... VARpIOUS VE;RSIFIERS IF it would not be possible for the critic to say that The Regent: A Play in Five Acts and an Epilogue, by J. M. Chanson (Samuel Tinsley), fulfils every requirement of the tragic drama, it must at least be admitted to possess much excellence. It is well constructed, the acts are not too long, and the dialogue is judiciously terse ; added to which the events of which it ...

... ?? FRANCE--Shylock did not turn a more deaf ear to the pleadings addressed to him for mercy than the French Senate lent on Monday to the earnest, even passionate, cry for mercy on behalf of the condemned Communists uttered by M. Victor lingo. Argument and rhetoric were alike futile. I)eeply impressed the large and distinguishced audience undoubtedly wvere, despite the indignation of at least ...

... -1 - Jill 91 PARLIAMEN ?? IT was a complaint made with more or less truth against the late Government that, partly from disinclination, and partly from engagements in more distant parts of Europe, they were not able to bestow a proper amount of attention on the affairs of Ireland. Hence (we were told) Obstruction, designed to recall their attention to matters nearer home. It cannot be said for ...

... 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 ...