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Royal Institution-21, Albemarle-street. Various objects.
Daily, 10 till 5.
Royal Military Repository—Woolwich. Models of forti-
fications, cannon, and warlike appliances. Daily, 10
till 4.
Royal Polytechnic Institution-309, Regent-street. Scion
tific, with lectures. Open daily, till 10 p.m. ls.
Soane's-13, Lincoln's-inn-fields. Antiquities, curiosities,
and pictures. Open Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fri-
days in April, May, and June ; and Wednesdays, from
February to August. Admission on application to the
Curator.
Society of Arts—John-street. Adelphi. Inventions, pic-
tures, curiosities etc. Daily ; admission by member's
order.
South Kensington—Cromwell-road. Open on Mondays,
Tuesdays, and Saturdays, 10 till 10, free ; on other days
10 till 4,5, or 6. 6d.
Tower of London—Ancient armour, &c. Open daily, 1G
till 4. I.s.
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PICTURE GALLERIES.
Bridgewater Gallery—Cleveland-square. Cards to view
may be obtained from Mr. Mitchell, Old Bond-street.
British Artists—Suffolk-street. April to July. ls.
Masters, June, July, and August. Is.
Buckingham Palace Pictures.—May be viewed by an order
from the Lord Chamberlain.
Cartoons of Raphael—South Kensington Museum, Mon
day, Tuesday, Saturday, free; other days, 6d.
Orystal Palace—Sydenham. Modern Pictures and Sculp-
ture. ls.
Dulwich Gallery—Dulwich. Chiefly Flemish and Dutch
Pitures. Open free daily, except Friday.
Flaxman Gallery—University of London, Gower-street.
Foundling Hospital—Guildford-street. Open Mondays,
10 till 4.
Gallery of Ancient Masters-49, Pall.
Greenwich Painted Hall—Greenwich. Mondays and Fri
days Free : other days, 4d.
Guildhall—City. May be seen on application to the hail
keeper.
Hampton Court Palace.—The galleries are open free daily
except on Friday.
Monument--Fish-street Hill. Every day. 6d.
National Gallery—Trafalgar-square. Open free, Mondays,
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays.
National Portrait Gallery-29, Groh Veorge-street.
free, Wednesdays and Saturdays.
Trinity House—Trinity-square, Tower-hill. Models of
lighthouses, &c. Daily, 10 till 4.
Tussaud's Waxwork-58, Baker-street. Open daily till
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SUBURBAN PLACES OF RESORT.
Cremorne Gardens—Chelsea. ls.
Crystal Palace Park—Sydenham. Open daily, ls. ; Satur-
days, 2s. 6d.
Greenwich Park—Greenwich. Orion free
Hampton Court Gardens.—Open free daily.
Highbury Barn and Gardens —Highbury. 6d. and ls by
refreshment tickets.
Kew Gardens—Kew. Open free, daily at one o'clock
Richmond Park—Richmond. Open free, daily.
Rosherville Gardens—Gravesend. Open daily. 6d.
Royal Horticultural Gardens—Kensington. Admission by
members' order.
l Windsor Great Park—Windsor. Open free. Windsor
Castle may be visited on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Fri-
days, by tickets obtainable at the I.,eril
Dice, iu the Castle.

In a few hours after your readers see these lines Parlia-
ment will have met and we shall know the Ministerial
programme for the session. It is not difficult to guess its
contents, They will include the Irish Land Bill as the
piece de resistance, Mr. Forster's Education Bill, Mr.
Bruce's Licensing Bill, probably a measure dealing with
trades' unions, and another for an efficient publication of
insurance companies' accounts. The abolition of university
tests will be certainly taken up by a private member if
Mr. Gladstone does not make it a Government
measure. But there is reason to believe that ho will
do so. The Ballot and other electoral reforms will
probably be postponed until next year, for as we arc not
likely to have a general election for some time to come,
this subject is not pressing. Even the Ballot would not
prevent the scandalous scenes which are taking place in
Southwark every night. But while this is a sufficiently
long programme for ono session, there will be other mat-
ters which Government will be compelled to consider,
nolens volens. Although it is not likely that any amend-
ment will be moved on the Address, Ministers must be
prepared for a very sharp attack upon Tuesday evening.
There will be the colonial and emigration questions, on
which tL e Conservative party have the support of the
working classes. But the chief question will be
the condition of Ireland. The Fenians have
been playing into the hands of the. Opposition, and
have brought about such a state of terror in various
parts of Ireland that, if the reports published in to-
day's papers be correct, it will be absolutely necessary for
some additional means of protection to be offered to her
Majesty's subjects in that unhappy island. It is generally
believed, though I am not able to speak positively, that a
division of opinion upon this subject has taken
place in the Cabinet, and that some of the
members have supported, while others have opposed,
a demand which Earl Spencer has made for
conferring increased powers upon the Viceroy. It was
natural that Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Bright should wish
to see what effect their Land Bill would have in pacify-
ing the country before they resorted to the old and
painful expedient of suspending the Habeas Corpus
Act. But when men like Sir John Gray declare
that nothing less than fixity of tenure will satisfy them,
we may be quite sure that any measure such as the
present Cabinet would be likely to introduce, will not
satisfy Irish tenants or Irish peasants. These are
demanding nothing less than communism, and Minis-
ters will learn that there is a party of Irreconcilables in
Ireland no less than in France, and that the land bill
will be almost useless, as an act of pacification, however
really it may be an act of justice. Altogether the session
opens under gloomy auspices.
