... Tan intense anxiety, tokens of which reach us from all comers of the country, concerning the progress of the Prince of Wales's severe malady, the frequent bulletins from the sick room at Sandriugham, now reporting a slight improvement, now a dis- heartening relapse, and the eagerness with which these are watched for and read, so completely overshadow all other intelligence that, although the ...

... FOREIGN NEWTS FRANCE.-M. Gambetta has resigned, and there is now some likelihood that Paris and the Provinces may secure a permanent peace. While A. Gamnbetta remained in office, he did everything ill his powver to further a continuance of the wvar. ?? he and his partisans cried aloud for war, issued warlike lecrees, and refused to recognise the contrary edicts of M. Jules Faire and the Paris ...

... -~THE C~OUR~T i C ~ 1 AFTER a brief rest at Sandriugharn during Christmas week the Prince and Princess of Wales have resumed their round of visits. I The Prince and the Duke of Edinburgh spent Saturday with Mr. e Henry Villebois, and shot over his Marham estate, whilst the V Princess went out driving. On Sunday the Prince and Princess, c with their children and the Duke-of Edinburgh, went to ...

... THE LAAVDSLIP AT WHITBY IN a country which has fortunately been hitherto free from severe earthquake shocks, a landslip is a sufficiently terrifying occurrence. These phenomena usually happen either close to the sea, or in places where the land slopes down suddenly towards the bed of a river, and they are generally traceable to the fact that some underlying stratum of comparatively soft ...

... 0 ?? L -Z , SANDRINGHAm will be more gay than usual this year during the Prince and Princess of Wales's accustomed visit, asthe West Nor- folk Hounds will hunt the districtsofSandringham, Houghton, and the neighbourhood, and a good season is expected. The Prince and Princess with their children are daily looked for in Norfolk, and, meanwhile, the Prince has begun his autumn round of shooting ...

... WHEN the fashionable lady in one of our old COmedies sa- the towvl would be robbed of one of its chiefest de 5s that should become a crime to laugh at a fool, we all feel tint if it right in her facts, but the question, why e sho lat she remains to be answered. To jeer a cripple or to ?? a tna augh, some peculiarity of feature, is always considered bad tb te wh in many cases is neither more ...

... PANISH WAR STEAMER 'LIN IAS' H.M.6 HERCULEGS' ?- 4I SHELF OF ROCK - E UNDER BILCE & KEEI MACNETIC / PINNACLES DER KEEL '0 & FIRST BILC\E PiECE STEAM TUG )AVELIA ok JI/ STEALM TUC LEON ESELCEV ,, /{ Ip-' A. M. STEIM A TUC 'REDPOLE\ /o I, / DIAGRAM SHOWING THE POSITION OF THE AGINCOURT ON TEE PEARL ROCK We are indebted for our diagram, showing the position of the Ag-izcourt on the Pearl ...

... * ?? M-A PARTY POLITICS.-Mr. J. H. Tillett, the Liberal candidate for Norwich, has beaten his opponent, Colonel Wilkinson, by a majority of 798, the numbers polled being 5,877 and 5,079 respectively. The new member, in his address of thanks, says that the result proves that Norwich is a Liberal constituency, and that the brief period of Conservative reaction is closed. The defeated candidate ...

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... p '_, I I I 1111101111111 ?X- m THE House of Commons is just now much in the position of a man who has undertaken to walk a thousand miles in a thousand hours, and who, having accomplished half his journey, is reminded by the figures on the milestones that he recklessly loitered through the earlier hours of his journey. The Ilouse is earnestly and energetically trying to make up for the lost ...

... THE ASHANTEFS WVAR T11E following extract from a private letter of a military officer from the banks of the Prah will sufficiently explain our sketch of the encampment :- Yesterday we examined the river for a bridge. We then walked some distance along a path to inspect it. It proved to be only one of the Asbantee jungle paths which they made on their retreat. The Ashantees crossed the river ...

... LAST Friday was the day set apart by general consent of the whole Anglican Church for prayer to the Almighty on behalf of mis- sionary effort. There was scarcely a congregation in the metropolis that did not share in the solemn service, end at most churches the Holy Communion was celebrated. Unlike Good Friday or Christmas Day, there was no suspension of business, but people went from their ...