The Olympic Regatta, which attracted a large number of, people to Henley last week, was concluded on 31st ult., all the events being won by British representatives. The only final in which foreign oarsmen competed was the eightoared race, in which the Leander crew, after a hard

Gainsborough's famous picture of the Duchess of Devonshire, which was bought by Messrs. Agnew at the Wynn Ellis sale in 1876 for £10,605, and was soon afterwards stolen while being exhibited at the firm's 13ond-Btreet Gallery, has been recovered in America. A short time since th

BY the death of CiESAR CELSO MORENO, a personage who. occupied a position of some conspicuousness at one time on the Far Eastern stage, has passed away. He died at Washington from paralysis at the age of seventy. He was a native of Italy and, after seeing service in the Crimean

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long narrow table decorated with fruit and flowers, watching our entry with the keenest interest, and no less keenly did we look at this formidable lady, to whom is imputed such an iron will and unbending character. Though over 60, she is still a y o ung -looking woman, with jet

WORSTED TISSUES. For Mar. 1899. 1900. 1901. 1899. 1900. 1901. China &H. K. 765,500 628,700 637,600 26,552 23,935 20,675 Japan ... 105,200 413,800 98,500 5,325 19,867 3,828 Three Menthe ended 31st March. China k ILK. 2,283,300 2,336,200 2,367,200 81,510 80,178 Japan... ... 280,00

Russia.—A St. Petersburg correspondent writes :—About three months ago I told you that the Russian Government had dispatched two surveying parties composed of officers of the General Staff and of the Corps of Engineers to Azerbijan, the North-Western Province of Persia, for the