Great changes are expected in legal circles. It is ru-
moured. that a bill will be brought in to abolish the
separate appeal functions of the Lord Chanz.ellor, to
extinguish the Mastership of the Rolls as well as the
Court of Error at Common Law; to create Lord Romilly
a Lord Justice of Appeal, and to constitute the
Lord Chancellor, two Lords Justices, and ono or
more Common Law Judges as the Court of
Appeal. It is pointed out that while the Hon. George
Denman has denied the statement that he is going to
beoome a judge in order to make way at Tiverton for the
new Irish Attorney-General, he has not denied that he is
going to become a judge; so that it is possible Mr. Barry
may yet offer himself as a candidate to Lord Palmerston's
old constituents. He would hot have much chance, I
suspect, with so Conservative a constituency as Dublin
University, where a seat has just fallen vacant by the
resignation of Mr. Lefrot.
A remarkable book Ms appeared this week, pub-
Ached by John Murray. It is a volume of essays,
written by moderate High Churchmen to vindicate
the right of the English Church to be a portion of
the Church Catholic. It is entitled " The Church and
the Ago." Dean Hook leads off with an introductory
article on Anglican Principles. The Bishop of Gloucester
and Bristol follows, with an essay on the Course and
Direction of Modern Religious Thought; Dr. Irons writes
on the State, the Church, and the Synods of the Future;
Mr. St. John Tyrwhitt, a frequent contributor to the
Contemporary Review, writes on the Religious Use
of Taste; Professor Montagu Burrows on the place of
the Laity in Church Government ; Canon Walsham How
(a cousin of Mr. Gladstone), on the Private Life and
Ministrations of the Parish Priest ; the Rev. A. W.
Haddan on English divines of the 16th and 17th centuries;
the Rev. Michael Sadler (the new rector of Honiton),
on Liturgies ; Sir Bartle Prere, late Governor
of Bombay, on Indian Missions ; Dr. Barry, Prin-
cipal of King's College, London, on the Church and
Education. The Rev. W. D. Maclagan, the new Rector of
Newington, on The Church of the People, and the Rev.
Archibald Weir on Conciliation and Comprehension.
Tho two last named gentlemen are the editors of the
volume.
It is stated that Mr. Antonio Brady, who has long filled
the post of superintendent of Admiralty contracts, is about
to retire on a pension. Mr. Brady was well known in
religious circles as one of the most active supporters of the
Free-and-open Church movement. He was also a strong
Conservative, and several journals of the same political
views owed, during the late Administration, a
temporary prosperity to the Admiralty adver-
tisements with which they were supplied, without
regard to their suitability as a means of making known
these announcements.
The proprietors of the Times are believed to have had
under their consideration during the last few days the
propriety of reducing the price of that journal to two-
pence. It is stated that all of them were for tho reduc-
tion, except Mr. Walter, but they have been compelled to
yield to him. The Times has just lost one of the most
valuable members of its literary staff, Mr. N. Woods, who
has joined the Pall Mall Gazette. It was this gentleman
whose admirable letters from the Crimea in the Oforning
Herald first established his reputation, and induced the
editor of the Times to offer him an engagement. The new
paper, Food Journal, appeared te-iay.
Mr. Reuter, the well-known telegraphist, who has made
a very good thing out of the Government purchase of the
telegraphs, has just given a young party at his house. All
the guests were under 10 years of age, and although there
were 60 or 70 present, every one of them played upon
some musical instrument.
The picture galleries aro opening their doors
one after the other. Mr. Gullick is already
inviting discontented artists into his Cave of
Adullam at 39, Old E n I-street, and the same
street will, under the management of Mr. Benson, present
another place of refuge for the "Rejected Ones." Alto
gother, including the dealers' exhibitions, there will by
next May be nearly twenty separale collections of pictures
open. Yesterday I went to the private Oho real
private, not the public private) view of the
Water Colour Exhilition at the Dudley Gal
lery. It is a much larger collection than the
exhibition of oils just closed. The place of honour is
given to Mr. H. S. Marks, who has the strangest picture
called " the Princess and the Pelicans." Mr. E. J.
Poynter is represented by several works, chief of them a
very fine figure entitled " Poetry." Both the Severns, but
only one of the Solomon, Mr. S. Solomon, are represented.
Mr. Moore, Mr. Arthur Dichfield, Mr. MacCallum, Mr.
McWhirter, Mr. Briton Riviere, Mr. Marcus Stone, Mr,
Field, Talfourd, Mr. Frank Watson, and Mr. William
Eastlake, of Plymouth, are also contributors. `.=•
Three other items of art gossip are worth mentioning.
Mi. J. R. Herbert, R.A., has been elected corresponding
member of the French Academy of Beaux Arts.in the roan
Of the late Baron Leys, of Antwerp, Mr. Cal*
?tfarshall, whose statue of Sabrina most peva§
will remember, has just completed one of " Undue," which
will be sent to the Royal Academy ; and the Government
have determined to erect at Calcutta a memorial of the late
Earl of Elgin, which will be entrusted to Mr. Gilbert
Soot* the architect. and Mr. Bennie Philins. the sculntor.

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