... A JAUNT AND SOME JOTTINGS.-VI. [By WILLIAM ARCIIER.] [COPYRIGHT IN AMERICA.] WAS HINQTON. To profess oneself disappointed with Washington in this first week of April, 1899, would be like complaining of the gauntness of a rose- bush in December. What would you have ? It is not the season, either politically or atmospherically. Congress is gone, and spring has not conic. In the city of leafy ...

... SILVER. \WVhat is going to happen exactly nobody seems to know, but the enthusiasm ot the Stock markets yesterday was unmistakable, and anlyrhillg which could possibly be affected by a rise in silver was at 0ice advanced in price. perplexity is not remrloved this morning, but til tone continues good. There is talk ot the American interests r orkiq Lrp the price of the metale but So r ar there ...

... LONDON LOCAL GO VE RNMENTO SOME REFLECTIONS AND SUGGESTIONS. LAST year we published a series of articles in anticipation of legislac, tion upon this subject, and it is interesting now to compare the recommendations then made svith the form the bill has actuallyt alen. It is to be regretted that the factious charge that the only motive of the Government was the sinister one of smashing the ...

... POSTP RAN DIAL THAT Captain COGHLAN, of the United States Navy, is of Irish extraction is a proposition which we should venture to assert with some confidence, even if we had not some authority for saying so ; for his name, as well as his speech, bewrayeth him. That ethnical fact is the first that ought to be taken into consideration when criticising those after-dinner ebullitions of eloquence ...

... I0 buEu6 H SEIIO2Y 0\ ~IC~tJAT'S REVLAT 7 i~ CONTHINUED, HI-S SURVEILLANCE OF ESTIERHAZY. CGRNERAL GONSE'S ANTl-DREYIFUSITE ATT ITUDE. PAPIS, TuLesdlay.-The' publication of~ Colonel Pico uart's evidence before thce Criminal D~ivision of thle Couirt of Cirssation inl thle 10071-a is continued to-day. A~t thle sitting of N~ovember '29 (Colonel Picqjuart deniud the allegation that hie had ...

... I Ifif frTVII Sallotte offtret P i8, CHARING CROSS RCPA, W ,C T De Drawing Room at ?? Palace on NWednesday, May 10, hi held ior the L,3ueen, according to preseur arranegenicuts, by Princess The PrincC of \lales has left town for Sandringham, and to-morrov| le goes to leviularket for the racing. It is expected his Royal lighuess .il not return to towvn until next eek. 1Th1e Duke and Duchess of ...

... Ube 'Cop of tie mollilloP. rits, PictsOF WVALE-;' JoCRtNEY TO COIerNItAGEN. The Priocess at Wales, arrived at itelrt -sesretdav atternoon. A Reuter telet,,rati ados that her ILoyal ligiis cit eall ?? inoruiug tar A ?? riil tablet has he iol o a bliildin_, jest compoleted oin West il, Ileio slwtitt - 1atit is I hipste a 01 (IIrld alo l od L,osi.' A II Old~1' 02-~20 til,'d' Y a ?? tree, it a. ...

... Being in a coachmaker's the other day, I saw a very noticeable park phaeton of the low, light sort once affected, if the conte in- porary limnnr is to be trusted, by no less a personage than the Fourth George. IHis Majesty was accustomed to drive himself about WVindsor Park in just such a vehicle, and the artist I refer to has depicted him seated therein and in the act of refreshing himself ...

... THE ROARING JlMOON. [By A. M.]i WHAT moon ever roared? asks an able writer upon poetic wcrds. For, in the last number of a literary weekly paper appears an article built of appreciations of schismatic words, those vanward phrases, as one might name them, whereby the poets (some poets) have broken through the order of language in quest of stronger manifestations of their liberal moods. L ...

... IN THE HOUSE. JOY AN jbiLVK. in t t S ,, ?? returned from Cimiez to the House of L ords ito time to LORD arantroversv of taste. It was in thle matter of the decoration I takp, s cathedral raised as a question by the Earl of Wemyss--the orat. desiruction. of St. Paul's he called it. T e Xhe Earl of Wemvss is by way of being an expert in architccture, *r sone other things, includinig the ...

... A PENSION, however kindly meant comes somewhat as an afterthought. It is a locking of the stable door when the horse is no longer worth stealing. In nine cases out of ten it shows some sense of remorse on the part of the donor, while, in the tenth case, it reflects discredit on the recipient. For a man has either been well or ill paid for the work of his life; and, if well, failure to provide ...

... Z bc 'C Of tbe (fovllning. Stic _eNy FO~VVt R AND TXxATION. Sir flenry Fowler at \Wiiienhall jast nligt spoke on the subject of linrcrial taxation, anvd said that dlie Government ito lon--er taxed tha People s breid, but thley, still taxed certain things the pcople ate and drank. Ilie calculated that five-sixths ot the taxes onl tea, or ink, and tobacco were [oai by the mainual labcur class, ...