... cle Mtinizterial 'epulse BY HENRY W. LUCY NVeITING last week at a time when Mr. Gladstone stood stead- fst on his determination to take the second reading of the Home Rule Bill on Monday, I ventured to express a doubt whether the ?? could be realised. The Premier later acknowledged the diffiulty of the situation by postponing the second reading till Thursday, and with that in view a desperate ...

... got Ciourt ROYALTY AND THE LONDON SEASON FOR the next month the London season will be a gay one, with Court circles in the midst of festivities and preparations for the Royal wedding. The Queen returns south on the 20th inst., the Princess of Wales is appearing in public regularly once more, and the other members of our Royal family are busy every day with popular ceremonies-distributing ...

... 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 ...

... Imigly Fdoo A SWEEPING CHANGE TiiE monetary situation in India is virtually revolutionised by the long-expected measures for currency reform. Once in posses- Sion of the report from Lord ?? Currency Committee, the Irlian Government lost no time in putting the recommendations Into practice. A Currency Reform Bill was introduced forthwith 11it the Legislative Council, and passed at once, the ...

... Lmarrifb gift in t1t IrMnT THERE are a good many young women who seem to think that to keep company with, and afterwards to marry, a soldier is the acme of bliss. Yet there are but few, indeed, who have the remotest idea of what life as a soldier's wife is like. There is a still larger number of people of both sexes who imagine that the wife of a soldier spends her days at the washtub and ...

... 5fav ?? is again in eruption, a large new cone having formed. A MONUMENT TO GOUNOD is to he erected on seme prominent site in Paris. RASPBERRIES, as well as strawberries, are still growing in the open air in'some sheltered parts of Kent. ANOTHER ROYAL DIARY will be published shortly-the Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand's record of his late tour round the THE COAL STRIKE threw a 'whole town ...

... aux Bamro ' Wlare BY LADY VIOLET GREVILLE fl-aiN1G is only tolerable and enjoyable in Italy. There, indeed, * ;- one perpetual delight, as the flowers spring forth in lavish pro- fusion and overmastering perfume ; the air is scented and heavy, tle grasshoppers hum, the ground is thick with emerald herbage a studded, starlike, with multi-coloured blossoms. Browning an of the joys of spring and ...

... 5frap PROFESSOR VAmBtRY has broken his leg. LEEDS AND SHEFFIELD are to be raised to the dignity of cities. THE VEDDAHS-those curious aborigines of Ceylon-seem to !,0 dying out. In the last ten years their numbers have decreased l1v 45 per cent. AN EXACT Copy of the famous Norwegian Viking ship, at Christiania, has been launched at Sandefjord, to be sent to the Chicago World's Fair. THE ...

... 0 0 0 0 H 0 H 0 V. fl ?ri V. z ?? V. H 3 U H U 0 I F- z onu Ollnutrations WEDDING PRESENTS AT THE IMPERIAL INSTITUTE WHOEVER is to be credited with originating this idea there can be no question as to the popularity Of the Exhibition of the Royal Wedding Presents at the Imperial Institute. From the first day enormous crowds have been attracted to the building, and certainly the presents make a ...

... FREDRIK -JALMAR JOHIANSEN Lieutenant Army Reserve, Fireman a.id Stoker of the Jr-on TIIEODOR CLAUMDIUS JACOBSEN Le.:\laster and Chief Officer of the Frarn A. AMUNDSEN Chief Enghleer of the Fram ADOLF JUELL Puxser and Stewardof the Frazn FEDER LEONARD HENDRIKSEN Harpooner on board the Frain LIEUT. S. S. HANSEN, ROYAL NORWEGIAN NAVY Ass:stant Scientific Officer to the Expedit on OTTO NEUMANN ...

... !.irhlic otI S oi thie avllr BY S. BARING-GOULD A SPUR of hill, covered with oak coppice, about which the River Tarnar forms a loop, in one of the loveliest parts of that lovely river -the spur called Blanch Down-had attracted the attention of milnng speculators during the early part of the present century. lonley had been collected and spent there without result other than that of exhausting ...

... THE NE W LORD MA YOR - MR. ALDERMAN AND SHERTFT' DIMSDALE From a photograph by SaHI .1 A. Walker THE LORD MAYOR ELECT, IMR. ALDERMAN GEORGE ROBERT TYLER From a pho:ograph by the London Stereoscopic Company THE N- EW LORDI MfAYOR AND SHERI'FFS AMR. AT lDERMfAN' XND) SHERIFF Ir)ORE. From a photograph by the London Stereoscopic Companyi THE Lord Mayor-elect is no novice as regards the mu- nicipal ...