th e tbat ...

... wages that prevails. Mr. Jesse Argyle has a far less pleasing tale to tell in his account of the silk manufacture. Roughly speaking, the silk manufacture depended for its existence upon Protection, and Free Trade killed it. Only the very highest class of ...

... which is constantly heard here. A thing that t ? greaty struck mle was the familiarity of th a l Egyptians with English; they speak it better riot than most other foreigners who have learned it, e whilst their French is ridiculously bad. This is bet a new ...

... among their more substantial features a scene from The School for Scandal and an act of The Merchant of Venice, not to speak of a neat adaptation of Pailleron's littin comedy, ' LIEtincelle, performed for the first time, to which Miss Elizabeth Bessle ...

... the VAUDE- vrLLE, and supported by the full strength of Mr. Thorne's com- pany. Of this we must have another opportunity of speaking- Besides these Messrs. Edward Rose and John Douglass propose to bring out at a Vaudeville- matinee on the 16th a new three-act ...

... the first day or two, and fine bright warm weather prevailed. Pressure was highest in the extreme North-East, and, broadly speaking, lowest in the WVest. The winds blewv chiefly from between South. East or South-West ani occasionally reached slight gale ...