... ROYAL MTUTARY EXiBITION. On the termination of the Easter Maneuvres on I onday afternoon, the Duke of Cambridge performed sat Portnmoth the opening ceremony in conection with an exhibition of im ents of war, works of art, &c., which is to be held during the week at the Royial Gun Wharf, as the luoal branch of the great exhibtion shortly to be opened in Londo in aid of the fund for establishing ...

... * * It is in Literature as in Finarces-much Paper and mnuch Poverty may coexist. 'For upwards of three centuries the comnmerce of Europe was sore let and hindered in the Mediterranean by the BanSiar Cossnas-bold and unscrupulous sea- wolves, who swept the seas like a scourge, and laughed to scorn all efforts to break their supremacy. Mr. Lane-Poole points out that from the days when ...

... ?IAGAZ1NES FOR IANtYiRY. II1. - ci A round dozen of good articles in the ConteviPOTTy is p -headed' by a notice from M. de LaveleyOof TwovetSW .Utoniss, said U~topias2 beilng the romntic outlines of A other conditions of life malde by 2eL. Charles Secretan, of , f the Univcrnity of Lsanne, on the one hand, end ~r. B Edward Bellsmy, an American, On the other. li. S tefanl describesh(iS Utopia ...

... is T N2 ETEEaNTH CENTURY. There is ulenty to choose from in the bil of contents Yr ! D. ?? laya before the .Zyiweeth Cmtrry readers _this moih. Mr. Davitt laa the place of honour with his close criticism of the Report of the Pamnell Comnlaion a and his suggestive outline of what has been done for Ire- land through the opertions of the Lad League. Follow- s ing thiB comes Mr. Gladstne, whose ...

... LIJTERA TU IRE. gsf BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS. ., ealy MorinO`5, Shakers, and other American sects ...

... THE INVENTION OF PR'INTING. This was the subject of a lecture delivered last evening before the members of the Leeds Young Men's Christian Association, South-parade, by Mr. Talbot Baines Reed, of London. Sir George Morrison presided, and in introduc- iug the lecturer said Mr. Reed was not only connected with an honoured family in Leeds, but had won his spurs as a man of considerable literary ? ...

... MAGAZLNES AND -REVIEWS. The Reviw ?? the current month havii.g ce~rtain seatsoniable fe-stores comes out Once agaiin as a summner number. An attempt is m~ade by the edit-or to get a~ Consensus of opinio as to -Is ?? are the six most beauti~ful places in 1 IEurope. This is, if anythinig, a more vague and1 profitless inquiry tb-an. That concerning the besti Ibooks, aiad many readers wvill, agree ...

... IsNs. Stead, in the new issue of the I Review of Reviews, announces that that epitome of current periodical literature has now passed entirely into his own hands. He also states his intention of immediately enlarging the work by adding to its pages; and his closing sentence gives promise that the review is about to appear more frequently. Nothing short of the publication of a fortoightly ...

... THE ARCHBISHOP OF YORK AND THE : KESWCK SCIHOOL OF ]INDUSTRIAL ARTS. I The Archbishop of York presided on Friday evening at a lecture given in the Drill Hall, Keswick, by the 11Rov. ra. llrown-Blorthwick, on 'Some National Sonlgs and their Comrposers,'' in lid of the fands for building a permanent workshop for thu Kecswick School of Industrial Arts. After introducing the lecturer as one of his ...

... fr. Salt's L-ife of Thoreau will be published this week by Messrs. Bentley.! ' Canon Scott Holland will contribute an article or Canon Liddon to the next number of the Fcontem~porary Review.- Thie -Athenaeum' announces that MIiss Marie corelli will be ready immediately vw-ith a new 3ovel on a subject never before treated in fiction. Tlhe Atheniaeum says that Professor Francas i William ...

... STORY OF THE REAR COLUJMN. BY JAMES S. JAMES(T. i Under the title of Story of the Rear Column of the EminPashaRellef ?? street, Cavendish-equare, London, yesterday published the I letters and diaries of the late Mr. James Jameson, who i aceompanied the Expedition as naturalist. Thesb docu- meats, together with appendices, occupy 450 pages, printed in large, clear type, exclusive of some ...

... I EXTRACTS FROM TIS WEEK'S PUNCIH. A DIAGNOSIS. It says 'ere, as your old boss, Colonel M'Whnskey, has been took ill AhI so I 'nrd. R.ussnau epidemic?' No-Scotch. I ULTIIMA RATIO. Small Eustc.-Yeou can't go that way. Stalwart YOUng Lady (out ?? not? Sumall Rustic--'Canse then's-there's hurdles. Stalwart Young Inldv.-But I can get over hurdles. Smasl Rustic.-And then there's the ...