... =UME. MR. GLADSTONE delivered in Edinburgh on Monday the last political address of his Midlothian visit. o make things pleasant to the Ministers of the Established Church of Scotland, he assured them that when Disestablishment came they would be dealt with tenderly, and their life interest in their stipends be respected. Elsewhere in his speech, mindful of the strong dislike with which ...

... 6 ??EIQNfl?? 0? THE agitation in PORTUGAL against England has subsided so far as outward manifestations are concerned. But popular feeling remains as bitter as ever, and any unpatriotic individual who dares to continue commercial intercourse with the English is denounced as a traitor to his country. Indeed, a black list is promised of all such offending firms, so that the boycott spreads in ...

... ONE fine morning in the summer of Tennyson's three strong eights, our yacht Octopus was bound for Mingalay, one among the flock of islets which lie southward from Barra, the southern- most of the larger Hebrides. On the way thither we passed close by a chain of seeningly-uninhabited green specks, which two of our party conceived a strong desire to explore; and, as the one that lay nearest ...

... 19 a III .c qj, c b) 5 MR. BALFOUR ON THE NAVY ON Monday Mr. Balfour addressed his constituents in East Manchester. Hie congratulated his hearers on the lull which had come over Irish politics, but warned them that they must be pre- pared for the time when Home Rule would once more be forced to the front. Then he turned to the great question of the needs of the navy, and pointed out that it ...

... BY E. L. A. THERE can now be scarcely a doubt that the approaching shooting season will turn out an excellent one for sportsmen. There is a little grumbling, no doubt, as to disease and doubtful nestin-times amongst the grouse in the far North, where the canny Scotsmen are always afraid of spoiling Providence; but this is customary. On thc other hand, it is quite certain the game of the ...

... F-- ! - . ?? ?? 1 1m1M o4 Sa1 THE NEW PARLrAMENT.-Verylittle interest is yetshown by the general public at the coming birth of the new Parlia- ment. For one thing, there is something approaching anti- climax in this formality after the electoral throes by which it was preceded. Then, too, there is the assumption that all parties will join in pushing forward necessary business. But Mr. Justin M ...

... LRIJI-ir ?? ?? A RECENT report that a well-known firm of jewellers in New Bond Street had the honour of submitting to the in- spection of Her Majesty the Queen, a pair of diamond earrings which originally belonged to Queen Marie Antoinette of France, MARIE ANTOINETTE'S EARRINGS recalls tne many curious circum- stances connected with that unhappy lady and her jewellery. Theneck- lace here shown ...

... '3it tre a(t ttt ' in fit st * -;t. Si.D\ ENS g O)od hurmour and vitality are infectious. It is tin lposihlle to read his new Comtpanoion 1)o0k of travel to The japi at I lome in any other spirit than that in which it was written. The hook is an interesting and aniusingr account of his journeys across Canada from Nova Scotia to Victoria in Vancouver's Island, worked upll from a rough ...

... MEN OF H.M.S. ROYALIST MARCHING THROUGH TIHE SWAMPY FOREST TO THE VILLACE OF TIIE SOYA NATIVES BURNING ONE OF THE VILLAGES OF THE CANNIBAL CHIEF KAVERALA11, WHERE A AUTAN ARM WAS FCUND HANGING UP PREPARATORY TO BEING EATEN HAULING H.M.S. ROYALIST'S ?? SECOND CUTTER OVER AN OBSTACLE PLACED ACROSS THE RIVER BY THE NATIVES A PUNITIVE EXPEDITION TO THE CANNIBALS OF THE SOLOMON ISLANDS FROM ...

... ODi Lystest at the ?? 2rabrlnq I. THE present winter exhibition at Burlington House is one of the best that has been seen for several years. The collection of works illustrating the Sculpture-Goldsmith's art of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, which constitutes its distinguishing feature, in- clude a series of original designs of the highest class, and fine examples of almost every kind ...

... F _~icsor & a Aid OF and 11l EGGING TRESi ON.-There is pathos as well as humour in the efforts of the Radical Gladstonites and Irish National-. ists to bring Lord Rosebery up to the scratch for a campaign against the House 'of Lords. The Premier has made no secret of his belief that worse-fightingground could not be- found. He knows that a war of that sort would inevitably wreck his Government ...

... Zhe &forlb of fdttrtu By H. D. TRAILL UNDOUBTEDLY we have done well to commemorate the centenary of Gibbon's death, since it is too late to celebrate that of his birth; but, as usual with such celebrations, the note of extravagance has managed to make itself heard. There are some people among us who ase never satisfied with decorating the statue of a great man unless they can compel the ...