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"Eontrou gtomapouttcuce. I

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Eontrou gtomapouttcuce. Society has been considerably excitod by the an- nouncement of the approaching marriage of Lord Brassey. The noble iord is iiity-thrfe, aud his pro- spective bride thirty-two. It is nearly two years since Lady Brassey died, and Lord Brassey is so much devoted to family and dojntijtic life that it is net surprising that he should marr* a second time. The Bishop of Salisbury now always retains at the palace tha prasuuca oi some three or four un- beneficed clergJrnoll who life abia to go out at a. momeut's notice to a pariah where the vicar is taken ill or where a mission is to be preached-iu iact at this very moment the historic parish of George Herbert at JjreuierUn, to which the new rector has not bcou inducted, is being served by a clergyman from the palace, about tiVO miles distant. The Bishop has also tLo seivices of a barrister, who acts as his private secteiary and legal adviaar in the diocese. Sir Guyer Huntor's committee on the London -water question is going to visit. Glasgow and Man- chester, t'J inspect the waterworks ill those towns., It wiil take no evidence, but will invite one or two prominent officials from each place to iavour them with their views, after the vacation. The next point to which the committee will direct attention is the adequacy of the present supply. Souio strong evi- dence, lhear, is likely to be given by experts, show- ing that in a very law years, owing to the enormous growth of London population, the present supply most be inadequate. 4t A marked improvement in the state of Ireland, 130, far as agrarian cniue is eoueerucd, is shown by the official returns for the quarter which ended ou tho 30th of ladt month. Not a single case of murder or manslaughter was reported, iiiere were four in- stances, all in Munster, of tiring' at the person, three of aggravated assault, three of assault endangering life, oue of assault on the police, teu of iucendiary fires, one of burglary, lour d cattla stealing, three of killing or maiming cattle, sixty-three of intimi- dation (mainly by Luren tClJilJg letters or notices), fifteen of injury to property, and fourteen of firing iuto dwellings. *.i The 2ud Grenadior Guaids are not so cheerful this -week as they wore last. Somebody told them that they irere auout to be de»pa!h».d to Natal, and they wero ready to bear their punishment, glndiy. They ■welcomed a change which whidJ. would give thema,sou. voyage and a taste oi tiouth African lite. Dut they are not so cheerful on learning thai limy are to bo despatched to tho Bermudas. These isiauutj are not exactly at- tractive to inea who havtJ in nd in the very heart of London. Aa the largest island is only 11 miles long aDd contaius only 9,000 acres, and there are no hills, aud the population numbers leBS than 16,000, more than h-ilf of whom are scattered, and the chiof: town is small, our crack corps is not happy at the prospect of spending throe years on areof. Had they been despatched to Natal, the Guards would not have been punished. Sent to Bermudus, they will feel the sentenco passed upon them as though it were ode of banishment. 9 Sir F. Burton appears to have acquired an old muster for the National Gaiiai y at a remarkably low price. One of the works put up to auction at Christie's was doseribed as a (Jorreggio—the head og of a woman—which, it was said, had beea cutj from the wall of a chapel at Parma. On tho hack of the picture, however, there was pasted a letter eigned by Benjamin West, written in Kswmim Street, stating that it was taken from the dilapidated fragments of a small room painted by Co i reg; jio in the old palace in the garden at Pairna, which was pulled down when West .was on his way from Rome in 1703. Tiiis was the small head in fi-e ';co which tha iiarl of Mulgrave bought in the sale of Mr. GrevilVs collection in 1820 for £ 91 iOa., and it now eold for only X5 5s. A veri- table Correggio at this figure ccmpouaates foe some of the very costly purchases which have of late been the vogue. But perhaps its condition duea not warrant a highor price. « It is a sign of the decadence of season when wo find a paper like the Sjpcstator tutting from politics to discuss in a philosophical spirit the new stylo of shaking hands. It i3 not new, of course, except in the newspupers and the surprise is that it has not come up ior discussion before. The old style of uhak- ing hands, with smart people, is quite out. AVhea two members of this claes, or of the