... OCCASIONAL -NOTES. Mr. John Redmond has trumped the card which Mr. Dillon -was carefully saving up his sleeve for next Monday. Whereas the leader of the Irish race at home and abroad had meditated no more than a theatrical protest when the Jubilee Address to the Queen is moved In the House of Commons, Mr. Redmond has outbid his effort to win the applause of the Irish gallery with a full- blown ...

... THE BANDS OF THE ROY.-IL NA11 ) I QUITE One of the most attractive features in Tuesday's mnagnificent military pageant was the pomp surrounding the martial music that enlivened it. A ripple of admiration echoed from street and stand as the solid-silver kettle-drums of the Royal Horse Guards, headi-ng the Colonial proccssion, fiashed in the bright sunshine ; while the gymnastic display by the ...

... REMOVING THE DECORATIONS. The lights have fled and the garlands are dead. Those lights of the Commemoration Week were in some parts kept ablaze till Saturday night, though most of thle many facets of' the flashing diamond, that illuminated London on Tuesday aud Wednesday resembled, had ceased to scintillate. The garlands in their hour of brightest bloomi were but things of shreds and patches ...

... i 43alf Juall (15alettt offirt, 18, CHARING CROSS ROAD, W.C, [FROM OUR CONTINENTAL CORRESPONDENTS.] The Empress Frederic is to leave Frankfort on Tuesday night for Flushing. where she will embark on Wednesday morning for Sheerness on board the Royal yacht flictoria and Allbert. The Empress is to be accompanied to England by Princess Henry of Prussia, Prince and Princess Adolphus of Schaumburg ...

... Lord Egerton of Tatton, upon whom has been conferred an earldom, is the second baron. He sat in the Hlouse of Commons for Cheshire for the twenty-five years immediately preceding his succession to the title in 1883, and he is now an Ecclesiastical Commissioner, and the holder of many county and local public offices. l1le is sixty-five, and by his marriage with the daughter of the second Earl ...

... I The Naval Review has naturally been the most absorbing topic of dis- cussion in all service circles for some time past, and has been written about in so much detail, both in these colurns and elsewhere that, even did space permit, it would be no easy matter to find a new point of view from which to approach the subject. We are glad, indeed, that it was such an unqualified success, and that ...

... That the fact of being able to fall back on sail-power in case of emer- gency may have its advantages even in these scientific days was proved last week in the case of the second-class cruiser Phaeton, which vessel was enabled to- keep steerage way after her engines had broken down, by using the. square sails for which her foremast is rigged. The Phaeton, which 'was launched in 1883, is one of ...

... IN TMEI HOUSE. BY AN OBSERVER. I\HATEVER faults may be attributed to Mr. Parnell, it can never be said that he wasted his forces or brought his party into open conflict with the deep sentiments of the British people, unless he had some great object in view. Mr. John Redmond, who has assumed the giant's robe, plays the part of leader with less discretion and success. His suspension the other ...

... THE WTARES OF AUTOLYCUSI LONDON CLIMATE. Ir is some little treason to a natural storm to admire too eagerly the mimic wrack dnd menace of the paltry tempest of the smoke. Only by acknowledging the climate of London to be more than half an artificial climiate, and by treating our own handiwork-the sky of our manufacture ?? a relative contempt, are wve excused for, thinking the effects in any ...

... IN THE HOUSE. BY AN OBSERVER. IR. GEORGE CHRISTOPHER TROUT BARTLEY deserves well of mantkind. He has struck against guinea luncheons, even though they include wine and are held within the historic walls of Westminster Hall. Amid approving cheers, above which the strident Hear, hear of Sir Ellis hishmead - Bartlett was distinctly heard, Air. George Christopher lrout B3artlev demanded a five ...

... FOURTH EDITIONo METROPOLITAN RAILWAY IN PARIS. A VAST SCHEME. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, ?? delays that seemed likely to be interminable, Paris is now within measurable distance of being provided with the Metro- politan Railway, tor which she has pined so long. One reason of the procrastination-the chief one, in fact-was the inevitable squabble that arose oln the subject between the ...

... THE Britannic family gathering at Liverpool on Saturday is a phenomenon the- like of which no other Empire has ever seen, and, what is more, such as no other Empire can ever have the faintest hope of seeing. It is easy to trip off a glib sentence or two about the fusion of races, creeds and tongues into a Pan-Britannic whole, the union in a common birthright of men from the snows of Canada, ...