... 4,3J61 f6all 0. arjrttt Onffiret 2. N\ORT!MUMrcRLAND-STREET, SJTRAND, W.C. go People lh1ave not lcft off talking about the Jackson case, writes a correspondent. I was dining last night in the grill-roomn of a well-known popular restaurant, at a table flanked by three others, all more or less within earshot. At two of these both sexes were represented, and a vast deal of raillery of a ...

... Trie late Prince Napoleon, it was stated, was at ended during his last illness bv two Irish nuns, and in his lifetime one of his most ardent supporters in the I rench press was the son of an Irishman, Mr Robert Mitchefl. 1-lis father, as is well known, was first married to AMiss Patterson of Baltimore, whose family emigrated from the north of Ireland, if we mistake not, to the United States, ...

... I THE IMPORTANT MODIFICATIONS. According to a Dahiel telegram from Lisbon, the principal clauses of the new Anglo-Portuguese treaty relative to territorial delimitation are similar to those of the abortive treaty of the 20th of August, with the following modifi- cations, 0 The Portugoc.e frontier on the North Zambesi starts from the right wargin of the River Shire immediately below the ...

... A PLEA FOR THE PRESER VA TION OF ANCIENT .B UILDINGS. (FROM AN ENGLISH VISITOR IN INDIA.) ARE ancient buildings any good? This is one of the questins which, in the general upturning of thought which follows a visit to India, a traveller finds himself asking. What is the good of a tomb raised over a forgotten tenant ? What is the use of keeping up the palace, the mosque, the signs of the ...

... BALFOUR YHE BOUNTIFUL. IN THE HOUSE OF COM1ONS YESTERDAY. BY AN OBSERVER. THERE was a curiously scanty attendance in the House of Cor 1 ons yester- day to hcar Mr. Balfour's state.L ent on the means he had been taking for the relief of distness in Ireland. Glut of the phalanx oF eighty-five Irishmen only half a dozen put in an appearance. Before Mr. Balfour was called upon, some sixty tiuestio ...

... vall Ayall (galettz officer 2, NORTIHUMaBERLAND.STRERT, STRAND, W.C. At last an occupation has been found for an out or-swork Chancellor ! Prince Bismarck is suggested as arbitrator in the Bchring Sea dispute. From that to arbitration as a profession is a short step. He might go ibund the world healing all the open international sores, and arbitrating on every disputed territory (except ...

... F R EE s C TH OO L S - TORY OPPOSITION TO THE BUDGET. Mr. Cotichen's announcemert respecting the Government's intentions with regard to Free Education seems to have fallen like a bombshell among certain groups of Tories, and they a~e gpiving vent to their indignation. When the Budget ?? come on fcr diccussio3n on Monday, the Liberal Leaders, it is said, intend to press on the Government the ...

... 7 TOURt ta? .& La ? .1 2 :11N. THE LABOUR STRUGGLE IN PENNSYLVANIA, JIMPORTATION OF 500 ITALIANS. Reuter's Scottdale (Pennsylvania) ?? Italians are on their Vay hither to take the place of the strikers both at the Frick and McClure works this morning. It is stated that they have been brought from the Punxatawney coal region. lhe labour leaders will mrake an effort to persuade the Italians to ...

... SATELLITES. A STUDY IN REAL GREATNESS. WITHOUT doubt, it is difficult for ordinary non-civic persons to realize the atmosphere in which a Lord Mayor must exist. That such an official must of necessity be a very great as well as a very good man, that he must be credited ex officio with all other accomplishments which are within the range of human genius as well as with those (what- ever they ...

... | EXPERIENCE OF AN EY E-WITNESS. The following is a copy of a letter from an English resident at lcuiclue describing the bombardment of that port :--On the 15th of February (Sunday) there was a battle at Dolores, when the Government troops were defeated ; they retired to Pozo de Almonte and TMonte Video. On the morning of the 16th the remainder of Government forces evacuated Iquique, retiring ...

... UD CBE L YFNvC.- A ND jA 6C KBE TCH. Tilrt massacre reported this minorning from Ncvw Orleans is one of those wild outbursts which seem destined to arise every now and again to remind us hlowv very thin after all is the vencee- of civilization in the West no less than in the East. Scratch a. Russian, says the proverb, and you will find a Tartar. Is it to become a proverb also thlat you ...

... TIe A WAKENING OF PORTUGAL. (FROMI OUR CORRESPONDENT.) A GREAT change has come over the spirit of Portugal within the last month For the last year and a half we unfortunate English had been the cynosure-- let me rather say the ?? every idle or angry Portuguese journalist. But latterly two events have sufficed to change all this. First, the financial crisis; secondly, the policy of Mr. Cecil ...