... A BL UNDER IN BLACK AND WHITE. [By E. S.] IN the brotherhood of the brush, the sweep stands for the irrepressible amateur. His pose, if it can be called one, is never to let you forget for an instant that he is a sweep. Most people feel a certain coyness about displaying their profession; the sweep proclaims his-upon the housetops. In his methods, too, he is an amateur to his blackened finger ...

... WHERE DREYFUS WILL BE TRIED, THE SLEEPY TOWN OF RENNES. The last act in the great Dreyfus tragedy (says a writer in 'the Clnfcc7 Gazelle) is to be played in the old capital of Britanny, Rennest is a sleepy, rather sombre, provincial town, with a population of about 00,000. Since the great fire in 1720, which lasted seven days, it bhs been almost entirely rebuilt. The modern part, such as la ...

... TiiE lull in South African affairs is at present merely the creation of accident.? Until Sir ALFRED MILNER'S mailed despatches have reached this country, our Government are prohibited from . actionmthrough want of information. The South African Executive are brought to a similar stand- still through the necessary formality of submitting Presi- dent KRUGER'S.franchise pr`posals to the burghers. ...

... M ARC HAN D'S RECEPTION IN PARIS. I ?? CROWD\VDS AND) WVILI) ENTIIIHSIASM. fi`N0.N OUR OWN CuRRESPONDET Ni I'.rnl 'lThursday. It is iortulnate, perhaps, for the Republic that it was e sirrplc capatam ot Marines, and nut I rirce lhenri dOrlkaus, otrI ilstattee, \wi.} ca, ' ri'C tilh French tlig to a'ashoda. II Mlarchand boele an historic name, (v u'enI it hle ere an otlicer tof high rauk, there ...

... [BY AN INDIAN OFFICIAL.1 THAT press telegrams from Northern India should at once attribute 'want of foresight, negligence, and extraordinary apathy to Shc Madras Government and to Madras officials is onlv another illus- tration of an attitude too familiar to attract attention, too hasty to inspire belief, too unvarying to suggest discrimination. That the atrocities have been exaggerated ...

... FOURTH EDITION. I REI'ORTED ATTEMPT AT' SUICIDE. g EXPECTED RELEASE OF COLONEL PICQUART. E t PA!;I-,I riday.--lhe Pcli/c Rttiibli/qaire says it is rumoured that Colonel t ll Vazy de Clami attempted to comlitit suicide immediately after his t niiiarceratiou. Several newspapers this mornin.g expect that proceedings a w;ih be taken against other olficers, particularly General Mercier. The C ?? ? ...

... THERE is considerable danger that the Half-Timers Bill will be lost, owing to. the obstructive tactics of the minority, chiefly of Lancashire members, who opposed it yesterday in Committee. The operative clause has been obtained, it is true, but the examination of the new clauses will be preceded ou Wednesday next-the only day left for the discussion of private members' bills-by the Committee ...

... Nall Anil onutte officer 18, CHARING CROSS ROAD, W.C, *O The Duke and Duchess of York have consented to accept an address of welcome from the inhabitants of Newton Abbot oln the occasion of their visit to Devonshire during the first week in July. The Empress Eugenie has arrived at the Hotel Continental, Paris, from Marseilles, where she landed from her yacht Tinsi/, which is now on the passage ...

... WHAT A GERMAN WORKMAN THINK S OF ENGLISH WORKMWENS WIVES. ENGLISH women with a fancy for seeing themselves as others see them,, would do well to read a certain curious little book, How the English Workman Lives, in which much is said of them, and not to their advantage. The book is written by a German miner, who is living in England. He lavishes praise without stint on England and all things ...

... FOUR 2T7 EDITION. k DREYFUS INFORMED OF THE SITUATION. TOUCHING REPLY. PARIS, Saturday.--The Figtro to-day says ?? Dreyfus was authorized to inform her husband that IUI. Ballot-Beaupr6, reporter to the Motirt of Cassation, and M. Manau, Procurator-General, had concluded in favour of the revision of his trial and of his being brought before a court- martial. Dreyfus replied in an aftecting ...

... Tur~ beating of a hamnmer, obstinate and angry, from behind the limp greenl-god cuftains ; halfwamy they hang, as thou~gh for a charade, below thle Ilollowv of the arch, up against the Byzantine columns at the side, with their fantastic capitals glittering, in the cool electi ?? vehasuk tile heavy roof, black and gold, of the Guildhafll in the lantern small gas- jets ate flickering, and ...

... OCCASIONAL N OTES. The peers were so pleasant in throwing over the ladies that it would be' wrong to chide them for want of gallantry; but they were unnecessarily nervotls. It is always easy enough to discover thin ends of wedges, and generally as easy to reply with Lord Salisbury that, though the wedge is dangerous, it is inserted into a wholly harmless and irrelevant. log. In this case, to ...