... ,ANCIENT ST. ALBANS. The most pieturesque relic of mediiveal St. Albans is threatened with an imiprove- ment that means destruction. The old plaster gable, with its overhanging upper storev fronting the Market-place, imparts to this portion oi the town a character at ones so quaint and beautiful that its destruction would prove most lamentable from an artistic and archaolozical stand- point. ...

... TRAT TAXES SURETY OF ALL THE WORLD. First Part Henry IV., act v., sc. 4. A chapter of the family history of the DeVonshires might be written in connec- tion ?? hall, Suffolk, which, with some nine hundred odd acres of land, will be offered for male at the Mart in Tokenhouse- yard to-morrow. The mansion, which is a fine and well-pre- merved specimen of early English archi- tecture. was ...

... lIORE BRITISH VICTORIES. dUSSARS CAPTURED. BRITIlSH PORCES FALL BACK ON LADYSMITH. Following on the memnorable victory at Pundee furteur important succeseos fer j e British ar s are chronicled thie week. bile General Yule's column by perilous iigbt marches was falling back en Lady- imith, Sir George White marched out and pugaged the enemy at Elandslaagte and gietfentein. In hoth actions the ...

... Efle Gartren. BY WYl. BARLEY. SEASONABLE GARDENING. SPIeACH, an important winter crop in many gardens, is very irreguliar in the matter of vigour. Occasionully stirring the surface soil with the hioe, between reins, when the ssurface is dry enough, accelerates the growth of all. Forward plantations, previously thinned to five inches apart, if growing- well, nay be again gone over and thinned. ...

... SPECIAL ?? EDITION,, COSTAINING ALL SATURDAY'S NEWS. LI cd'5 N5 WS Office S U¶YD-4 E MORIXNG. ?? SEUE PAGBs. sXTUDPA\'S 2 H0i,,Y AND FOREIGN 3 N ENV S 13 23 SAVTLDAY'S SPORTS 24 rAilhl' America Cup Fiasco-The War: oiu toRi;IS' Fight for the Armoured Tiii: No British Killed-Prince of 's Good-bye to General Bullor- lol a Linir. WtroOi)' Day-London Samrnary- low S Matrimonial Advertisements- 01 ...

... C E NA. III T, NEW S. 'thle Ito1Mi of 'I tl, h,- e itoieit loe. aL licw line of newt11 TI hut~if I.,Il( ?? to ?? III It)1ort, '2 I' I . i':1 o )Ii ICOOi. Ilosoa-rd 3n0 LpiCI 'I ' t'tl~ ll~li'it'lil I Ift 10 bii ii) to .0, of 'U.I11d.1110 '00013 ?? tirong tiplt ofo Ichv iil i'v lie1ttlitou Ci E!110t~a ?? 411~~ av, .1 I.,I , Ill!'h 0f Xrl~t It Mzi40rhb 21' net. At o ''l't.10.1 1 ,10tititOr ...

... ACCIDENTS To CfIA'!IISU STEATLCns, Tl'e ?? steamer Victoria iln oltli iig rover [forbOear on Friday mrosning fiolnI Calais collidl(cd witli the riigo iateliciiier Eiiswiek. lioth 'Kr.c.e ise seriolusly 1laniclf 'bTie Victoriar ad I lian bo ns sirolhed. The Fen wa;n rough, but the passeugers were landed in bslifet'v. 'lilte steclileir Ville (do lDoiivre, Wrliell left 0st('1il betol. ar ...

... I THE B3UTCI1ERS BILL. HEAVY BRITISH LOSSES. S OFFICERS KILLED; 2-4 WOTU0NDED. 30 MEN KILLED; 152 WTOU ND)ED. A SE-RIES OF SUICIDES. REFUGEES- STARVATION. 0 A TALE OF TWO WOMEN. fl\Yr1rEN roa 1REYNOLiDs'9 NrwsweArZR. BY J. A. O'SULLIVAN. The. smiling sunbenits, slanting through the windoaws of the neat, whitewashi!d famihouse, saemnod to ask the pale-fiaced, careairor little woman, with the ...

... RESERYES CALLED OUT. SPECIAL ORDER-YESTERDAY. DATE OF MOBILIZATION. _ _ _ ?? PARLIAMENT MEETS TUESDAY VVEEK . Threc proehul-ationa1 were issued by the Qtieri at, Balmoral yesterday after the Privy Councilil ineetimlg. Olle callis upon, Parfliamn t I to meet on the 17th 'for the despatch of divers urgent and importanlt affairs; the otheo calls out thoe riiiy reserve )on perminenlt service; ...

... - r--- V LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. HOMGLOPATHY. We have received letters from medical experts onl thle ' Ailopisthie rerise Home'opathic controversy, o'.11rted by a coirespondeot IL few weeks ago. We very inude regret that wec are uiiahle to toinmore than inilicatte the views of seineof these gentlemen, as no wveek's letters would take upl anl entire page of i14y- tl's W .Visic' Hero is iL ...

... IT was rather a strange coincidence that the first impor- tant battle of the war should have been fought on the very day when the money for that war was voted. Mr. WYNDIIAM'S interruption of his statement as to organization, to read the telegram announcing victory, was a striking incident. But the mournful later despatch which Mr. BAL.- FOUR read just before the division suggests another ...

... ?? ?? I'l rnv- n ?? 0 England, thou doest well. Crown thy great dead, ToI'lse mighty dead who built thy walls of famf, And to the earth's far ends bore forth thy name, s Making it glorious. Fit it is to spread Ien lligh canopies of honour o'er that bcd e \Vhele lies a Hero; the illustrious flame v (Of his bright (leeds putting e'cnI Death to sham-, Y Througi whose dimii vaults their splendid ...