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j DEATH AT THE TOWER.—On Saturday, offe"1,? bar cajiteen, Tower, a soldier him f of porter to any man wh :> would allow a 0 hit four blows on the chest. The offer was -Ha P;e. by a comrade named J. Coyne, who ona also in front of the bar, and who ]v,»ne,~ ^is jacket, at the same time showing his SDQ0 !\reast* At the third blow Coyne fell back die i s* was taken to hospital, where he on T°n Mon(3ay morning. An inquest was held from aes^ay» when a verdict was returned—Died from eniargement of the heart, caused by excessive I dnkIng.- United Service Gazette. AQUATIC ENTERPRISE.—A crew of five men, er the direction of Mr J. A. Harding, from jj Brunswick, and bringing with them two '"Some four-oared rowing galleys, arrived at utnampt°n on Thursday evening, in the teu^er Atlantic, from New York, wirh the in- n ',lon of contesting in the forthcoming inter- r„ l0naj regatta at Paris. The boats are named Pect>vely New Brunswick No. I and .No. 2, lono- -r bei"S new au^» as yet' untr'e^j 34ft. 'I St with a flat bottom the former, which is a "Illver boat, 35it. long, and has scarcely any Ca« raced on several occasions, and in most trae3i?orne off the winner. This interprising party steamship from New Brunswick to y b»t » and thence to New York, a distance of the^60'1 anc^ miles, before they commenced Atlantic vovaee. T TK bv v military review in Hyde Park to be held to KUer Ma.)esty on an early day in July, is likely grandest affair of the kind witnessed in «'>n for many years. All the troops that can anJ°"veniently massed together will be assembled, Mch a large force of artillery from Wool- grc ^°"0,v'no corps will probably be on the Seven regiments of cavalry—viz., the Q ^fe Guards (Blues), 1st and 4th Dragoon fo^ 3rd anc^ l^ch Hussars, and 17th Lancers; ftticl battalions of infantry—namely, the 2d })att battalions of Grenadier Guards, the 1st t"i!i 011 Coldstream Guards, and the 2nd bat- Hov1] Fusilier Guards, 1st battalion 18th 65th ^r'sb, 43d Light Infantry, 44th, 54th, 56th, la^' and 68th Light Infantry, 70th, 72d High- °a „e.rs'and 80th Regiments. A Rojal pavilion rev; S.e scale will be erected, and altogether the ^yr ew will be the event of the season.—Army and jj? Gazette. L VEREADFTFL OCCURRENCE.—During the past week f'ista*V melancl)°l.y occurrence took place a short had ^r?m Limerick. A Mr Cunneen, who er hed his farm for sale at Gernheen, r 1 lew days' illness, and his wife was so she as to eventually become insane, and 5%d faS ^eard t° say that if the youngest child, Ush *°JF months, were placed on the fire, her ago s soul would go to heaven. A few davs CUQ' e the servant was out on business, Mrs chii' e,en> labouring under insanity, took the trom the cradle, placed it on the fire, and aCj. v burning coals on it, and was caught in tjiat br ? servant. The child was afterwards by *nt0 Limerick, where, though attended 8^ r" Boiirke, it died and an inquest was held tieiit by John Gleeson, Esq. and a jury, fw' returning a verdict in accordance with the t^ s' pronounced the woman insane. She is de- >,ed in the county gaol. ClQ«T YEARS OP THE COUNTY COURTS.—In the bee. ei»ht 185D-GG, 6,441,181 plaints have .h0i-eutered County Courts of England ca(1Jrigv an average of 805,147 a year. 3,470,3<J9 --a fai been determined or judgments given *°°k backarn°Unt lvor^ ^)r even Judges to ?°?,S68 Upon tlie average is 433,796 a year, issued n^Vflrra,1ts of commitment have been ^prison a year* 63,030 debtors have been 1,003 OPR a year upon an average, good- i executions have been issued against Oeejj* ^25,383 a year; and 32,753 sales have tJu rnade, 4,094 a year, In the year 1866 the *Ver 8 Unc^er these heads were above the acsdafe> except, those two which express the the execution of the final process of the law 76 HUmber of debtors imprisoned being only 3,82a' and the numl>er of sales of goods only c'iii;e i Th? number of debtors imprisoned has de- eolisi erablv since a. change was "made in St|atin" cloarly upon the warrant that the °btaindiis discharge on paying the actually due it had been commonly ^ore hii "'at he miiSl ;il! the instalments PersoKs in'S ■(5isc1iarSec!- i8G,r> t^e number of 1863 n»i, 1,ir5Soned was one to everv 93 sued in petoevery 1,5sned- «?itish n A^nibals.—Mr Charles Livingstone, ^'siied ar 'n the Bight ui Biafra, has pub- 0(\iaccount a recent interview v\it!i the Pitnf ue Okrika country, v. wli a view to stop- Waf between that riuntry and New *Ucii'r- ,Many cbiefs were present. The King's ^0°fvvae Cllll"'ber had no light except through the the vr«n' Masses of human skulls hang from ?'»of s' !ln<' numerous rows of skulls cover the t*e ju; a SOi't altar. In front of this altar sat i'lte Q? R|an)5 having a footstool of human skulls. <Wrr -lad eaten the victims whose skulls Patiipj 6 e juju-house. 