... WHEN you make holiday in a cottage you become a cottager to the casual observer, and the poor are notoriously good to the poor. This probably explains why the House, separated from us by an arch of lilac, does not receive even its tithe of wandering folk, while we are asked for the drink of water, or the slice of bread, or the match, all day long. At first we were impatient of the constant ...

... Cbe 'Cop of the MHlorninq. TnE QUTIEE ( I TIEl TRL.ASURY'S RVS1T ssio- H H aerty ?? has presented to the Trustees of the National Portrait Gallery as a national po-e-sion a portrait of herself, in the robes worn at her Coronation, cainted by Sir George I layter, and at present in Kensington palace. It will be reemeebered that the Treasury erecently declined to inake any grant to the Gallery ...

... IT is much to be regretted, and for more reasons than one, that a French fisherman should have been killed by a shot from a British gunboat, fired in the exercise of naval police duty in our territorial waters They, however, who play at bowls must expect rubbers, and poachers, by sea as well as by land, have nobody to thank but themselves if the light on a likely night is not sufficiently ...

... . pICQUART9S SUCCESSOR AT RENNES. MAJOR CUIGNET'S EVIDENCE, THE YOUNGEST OFFICER YET CALLED. E2XTRAORDINARY PRECAUTIONS IN THE STREETS. ?? OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.1 REN-Ns, SaturdaysIn proportion as tranquility grows profounder, at any rate on the surface, the precautions taken become stricter and stricter. This morning persons proceeding to the Lycede found even distant streets Tarred in ...

... The great trial has begun, and in spite of the admirable bearing of the accused and the combined frankness and skill with which he parried the thrusts of the President of the Court in his examination, we must confess to the opinion that the general character of the first day's proceedings does not augur well for the triumph of truth and justice. Both the matter and the manner of Colonel ...

... LONDON seems to be getting dirtier every day. To avoid the cleaner's bill I dress in black, while I shudder to think how it covers a multitude of sins. Ah I if I could only fly away from town I To-day the weather is scorching, and the sky (as much of it as I can see from my back window) is blue and hazy. The distant rumble of Sloane-street omnibuses seems to run into a sleepy lullaby, and I ...

... FOURTH EDITION. I POLICY OF Till- COLONIAL OFFICE. We ade~t~~ tatalthouigh onl consideration of existing circumn- Mr Chatllbrlain hits de~cided to con1tinlue the hut tax itt Sierra eIW, ~ 110inte lolu Ct] the 1.itrt of thle Ccoloial Office to impose if (I thle Gold Coast, at Lagos, or inl Nigeria. It is now Athat the circtumtstatnces in the case of the, Gambia fi ie\ or thjise oltaiuiriig ill ...

... A KERRY ME4ADOWING AUCTION. AN AUCTION OF 50 ACRES O0 N HEAVY MEADOWING Will take place at Ballygarry, At Twelve ?? on Thursday, by Martin Murphy. The foregoing announcement, printed on yellow paper, has been affixed to various walls, within an eight mile radius, and the lush-grass lies awaiting its purchasers in the quivering noonday heat. Up they come, on foot, il ass carts, such a inctley, ...

... A FRENCH VIEW OF THE WATER-TUBE BOILER. MONSIEUR LE DiRECTEUR,-Oll a suivi en France, avec beaucoup d'intert, les tres remarquables articles que vous avez publies jusqu'a ce jour sur les chaudieres aL tubes d'eau, et sans partager, dans le monde mari. time, les opinions Demises, on trouve, comme vos dmiinents collaborateurs, que ?? a agi avec beaucoup de lcgcretd en adoptant les chaudieres ...

... A FRENCH VIEW OF THlE NVATER-ThBE BOILER. MotNSILUR LL IDinrCrTER,-O:l a ?? enl Frazice, avec beaucoup d'intdrtt, les ?? remarquablos articles quL vous avcz pliblids juscqn'a cc joiur stir les chaudi~crs b tubes ilean, c, !aias pa rtager, dans Ie mondle mari- time, lo's opinions cmises,, Oil trouve, onnl1Ie( \-Os cimiinents collaborateur5, qute I'Arnirauti5 a aigli avcc beaucoup de ...

... WITH FLYING COLOURS, AT THE ADELPHI. WrrH flying colours With Flying Colours has run the gauntlet of its first night, which is equivalent to the second reading of a bill in Parlia- inent; the principle is affirmed and a committee must now sit upon the details. The chief amendmnent required is curtailment; for the Adelphi audience sat from 7.45 on Saturday evening till Sunday morn- ing, ...

... tbe top of the Morning. STONEHENGE FOR SALE. Sir Edmtind Antrobus is desirous of selling Stonehenge. 1hinking it right that the nation should have the opportunity of purchasing this great relic of antiquity, the owner has, says the Thies, offered it to the Government, with about 1,300 acres of surrounding land (subject to certain pasturage and sporting rights), for £125,000. The difficulty of ...