... 'The ?? ONY a very small Royal party remains on v,, I The Queen and Princess Henry of lattenlserg, it I younger children, are still faithful to Balmoral but I .irc i ...

... THROUGH THE NINETEENTH CENTURY XI. COMMANDERS-IN-CHIEA4 By OHARLES LOWE THE dawn of the nineteenth century found the British army, for the third time only since its birth in i66o, under the chief corn ...

... Bry A. MOIVTEFIORE BRICE QUADRANGLE, SOLOVETSKI MONASTERY ALI. countries have their holy places-the npopular resorts of the religious-but 'I Ioly Russia excels most nation ...

... 9te Q1ebttounb1ab Quceioul By D. IW. PRO WSE, Q.C., LL.D. (Author of A History of Newfoundland from the Records) DAY after day the English and French journals continue to discuss the all-absorbing q ...

... ?? c after II I II II'T rxt ell 5 io 11 Atu r, r a long delay that portion of the \lainland of Chin op0)osite Hong Kong and the adjacent islanus, lensed Iaset June by China to Great Blrital for a i ri ...

... 47) 0 1 i b 11 , ( I ites li 5 it LONDON OF TO.DAY' (Iliasting1s HoUse, Norfolk Streel), which is edited by Charles Eyre Pascoc, is now published for the fifteenth ?? year. The editor tales the op ...

... ?? Clmlitanbcr S/and by.-CAP-AI1N C UTTLE BY J. ASIIHflN-STElrRY WIEN at the banquet of the Royal Academy of Arts the Prime Minister of England gives his opinion on ladies' biling dress, we may cons ...

... ALADDIN AT THE PARKHUJRST. (sECOND NOTICE.) Perhaps the jolliest little hero in Christmas enter- tainments is Aladdin, and the extraordinary story of his adventures and his suddenly acquired riches appeals more readily to the hearts of callow youth than many of those chosen for the skeleton of a pantomime plot. The history of the Pekin urchin has been most deftly utilbsed for the Parkhurst, ...

... C 0 L I N E T T E. (FROMa OUR NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT.) Colinette,with Miss Julia Marlowe in the title-role, was presented for the first time in this city at the Knicker- bocker Theatre last Monday. and was accorded a very favourable reception. The piece was first performed in Philadelphia last February. Cohinette is a translation by H. a. Carleton from the French of Le No re and Martin. The ...

... ROBESPIERPRE. Volumes could be written about Robespierre, the man of the sea-green complexion, the implacable and impotent, for he has been represented and misrepre- sented by many authors, fascinated by the subject of the First Great Revolution. Carlyle seems to have gone out of his way to vilify him in The French Revolution, for bad as Robespierre was he was not altogether devoid of good ...

... With one consent the project of a farewell compli- mentary benefit to Mr Jolly John Nash was taken up by the heads of the theatrical and variety professions, with the result that the Tivoli was thronged on the afternoon of Monday last by a very large number of the admirers of the doyen comique of the music halls. Mr Nash was in the hey-day of his fame when the world went crazy over the old ...

... TO THlE EDITOR OF IRE BRA. Sir,-The letters you published last week sufficiently disposed of Mr Thomas's claims to rights in an unauthorised dramatization of For the Term of His Natural Life. As solicitors acting on behalf of Messrs Macmillan, the owners of the copyright in the novel, we have written to Mr Thomas's solicitor, and await his reply. Meanwhile, as Mr Thomas has, through the ...