... EASTER BANQUET AT THE MANSIO IHOU-SE. NI The Duke of Cambridge was last night the principal guest at the Faster Banquet givenias the Mansion asouse by the Lord Mayor and Ladv Mayoress of Lon- dona. There was a larae company, and among the guests invited ...

... God, who alone knows. The dates given by Thompson are not quite accurote, the murder having been committed on Easter Tuesday, and not on Easter Monday, whilst the trial took place on the 21st of April, and not 21st of May. When taken before Mr. Bent, Thompson ...

... o LO NON O EPONDENCE. i Loxnozox, Friday N ight Tha pause, Mafchi comes with Easter is proving of service to politicians in enabling them to give certain quiet consideration to the possible bases of peace. The revived fightingf actvit of the Boers both ...

... barometer was.falling a little over the Channel. the Bay of Biscay, and-the Spanish penihisula as *ellasini the. Shetlaids; rising elsewhere. The tempera- ?? was (Iiigbest) 85 deg. at :Lisbon, 56 deg. at Roches: Point, 54'deg. at Biarnitz; 63 de. at Rochefort ...

... it is expected, will attend and propose one of the toasts. Sir Henry and Lady Campbell-Bannerman, On the h rising of Parliamet for the Easter recess, will go u abroad- , Sir Henry Drummond Wolff, British Ambassador . to Spain, has arrived in Loadon, ...

... moderateio the far west, very i slight elsewhere. The barometer was falling over the United King~domn, France, and the Baltic, rising at Dungeness. The ftemperature was (highest) 73 deg. at Paris. 63 dee, in Lndon, 62 deg. at Yarmouth, 63 deg. at Skudesnaes ...

... maid-of- horour in waiting to her Majesty. The Prince of Wales, who is on a visit to Lord and Lady Farquhar at The Hall Castle Rising, near Lynn. - is expected to arrive to-day at Marlborough House. and s he will return to Sandringham to-morrow afternoon. ...

... London County Council is prepared to receive applications for two scholarships, each of the value of £150, and tenable from Easter to Christmas of the present year, in somen higher commercial institute on the Continent, ftm male teachers who are British ...

... brief, it was for the first time in all history that an Irishman in London could have effectively sung the old ballad of the rising of Ninety-eight- What colours shall be seen? Slays the Shau-van-voglit; W hrat colours shall be seen ?? d as the Shan-van-voght; ...

... political pronouncement of the first importance. It is currently reported, and many people bieve the rumour, that on the ~Russian Easter Sun~day the Emperor will issue a manifesto containing an ultimatum to Great Britain, urging her to make tpece with the Boers ...

... Guards and some details, yet during the night the enemy contrived to get one of their biggest guns right on the top of the easter portion of the hill, from which they commanded a con- siderable portion of our position. During the next day or two the G ...

... moderate over Scotland amd the Nonrth y Sea, sright elsewhere. The barometer w as falling a 't lhtte e in th e north-west, rising in most other p'icnes. e,~I ?? t-merr~rature wzq thghest) 88 deg. at Pars, 83 de.s. a in London and at Lisbon, 74 deg. 'at ...