... | LOI02 oA, sA UIRDA41- i Odcober 28.I Parliament wais proroguied yesterday. In the House of Lor6-, a motion by the Car of T--, - I .. ?? I Iiardwicko, protsting against the erection of the Oliver Cromwell Statue between Westrnin- ste;r Hall and the road leading to the House of Lords, was tarried by 6 votes to 4. In the Queen's Speech, her Majesty congratu- lated the two Houses on the ...

... ,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. ...

... 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 ...

... ST. LCKE'S SeLMM-ER. I , .. I.. The littl' SU;nlmer f St. I.:ie BrIixo's ba~cki tie( 'til ?? ?? br'.i:.f No ?? tll.itit ;- ?? ?? ' Is :-,cly (tli. s !, G h( iS m ist ,;fal tb~c ?? a.:d she , ?? ld ills s evl,))iil ?? l JI I 110'l- ' :l' it 1 V N) ti ,) lthexr 1(11' ' A world balt' a . a I 'ile :ulls in s Elvr i!..s'fi i - 1 sc 7 zam. \1. o t.;lks !f vitr a d 1itc A t i . ?? wc'tel,' Stli- ?? ...

... [By FREDERICK BOYLE.] IT is commonly said that English country folk have no traditions. Macaulay furnished the stock illustration when he visited Sedgmoor and found no one who could tell himn about the battle. But for many a mile round Chesterfield, as I am assured, every peasant knows Revolution House and as much of its storv as is needful-for a token he calls it The Plot or Plotting House ...

... NEGLECTED WESTIZA1.IANF,. Y One of the curious features of the WVestra.a akti l-r ?? ij IC which speculation has deserted it for tule more attractive Il~o ...

... I N 21 E GA RI)E N. )l UeI ( 'C I oILrr. lic T'I'he roses blhoin their ptals fIll-- at (iltnutilolS swect, .alld lilies till! Are tailnt all plxe th-ii lif; is l st-- Tlle stmincr calnziut alvS last. I knoxv a flo1wxr iti rre choice and r! c as Thalln any ia l III,- ct Icie al ll throl gh tl!e spring till burninig June or I Watclh d that it migiht blossoin i oi . An d now i-n my farde-lawer ...

... 7-yE BRAHIS-FEAST AT ONEINlNGEiV. CASTLE OF MARGONE, near TRENT, Oct. 16. [aia 11 en, barely over, yet already so distant (for I am Tilosd at N itt, th sense of return to Italy strong upon me), have adi si apafrot, a very peculiar and clinging kind of charm. bade nusii~af of ~lebratiig the unveiling of a monument to Brahms by the m ost'D perfk perforance Germany could give, not merely of his ...

... THE TRADE OF CHINA: HOW TO DEVELOP IT, INTERVIEW WITH MR. C. T. SGARDNER, C.M.G. ABOLISH the likin, the salt monopoly, remove the prohibition against the export of grain, reform the administration of the country, and open the country to British capital ,and energy by permitting British subjects to obtain railway and minihi concessions, to engage in manufactures, and lease ?? land'in the ...

... SO'ME twenty years ago I was sitting in a Souithampton-bound carriage at Waterloo Station when three burly men, evidently foreigners, entered my compartment. They had a lot of luggage, including many cigar-boxes. One was dark, saturnine, and sleepy. Another fell asleep at once. The third man sat opposite to me. I can only describe him as huge. I had read of Dutchmen, but this man's hands, as ...

... It is quite reasonable to ask, as Mr. George Cawston suggests to-day, Ithat the refugees from the Transvaal should be looked after by those who make their money in that country; otherwise there is danger that the tide of public charity will be deflected from the course in which it ought to flow with its greateststrengthjust now. That istowards the funds which have been opened in aid of the ...

... TIEE is more than a danger that the public contributions to the Mansion Transvaal War Fund may be adversely affected by the proposal house nd should be handed over to the Commissioners of the thyat th t fuc Fund for distribution. The disfavourwith which the Patriotic Fundtegade is is based on the popular belief that the Commissioners ave been withholding the funds in their possession, and ...