... IT I-vt c T o II t t THis London season is fast drawing to a close, and the Royal Family will soon be scattered for ti.e houidays. The Queen goes to the Isle of Wight in ten days' time, hu:t the Prince and Princess of Wales stay in town till the end of the month, whihe the Duke and Duchess of Connaught return to Ireland now that the I)uke is quite convalescent from his slight indisposition, ...

... Filura1 4jetchg THE SEASON THE wheat fields look all the better for their sun bath, and harvest is drawing near in the south. The short straw and sonle- what thin plant forbid the farmer hoping for an average yield either of grain or of trusses, but quality ought to be at least fair, and if the July heat and light give us a grain pretty rich in gluten the miller will buy. The barley crop has ...

... LONDON'S BUSINESS - MAN&GER.S A CHAT WITH J. W. BECXWITH. (BY OUR SPECIAL COMMISSIONER.) Business at the Savoy Theatre goes on so easily and smoothly, and success almost invariably follows each new production, that one is apt to overlook the fact that at no house in London is there such a perfect system of orgadisation. Everything at the Savoy works on wheels, and every department, skilfully ...

... The seventeenth annual general meeting of the Royal College of Music was held on Tuesday at Marl- borough House, the Prince of WALES presiding. Among the members of the corporation and the council present were the Duke of Cambridge, the Marquis of Northampton, Lord Harlech, Lord Herries, Lord Stratheona, Lord Windsor. Lord Thring, Sir T. Whittaker Ellis, Colonel the Hon. C. G. C. Eliot, Sir ...

... R3FGE NT, - - U kESTIO : - - 7 -it A N-- ThnovoioCr the whole of the South Afrcan war'no greater shook has been given to the public ?? that oocaeioned by the publication in -the Times of a three-column letter from Mr. Burdett-Coutts. It colsists, from first to last of a series of the. most horrifying charges of neglect and upreadiness in relation to the general' hospital arrangemients. As ...

... [SUB3OT 01V L Sbq'3¬] ON Sunday af ternonn sh ,clrng tragedy was brought to ?? i L t0 Effra Parade, Brixton. Fu ;'rI tiom - U a iA;fr. and Mrs. Poet have, together Wita their little boy, aged about four years, oecupfed. a room on the first floor at that address. Their neighbours always regarded thei tas respectable people. On Friday' Mr.; Poet left his wife and child;' Why he' did Is no one ...

... The Irish Doses LORD GCyWE, in a verx sensihie letter to th Freemans Joz-nal.a expluins the real purport cf 'r:s ...

... MESSAGE FROM ADMIRAL BRUC E. GROUNDS FOR HOPE PRINCE CHING REPORTED PROTECT [NG FOREIGNERS. FIGHTING AT TIJENTSIN. WOMEN AN) CIHILi)REN REACH TILE COAST. BRITISHT ANI) GERMAN WOUNDED AT YOKOHAMA. Rear-Admiral Bruce to tho Admiralty. TAKU, July 7 (4 ?? T'lhre are grounds for hoping P'rinee Ching with his army at Peking is pro- tecting tile Lienations against Prince Tuan anld his arnmy and ...

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... AUT AN D LETTERS. Anton- stories of adventure (dmingi the tiltloor war wil'l lite a volio bv ZJY tile Earl of 'Itsslvn, whielh Nlessrs. IflackWood and CO. will pbilli1ta vory shortly. 'Tho atithor ha(d the ltick to bo Twivo Captured,`' from whiv h rhtt tim -oltt111e1 detrives its title. 'VIm book is to be ?? rated!. 1f Mr. Steevens wetro living a hook tv 1hint1 onI tho Boer war Wo11u1d ...