... THe deep impression created by the Emperor Frederick's Diary will be confirmed by Gustav Freytag's ,Contribution to the History of the Making of the New German Empire, which is published to-day. The new light which the revelations of the late Emperor and of his friend throw upon the events of x870-I are a striking instance of the way in which history may be at fault in the absence of first ...

... Tiffic ?? attle. far Me T ra El ableo If the young Empress of Germany shares with our Princess the distinc- tion of being somewhat of a goddess of fashion in her country, dainty little aprons will play a great part in the fashions of the season. It appears that a number of Berlin ladies have presented their Empress with an elaborate little white silk apron, round which, entwined with garlands ...

... I ALLEGED INTIMIDATION OF WITNESSES. The Attorney-General, on the assembling of the Parnell Commission this morning, said they were endeavouring to arrange the witnesses so that they might be as far as possible connected and have each outrage completed, but in the county Kerry they had the greatest difficulty in consequence of causes he had to bring before the notice of the Commission. He had ...

... A MILLION SLA VES MADE FREEMEN. TIlE GREAT WORK THAT HAS BEEN DONE IN BRAZIL. T1IE Emperor of the Brazils is dying at Milan, watched by his Consort and hiis physicians. At intervals he recovers consciousness, and prays that his life may be spared till he reaches the capital of his splendid dominions to thank God in the presence of his people that Brazil is no longer a slave- using country. ...

... FRRNCHWOMEN: PAST AND PRESENT. II.-MARIE ANTOINETTE AND THE COMTESSE DE PARIS. THE last Queen of a ruling Bourbon was Marie Antoinette of Austria, and now that the Comtesse de Paris seems disposed to play an active Dart in the efforts, of her husbands QUEEN MARIE ANTOINEflE. party to restore the Monarchy in France it is worth while to take note of the wide difference which a century makes in ...

... (BY A CANTERBURY PILGRIM.) CANTERBURY, Wednesday Night. A real summer's day at last ! No April showers, but a genuine blazing sun which is only momentarily obscured now and then by a harmless white cloud, And all thin benignant behaviour on the part of the clerk of the weather was wasted-at least from a cricketing point of view, for it was evident from the state of a ;airs overnight that Kent ...

... Lord Charles Deresford seems to be enjoying bins-self at Berlin, but be will probably not be over-well received at Sandringham when be comes back. It is no doubt pleasant to hub-nob with Emperors and Bismarcks, but it is rather difficult to do so at the sanre time you are hand-in- glove with those whom they have insulted. Not even Lord Charles ca'n both have his cake and eat it, and as he has ...

... GROSSMIHI'S SUCCESSOR. AN INTERVIEW WITH MR. JOHN WILKINSON. MR. JOHN WILKE! NSON. JACK POINT THE FIRST, in the dimi- nutive person of Mr. George Gros- smitb, has left the regions of the Savoy, bent upon besieging the pockets of the provincials, and Jack Point the Second reigns in his stead. A complete contrast to his predecessor is this new jester, as he dodges about among the burly ...

... MR. CHAMBERLAIN'S LATEST. FOUL ACCUSATIONS AGAINST MR. GLADSTONE. CHARGES OF BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION. Mr. Chamberlain, addressing a Unionist meeting at Plymouth last n'ght referjed briefly to the recent by-elections. He said their Gladstonian friends were a little too sanguine with regard to those elections, and he was not at all sure that the next general election would confirm the exper ences ...

... THE BLA CA'CAP. THERE is no song-bird we have about which the books say so much and the public know so little. I mean, of course, our own public-the English public. Abroad be is a great favourite. Here in England he is rarely caged, andwhen he is heard in the shrubbery is generally mistaken for a nightingale. There is a well-known nightingale that generally appears in the flower-walk in ...

... FOURTH EDITION THE BURIAL OF ROBERT BROWNING, LATEST ARRANGEMENTS. The burial of Mr. Robert Browning in Westminster Abbey has, after corn. munication with his family at Venice, been arranged ifor noon on Tuesdaythe 31Et inst. As on similar occasions, the issue of cards of admission to the limited space available for reserved seats will be placed in the hands of the family of the deceased poet. ...

... THE FANTASTIC FAILURE MUST GO.-Daily Teleraph. The Daily Telegrapk, as to the reorganization of the Detective force, says that it cannot, while referring to the bounden duty of the Government, shrink from the painful but imperatively necessary task of warning Lord Salisbury that the public are altogether discontented with, and will soon become uncontrollably impatient of, the presence at ...