... r2 to - la Ik 3 . ' e Iu L 3 ?? T THE Queen was to leave Windsor yesterday (Friday) for the Isle of Wdight, accompanied by the 1'rincess Elizabeth of Hesse, Princess Beatrice having gone to .Aix-les-Bains for the waters. Her Majesty continues fairly well in health, and has been entertaining numerous visitors. Thus on Saturday the Duke anid Duchess of Albany, with the Princess of Saxe-Meiningen ...

... RURAL JNOTES ?? . . ?? ?? I/s WXHEAT wants more sunshine and less rain than we have had during the past ten days. Mildew is increasing, and despite the sturdiness of the straw the plant has not always been able to stand upright against the desolating haistorms with which large areas of the country have been visited. Each ear of corn should yield, as a rule, a good number of plump grains, but ...

... IN one sense we very deeply regret the decision the Newcastle master engineers have come to upon the com. promise offered to them by their workmen. Through Mr. Mundella the men said, If you think we are trying to rob you in any way, be assured you are wrong. We want time rather than money. You offer us two hours out of the five we insist upon. We will meet you by consenting to a ...

... --I .11 I i ?? - - ?? 4 / ill--? ?? ?,m - , I m I , , ? I ? , I Qu THE MARRIAGE LAWS. On Monday a deputation, among whom were Mr. Lowe, Lord Houghton, and Mr. Alderman M'Arthur, M.P., waited on Lord Carnarvon at the Colonial Office to ask the support of the Government to Sir T. Caimnbers's Bill, the object of which is to declare the legality of marriage with a deceased wife's sister in ...

... ?? A I-- CENTENARY OF THE ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY UPWARDS of a hundred years ago a benevolent physician of London, named Hawes, had observed that persons apparently dead from drowning, hanging, lightning, cold, heat, foul air, and excessive drinking, were not always really dead, and that it was possible to restore their suspended animation. By way of testing his theory practically, he offered a ...

... I 0 I ?? I, ?? ?? ?? THE coming visit of the Empress of Russia is now the chief topic of Court circles. The Czarina will leave Livadia in the Crimea, where, as usual, she has been spending the autumn, on the 12th inst., and will travel, via Odessa and Breslau, to Berlin, arriving on the 18th inst. After a short stay in the Prussian capital Her Majesty will go to Calais, and thence cross the ...

... IT used to be said in the days when England's naval power was a mattermoreopenlybragged about than in thepresent day, although the sentiment which lay at the bottom of our highfalutin is still as strong as ever, that the best specimens of naval architecture in the Royal Navy were to be found in those vessels which we had captured from the enemy and converted to our own use. We have now to ...

... 7HE BUSHEY PARK REVIEW ALTHOUGH, numerically speaking, the Review in Bushey Park on the 3oth ult. could not be compared with the tre- mendous displays in which our German and French neighbours have lately been indulging, it was a splendid spectacle, and nothing could surpass the magnificent ap. pearance of the troops or the precision with which the various mancwuvres were executed. The force ...

... PAISLEY has erected a statue to Wilson, the ornithologist. AN ACCOMPLISHED LINGUIST has just died at Munich-the Abbe Richter, who could speak nearly eighty languages. DION BOUCICAULT has written a new Irish drama. It is to be produced this winter at Wallack's Theatre, New York. ONE PENNY is to be charged for admission to the International Exhibition on and after next Monday (Wednesdays ...

... 8. POLITICAL AFFAIRS.--The little borough of Wilton has rejected Mr. Norris (L) and returned the Hon. Sidney Herbert (C) by a majority of 751 against t86. Dark rumours, however, are afloat respecting the Earl of Pembroke's influence on the election, and Professor Fawcett, M.P., at one of the electoral meetings went so far as to say that Sir E. Antrobus, the late member, had no wish to retire ...

... #A THE EASTERN QUESTION THE FIRST TURKISH LINE OF DEFENCE-THE DANUBE IN the event of a Russian invasion of Turkey the Danube will be the first great line of defence with which the Russians will be met, and foremost amongst the many Turkish fortresses which bristle on its banks stands Silistria. At this point the Danube is only about a quarter of a mile wide, and is studded with numerous ...

... OLD SIGNS, TABLETS, ?? IN LONVDON STREE TS TtEI ancient memorials of London are rapidly becoming extinct ; scarcely a day passes but some old landmark disappears from its time-hallowed position, to become a mere memory with those who love to linger on old associations of the past. It is perhaps then fortunate for the present generation that a century or more ago there were so many writers and ...