... -BY LADY JEPHSON. Ischl lies remote from the vulgarity of nineteenth-cen-u-:, ?? r- mountain spur high up among the hills of Upper Austria. ..a of mountains surrounds the dwellers at Ischl as much as ever c ; of the Coliseum encompass the gladiators. Ycu see the with rosy brush the moultain-tops, and the setting sun! leaves mew e--: purple against a flamingi sky. Mist lies over the va liev= in ...

... IRELAND AGAIN.-LANDLORDS' CLAIMS. 7o the EDITOR of the PALL MALL GAZETTE. DEAR SIR,-When in 1881 Mr. Gladstone urged his Land Bill upon the House of Commons he argued that his bill would improve the Irish landlords' property. He used some phrases of great significance, on which we will here argue. The great Parliamentary hand declared that in this great measure the tenant-right is limited, ...

... THE PASSING OF' THE CIRCUITS. [FROM A LEGAL CORRESPONDENT.] THE circuit ?? is for the moment discredited. Law reform has been in the air, as it has been spasmodically ever since the passing of the Common Law Procedure Act. Public opinion has demanded and has obtained in. turn many things: extension of the Summary Jurisdiction Acts, enlargement of the powers of county courts, 6c'ontifil'ious ...

... LES FRANPAIS ET LES ANGLA1S.* grAI.G a pleasant-looking Frenchman making an inquiry ini toivn' the' other day, I could not, resist saying: Ah I monsieur, vous 'demandet. la Rue Chabrol. Ny en a pas' che s nous. Comment? said he, dropping into tolerable English, are you, then, not civilized? For it is only the savage who does not occasionally defy 'the law. But you do yourself an ...

... WILL VERDI ACCEPT THE COLLAR? FEROwI OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.1 ROME, Tuesday.-On October 10, Giuseppe Verdi, considered the, greatest living glory of Italy, will celebrate his eighty-sixth birthday, and Professor Baccelli, Minister of Public Instruction, will propose to King Humbert to confer ipon him the highest Italian decoration, the Collar oi the Annunziata. Verdi will be the first, outside ...

... If the sympathetic lady from somewhere near Berkeley-square was present in the other square yesterday, she must have been deeply shocked. Of course, we are told that the transformation of an anti- English demonstration into something very different was an organized affair; and the rebuke is impressive coming from people who showed their own dislike of organized feeling by putting off their ...

... 'the Cop of the fIIborning. THE OCEANIC'S FIRST ATLANTIC TRIP. The Oceanilc on her passage averaged a speed of 18.96 knots per hour, says the Central News. The ?? indicated was 20,000, against her capacity of 28,000. The coal expenditure was 400 tons daily. YELLOW FEVER IN THE UNITED STATES. 5 a Reuter's New York correspondent says that thirty-five fresh cases of yellow fever have been ...

... GROSS DECEPTION BY THE HOOGHLY. There are generally two sides to a question, not excepting that of boren Doubtless there are many prepared to aver that there wvas no bore at all to be seen in the river Hooghly on a certain Tuesday, writes a correspondent of the Englishman (Calcutta), who was detailed to see the expected bore; while others will as emphatically maintain that they were vitnesses ...

... THE NEW BOER SMALL-ARM. A COMPARISON WITH THE LEE-METFORD. IT is well known that from the time of the Jameson Raid the Transvaal Government have spent an enormous sum in the construc- tion of forts and purchase of quick-firing artillery-both fortress and field--machine-guns, and small-arms; in short, have made every effort to increase the efficiency of the armed strength of the Republic by ...

... HI OPPERS. [By A. Ai.] ALTI-IouGn the farmers' reports this wcek deeim to be somenwhat Ices happy than they were, we chanced upon a prosperous hop-garden inl the nearer regions of Kent, where the crop was confessed to be an unusuallygood one, even by the man who walked alone, softly, knee-deep in the drying hops in the cast-house--an old man , who remembered more harvests than the pickers had ...

... AN AMERICAN MUSICL4AN. PROFESSOR HORATIO W. PARKER INTERVIEWED. TiHE sincere interest which has been aroused by the production during the Worcester Festival of Mr. Parker's Flora Novissirna' induced me, writes a representative of the Pall Mlall Gazelle, to seek him out after the per- formance of his work in the cathedral. I was the more ready to do this because I had already received fiom ...

... Ihe 'cop of the {IIbornfng. THiE (QcsvE-S VISIT To BRISTOL. The date of the Queen's visit to Bristol to open the Royal Convalescent Home in honour of her long reign has now becen tinally Iixed for Wednles- day, November 15, two days after the Colston anniversary. YELLOW FI-EVi ItN THlL Sr~ris. A telegram of to-day's datc frontl Renter's correspoittent at ?? York savs three more eases of ...