far more numerous class that imitates them, meet eaoh other, they go through a ceremony which certainly bears a laint resemblance to that ofshaklug hands, but is in all real essentials absolutely different. The lady lilts her elbow as high as a tight sleeve will pormit her, and dangles a littlo hand before her face, carefully keeping the wrist as stiff and as high as possible, while she allows the fingers to droop down. The man contrives to Hit his eibow a little higher, aud, by a dexterous turu r f the wrist, touchys her ringers—that is ail. That is the whole ceremony L ut. it is a ceremony that requires a good deal of practice, and the only question wcrthfttiKtug is whether it is werth all the tronbia that: it invuivea. **•' Sir Richard who has just died in Paris, has Appeared inaction, uuvler moro or less transparent di^guisOM, moio than once, lie was Thackeray's Marquis of fcteyne, and Mr, Disraeli satirised hrn iii loa youthful novels severely, but also more kindly in the lust work that, fell trom his pen. bir Il'iciuud luhmiie.l many of the abilities and all the urt cutbuMMUiis of tho old iUarquij oi Hertlord. tie w..s constiiuif.d tLe hoir of that famous voluptuary, IHlÚ added enormously to the cdloctiouli wtiii.ii hi* lathbr made. Sir Richard, however, was not a voluptuary, but a philanthropist. In politics a CouKervutivo, lIe sat for some time in i'u:Ir liioat, bat jn.ue no figure there, which is not fin: pi icing, an 110 preferred Paii* to London. To London, it is true, I o practically gave the Bethnal Green Museum, by exhibiting his art trea- sures in tbe Last End. But ho supplied Paris with diinkiiig louutniua aud pure spring water, and while ha lived there was always ready with his charities to Lugiisti residents, lie had the inagniiiceuco of bis laihor, with more Ihuu his gentleness and none of Lis vices. Sir Richard manied a i<'r iicii lady, but i believe had no issue. His baronet y therefore die.) wnb hnn, and it is not yet known what becomes of his enormous wealth. « Although Lord George Hamilton has settled tho coudiiiuu-of-iUe-navy question for several years to como, lie ims yet to remove tho grievances of an iIn- portaut branch of the service. The engineer officers complain that they aro paid at a lower rate aud | racked below Other ;oliiccrs in the serviue..Fo! twbuty yea;3 past every attempt made by the' engineers to better thoir position has been repressed1 by thiJ executive officers of tho fleet. It ia a con- tiuuatiou of the struggle between sail and stenm. I bailing is extinct, but officers trained under the sail j are apt to look upou engineers as if they were part of the ship's machinery. The engineers compiain I of their classification "with but after." This; humorously inapt iden is one of the triumphs of de- paitmoutai circumlocution. An engineer officer' classed as lieutenant has to rank after all the execa- tive lieutenants of similar classification. he haai tho rank but not its privilege. It happens some- timeo that an eugiuoor lieutenant of several years' standing has to take rank behind an executive lieutenant who has not been on shipboard five minutes. The engineers want this illusory classifi- cation dono away with. They wish either to be officers ia reality, or not at, all. *• Tho satisfaction which every Londouor has fait at having obtained Homo Ruie ior his city comes to be -very much qualilied when he has to consider tha cost of it. The County Council's new Money Bill, backed by Mr. Jackson and the Chancellor of tha exchequer, has been delivered. It gives new borrow- ing powers amouuting to £ 1,226,000. Of the specjfic pu.posea for which the sum is authorised, £ 50,000 is to be spent on tlio lire brigade, £ 45,000 ou parks aud open spaces, 18,000 on bridges, JE2,500 for tho old artizaus' dwellings scheme, X20,000 for buildiug houses under the recent Acts, and £ 15,000 for pro- viding common lodging houses. A large proportion is given for stieut improvements. Money is to be raised for the Strand improve- ment, though it is understood that it is for the time abandoned. A memorandum issued with the Bill reveals to the Londouor the Bad fact that whereaa in lcol his rating was 5-88 penoo in tho riound. in lc>l;l it ia ponce iu tho pound, aud ou a much higher rateable value. Since 1888 it has been going up about 2d. in the pound per year with al- arming regularity. Against this, however, a deduo- tion of 2*59d. has to be aeoounted for the absorption of the old county rate and part of the contribution to the maintenance of iudoor paupers.

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