... CITY NOTES. The next Settlement begins on Oct. 28. The Settlement. A very depressing condition of affairs was again disclosed by the Making-up prices last week. The only exceptions to the general decline were to be found in the cases of Colonial Government securities and Indian Railways, both of which were somewhat higher on balance, a fact which is rather surprising in view of the prospects ...

... . In one sense it is a contradiction and in another it is in the present fitness of things that the prize baby of France is a Russian. To Vladimir, the child of M. Leon Golschmann, was allotted the gold medal, the palms, and the crown at the Concours des Bébés held last week in Paris. But it must be frankly admitted that if this honour has to be taken away from French nurseries, there is no ...

... THE QUEEN OF POKTUGAL. The young Queen of Portugal, who is said to be by far the most capable and well-endowed mentally of all the late Comte de Paris' children, must be exceedingly pleased at her brother's engagement to an Austrian Archduchess. Though she married when quite a girl-- the festivities attendant on her engagement and marriage, you remember, were the real cause of her unfortunate ...

... . If Herr Doctor Nordau were to carry his iconoclastic investigations into the animal kingdom, he would find many traces of degeneration in the prosaic subject of cattle. Whether John Bull has degenerated or not, it is certain that the British bull is not what it once was. Happily, the sturdy animal of primeval days has not yet vanished completely. At Chillingham in Northumberland you may see ...

... THE LATE MR. GEORGE DU MAUR1ER. FHOM A PHOTOGRAPH BY WALE BY, REGENT STREET, W. ...

... . Long before the days of bloomers, and when the divided skirt was still one and unpartitioned, women on the higher levels of the Alps strode about their native crags in trousers. There was no question of asserting their rights nor of claiming equality with their rival, man. It had merely been decided in some prehistoric conclave that there was no reason on occasion that the Beinkleider ...

... . Miss Beatrice Langley, the highly accomplished and attractive young violinist who, with Madame Albani, leaves England on Nov. 5 for a three months' tour in Canada and the United States, is the daughter of Colonel Langley, late of the Artillery. Born at Chudleigh, in South Devon, she, when still quite a child, evinced a distinct taste for music, and soon developed a decided fondness for the ...

... TIIE LATE WILLIAM MOLLIS. The death of William Morris, poet, artist, and socialist, removes another great figure from the ranks of Victorian literary giants-- ranks in which Mr. Ruskin, Mr. Swinburne, and Mr. Meredith are now alone survivors. Morris was primarily a poet, with a poet's enthusiasm for a world in which ugliness and cruelty were eliminated-- the ugliness of commercial tyranny ...

... . A wonderful souvenir has just been presented to the Queen by Messrs. Johnston and Hoffman, of Calcutta. It contains fifty-seven portraits of the ruling Princes and Chiefs of India, and sixty-six views of their capitals and palaces. The photos were taken specially by the donors, who sent them, together with the covers, to their English agents, Messrs. S. Fitze and Co., of London and Calcutta, ...

... mrs. Mcdonald. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY LAFAYETTE, DUBLIN. C ...

... 1 MISS LOTTIE COLLINS AT THE PALACE THEATRE. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH 1IY 1IANA, STRAND. ...

... . The interesting experiments of Professor Cossar Ewart, of Edinburgh, in breeding a hybrid from a Burchell Zebra and a mare have been already dealt with in these pages. Herewith is a picture of a result of the experiment-- to wit, the pretty little hybrid when it was twenty-eight days old. A comparison of it with its parents is instructive. It will be seen that the hybrid zebra is even more ...