... ROYAL MESSAGE.j V. THE QUEEN TO HER PEOPLE TRULY TOUCHED AND GRATEFUL' ANXIETY FOR THE PUBLIC WELFARE AS LONG AS LIFE LASTS. A SUPPLEMENz TO THE LONDON GAZETTE - P0 LAST' NIGHT CONTALIED TI FOLLOWINIG LBTTERl FROM. THE QUEEN TO 1IER PEOPLE: Wleiiletal, July 16,1897. The following Letter from the Queen has been received by the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Home ...

... COURT aIRmAR. COUTNCM AT WINDSOL. C RECEPTION OF COLONIAL VISITORS. WINDSOR CASTLE. Jclv i. His aoyal mighness the Grand Dnke of Meas, utt aded by Colonel Baroa de Senarcleus de Graucy, arrinnd at the Castle yesterday afternoon. The Queen drove out accompanied by his Royal Q Highues the Grand Duke of MessD and her Grand F Ducal Highne-sh Princess Louis of Btteberg. ntt His Exeolleney the Hoan. ...

... U(ITY BANKERS AND MEEOUANTS I AT THE MANSION lROUSER. I - i THE, CHANCIELLOR OF THE EZCHEQUJER, ON THE ?UBLIC PURSE. I The.Lord Mayor arnd thle Lady, hnyoress, gave a banquet; at thu Mansion.1'P use last night, to a, large party invited to meeat the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Iand Bankers gind lierch~ant of the City of London Among those presenit were the Chancellor of the En- eag cthe uonr ...

... Li Mr. Brodrick, MW.P. (Under Secretary for War), p\e- he sided last evening at the Hotel Cecil, at a dinner gven na to the New South Wales Military Forces.-The toast of on The Navy, Army, Rteserve, and Colonial Forces was pe proposed in a genial speech by Lord Jersey, woo wad to received with marked cordiality as a former Governor be of New South Wales.-Col. Button, late Commandant of of ...

... I - THE FATAL FIRAT RE-ENTIS D PARK- I Dr. G. Danford Thomas held an inquest yester(ay at St. Paurs Coroner's Court om the body of annah: :Bush, aged. 22, a domestic serrant, who was in the em- ploy of Dr. 3. Ramage, 196, liegent's Park-road, and perished intaa fir that occurred at his house early on Wednesday morning, as aiready reported.-Dr. 3ohn 1anAage deposed that his wife and family were ...

... THEu COLONIAL VISITORS, DETEAIRTUErS AND AR ANGEMENTS. The Queen has-partliularly desired that the Coloniul. Prumierstheuldvitheratnoen to-day so ns topersonally 1 present the addreee which they hold freoe their r. d speetivo Colonies. 2Sah Premier hae three or four I addresses to present foma different commaunities. There is an address of eongtatulation from the ladies of eaohl of the eleveu ...

... tHE LIFE-SANTU SOCIETY. IUBIILEE SWIMMING GALA. Under the directorship of the Life-Savirig Society b an Internotiondi Championship Oala, in celebration of U the Dmamond Jubilee, was witnessed at the West India jt uocks b- the VDuke and Duchess of York on Saturday s afternoon. A company numbering some thousands Was11 assembled in a steamboat moored in the basiu of the a docks, alI the ...

... THE COUBT. WIlDSOB CASTLE, July 8. The Queen drove oat yesterday afternoon aecco anied by her Royal Highaess Princess Henry of attenberg. Her Grand Ducs Higblness Princess Louis of Bat- tezberg with her ehildren took leave of the Quen at Frogmnore and left for Londan.: Colonel the Hou. Sir Hrenry Byng (Equarry in Waiting to the Queen), was in attendance at the rail- -way station. L Prince ...

... mid LETTERi FROM MR1. LONG. o no The editor of The Itural World has receivedtthe i hey following letter from Mr. Long, President of the Board ge- of Agarlture, oo the subject of rabie3 and dog~ roem ?? be pointed out that, as it isan to established fact that rsbies can only be communicated o lght byteobdai: ?? iore of a bite, and as it is impossible to ascertain TI h it for certain how Many ...

... - Iog We are asked to publish the following correspondence I in referenee to disorderly hoaues in Central London: C Sir.-The Vestries of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, I St. James' - Westminster, St. George's, Hranover- 1 square, St. Anne's Soho, and.St. Giles-in-tiwe-Fields 1 with St. George, Bloomsbury, having lately had under c their corsideration the dis-raceful condition of the streets in ...

... THE TELEGRAPH CLERKS' AGITArTION. CONFERENCE AT THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. POSTMASTER-GENERAL'S REPLY DEFERRED. In acconiancewithl the arrangements made last week, the conference for discussing the grievances of the pstal telegraph clerks, took place yesterdwy at the ouse of Commons, in Committee Room 14. There were present the Duke of Norfolk (Postmaster- General), Mr. Haubury (Financial Secretary ...

... THE -PEACE 7 NEGOTIATIONS. CONTROI OF GREEK FMANCES. t (rOU OUnR COsunIoJNuiDENT,) -- : BERLIN, Mo.day- TNight.- Aceording to a telegram, of a semni-official agency fromn Vienna, five article6s of. the Treaty of Peace have beei! framed, and in parts defi- nitely settled. - The war indemity, inclusive of compensation for ?? itsicxd .upon private_ propertv, has been fixed at four tnillion ...