... Sir Michael Hicks-Beach put his foot down last night, and Sir William Harcourt made a mistake in getting under it. A decla- ration of that kind this time last year would have saved the Government a good deal of criticism which was partly founded on misapprehension. We still continue to think that, with several crises on hand, the Cabinet acted rather rashly in ordering the move on Dongola. Nor ...

... THE NVBARES OF AtUTO LYCUS. NE W LEAVES. For years it has been my habit to sit up on the last night of the yearin order to see the Old Year out and the IN' ew Year il. Irom being a habit I have come to look upon it as a duty a duty that it ill becomes me to neglect. It is one's duty to say good-by to the Old Year. It we have got on well together, and he has treated us kindly, it is our duty to ...

... THE HERTFORD WALLACE COLLECTIONS. ATiLmTrVoU a number of people have been allowed to visit the Ce1;c~tiols at Hertford House, but few can flatter themseives that thley hlave seen thle private apartments where Sir Richard Wallace had for his own personal enjoy ment brought together the art treasures already known at the exhibition of Manchester, 1857, and Bethmal Green, 1872, but for the most ...

... l REI'JOINDER TO T1IE COUNCIL'S CIRCULAR. As leaders of the agitation for the reform of the Corporation of Foreign Bond holders, Nlessrs. Brownv and Tilleard have issued another circular dealing w\ith tlhe defenice which the Council has put forward. TJIn COINSTITC ITION OF THlE CORPORAT[ON. Tile Council, savs this circular, rcfers to the opinion obtained in 1883. We have always been ?? a sight ...

... The memorandum issued by the War Office on the' gallant conduct of the troops on board the Warrens Hastings gives onlywa partial impression of the stirring spectacle presented by the steady and unflinching behaviour of the soldiers drawn up on deck while the ship was slowly heelingi over o01 the rocks and great seas broke on board. A more complete story is contained ill the report made to the ...

... A suggestion has been made, we believe, amoug members of the South Africa Commriittee that it would be convenient if Sir John Willoughby could be examined at an early date, in order that the continuity of that phase of the inquiry in which he, in conlinon with Dr. Jameson and Colonel Rhodes, is concerned, may be maintained and the section completed. But he is at present in Holloway Gaol, ...

... BROTH E RLY L O V E. (By G. S. STREET.) HJENRY and John Chatham were sons of a man who was given agood start in commercial life, who failed earlv in his career, who toiled to the extent of his strength for thirty-five years subsequently, and who died in poverty when Henry was twenty and John sixteen years of age. So far as failing health permitqed, he had worked well. He Nvas in truth an ...

... am waff Anti onlettt Offirtt 18. CHARING CROSS ROAD, W.C. [FROMi OUR CONTINENTAL CORRESPONDENTS.] The Emperor of Austria, the Archduchess Stdplhanie, the Archdukei Louis Victor and Ranier, Sir Horace and Lady Ruttbold, Prince and Princess Dietrichstein, and Princess Clotilde Mensdorff. were among the guests at the ball recently given in Vienna by the Count and Countess B3adeni. The French ...

... THERE is no characteristic upon which the nineteenth century plumes itself more than upon its humanity. The Geneva Convention anmeliorated the laws of war by forbidding the use of explosive bullets, and carefully protected ambulances, hospitals, and doctors on land. Infractions of its statutes by civilized combatants have been few and far between. But as yet no agreement has been arrived at ...

... INJUNCTION AGAINST THE KEMPTON PARK COMPANY. THE HAWKE V. DUNN JUDGMENT UPHELD. The Lord Chief Justice this morning heard the case of Powell v. The KITmDt-on Park Racecourse Company, which was brought to test the decision of the Court for Crown Cases Reserved in the case of Hawke v. Dunn. There was a large attendance of persons interested. The plaintiff a share- holder in the detendant company ...

... The Indian Famine Fund has done nobly. Half a million collected in fifteen weeks, whereas it took seven months to raise its equivalent in 1877, must make the Lord Mayor feel a proud man to-day. And this, in spite of the Hospital Fund and other methods of cele- brating the Jubilee Year ! But over the whole of the British Empire loyalty seems to have taken splendidly. The Australasian ...

... The Guardians of the City of London Union held yesterday what is most correctly deccribed as an extraordinary meeting to consider the Princess of Wales's Fun-d. Summoned to give a rough estimate of the numbers to be fed, they proceeded to express thejr strong disapproval of the whole afiair. ise stale old argu- ment about demnoralizing the poor -as duly trottcd ot A1I we can sav is that those ...