7'he old man who accom- r\SF S')0'Ke wi(b evident gust of the different .)aa 'easts he had partaken of, and mentioned t^e sv. s °t the human body which he cons dered te¡'ij,S\VeNe;;t. Mr Livingstone discussed with them ^ia a Pj'ace> ;UK' ;1' was finally arranged that thech- °u.U send down-two of his chiefs to meet ,i{Wen ,Bon»y aniI Calabar, and settle their C\;?' 'i^ie sess'on lasted four hours and a r"et3 si ,ever before in Africa had the consul Pair Pt>werful-I°°kiiig w':n as 'll'c Okrika. Sei)t 0f u|Si Fabiai made Mr Livingstone a pre- about a cartload of gigantic vams, two ^l ;C aU(^ a {CUVl- Mr^ri TIIUOUGH LOVE AND DRINK.—On Mon- ^!| it)n Uaipbreys, the Middlesex coroner, held f^et i'.ry at the Royal Oak Tavern, Galway- } Lukes, respecting the suicidc of Wil- !!lUl p j'lles Johnson, aged eighteen years. Wil- |1,esdav'v!!ar^.s sa^ that at five o'clock on Wed-- ton °rninS savv the deceased hanging on <!°theS' ,.ra^ of the banisters by means of a ► the rf16' ^"e was 9uite daad. It appeared f euieased had been a sailor, and upon his lllger aj° tu!s country he fell in love with a n.-0* goino-1 music-hall, anc^ be then decided upon n ''> ftnd^v.0 Sea a8a^X1' The singer was a pretty R^sion u8 Was yery jealous of her. Upon one a 6 streef 6 'ier talking to a young man in n qup'r-a? be flew into a dreadful passion, jeart. |4 ensued between him and his sweet- W- r'ot lov Was afterwards heard to say, You s,led, y 'ove y°< to which she re- lj it jjg5 i but it will not do for me to ie»i/°U ^be quarrel was made up, Ors broofl;USy Continued, and he used to sit for oUfU^ jilt 1 -ns OVer the idea that his sweetheart li °f his (] m' l1sed to drink to get himself the r be stateJ anc* wben excited by stafStpeet. Qnet with accidents while driving in bf0 he r 11 °ne occasion, when in an excited b^SbaiQ h's cart against a gentleman's ^hii .,le- Th • rotber paid for the damage he 6 a stat 6 J,ury returned a verdict of Suicide 01 Unsound Mind. A LAWYER built him an office in the form of a hexagon, or six square. The novelty of the structure attracted the attention of some Irish- men who were passing and they made a full stop and viewed it critically. The lawyer, some- what disgusted at their curiosity, lifted up the window, put his bead out and addressed them- What do you stand there gazing at my ofice for —do you think it is a church?' One of them an- swered—' I was thinking so, till I saw the devil Z, poke his head out of the windy.' BIRTH AND DEATH RATE OF THE WORLD.— Statisticians have calculated that if the population of the world amounts to between 1,200 and 1,300 million persons, the number of deaths in a year would be about 32 millions. Assuming the cor- rectness of this calculation, the deaths each day would be nearly 88,000 3,600 per hour, 60 per minute, and thus every second would carry into eternity one human life from one part of the world or another. But reproduction asserts its superior power; for, on calculating the probable annual births on the globe, the result shows that whereas 60 persons die per minute, 70 children are born, and thus the increase of the population is kept up. -Lancet.. ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY.— A somewhat serious accident occurred on the Great Eastern Railway, near Colchester, on Wed- nesday evening. A goods train of twenty-five trucks, containing some foreign goods, grocery, wine, &c., had arrived within a mile of Col- chester, when one of the coupling irons snapped, and thirteen trucks in the centre were upset, three or four rolling down an embankment thirty or forty feet hight. The contents of the trucks were, of course, much damaged. A messenger was at once dispatched to Colchester to stop a down mail train then due, and this object was happily attained. The up mail train was also delayed for a considerable time. Traffic was fully resumed, however, on Thursday morning. SALF. OF THE MARQUIS OF HASTINGS' HUNTERS AT QUORM.—On Wednesday afternoon the stud of hunters, that have been regularly hunted with the Quorn hounds, the property of the Marquis of Hastings, were submitted to public auction in a field aojoining the kennels, Quornden, Leicester- shire, by Mr T. Payne (Messrs Tattersall's, Lon- don). There was a large company, amongst them being Lord Yarborough, Lord E. Cavendish, Capt Barlow, Mr Tillotson, &c. The animals, which were in excellent condition, were all sold, with the exception of the lots, for which no bid was made. Mr Oldacres was the principal purchaser, five ani- mals falling to his bids for 1,085 guineas, or an average of 217 guineas each. The total amount the stud realised was 2,875 guineas, or an average of 99 guineas. Six horses belonging to lord A. I Paget were also sold. LOCKED-UP JURY ENJOYING THEMSELVES. — A recent case triedat the West Riding spring Sessions, at Bradford, was one in which a cabman, named M'Cormick, was charged with embezzling 3s 6d. The jury were unable to agree, and at the end of half an hour were moved to the jury room and locked up. After some time had elapsed, an officer was sent to see whether they were likely to agree, Z!l and he returned and said he did not think they would agree, for, he said, some of them had both drink and tobacco, and the room was filled with tobacco. 