... WEDNESDAY, March 9 NONE of the Ministerial dinners and official cntertain- ments which have been given, now that the Legislature is not in session, have attracted so much attention as a p ...

... 02~ f 0 0~~TH O D~~ ?? fi 'THE Queen and the Princess Beatrice remain at Osborne. On iatarday the ?? Eugenie and Sir H. Ponsonby joined the Royal party at dinner, and on Sunday morning the Queen and P ...

... GOING A WA Y DAYS IIWHAT a lovely day it is, Rosy? said a charming young lady the other morning to her sister on the esplanade. Yes, indeed it is, Milly, answered Rosy, as she gazed across the sea ...

... i nI EmitIIE; AFFAIRS IN THE EAST.-The proposal of the Porte for an Ambassadorial Conference at Constantinople appears to have been favourably received by the Powers as a sign that Turkey is willing t ...

... ,o ~ ~-2 0 ~ I.~ ~0 ~ - - THIE Royal party in the Isle of Wight has been considerably inconvenienced by the late severe weather. The Queen was unable to walk out one day, on account of the deep snow, ...

... ONE of the most common and most inveterate of prejudices about the weather is that the years have changed for the worse; that we have now no longer the wvarm an ...

... PREPARATIONS FOR THE CZAR'S CORONATION NEXT MAY have already begun, and fifteen pairs of snow-white horses have already been sent to Moscow in readiness for the ceremony. DIARIES, &c.-Some useful offi ...

... Wiso would like to be a princess ?-even the loveliest and loftiest princess in the world ? Joyous, doubtless, is the fantasy thereof; and when, seven years ago, all England welco ...

... HER Majesty has remained at Osborne during the weck. The 25th instant was the anniversary of the birth- day of Princess Louis of Hesse. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess ...

... ?? ?? THE ANGLO-FRENCH AGREEMENT.-There is still some doubt as to the precise significance of the Anglo- French Agreement. Mr. Gladstone and Lord Granville minimised as much as possible the functions ...

... URAL ~OE i ,( FINE WEATHER has favoured the farmer during the past fort- night. Wheat is short and strang in straw, and more regular and uniform in growth than has been the case since 1878. The colour ...

... ROBERT ELSMERE has been dramatised at Chicago. A CROCODILE which had taken the pledge was recently shot on the Daintree River, Queensland. The creature's stomach, the Colonies tells us, contained ...