... Th- ~1OUR.T TnlE Queen and the Princess Beatrice returned to Balmoral on Saturday from the Glassalt Shiel, where they had been spending a few days. On Sunday morning Her Majesty and the Princess attendled Divine Service at Crathie Church, the Rev. A. Campbell officiating. The Queen has received no visitors at Ealmoral this week, but has taken her usual walks and drives with Princess Beatrice. ...

... QuV-ClMwE:W THE LATE DEAN STANLEV.-Various projects are afoot for the perpetuation of the memory of the late Dean of Westminster. It is proposed to erect a statue of him in the Abbey, and to complete the Westminster Nursing Home and Training School for Nurses, founded by Lady Augusta in I874, as a joint memorial of the Dean and his wife. The Dulke of W'estminster is at the head of the ...

... ?? ?? - W - SIR STAFFORD NORTIICOTE A T EDINBURGH.-Sir Stafford Northcote's answer to Mr. Gladstone's recent speeches was moderate and dignified in tone, but it cannot be said to have thrown much fresh light on the only political question in which the public seem for the present to take any interest. Probably most people agree with him that if Parliament would consent to pass a complete scheme ...

... [k1. r ?? V TUF, L.lrE Bxsuole OF NA'IAI. is still ?? a successor, no formal application for onc having been ?? until this W ck. TIIE ARcItIIsiioP oi CANrtFttut,\V has received a letter from the Church of England Council of the Diocese of -Natal, express- ing the desire of the Soutlh African Church to seel and minailin all identity with, and sublmission to, the Mother Church that is possiblc ...

... 1~~~ ?? 1E7 ?? THE DEATH OF PROFESSOR FAWCETT was referred to last Sunday by many preachers, both in churches and chapels. Pro- nouncing at Westminster Abbey an eloquent eulogium on him for the fortitude with which he had borne up against one of the direst of physical calamities, Archdeacon Farrar associated his name with those of the worthies, ecclesiastical and lay, who had been similarly ...

... I I I - Lll'?-j U?Ajx . . . . . 0 I , , ! 111115191W .P.WY - - - MR. GLADSTONE'S APOLOGY.-Mr. Gladstone was by no means so successful at Edinburgh in his defence of his general policy as in his discussion of the questions connected with the Franchise. A lamer apology has seldom been presented by a great Minister. That the achievements of his Govern- nment have been splendid he could not, of ...

... YII T11E FINE RAPHAEL, the Virgin of the Incarnation, discovered last year by a Swiss Professor, is to be sold by auction at Lausanne on the 25th inst. THE GENERAL ELECTION IN GREAT BRITAIN last year cost 4,633,7374., an average of 4s. Sd. per vote. Altogether 1,333 candidates were nominated, of whom 668 were returned. THE NOTTINGHAM CASTLE ART MUSEUM has been presented with a valuable ...

... -- - - . A 1: LInnDflv THE DEPOSITION OF KING JA-JA OF FUUsU ACCORDING to the last adv ices, the Government have decided to send that West African potentate King Ja-Ja, who was seized and deposed in September by our naval authorities, into exile at St. Helena. Our sketches are by an officer of H. MS. Gosh.uzwk, who writes from Opobo:- Some years ago Ja-Ja was aslave, and after the war between ...

... -A ?? N I - 4.~ ~ ~ ?? rHE strikes in FRANCE assume seriosdimegSiOns, and havealri5dy spread from Paris to the provinces. Beginning with the Paritian navvies, the movement has now been joined by the carters andthe masons-the latter demanding 5s. instead of 42 for a short daiy's work. At one time the cabmen and the locksmiths seemed likeW to swell the malcontents, but ultimately changed their ...

... 0- ,2 .: .1 ?AiFl couw u I I 41? - THE Queen, with Prince and Princess Henry, reached Florence on Saturday. The Royal party had a fair passage of So hours across the Channel, the Victoria and Albert being escorted by the Osborne, Alberta, and Galatea, and rested the afternoon in Cherbourg harbour, where Her Majesty received the British Consul and the Maritime Prefect on board. Late in the ...

... 4A C)r C-.Wf. THE SEASON.-While some districts of England have had a rainfall of four inches in a fortnight, the total fall in London for the same period was less than one inch. Whilst large areas in Somer- setshire, Leicestershire, and Warwickshire have been under water, East Anglian farmers were proceeding blithely with the sowing of barley in that light, dry, friable soil which the beer ...

... Rit ?t. Neger, V? ut ao V, racat BY H. BARTON-BAKER WHEN, in 1776, thefamous Marquess of Rockingham instituted a race for three-year-olds at the Doncaster Summer Meeting, it was given no distinctive name; two years afterwards, at a racing dinner held at the old Red Lion, the subject being discussed, the Marquess waived his own claim to entitle it in favour of Colonel St. Leger. Lord Rockingham ...