'Tobacco!' said the chairman; 'how did they get it?' They bring it in their pockets, n Z!l and lucifer matches too,' was the repiy. In a short time the chairman ordered the jury to be brought into court, and. not having agreed, they were dis- missed, and the prisoner ordered to enter into recognizances to take his trial at the next sessions — Wolverhampton Chronicle. The Elendarcl is very sarcastic upon the Reform League, and says :-It has been so often repeated to the English that they alone possess political liberty, that they think naively—even those who have not political rights-that the world outside their island is still ruled by a system anaiagous to that by which Mahomet II oppressed the East. This is all very well, and there is no doubt that we in England are too apt to measure all institutions by the rule of King, Lords, and Commons, and to suppose that there can be no liberty where any of these three are absent. But for all that the Etendard would find it hard to prove that France possesses true liberty so long as the power to hold public meetings is de- pendent upon the good pleasure of Government offi- cials, who may both prescribe the lensth of the meetings and the subjects discussed. Only a short time ago an agricultural paper was prosecuted because r it discussed the sliding scale, it being held by the Government, that this was a political question which the paper referred to had not been licensed to dis- cuss. Similarly, the vinegrowers of France had to go to Swi'zerland in order to discuss measures for the improvement of the vine, and the duties on wine, because it was held that these were political matters. THE TAILORS' STRIKE.—Mr James Beal, of 209, Piccadilly, on the 8th inst, addressed a letter to the president of the Master Tailors' Association, in which communication he suggested that, for the sake of promoting conciliation and settlement, arbitration should be resorted to in regard to the questions in dispute between the master tailors, and their men who are on strike. He inquired if the masters would receive a deputation from the men to discuss the proposal. The president of the Masters' Association, on the 12th inst, addressed a lengthy reply to Mr Beal, in whicti he entered fully into the history of the strike. He commenced his letter by stating that the masters are not aware of any question in dis- pute' between them and the men in their employ. I am desired to say that the men now in the employ of the principal London master tailors appear to be quite satisfied with the rate of wages paid, and the masters are quite satisfied with the men, and, consequently, as there is no dispute or difference of opinion between them, there is no question to refer to arbitration, as between them.' Mr Lewis, how- ever, goes on to say that as he supposes Mr Beal has volunteered his good offices on behalf of the body of men who, in April last, thought proper to strike against the London firms, who at that time were paykig the highest rate of wages in the trade,' the committee feel some explanation on the subject is due to him. He then reviews at length the incidents of the origin and certain consequences of the strike. With these particulars the public are sufficiently acquainted. The following passages of Mr Lewis's communication are, however, noteworthy. The masters have not and never had the slightest desire to dictate to the men, nor to interfere with I any combination which they might make as to the rate of wages. They desire to leave all the operative tailors free to ask any terms they like, but they at the same time desire to be free to employ who they like, and to pay only such wages as they may think fair and reasonable, or as other workmen express them- selves satisfied to receive.' 'And it is satisfactory to be able to state that at the present moment the loss and inconvenience are but nominal, and the masters look forward confidently to their entire removal in a 1 short time, and their being relieved for the future j from the inconvenience of these periodical strikes.' 