GENERAL NEWS.

A Consular Corps has been formed in Dundee. Hospital Sunday in London falls on the 20th Inst. County Court judges in Ireland are paid £1200 a year Bicycles are now used in the armies of nearly all the civilised nations. Mrs Siddons' is the first statue of a player which has been erected in London. The Bishop of London bemoans the survival of the practice of parson-baiting. Mark Twain's book about his trip round the world will appear in the autumn. A child of natural-born British subjects, wherever born, is a British subject. There are always three-and-a-half millions of people on the seas of the world. During this year the Order of Freemasons has voted £15,000 for charitable purposes. About four-fifths of all the missionaries who go to foreign parts take bicycles with them. The risk of being struck by lightning is five times greater in the country than in cities. The "Daily Chronicle" thinks the Speaker should have had a place in the Jubilee procession. There are probably never three men at the Irish Bar at the same time who make £2000 a year. The average age at which women marry in civilised countries is twenty-three and a half years. The Duke and Duchess of Argyll left Inveraray yesterday, via Dalmally, for Edinburgh and London. _ Two of the three great Transatlantic litres have altered their sailings this week on account of the Jubilee. Lord Wolseley, General Sir John Ardagh, and party ascended Snowdon yesterday by the Mountain Railway. Cyclists are warned that cycles will not be allowed to cross the line of route of the Jubilee procession in London. _ The Duke of Westminster is one of the very few living persons who were present at her Majesty's Coronation in 1838. A serious attempt is to be made this summer in influential legal circles to obtain a curtailment of the Long Vacation. That mighty hunter Mr Seious is preparing for a sporting trip to far North America, a region as yet unknown to him. The United Kingdom itself consumes in the aggregate nearly as much tea as all other civilised countries combined. The "New York Herald" has started a subscription for Mr Samuel Clemens, "Mark Twain." He is now residing in Chelsea. A marble bust of the late Master of Balliol has been placed in the gallery of the Bodleian by the Jowett Memorial Committee. Princess Henry of Prussia, attended by her suite, sailed from Bremerhaven yesterday on board the mail steamer Lahn for England. According to the deductions of a well-known astronomer, we receive as much light from the sun as could be emitted by 680,000 full moons. The steamer Angels, of Glasgow, with stores for Island of Sanda lighthouse, has gone ashore on the Rhue Point, five miles south of Campbeltown. The Crown Prince of Boumania, who is now out of danger, owes his life to the tender nursing of his wife, who never left her husband by day or night. The...