... like his Metropolitan, an old Merchant Taylors' boy. He was born in 1832 and went from Merchant Taylors' to Caius College, Cambridge. Ordained in 1855, he had worked mainly in Plampshire, when, on the formation of the new diocese of Pretoria in 1878, he ...

... little girl in short frocks, has not only gone, but her life is now in ail the circulating libraries. Her brother, the Duke of Cambridge, who was her senior by fourteen years, is still with us, however, and his elder sister, now the aged Duchess of Mecklenburg- ...

... while a little farther off, Six Mile Bottom, the Duke of Cambridge's famous shoot ing near Newmarket, is a favourite shoot at which the Prince of Wales and the Duke of York usually honour the veteran Duke for some partridge shooting. Pro bably some of the ...

... there. A complete knowlege of Burke and Debrett was necessary for an appreciation of the audience, which included the Duke of Cambridge, the Prince and Princess of Wales, Princess Henry of Battenberg, and Prince and Princess Louis of Battenberg all in one ...

... Bannerman, one of whose last parliamentary acts had been to pronounce a hollow and almost hypocritical panegyric on the Duke of Cambridge, who had been intrigued and worried out of the Horse Guards to make room for Lord Wolseley. With the latter at the Horse ...

... deficient in interest, the winning by Cambridge being a foregone conclusion. Just before the mile the Dark Blues made a splendid but fruitless spurt. At Hammersmith the race developed into a procession, Cambridge being a good ten lengths ahead, and eventually ...

... for service in South Africa, the commanding officer being Viscount Cranborne. ■phe new Postmaster-General, who succeeds the Duke of Norfolk, is Charles Stewart Vane-Tempest- Stewart, sixth Mar quis of Londonderry. He was born in 1852, and was educated ...

... Octavius Crump has just died at the age of fifty-nine. He was educated at Elizabeth Col lege, Guernsey, and Queen's College, Cambridge, and was called to the Bar of the Middle Temple in 1867 He has been ior some thirty years the editor of the Law Times. Mr ...

... have hitherto been used for Her Majesty's Office of Robes. The improve ment, of course, is being made in the interests of the Duke and Duchess of York, and the cost of the alterations will be de frayed by the Queen's private purse. A few weeks ago it seemed ...

... Benjamin Morgan Cowie, Dean of Exeter. The Dean was born in 18x6, and was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge. He was a Hulsean Lecturer at Cambridge in 1853, and a year later became Lecturer in Geometry in Gresham College, London. In 1857 he became vicar ...

... viated into Spiro, is still en Evi dence in a glass case, embalmed and jewelled, in his church. The bride groom was the Grand Duke George Michaelovitch, a cousin of the Czar, being the third son of his grand- uncle, Michael-Nicolaievitch, son of Nicholas ...

... eighty-first year. He was born in 1819, was a pupil of Dr. Arnold at Rugby, and then became a student at St. John's College, Cambridge. The baronetcy was conferred upon him by Lord Salis bury in 1886, he having fought several fights on behalf of the Conservative ...