... r2 to - la Ik 3 . ' e Iu L 3 ?? T THE Queen was to leave Windsor yesterday (Friday) for the Isle of Wdight, accompanied by the 1'rincess Elizabeth of Hesse, Princess Beatrice having gone to .Aix-les-B ...

... RURAL JNOTES ?? . . ?? ?? I/s WXHEAT wants more sunshine and less rain than we have had during the past ten days. Mildew is increasing, and despite the sturdiness of the straw the plant has not always ...

... IN one sense we very deeply regret the decision the Newcastle master engineers have come to upon the com. promise offered to them by their workmen. Through Mr. Mundella the men said, If yo ...

... --I .11 I i ?? - - ?? 4 / ill--? ?? ?,m - , I m I , , ? I ? , I Qu THE MARRIAGE LAWS. On Monday a deputation, among whom were Mr. Lowe, Lord Houghton, and Mr. Alderman M'Arthur, M.P., waited on ...

... ?? A I-- CENTENARY OF THE ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY UPWARDS of a hundred years ago a benevolent physician of London, named Hawes, had observed that persons apparently dead from drowning, hanging, lightning ...

... I 0 I ?? I, ?? ?? ?? THE coming visit of the Empress of Russia is now the chief topic of Court circles. The Czarina will leave Livadia in the Crimea, where, as usual, she has been spending the autumn, ...

... IT used to be said in the days when England's naval power was a mattermoreopenlybragged about than in thepresent day, although the sentiment which lay at the bottom of our highfalutin ...

... 7HE BUSHEY PARK REVIEW ALTHOUGH, numerically speaking, the Review in Bushey Park on the 3oth ult. could not be compared with the tre- mendous displays in which our German and French neighbours have la ...

... PAISLEY has erected a statue to Wilson, the ornithologist. AN ACCOMPLISHED LINGUIST has just died at Munich-the Abbe Richter, who could speak nearly eighty languages. DION BOUCICAULT has written a new ...

... 8. POLITICAL AFFAIRS.--The little borough of Wilton has rejected Mr. Norris (L) and returned the Hon. Sidney Herbert (C) by a majority of 751 against t86. Dark rumours, however, are afloat respecting ...

... #A THE EASTERN QUESTION THE FIRST TURKISH LINE OF DEFENCE-THE DANUBE IN the event of a Russian invasion of Turkey the Danube will be the first great line of defence with which the Russians will be met ...

... OLD SIGNS, TABLETS, ?? IN LONVDON STREE TS TtEI ancient memorials of London are rapidly becoming extinct ; scarcely a day passes but some old landmark disappears from its time-hallowed position, to be ...