... THE RIOTS A T CHINKIA NC, CHINA EARLY in February last, a terrible riot occurred at Chin- kiang, a port on the Yangtsze River. Far some time past it appears that bad blood has existed between the Sikh Police (who are employed by the Municipal Council of the Foreign Concession, and are nicknamed by the populace ?? Heads, on account of their red turbans), and the inhabi- tants of the native ...

... THE SPECIAL COALUISSION TIE summarised report in our last is-ue of the proceedings of thle Court closed with the cross-examination of Father Egan, who forbore to aid in procuring the coffin vindictively refused by the petsantry Of his district for the corpse of a murdered man, and wlioe strange apology for his conduct is suffixed to the portrait f him given to-day in our illustrations. His ...

... RURAL MOTES ?? ?? t, ?? ?? ?? ?? THE SEASON.-Here and there we hear of farmers having got so behindhand that they have had to abandon some of their spring sowings of corn. This, however, is quite exceptional, and we believe a very fair area of barley and oats has been sown. The early-sown barley and pulse are thriving, and so is the winter wheat, which has a thick and grassy appeafance, very ...

... A WATER PICNIC AT TSU SIMA, JAPAN AN impromptu picnic is always enjoyable provided the weather be fine, the country pretty, and the company congenial. If this is the case with land-folk, it is far more so with those whose home is on the sea. A picnic affords a thorough break from the narrowing life on board ship, and almost compensates for the absence of those gentler beings who form so ...

... TH G o u ?? a - ?? THE QUEEN returned to Windsor from town on Saturday During her three days' stay at Buckingham Palace Her Majesty held a Drawing Room, went twice to see the Duke of Edinburgh, drove several times in Hyde Park, and entertained at dinner the Prince and Princess of Wales, with their sons and Princess Victoria, the Duchess of Edinburgh, the Duke of Cambridge, and the Dukes and ...

... THE SPECIAL COMMI.1ISSION WITH Pigott's confessions, it was often said the Special Corn- mission had virtually collapsed. How little truth there was in this statement has been shown by the interest which distinguished and prominent persons have shown in the proceedings, through their visits to No. I. Probate Court, of the Royal Courts of Justice. In addition to Mr. Parnell in the witness-box, ...

... III. PAUL LoUis GEORGES BERGER, the Director-General of the Paris Exhibition, and to whose untiring energy and wonder- ful faculty of organisation much of its success must be ascribed, is an engineer by profession. but is perhaps better known, tor the past two and twenty years, as the leading spirit of the various world's fairs and minor exhibitions which have been held in Paris duriug that ...

... AliR. CARL ROSA \VF, b st week briefly announced the sudden death in Paris, on thl ,oth ult., of the eminent inipresario of English opera, Air. ( ,1-i Rosa. The chief events of his busy life may be summed up ha very few sentences. Mr. Carl August Nicholas Rose (who, on talhig tip his British nationality, formally assumed the surname of ?? was born onl Mlarch 22nd, 1842. Ile made his first ...

... C 4 9 ?4 I> THEA ?OUR?T C ?? THE QUEEN has again visited town this week. Before leaving Windsor, Her Majesty entertained at the Castle numerous members of the Diplomatic Body, including the Russian and Spanish Ambassadors, with Lord and Lady Salisbury, Lord and Lady Lytton, and Sir Henry and Lady Loch, whilst the new Ministers to Santiago and Bangkok kissed hands on their appointment. The ...

... ?? II ?? 01X ENW -1 PAR IA se v 4EIL \lIONDIAx Was, in son c respects, a red letter day for the Govern- nictn. They accomplished two important strokes of work, reading , se.,ond time the Budget Bill, and passing through Committee the Naxal Defence Bill. Thus, at a comparatively early period of the Sesson, two of their most important measures are practically ii tilled. It is true that in ...

... * ?? ~ ~ ~ ?? THE ROYAL DYNASTY OF SAXONY keeps its eight hundredth birthday on June 12th. and the Kingcdom will celebrate the anni- versary with great festivity. THE COMING GROUSE SEASON is expected to prove the most productive ever known, and the prospects of the partridge supply are nearly as good. A CHINAMAN clad in garments made from a British Union Jack has excited great wonder and ...

... MANY customs and objects in the country districts testify that the old Pagan religion was not once for all annihilated. So long as the central truths of Christianity were received, especially in their Keltic presentment, it is probable that the early Christian missionaries were content to leave a wide field of traditional ritual unoccupied. Much of it was connected by strong chains of ...