1 FORTIFICATIONS. — On Thursday a return was issued relative to the expenses of the fortifications, &c. It shows that since March, 1861, the amount raised for fortifications by the creation of annuities- was £ 4,550.000, and the total annuities created (to expire on April 5, 1885), £ 30p,800. The total amount actually expended for fortifications up to March 31st last was £ 4,580,633. CHEERFUL WOMEN—O, if gloomy women did but know what comfort there is in a cheerful spirit! How the heart leaps up to meet a sunny face, a merry tongue, an even temper, and a heart which naturally or, what is better, from conscientious principle, has learned to take all things on the bright side, believing that the Giver of Life, being all perfect love, the best offering we can make to Him is to enjoy to the full what He sends of good, and bear what He allows of evil; like a child who, when once it believes in its father, believes in all his doings with it, whether it understands them or not. Among the secondary influences which can be employed, either by or upon a naturally anxious or morbid temperament, there is none so ready at hand, or so wholesome, as that so often referred to, constant employment. A very large number ot women, particularly young women, are by nature constituted so exceedingly restless of mind, or with such a strong physical tendency to depression, that they can by no possibility keep themselves in a state of even tolerahie cheerfulness except by being continually occupied.—Miss Mulock. OUTBREAK OF PLAGUE ON THE .EUPHRATES.— The telegraph sends evil news from Bagdad. What is declared to be the veritable Asiatic Plague has appeared at Lerbelah, on the Euphrates, and of the two settled Arab tribes—1.000 strong—whom it has attack, 100 have been carried off. A telegraphic report, dated June 4th, from the quarantine inspec- tor at Bagdad, states that whatever may be the real character of the malady, its symptoms are clearly those of the pest—typhus fever, glandular swellings, carbuncles, and livid spots on the skin. The inducing causes of the outbreak are supposed to have been the miasma following the lake floods, the poverty, filth, and crowded state in which the people live. Prompt measures have been taken by the Bagdad authorities to prevent the spread of the malady, and thanks to these, and the great heat of the weather, the outbreak is said to be al- ready subsiding. In the meautime. the Galata Board of Health, at a special meeting held yester- da), addressed an urgent recommendation to the Porte that the closest quarantine might be ordered by telegraph. This has accordingly been done, and a special inspector is at once to be dispatched by the board to investigate and report on the outbreak on the spot.-Levant Herald. THE LIFE OF MAN.—Every life has a past. Be- hind that man lies it little history. There has been a birth, and a childhood, and a boyhood, and a youth. And what a word is each one of those! What a mystery being and of becoming lies hidden in each ? i here has been somewhere or otber-tar away, perhaps, both in time and space-even for that man a mother, and a home, and an education and an experience. Ah those are sacred names and ill, perhaps, does any one of them seem to fit the case before us A mother—herself, perhaps, neglected, outcast, and then a sinner. A home—a single room, perhaps, for all that belonged to him, in a squalid tenement of some yard, the bot-bed of disease. An education--for all have that; but his, perhaps, just a letting alone—an association from infancy with vile companions, a familiarity from the cradle with every word and every imagination of evil. An experience—for all have that also; but his, perhaps, unmarked by any vicissitude of happiness, or any alternative, actually presented to him, of good. And every lite has a present. That being before you is the compound of a thou- sand influences. Legacies of past wretchedness still endow it, and ghosts of past wickedness still haunt it. But the life itself is that which it is. It has a 'now' as well as a 'then '—a to-day as well as a yesterday. And what is that now—and that to-day? Where is the loving home from which this man emerged at morning, in which he will find his solace and his repose at evening ? What are the actual thoughts ot the heart this noonday ? Is there any label of rest on that anxious brow ? any visible mark of honest love to good of man, shining through (as it were) from that heart? 'There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.' And the future ? That life, which has a past and a present, has also a future. Is that future bright with hope ? What shall the advancing age be, and the last sickness, and the bed of death ? Is the man himself sowing—even in an unearthly sense- for a satisfactory reaping ? Has he so laid out his plan of life, as that it can answer without a miracle —a daily, a perpetual, and (what is more) a God- defying miracle? And 'God,' we know, 'is not mocked for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.Dr. Vavghan in Good Words.' IMPORTANT TO COUNTY COURT AGENTS. — Last week before Mr. R. G. Welford, Judge, Mr Row- lands, solicitor, instructed by the High Bailiff of the Court, made an application in reference to the conduct of Mr Rayliss, furniture dealer, of Colehill Street, Birmingham, whom he charged with con- tempt of court in sending to a debtor a document purporting to be an official document of the Court. He handed in a copy of a circular, which .resembled in some respects a document of the Court, and ex- pressed a hope that his Honour would disapprove of the practice of creditors sending out documents of that kind.