... * ** ?? NIF II POLITICAL.-Mr. Chamberlain, on Tuesday, carried the war into the enemy's camp, by delivering a vigorous and effective Unionist speech at a meeting, presided over by Lord Armstrong, in Newcastle-on-Tyne, the borough represented by John Morley and a local Gladstonian. One of his most important statements was that the Government intend, next Session, to attempt to deal in a final ...

... A STRANGER passing through Coleman Street, E.C., would scarcely imagine, from the modest exterior of the Wool Exchange, that it is the centre of one of the most important industries of the world * for in the auction room at the end of the entrance passage the entire annual collections of wool raised in the British Colonies are sold at a series of five periodic sales, each lasting, on the ...

... ffi. &ouatb ?- ctaittc INCE THlE DEATII OF DE NEU'ILLE tro years ogo, Edaslrd Detoille hat rith good s rsobn considered the foreontt lltit g painterof militty tilbjert. lie h. received all the distiectins atarded to artisto of the fiert las i Eme, end the high qualitior of his tootk hare hee folly reagei ed in all Erope- countries end io Arieita. Those oho have rert the nameero pictres by him ...

... VENTILA TION AND FREASH AZR, POISONING BY CARBONIC ACID AND BACTERIAL GERMS. WE have heard a great deal of late of the saving virtues Ot >uap and water. As a variation it would be -well to dtive ihe subject of ventitation and fresh air an innings. We all stiffer more or less from the absence of fresh air and the presence of polluied atmosphere-perhaps In a greater degree than fromn deficient ...

... THERE was a note of vexation and weariness in Mr. BALFOUR'S speech on Saturday which came out all the more strongly by con- trast with' the boisterous warmth of his reception. The vexation was too strong to be concealed, but the weariness was of course not confessed. On the contrary, Mr. BALFOUR talked as loudly of his success as ever. Every expectation which in my most sanguine moments I ...

... A BRIEF SKETCH OF Luis I. AND HiS TIMES. PORTUGUESE I Was born, and Portuguese I will die, is the phrase by which Dom~ Luis I. of Portugal, who died on Saturdy, is best known to us. And it is, perhaps, the phrase by which, if he could choose, he would desire to be best known to all who think about or remember him. It is a phrase which illustrates his character in its finest aspect. A* man ...

... SEX IN HANDIWRITING. SOME LADIES' AUTOGRAPHS. A WELL-KNOWN caligrapbic expert recently expressed the opinion that no iwo persons' handwritings were exactly alike, and that with their higher 2ductio th semin siilaitybeteenthe handwritinlg of ladies was rapidly disaTpearing. The prestige of the caligrapnd mexprts is atuater ae awode ust now ; but in resipect to the writing of womenate statemet ...

... AMERICA'S THREE GREAT GENERAL& A HANDSOME GIFT BY MR. G. W. CHILDS, OF PHILADELPHIA. The portraits of Generals Grant, Sherman, and Sheridan. pi esented to the United States Military Acadeemy by Mr. George W. Childs, of Philadelphia, were unveiled and their formal presentation took place on the 3rd inst. at West Point, the ceremonies being acompanied by military honours. There were present, ...

... goE LABOUR AGITATIGON. THIE DOCO LABOlURERS, In vieV of Nov. 4, when thle new ilrrazeements which Irth3Xe result of the Jat: dock strike cone into opera- ,irer cnisultations ar' takinT place between representn- bho' f the dock companies on the one band anl some life3 0trike leaders on the other, with the object of b tbe liuo upon vwhich the arrangement shall be 'gTbe pieework question has ...

... WOLITICAL ITEMNS. NATIONAL .IB1EAL CLUB.-1 he folo0wing is the syllabus of forthcoming lectures nn.l discussions, to be held in the Confeioence-room of the National Liberal Club, on Tuesdays, at, half-past eight p.m.:-15th int., What can the Socialists teach us? introduced by Lewis Sergeant; 2Ath inst., The licensing of theatres and music-halls, introduced by Stetvart Headlam; Nov. 12, ...

... salvoes of artillery from all the vessels assembled in the port of the Pireu5 on Wednesday announced the arrival at i1 o'clock of the Prince and Princess of Wales and family on board the Osborne. The Royal yacht was accompanied by the British Medi- terranean squadron under Admiral Sir A. H. Hoskins, and escorted by a Greek squadron under Admiral Miaoulis on board the Olga. The Prince of Wales ...

... FROM THE LONDON GAZETh. RaEcelvG ORDERS, OCT. 18. Lownoy.-B. Allnutt, 47, Addison-road, North, Notting-hill, cheesemonger-J. T. Barrington and C. Chandler, 136, Lamboth-road, artists in glass-1. Bassam, 227, High-street, Camden- town, oilman-A. G. Biden, 6, Warnford-courb, and 107, Hatton-garden, diamond broker-A. Carlish, 2, Harrow-alley, Houndsditeb. clothier 'ff. B. Goldstein, 105, Hatton ...