w illustrations received from Rome and Florence
during last summer. It is our earnest wish that her efforts for the
advancement of true artistic taste and culture may meet with the due
appreciation they so well deserve.

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A MARRIAGE has been arranged between the Duc de Montpensier's only
surviving son, Antonio, and the Infanta Eulalie. The former was educated
by Mgr. Dupanloup, and is two years younger than his fiancee, he having
been born in Seville in 1866, and she in Madrid in 1864. The
negotiations about the marriage settlements have been difficult. He will
inherit at least half of the largest royal fortune in Europe. The
Infanta Eulalie is of lively manners and agreeable physiognomy. She was
educated by the Countess Soriente, a lady of New England birth, and is
an accomplished player on the harp and guitar. Her instructor was the
gifted Cuban negress, who used to perform at Queen Isabella's concerts
at the Palais de Castille.

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THE FIRST PURCHASE of land by tenants in Ireland, under the Land
Purchase Act of last session, was completed on Monday, the 9th of
November, when Mr. George Fottrell, late Solicitor of the Land
Commission, met some forty tenants, on an estate in the county of
Tyrone, and got the deeds executed which make them fee-simple
proprietors, subject only to the liabilities to pay, for forty-nine
years, instalments materially less than their rent. The entire
transaction, from the date of Mr. Fottrell's first meeting with the
tenants at Tyrone to that of the execution of the deeds, occupied only
one fortnight. Mr. Fottrell's exuberant energy is finding a vent in
pushing on the work of land purchase in Ireland, and his large
experience and keen interest in all that concerns the land question are
recognized as extremely valuable at this moment. Not only has he, in an
unusually rapid manner, carried out this first sale under the Purchase
Act, but he has published what he calls a "Practical Guide to the Land
Purchase Acts," a book which is likely to be of great practical utility
to lawyers and other persons engaged in the work of carrying sales under
the Acts into effect.

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BURIED ALIVE.--Full particulars have come to hand from Bishop Puginier
regarding the martyrdom of the Chinese priest Cap. For three days he
suffered excruciating torments. On the fourth day the mandarin asked