—His Honour said he was not aware of a case of that kind having been brought under his notice.—Mr. Parry, who appeared for Bayliss, said that while he would not say one word as to the propriety of such a practice, yet he maintained that the document did not compromise the dignity of the Court. There was no doubt that persons who had to deal with small debtors did things that c'buld not be approved of, but the document could notbe considered as an imitation of anything issued from the Court. The document bad not been con- cocted by Bayliss, but was a printed form sold at the stationer's. It was true there was the Royal arms at the top of the document, but be could not say that was an offence, and the quotation at the bottom was an extract from the Act of parlia- ment. It was no more an imitation of any docu- ment of the Court than a note of the bank of Ele- gance was an imitation of the Bank of England His Honour called attention to the scaf on the document, which Mr. Parry contended was merely an address. His Honour said be bad direct power under 9 & 10 Vict. s. 157 to deal with offences against the dignity of the Court, and such a document as that before him was extremely likely to bring a man who issued it under that section. Another section of the Act specially designated as an offence the delivering of any document purport- 109 to be official which was not so. If he were sitting as a magistrate he should have been dis- posed to deal strongly with the matter, and if the practice were repeated he should recommend that proceedings be taken against the offender. If in future any agent issued such a document, he would give directions that such agent should not be allowed to practice in the Court, nor hold any com- j munication with any of the officials, so far as could be prevented nor should such person have any faci- lities for transacting business.—The Law Journal. BEST 'BREAD' MEN.—The baker was genuine ivho advertised as follows :—' The subscriber knowing that men needs bread, wishes the public to know that he kneads it. He is desirous of reeding all who are hungry, and hopes his good works may be in the mouth of every one. He is well disposed towards all men, and the best bred people among us wil) find him, he hopes, one of the best bread men in the city.' AN EPIDEMIC WITH AN ALIAS.-It is undoubtedly of great importance that public attention should he carefully directed to the occurrence of epidemic diseases, and the startling character of the eruption (going by the name of the black death) has ensured a sufficient public anxiety concerning the novel epidemic' now prevalent in Dublin. This epidemic however presents characters which indicate that it is allied very closely to the outbreaks which have been known as 'Epidemic cerebro-spinal menin- gitis,' or spotted fever,' in America, on the Eu- ropean Continent, and in Dublin and Liverpool, on former occasions. In these various epidemics, and sometimes, as at this moment in Dublin, dur- ing the same epidemic, the predominance of one or other class of symptoms seems to have caused physicians to differ in opinion as to its nature and classification—some regarding it as essentially typhus, and others as a primary inflammation of the spinal membranes. Dr T. H. Squire, in a memoir describing forty-three cases which occurred in 1857 at F.lmira, United States, describes these varieties, and alludes to the differences of opinion, impartially giving us the choice of calling the epi- demic congestive fever, pernicious fever, typhus petechials, spotted fever, cerebro-spinal menin- gitis, and brain fever. The differences of opinion as to the proper nomenclature of the present epidemic in Dublin would appear to range over almost as wide a field. The features which indicate the nervous and cerebro-spinal complications are, the retraction of the head, the twitchings and convul- sions, and the post mortem indications of arachnoid innamtnatlon the petechial eruption classes it among the fevers. Dr. Stokes has no doubt that it has proved in some instances contagious, and there is no more accomplished and experienced authority in Ireland. Dr Draper, in an important paper on 'Cerebro-spinal Meningitis, or Spotted Fever,' read before the New York Academy of Medicine in 1S64, maintains its identity with typhus. Dr Murchison suggested the same view on the occasion of the outbreak of cerebro-spinai meningitis last year in North Germany, which attracted so much attention in this country. Cere- bro spinal typhus is the name given to this class of diseases in the most recent foreign works on topographical medicine. The military medical officers, we believe, especially incline at this mo- ment in Dublin to identify the present epidemic with typhus. Fortunately, however, although widely scattered, it is far from being general. The total number of cases has been small; and there is, we hope, no reason to apprehend any large mortality, it, as assuredly wiil be the case, careful sanitary precautions are enforced.