... 5licttcs at 01nilt LAST week we published a map showing the situation of Muscat, which has been brought into prominent notice lately by the threat of Admiral Douglas to bombard the town if the Sultan of. Oman did not cancel his concession of a coaling station to the French. Our illustrations of Muscat and its inhabitants are from photographs brought to us by a correspondent who has recently ...

... ube top of tbe Morning* I PLASTERERS ON STRIKE. Ten, thousand operative plasterers will be paid off to-day their trade uniou havinig refused to comply with the masters' demands to abandoa certain practices ol which complaint is made. LORD FARRER AND THE OPEN DOOR. Lord Farrer has addressed a letter to the editor of the Concord on tht subject cG the 'new departure ' of the Cobden Club, ...

... THE FINE ART S MUIETY. WATER COLOURS B1Y MR. WanFRID BALL. Carlyle. in sn early work, describes the great fou country as a grtsa, unpicturesque land of reed gras. weedy verdure, mud, and marsh. This is not the im - pression East Augliar made en NIr. Wilfrid Ball or that. hi~s hundred water colour s of this district made on u, Re baa an eye for the capabilities of the country, f'or the cosiness ...

... PPR.&CTJCE OF THE: UNIVE3- .I SIL'Y C LELW'S. GOOD WOliK AGAINST TIMM. ITFIlI DAttIC nrxIus.I. As no r'snti'ued work m'a to hedt frtemonn' almost 12 attacok. They wuro outi onl the jever jutst'lhalt- itit'htutu. 1'h is, of Cottt Mt, 0 it unt inouelmt the tnbbi ug exirt'to itl Io tiepair-ouared.k f The tutlitig in, thle in 'jog hoat wals umnltiity of tutu rirddliI g Llaseriptimk, arid tb ret or ...

... Vc(ptjl of thfe utck TIHE Far Eastern Question seems destined to En-land become as permanent a worry to European and Russia statecraft as its Near Eastern analogue, and in China very largely for the same reasons. There is the same kind of Sick Man, the same Anglo- Russian rivalry, the same difficulty in the way of a concilia- tion of British and Russian interests. It does not, however, follow ...

... THE NEW LYCEUMI, ECCLES. The new Lyceum Theatre at Eccles was opened to t public last Monday night. This busy Lancashire the has been too long in want of a place of amusement or a house where entertainment of the higher clae t 0o0r be given, and when Mr Flanagan's intention*were knoA-11 some months ago they received the warmest awere kno the inhabitants. Without doubt the that the prettiest in ...

... A LITIGANT AND THE PRINCE IOF WATIE. i APPLICATION ItEFuPSTM:D. Bnfor-o Mir. ,lurtico Gliant hamil and Mr, Justice tieclud in rU Qoce i ul Beinili Divihiaon, ycstezday, lhilidi v. wilnter wiso m tnatter in which the poti- tiolivel*, :. ll neow Ui I litivant, Kaid that this waiti LI Ihethori ;i: thix Lord Mavlit. Couit, and his, ppli. ilitol, iiira to 8vt asldo till ord-r nhwle in that Court ...

... 7rjy O .IX ?? l F SfECY():Vi.A I? A' ?? JOL ' I'fi (i / . X'S. . u ?? 1-i 1/0/ (PVC.' Opit 'rld i:111'e Ic c-it i 'Fcrhiiig bte 'I .iit fl lo iU thc wt 'ite' of rM' i 'I ?? ii' lot' 13 ii A 'n ?? uitl '1 LI ?? 11 ?? lg o V'tti' ol file ?? vitl! a ct:.lre 'uit; oa L ' ' It ?? i.i cfp1 ?? ''Iiit iv I 'ltiel ~1t th -n ?? e' ?? ii'I a ul' vid t1 't oe i- i: toolp it'' I 'lit o It$ng I( II ro ...

... gertures ta vrisollers MISS HfONNOR MORTEN AT WORMWJVOOD SCR, h; WHICH of us will not admire Lycurgus, the LacedxnmonialD For having lost an eye at the hands of one of the citizens, ani having received the young man from the people that he sho H' punish him as he would, he refrained from this ; but having tant him and proved him to be a good man, he brought him into th theatre. And when the ...

... -I SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1899. THE STOCK COMPANY CRAZE. The extraordinary attack on provincial actors and provincial managers which was made by Mr FRAN1K CORzoN at the Playgoers' Club meeting on Sunday last hardly deserves serious notice, and his statements were so absurd that his lecture is lecture is not worth printing. It was a mere scurrilous effusion, and the speaker himself had to ...

... (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) r NEW YORK, FaB. 22.-Lord and Lady Atgy made g an emphatic hit at the Empire Theatre on the 14th r inst., and present indications are that the success it has achieved in London will be fully duplicated on this side. There is also the pleasing fact to record that it e has added materially to the reputation of the two leading members of the Empire ?? Jessie a ...

... 1? -lb ? o all I t ?, ,, t D 0 III c a it b ?? - 1 , s- I Krt festivities are concerned, this week marlks the SO~ lal i O (dll season, two Drawing Rooms being held on 0p'en11111 1, Il7 day. Mourning, however, made the functions fedlt r ' ;I they Woldd otherwise have been, for neither the lessk rill -c sof Wales was present, while the subdued queen lwses recalled the grief of the Royal Family ...