... /Zll?;o 'I 0 ? I 1 4 THE HUGE ELECTRIC Lic~tsr TowlER. at Hell Gate, New York, which is to illuminate the harbour, will be finished in January. TIlE QUICKEST DELIVERY OF TIlE AMERICAN MArLS IN PARIS on record was made last week, when the letters and newspapers only took nine days in transit. TwVo FINE AMlERICAN Bus'rALOsare being brought to Scotland for the Duke of Argyll, who intends to house ...

... THERE are a considerable number of places in Sussex which are visited so reverentially by pilgrim tourists that in a sort of way they may be spoken of as shrines. Of course a good deal will depend on the particular tastes of the tourist, and what his notions of a shrine may be. Having visited a number of the memorial places in the county, I give some impressions respecting a few of them. ...

... IF you will give my cook a slice of bread to dress and prepare with all those additions of wine, spice, butter, and sauce, she will make you a far more delicious dish than that Bah ! the fish is beneath contempt. My friend was perfectly correct ; the fish, a very fine carp, was beneath contempt. He was a glorious fellow, and we caught him- that is to say, I hooked him, played him. in the ...

... W . . . MR. GLADSTONE AT HOME AGAIN.-Some of Mr. Gladstone's opponents, with questionable taste, have rebuked him for his prolonged residence at Cannes. There was really rio very urgent reason why he should have come back at an earlier date. It has been said that he wished to be out of the way when the Affirmation Bill was being discussed; but he could not have imagined that a measure which ...

... ?? . ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ' ' ' ?? . ?? ?? NoRTIIAmrTONsHIRE, though badly off for seaside watering- places, was, and is, exceptionally rich in county families. Notable amongst these were the Treshams, to the Rushton branch of whom belonged Sir Thomas, father of Francis Tresham of the Gunpowder Plot. The mania for house building to which we owe Longleat, and Bess of lar dwjck's Hall More Glass ...

... ?? ?N. 44. ?? ?. - - ?U?If ?WS >? I / ? AT A LUNCHEON given to the clergy and newly-elected chdrch- wardens at Canterbury the Bishop of Dover took occasion to explain away some idle rumours as to delay in his re-appointment a, Suffragan. The Archbishop had never thought of dispensing with a Suffragan, but while Archbishop designate he could not issue a new Commission. He was confirmed, as all ...

... ?? Q THE rivalry between PORTUGAL and ENGLAND in CENTRAL AFRICA has entered upon a more serious phase. 'While diplo- matic arguments go on leisurely at home over the respective claims in Mashona-Land and the Zambesi region generally, Portuguese agents in Africa proceed to fresh annexations. Thus Major Serpa Pinto's arbitrary conduct in the Shire highlands complicates the situation considerably ...

... AeOBkERzI' BROWtUNING ON Thinusday, December 12th, the world welcomed a new volume of poems from the pen of Robert Browning-poems which tshowved no abatement of mental vigour on the part of their author. But his bodily strength had long been waning, and on the very same evening he passed away at the Palazzo Rezzonico, in Venice, where he had been staying with his son. Robert Browning was born ...

... NOTHING more gratified the Shah of Persia when in Paris than the attention he received from the inhabitants of Belleville On the occasion of his visit to the Buttes Chaumont all the population of the Red Revolutionary and Socialist quarter turned out to greet him, their numbers and animation calling forth the remark, When do these Parisians find time to work ? The holiday aspect of the ...

... ./ ~ ~ ~ . THE QUEEN will not open Parliament in person this year. ller Majesty continues to suffer considerably from rheumatism, ?? otherwise well in health, and the fatigue and exposure caused by a full-dress ceremony in the winter might increase her malady. At present the Queen remains at Osborne. Lord George Hamilton dined with Her Majesty at the end of last week, and on another evening ...

... Om - A CONSIDERABLE section of the Welsh Liberationists, believers in the advent of Mr. Gladstone to office after the next General Election have formulated, in what is known as the Rhyl Resolution, a demand that no Home Rule Bill for Ireland shall be introduced unless it is accompanied by a measure for the Disestablishment of the Church in Wales. Mr. Gladstone, having been consulted on the ...

... SKETCHES IN THE LA WV COURTS-IL OF all the courts, the Admiralty Court is perhaps the least known, and yet the best worth knowing. Thrilling stories of the sea are often told here, and Mr. justice Butt sitting with or with- out the Trinity Masters has no easy task in deciding the rights and wrongs of many a case on the conflicting evidence before him. There is a hearty partisanship anmong ...