... An article in the Hlops Kicultrral Tes gives the following advice --Of late years orchid culture has been greatly simplified, and many more classes of the community can share alike the enjoymcnt created in the growoing of a- few cool orchids. Fortunately for every one who loves gardening, many orchids can be grown in greenhouses, and even by judicious management many can be grown out of doors, ...

... PARLIAMENT KEEPING ITS PO WDER DRY, BY A SPECTATOR. rise House spent a quiet evening in Committee of Supply. It was a benefit ight for the few specialist critics, but the other people who were there-not very many-found little excitement. Even question time was dull. Mr. Theobald, who is determined to distinguish himseif, and who labours under the idea that England looks to him to confound the ...

... INTV THE ROUSE OF COMMONS LAST NIGHT. By A LOOKER-ON. Tils was tihe Night of the Fishermen ; and it was distinguished by a delightful scientific lecture by Dr. Lyon Playfair. Questions did not contain anything special, The Speaker read, amid cheers, a fraternal communication from the 6,ralll\CReichstag, which recognized the expressions of sympathy with the German people which found utterance ...

... OCCASIONAL NOTES, The session is dying, let it die, sums up the parliamentary situa- tion. Everybody is bored to death with it, and even the Irish members are now allowing things to slide. During some portion of his speech on Saturday Mr. Balfour had an audience of two persons only-the Speaker, and one faithful Conservative member. Nothing can show more clearly than this the state of ...

... IN TIHE HO USE OF COMMONS LAST NIGHT. By A LOOKER-ON. WI; had the liveliest night we have yet experienced this session. It was jike a page torn from the book of the session of 1887. The subjdct was the latest outbreak in Ireland: the sudden. departure of the county court judges in Ireland from established practice, by increasing the sentences passed upon defendants who had brought their cases ...

... THE ARCHBISHOP AND MR. IR VING. THEIR TALK ABOUT CHURCH AND STAGE. On Saturday a Pal Afall Gazelte Tittle Tattle paragraph recorded the fact that at -Mr. Sebag Montefiore's house the Archbishop of Canterbury and Mr. Irving had had a long conversation. This week Mr. Stuart Cumberland, in his paper, the Mirrcr, states that he tock part in the discussion in question. and proceeds to furnish his ...

... at vame any abran7l. President Carnot has signed a decree extending until January i next the delay for registration granted to foreigners who are settled in France. It is reported from Wady Halfa that WValad-el-Njumi, the Emir of Dongola, has died from the effects of poison. An anonymous donor has forwarded 500 to the fund for maintaining the cruising hospital ships of the Mission to Deep Sea ...

... THE WAZENING OF THE WEST.-1 By THE EDITOR OF THE 1 WESTERN DAILY MERCURY, PLYNOTUTTI THE great dream of waking up the West is to be realized in the course of the coming week. Remote from London, and slow of access, the countw of Devon and Cornwall ran their political course without much incident Unt4 Reform ?? became once more the watchwords of the Liberg party. The descendants of Drake, of ...

... The silence of the Tzar was not so absolute, it seems, as was at first reported. He did not, indeed, make any original remarks of his own in response to the German Emperor's allusion to the traditional friendship between the two countries; but according to the official report of his speech he did express his entire concurrence in. the sentiments of his host. That is something; but what is more ...

... IS THE RAG BABY COMING AFTER ALL ? HITHERTO we in England have been mercifully spared popular discussion of the currency question. Sixty years ago the three C's-Corn, Currency, and Catholics-distracted the politicians of Britain. Corn and Catholics have been settled. But Currency still lingers in the background, to trouble the minds of men. The Currency question is like the question of ...

... Justices Field and Manisty will deliver judgment in 'O'Brien v Salisbury, as the action appears with delightful brevity in the cause list, on Saturday morning. More than a month has elapsed since the trial; the case was disposed of on November pth. But both their lordships have been away ac circuit, a fact which amply accounts for the delay. * Mr. William Woodall intends, I hear, to spend ...

... THE TRUE ISSUES IN THE SCIIOCL PSON RD ELE CTION.-IZ. AN INTLRVIE\V wi V-Ir THlE L.\AE CH-AIRNIA:N ?? U1- 1B,:, TfiE reputation of the present School Board for econ' v , is a curious instance of what may be done by persistent assertion, .iP r4i atning portion of our interview with Mr. Buxton will shons hUW iii founded this reputation is. In the first instalment of the U:.-rviev, Mr. |Buxton ...