... EPITOME OF OPINION IN THE MORNING JOURINALS. THE FISHERMEN'S RIOT AT KINSALE. The [limes observes that the Irish are certainly an unlucky people, and this is not the less true because so much of their bad luck is gratuitously provoked. They are incessantly repeating, what is perfectly correct, that the country is rich beyond calculation in all the material elements of national wealth; and the ...

... Tl-HIE ATE TI SCH-OOL BOARD. A Su.,SMARY OF ITS PLEDGES AND A FORECAST OF ITS POLICY. IT may be interesting, now that the new School Board has elected its chief officers and is beginning to set to work, to give some forecast of what its policy will be. This we are enabled to some extent to do by reference to The Candidates' Catechism,' which we published immediately before the election Of ...

... THE COHING' BA TTLE OF THE SCHOOLS PREPARING FOR THE REPORT OF THE ROYAL COMxISSION. IN a few days probably-in a week or two at most-the Royal Com mission on- Educeation will issue its- last Report, and around the recom- mendations there contained, will be waged a strife exceeding in bitterness anything that has been knownoin recent years-the Irish controversy always excepted. This strife will ...

... AN EMIPTY PRISOAT. BY A STROLLING ARTIST. THE other day I obtained permission to spend a few hours in the prison of Coldbath-felds, of which I now give you a few sketches. I send them to you THE GRLAT GATES. as I know that Mr. Stead be-aln his crimniaal career behind tbe frowning walls which still strike terror into the hearts of evildoers. To-dav it is empty, Nvhy I know not, and the famous ...

... THE suggestion which we ventured to press the other day upon her Majesty's Government as to the advantages that would accrue to the Empire by the appointment of the Marquis of LORNE to the High Commissionership of South Africa, has, we are glad to say, attracted considerableattentionand will,wetrust, lead before long to his selection for the post. Underlying that question there is another to ...

... THE MAR VELLOUS MODERA TION OF MR. PARNELL. MR. BALFOUR, speaking yesterday at Manchester, referring to the Special Commission, asked:- If the Liberals think the Commission is competent to elicit the troth upon the comparatively minor question ?? of the authenticitylof those letters, why should they say we doubt that it is equally competent to elicit the truth with regard to those far more ...

... How SOCIETY EXPERTS ArrANGE AND LEAD IT, THE other day we printed an interview with Mr. George Groesmith on the subject of waltzing, not forgetting the cotillon. Apropos of this dancing, men and women will be interested in the following account-taken from the PhiladelAhia Peck/y Tinmes-of the german, which is the American name of the cotillon. To begin with, said a society leader, the ...

... TO-DAY'S TITTLE TATTLE. Unless I am much misinformed there is trouble brewing between the Kaiser and the Pope. The guarded communications in the papers as to the freedom with which his Holiness commented upon his Imperial and Royal Majesty give little idea of the intensity of the Holy Father's feelings. He )s a bad son, and he will be a bad Monarch, is said to have been one of the Pope's ...

... ROTHA WS TEAD AND ITS WORAK AN INTERVIEW WITH SIR JOHN BENNET LAI ES, BART. THE discovery and development of agricultural science is indissolubly associated with the experiments which have been made at Rothamstead for just one year short of half a century. And whoever seeks to learn of the marvellous workings of plant-life in all its forms looks for inspiration and guidance to the world- ...

... THE EMPEROR'S SPEECH TO THE GERMAN REICHSTAG, THE RUMOURED MILITARY LOAN. To-day the Reichstag will be opened by the Emperor in person. In the Speech from the Throne his Majesty vill, it is said, in alluding to his recent tour among the chief European Courts, dwell on the friendly relations of Germany to all her neighbours, and express the hope, founded on the present state of Europe, that ...

... ff t 3p 'broav. mint and 1? Spain and Italy have given their adhesion to the Suez Canal Convention Sir Clare Ford has left Madrid for London on leave of absence. It is announced that the Four per Cent. Greek Monopoly Loan will be placed on the market in Frankfort by Messis. Erlanger and Sons this wveek. ' Dr. Henry J. Dornville, C.B., Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets died suddenly at ...

... q.t Vollic an . bro.M. Spain and Italy have (iven their adhesion to the Suez Canal Convention Sir Clare Ford has left ,Madrid for London on leave of absence. It is announced that the Foiur pir C(ent. (Greck Mlonopoly Lcan viI Ie placed on the mariket in Frankfort by Messis, Irlanger and Sons thlis %Tc'lh Dr. Henry J. Domville, C.B., ?? of Hospitals aand Fklets died suddenly at Paignton on ...