... THE NEW REICHSRA TH. little time ago a significant scene was witnessed in 'ienna, in the Eapuzinler Kirche, where the Hapsburgs are buried. It is the custom to h1old in this church a solemn ceremony once a year in honour of a certain :;jlt. A special mass is celebrated in his memory; hymns of praise are 5ung to him, and homage is rendered to his relics-two little bones e5shlrincd in a ...

... OulRTH EDI7TION KING LEOPOLD ON THE RIVIERA. (FRO.M OUR OWX COCRRrEPNDENT.) BRUSSELs, Friday. -Were Kin Leopold ever to abdicate or little Belgica to become a Republic, his Mrlajestv's old age wuuld doubltss be passed in a manner to be envied by mlost mortals; for he is preparing for himself a bed that many wou!d like to lie on. ft will be a periect paradise, this Rloval residence oln the ...

... OUR BRITTSH RULE IN CANDIA.-IH. (FROM 0 OUR CORREISPONDENT IN CRETE.) CANDIA, StrPlembcr 12. WRITING from thio place the other day, I dealt with historicalanI, statistical data, and dwelt on the position and sanitary condition oJ our troops. I now propose to examine the relation of o01X riita^'v forces to the local or Turkish authorities, and show draw f, ve h'v, succeeded in our mission ...

... Fo UR TI EDITION. 'THE INDIAN FRONTIER RISINGSo THE ORIGIN OF TIHE OUTBRR AK. BoMnAY, Tucsday.-A leading Lahore newspaper gives to-day what is stated to be an authentic account oi the reasons wiicli caused the Alridis to rise against the British. According to this account there was a con- spiracy arion. the tribes and a plan for joint working. The originators of the scheme were the Hadda ...

... DIARY OF A VOYAGE HOME.-I. FROMN RUSSIA TO FINTLAND. . (FRONM A CORRESPONDENT.) Most people are glad to be rid of evil-doers. The Russians, however, ztrictlv forbid any one to leave their hospitable shores unless he can prove himself of irreoroachable character. This is done by tipping one's a'voranik, and waiting patiently for results at the local Scotland Yard. The officials eventually hatch ...

... THEE MOORS' FOREIGN PROTECTORS, A LEVER OF EUROPEAN INFLUENCE'. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) TANGIER, AuIguSt 14.-From what I have recorded in previous letters of the state of this country, it will astonish no one to hear that, notwith- staliding all their prejudices and their bigotry, the Moors are ready cnough to avail themsel ves of the protection which by treaty is accorded Co all foreign ...

... THE IDYLLS OF CHELSEA EMBANKMENT, BLACK TROOPERS AND THEIR LASSES. ! The banks of the Thanaies are saturated with romance of one kind and another, and the Chelsea Reach has never ?? the attention of people of poetical insight, w4ho appreciate the glory of a. sunset on a river, and sing of.it in molten golden notes, admirably appropriate to the theme. That sunset is one of London's institutions ...

... THE POW]ER POSSESSED BY THE PEOPLE. It is a familiar fiact that the theory of the Chinlese Government is to be met with in its undiluted forim in thle Chinese Classics. In the Book: of H-istory there is a great ddal to show that 1the people wvere much in the !houghIts of the writers. 1 Heaven to protect the inferior people made for them rulers, and made for them instructors. 1Heaven sees ...

... I I A fewv mouths ago wve ,ave an ?? in tlins colunmn oF IDr. Stephen I If. EtIlillens's pretclision! to transmute silver into gold by his so-called Argentaurumn plrocess. Since thlle the Daili ChroniWclc has re-discovered Dr. Emmens, and has made hlilim poeuliarly he ir owni (we think the sex is right), with great results ill the wvay of advertisement 'or Dr. Emmens. By Saturday last our ...

... SKILFUL BRUSH ANI) CAUSTIC TONGUE. Salvator Rosa's greatest ambition was to obtain universal celebrity, and finding' the imlmen1se difficulty of attainiingl his desiebhs penicil alcue, adopted ani expedient as whimisica ?? by which hie hoped to render his name fam-lous. For this purpose, savs the Adrchiiecr'i he associated himself with a number of young men who were stimullated by the samte ...

... EDITION3 -Alto u R., TILT i I i - - THE TIRA-H CAIPAIGN. DL3TRUTC fION O Il E NEM Y'S TOWERS. SrIA, \Vednesdav.--Foraging parties sent out to the north and east of the Nlaidan camnp have collected iarge quantities of supplies. The Zakka Rhel towers, froni which the camp vas constantly fired into, have been d2stroyed. 7lie Britishi casualties in these operations wvere two killed and four ...

... An interesting problem is raised by the threat of the vicar of St. Mark's, Marylebone, to appeal from the judgment of Chancellor Tristram. The appeal should in the ordinary course come before Lord Penzance as Dean of the Court of Arches, but it is so long since he sat that many people have forgotten that there is such a court. Lord Peuizance is eighty-one years of age, and runmours of his ...