... THE CENTEATA -R OF TAs ;REVOLUTIO~c (FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) PARC DE VERSAILLES,. SUndIzy AfternU6n, PLEASANTER and brighter scene the May sun does not look down upon at this hour than that which is spread before me at this moment. We are in the Great Park at Versailles, immediately in front of the -palace which is so intimately associated with so much. of the tragedy of French ...

... PRINCESS MIDAS. 7W at EDITOR of the PALL MALL GAZETTE. DEAR MR. EDITOR,-Will you kindly allow me to correct an errol in my figures of the Outer Harbour of Adelaide? In place of 4 per cent. interest, what I should have said was, that taking the present import and export trade. of South Australia, together with the tonnage of Steamer traversing these waters, the Outer Harbour scheme, 'as ...

... THE TOUR OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY.-!. PERSONALLY CONDUCTED BY AN UNPROFESSIONAL CRITIC. TIHAT awful question-as Inevitable as fate, as inscrutable as the Sphinx- What sort of an Academy is it this year ? It is quite unanswerable, but it has to be answered. One has been asked it a hundred times already indivi. dually; and the many-headed public is asking it at this moment of its critics in a ...

... NAVAL AN3D adLiTA.Y INTWMLIZGNCE. f LORD WOISEI5Y AND THE W&a-oi01ICE.-Lord Wolseley is to remnin at the Eforse Guardm as adjutant: general of the forges for another year at least. Re has already filled the poeition for the allotted' period, but his teim'of office has tvrice been broken by hiie tervices in E-gypt. Both the Secretary of State for War awnd tbe Commandcr-in.Chjef wrere most ...

... THZM LONDON SCHOOL MOAOD. The members of the London School Board re. assembled on Thursday afternoon, after the Eastei recess, at the oflices on the Thames-embankment, the Rev. J. RI. Diggle presiding. Mr. John Lobb called attention to the expenditure of the by-laws committee and to the unsatisfactory working of the block system, and moved that a special committee be appointed to consider the ...

... A BRITIBS M.AGNATE. Mr. Henry George, in the description he gives in the New York Stacnlard of his journey to the north of Enghlnd writes thus:- The Duke of Northumberland is a very great man indeed. He not only owns about all within sight in these parts, but very much more. For instance, all the salmon in the sea withbin three miles of the shore for a long distance up and down the coast are ...

... TRE COUNCIL AND THE GUILDS. On an early day the County Council will begin to make war on the City, by discussing a report of the Corporate Property, Charities, and ?? Committee on the Livery Companies of London. This points out that a Royal Commission of Inquiry was issued in 1880, with the main conclusions of which the Committee agree. It was found that the seventy-four companies possessed ...

... THE VOLLAIHE BENEFIT. The influential patronage and support given to the movement for a benefit performance in aid of the family of the late Mir John Vollaire resulted in the presence of a very good audience on the afternoon of Wednesday last at the Olympic Theatre, the use of [which had been given by Mr John Coleman. A large number of artists had volunteered to make up an attractive programme ...

... I (PR01EO OUB COMMPONDEiT.) r .PAWS, Unky NzoIQM TheL.ord U r is realy being treated here as a sciAl. %mbawasadr from tho britil riqio, r and the Minister of Foreign Affairs has been a .aking him about to see the ihon 'of Pn aris.I witi To-night, in retn for the cordial attentions drs' which be has received, he entertained the tM Ministers 4t dinne, and in proposing their onll k he lth h e ...

... ITR DUB OF CAMBRIDGE AND TE1 I VOLUNTEERS, Yesterday afternoon the spring general me le ing of the National Rifle Aseeeiation wm hed at the e the Boyal United SWi Izstitntion. 'he Ch wair W taken by ?? of CixsoN.-Tha Dukeof a- U bddz read the r menta for holdingthnxt meeting of theassociation. Thesite would I be i Wimbledon, and the date the 2ud July. tere were ow aevee.I ligt aleraion n the ...

... I HTEOROLOGICAL REPORT. 0 DAyIr -YWS' OPflGN. REIDUs3S 3TRS MORNING BY NEGUETTI AND ZAMDBRA'S BAROMETER. BI. TEI. 9. FRI. 1o. i SAT. 11. SW S.W. SW 5e {-l 1e- |63-| 5- |- i GCorted to sea-leveZ and rediced to 32 Am. P. Theblsekliesshowthe hatthtof thebirometeratl o'clkekon D thimaidgthree pios m s. The dotted lines sraiste the Pas: cztreme vaitiofl doringyosterds? and the twra gerncvcy li ...

... LIKIENSIG IN LONDON AND UDDIEEXMIS At the noidhall, Westbninster, yesterday the licaensig committees ior the county of Middlesex and for the county of London met to consider the new licences granted by the local magistrate.s, nll such licences requiring conlirmation by the general licensing committee oS each county befare ticy bcoome available. MIr. F. H. Pownall was ebairnaun o' the ...