... THE QUEEN IN THE ME OF WIGHT. I -rnoll THE COVRT aru u.a| Oshorne, Tuesday. | The Queen ?? Royal Highness Princess Henry of Battenberg drove out yesterday alter- noon. attended by the Duchess of Roxburghe. The Earl of Hopetoun (Lord Chamberlain) had the honour of dining with Her Majesty and the Royal Family last evening. The Queen went out this morning, accompanied by Her Royal Highness ...

... |LORD CURZON ON BflITISH| I CAPITAL IN INDI. ay a, ItarTxa S'atrx2oteait.3 .. Calcutta. January 31. b In theo course of his reply to th e address pre- sented bv the Calcutta Trades' Association, Lord I Curzon said:- t | ;I am^ certainly of opinion that Enclish ?? aholld be attraeted to India. The Government I should do what lies in its power to encourage I such a movement. The opposits theory ...

... THE NEW TURKISH DIIFFICULTIES. TROUBLES WITH ALBANIA-S AND MACEDONIANS. THE ATTITUDE OF RUSSIA, I C, S p1 C~ Reuter's Constantinople correspondent, writing under the date of the 27th imst., 6ays:-Althougls no immediate trouble in M-acedonia is aiticilitt-d owing to -the severe winter prevailing, spe-n1ia- tion is rife as to the developments the sprinig will bring in its train. Tlhe question is ...

... WINTrChu TP1LIDAY AT BE'- NEVIS OBSERVATORY. .First thoughts would doubtless lead mnost people to consider no place more silgularly urinvit:g 3'for a holiday at this season of the year than the I gale-swept, snow-packed summit of Ben Nenis. But, then, most people do not know he v k-irdulv how merry, how unrestrainedly unconventional and natural is the astmosphere one breathes the moment he ...

... THE POPE AND THE1 PRPOSED (osara KXWS TEZRA. (Mx2mu xxws =zmsR3.Ur Rome, February I. A change is noticeable to-day in the attitude' of the Government press on the subject of the Pope and the Peace Cooferen- The Ponolo i Romano and other Ministerial journals to-day express themselves as in favour of His Holiness being represented at the conference- SPEECH BY EARL CREY ON THE PROPOSED' ...

... NORTH-WEST LANARK - ELECTION, Ii. THE CAND;DATURE OF MRT WHITELAW. MEETING AT GARTSHERRIE. Last ni-ght Mr Grieme A. Whitelaw, candidate i fin the U7nionist interest for the representaziou ' of North-West Lanarkshire, delivered an ad- dress in Gartsherrie Works SchOol. There was a good attendancem Mr A. K. M'Cosh, Cairnhill, 2 presided, and among tho others present were:--1V IMrs Wihitelawv, Mr ...

... The second of Professor MIitchell's course eO Baird Lectures was delivered yesterday afternoon in Blythswood Church, being read by Mr Weir, university assistant to Professor Robertson. Re- verting to the martyrdom of Patrick Hamilton, the lecturer said that Archbishop Beaton thought that by this cruel deed he bad eatinguished Lutheranism in Scotland; but, according to the well-known saying, ...

... THE SCOTTISH. MISERS.| ; MEEETING AT DYSART. Yesterday afternoon- a meetirng of the Kirk- elddy, WNernyss, and. Dysart miners was held fee Norroand Mfenibiial Hall, Dysart. There was a I largo attedaiince.' Mr Inues, chairman of the Fife Miners' Union, in addressing the. meeting on the resolutions regarding the eight-hours day, I referred to the hardship whibh.the miners of Fife 28 years ago ...

... ELECTIONI .TH1EI CANDIDAITURE OF MR MrETlNG12,T KIRK-WOOD. L asL night MAr A4j Grseme Whitelaw, the I Unionist candidata,3-,m dressed three meetings of electtrs. The, flrstr isis held in the Episcopal Church Hall, Kirkw nod.e -Mr - John Lawrence, schoolmaster, enupi -A the chair, and there'was an attendanco of abc'itt 50 persons. Thef Chairmian,' ?? 3Mr Whitelaw, -remarked that whiO 4,one of ...

... H _ _ _ THURSDAY, FEBRVARY 2. A large meeting, composed mainly of Rom-an Catholic bisLops, clergy, and laity, and mem- i bers of Parliametnt, inclitling Messrs Jobn j 1 Dillon, John Redmond, and Timothy Hea]v, v was held yesterday afternoon in the M1ansion, House, Dublin, under the presidency of the,( Lord 'Mayor, in support of the movement in,| favour of the establishm ent of a Roman ...

... EXTRAORDINA RY STORY OFi ABDUC TfTON. L.Sh' flETWED L, iA LOFT FCB DAYS WITIraUT FOOD. S'iss -Rosa Day, who disappeared from her horne rt l en, nerar Chetecr, on Sunday mnornling, and who has been anxiously searched for since, gound lying unconsciois outside her home late ou Thur-sday night. She had a tremendous wound across her forehead, caused eitner by a kick or blow. and wvas bruised3 a ...

... *. S c-- AGRILTUR ;- ?? . . : , -, I7_ . tal.'1'l . 7, iGLASCOW !AG;RiCULTRAL S~GS!TY.'- 1, I - SCOTTISH STALLION SHOW. The Glasgow Agxicultural Socisty hold their thirty-ninth annual show of horses yesterday in! I the Cattle Market. It was an ideal day, con- sidering the early period of the season, for such an exhihition, and the attendance of agricidturists I and other visitors was very ...