—British Medi- cal Journal. THE BELGIAN VISIT TO ENGLAND.—The Belgian Reception Committee who have made S, St Martin's Lane, Trafalgar Square, their headquarters, are now constantly and assiduously engaged in pre- paring the arrangements for the grand series of fetes to be given in July in honour of the visit of the Belgian Volunteers. Tits culminating event of the celebration will be the grand ball at the Agri- z, 7 cultural Hall, whichis expected to surpass anything ever witnessed during a national demonstration in England. The King and Queen of the Belgians will be present, and there is good reason for be- lieving that the magnificence of the Sultan and I z7, suit will add largely to the splendour and gorgeous- ness of the scene. The illuminations will be as superb and their designs as artistic as the utmost attention to decorative arrangement can effect, and will be fitted up by the Messrs Defries, of Houndsditch. The walls of the immense buildino- will be lined with mirrors, groups of flowers and statuary will occur at frequent intervals, tiny foun- tains will play in half-concealed grottoes, and the great extent of the building in which the fete is to be held will be made available to render the coup d'ceil on the occasion as brilliant and as diversified as possible. The following is the official pro- gramme, as at present arranged: -On Thursday, the 11th of July, the Belgian contingents to the number of one thousand, will embark on board Her Majesty's ships at Antwerp, and will, it is ex- pected, reach the mouth of the Thames of the 12th, They will be there met by the Royal Thames Yacht Squadron and other clubs, and be escorted to Woolwich, where they are expected to arrive about eleven or twelve o'clock. They will be here met by the Belgian Reception Committee and taken on board three or four river steamers, and brought up to London. On landing at the Custom- house they will be received by a guard of honour of Volunteers, and escorted to the Guildhall, where they will be entertained at a dejeuner, for which the Corporation has voted the munificent sum of £1,5,,0. After this they will be escorted to their various hotels and lodgings, and it is expected that that some of the theatres will be visited in the evening. On Saturday, the 13th, the whole of the Belgians will be conveyed by trains to Wim- bledon, where at noon they are to be officially in- spected by Lord Spencer, the President, and the Council of the National Bifle Association. The President of the Belgium Reception Committee will then present to each of the Belgians a silver badge, and a riband in commemoration of their visit to England, and it is expected that these will be con- sidered as a passport for those wearing them to all places of public entertainment. The rest of the dav will be occupied in inspecting the camp and the shooting points, and in the evening some place of amusement will be visited. On Sunday, the 14th, the Zoological Gardens will be thrown open to the Belgians by order of the Council of the Society. On Monday a trip will be made to Richmond, where a variety of entertainments will be provided, including a cricket match which is being organized by the members of the Civil Service Rifle Corps. On their return the Volunteers will land at Cremorne, which will be decorated for the occasion. On Tuesday, 16th, they will assemble at the drill-ground of the North Middlesex Rifles (at the Cavalry Barracks, Albany- street), and will march thence to Holly-lodge, High- gate, the residence of Miss Burdett Coutts, who has devised a special fete for our Belgian guests. On Wednesday I the lions of London' will be inspected, and in the evening the grand ball will be given in the Agricultural Hall. On Thursday there will be series of al fresco fiUs at the Crystal Palace, ind in the evening a display of fireworks on. i scale of magnificence hitherto unattempted in former exhibitions of a similar character. On Fridav prizes will be shot for at Wimbledon, rind in the evening a grand monster concert will be held at the Agricultural Hall, under the direction of Mr Costa. On Saturday, the 20th, the grand review of the English and Belgian Volun- teers will take place, and the 'citizen soldiers of both countries will march past his Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief together. This will con- clude the celebration, and the Belgians will pro- bably return home on Sunday or Monday.