... FOURTH EDITION THE BURIAL OF ROBERT BROWNING, LATEST ARRANGEMENTS. The burial of Mr. Robert Browning in Westminster Abbey has, after corn. munication with his family at Venice, been arranged ifor noon on Tuesdaythe 31Et inst. As on similar occasions, the issue of cards of admission to the limited space available for reserved seats will be placed in the hands of the family of the deceased poet. ...

... IS THE RAG BABY COMING AFTER ALL ? HITHERTO we in England have been mercifully spared popular discussion of the currency question. Sixty years ago the three C's-Corn, Currency, and Catholics-distracted the politicians of Britain. Corn and Catholics have been settled. But Currency still lingers in the background, to trouble the minds of men. The Currency question is like the question of ...

... Justices Field and Manisty will deliver judgment in 'O'Brien v Salisbury, as the action appears with delightful brevity in the cause list, on Saturday morning. More than a month has elapsed since the trial; the case was disposed of on November pth. But both their lordships have been away ac circuit, a fact which amply accounts for the delay. * Mr. William Woodall intends, I hear, to spend ...

... BLIND JUSTICE t AND SCTHE MAYBRICK CASE. To the EDITOR of the PALL MALL GAZETTE. DEAR SIR,-Your reviewer seems to take-it for grantd that rs Helen Mathers' story 1Blind justice '-is based oa5 a reent trial for. ing, It seems to us unjust that Miss Mathersfshould resti.underthecharg of plagiarizing the Maybrick case. The MIS. of-the story was in-oe3 ar, in June, and had been written a ...

... MR. GLADSTONE'S NO VEL OF CONFESSIONM TEE STORY OF ELLEN MIDDLETON. LADY GEORGIANA FULLERTON'S story is so little known that the following outline of the plot of the religious romance which lured Mr. Gladstone forty-five years ago into a quasi-approval of the practice of Confession will be read with interest. Mr. Price Hughes, it will be seen from a report in another column, intends to gird on ...

... TO-DAYS TITTLE TATTLE. The Russian influenza epidemic seems spreading. It s said that four hundred of the employces of the Louvre shop in Paris are down with Dome mysterious ailment. The truth is that just now everybody has got a cough or cold, brought on by the sudden changes in the temperature. Russian influenza seems to be an aggravated kind of hay fever French people with what is commonly ...

... lfEE LIBRARIES FOR JAPAN. INTERVIEW WITH A SPECIAL COMMISSIONER, THE Japanese can boast of one free, State-supported library. It is situated in Ueno Park, Tokyo, and' was established in i872 by the Minister of Education. A copy of every new book published within the realm of Japan has to be sent to this particular library, which is now possessed of over I30,000 volumes. This number seems ...

... The London, Brighton, and South Coast Company announce that to-day and Boxing-day the fast train leaving Victoria at 4,55 P.m., and London Bridg sl.55 s.. vi., will take passeligers for Ryde, St. helens, Bemnbridge, Sand Shanklin, Ventnor, and an the 24tb and 26th, to Cowes and Newport also (ist, mnd, and 3rd class). On Christmas day first-class cheap trains will run from Victoria at 10.45 ?? ...

... It is possible that the Governments of New South Wales and Victoria vjil soonl be asking for power to issue silver as well as gold coins. Gol0d' coining is an unproductive industry, while on silver coinage a large profit can be made. Since its establishment in 1872, the Melbourne Mlint has made a loss of over f60,0oo, the amount of the deficit in 1887 amounting to about 7,000. At the Sydney ...

... FO UR TH EDITION. THE DIVORCE ACTION BY CAPTAIN O'SHEA. MR. PARNELL TALKS TO A FEEEMAN INTERVIEWER. The London correspondent of the Freesnan's Joiirozal has interviewed Mr. Parnell. He had not heard that Captain O'Shea had taken proceedings against him, but he said Captain O'Shea had been threatening to take them, for three years. He, Mr. Parnell, had reliable information that Captain O'Shea ...

... MARX TWAIN'AND ArNG ARTHUR. THOSE who have never read, gr who, having read, failed to apprer ciate the humour of MARK TWAIN, have lost one of the pleasures of life. Among the benefactors of our race a high place must be given to the laughter-moving humourist who banishes for a season sadness from the eye and care from the heart and dissolves the frame in genial mirth. Some day men will build ...

... JOHN BRIGHT SECUN.US. THAT the mantle of the ELIJAII of Birmingham has really descended upon the shoulders of the ELISHA of Newcastle is no longer open to doubt. Both at Manchester and at Glasgow Mr. MORLEY has worn the mantle in public, and has been enthu- siastically acclaimned by great popular audiences in a way that reminds us of Mr. BRIGI-IT'S reception when he was still in his prime. At ...