... btta'liciis on ?? right, with a very great artillery plooer, and tells of thousands of men slt epct under the cold and bitter sky last night-22 clg- in Versailles; lower, no doabt, on the bare plateau, swept by an east wind, which has now taken itself off to ...

... twenty-four hours of hearing every shot in the whole thirty miles circumference of Paris, and one night I counted I07 shots in five minutes. The sky at night was illuminated as if by fireworks, and bombs and grenades flew like rockets in all directions. ...

... schooner Jlalilda, which came up in the evening, reported that he had seen the eclipse very distinctly in comparatively clear sky near Night Island, only fifteen miles north of the expedition observatory. The eclipse was also plainly visible at Brisbane, where ...

... the variety of forms and of colours which they are able to produce in the upper sky. We shaU therefore only notice that they added a new sign in the sky last -night in the sbape of the 'Sphinx in the Desert. After the fireworla the Palace was illuminated ...

... sometimes a sort of mountain trout. (As the sun sunk the hills gradually became glowing red and then faded away into the purple sky of night.) Here we enjoyed the Alpine afterglow so well known to all acquainted with the mountains. The vivid green grazing land ...

... throughout the night, in readiness to resist any injustice to Ireland in the direction of counting out before Sir J. McKenna had brought forward his resolution on the Peace Pre- servation Act. Four attempts to count out were made during the night, the series ...

... weather during this week has beon dry generally, with very light northerly (N.W. to N.E.) winds and changeable state of the sky. The nights have been, for the most part, clear, and under those circumstances slight frosts on the ground have been very prevalent ...

... gipsies encamp for a night and move away at daybreak. The only suggestion of a plot is that a child is stolen ; but then the theft leads to no action or result. This painter's semii-dramatic fantasy consists of the repre- sentation of Ea night encampment, of ...

... The couip ?? of the arena is, indeed, admirable. The building itself is imitated with remarkable skill, and the dark blue sky at night threw up into strong relief the white marble of the mimic Coliseum. The costumes and accessories, too, were picturesque ...

... After that we only saw two or three more ships ; then came a glimpse of land, and then, till last night, nothing but water, water, water, and sky. Last night, however, we did have the excitement of two whales. We saw them spouting for a lorg time at some ...

... after- noon it Was slow work. The race for the Cup is sometimes protracted until dinnek time, and indeed after, but the sky to-night, beautiful as it is, does not look precisely u it to-morrow will be absolutely calm. Ten o'eloc is the hour for starting ...

... to re- a] ad produce upon the olouds. The time we are t} he assured is coming when he who looks upward t Ler towards the sky at night will sea one soap al manufacturer's familiar device on one ?? and T h' his rival's on the other. ire The Headmaster of ...