Last week was Ascot week; next week comes Henley Regatta; and the interval between these two great carnivals is recognized by the fashionable world as the height of the London season. So far it has been a time of glorious weather which gives fair promise of lasting; and thus the great social events of the week have been of the most brilliant character. On Saturday some seven or eight thousand guests attended their Majesty's garden party at Windsor, and the occasion was all the more interesting because our present King and Queen, while Keeping as close a personal eye to the invitation lists as any of their predecessors, and demanding where it is desirable as strict an - observance of Court etiquette, open their gates on stich occasions as these to a much rider circle of their loyal subjects, and impose no needless restrictions as to dress. Our able President of the Local Government Board has not of late been so faithful as of old to his dark bloc serge suit; and possibly if he had been science and religion, although there was necessarily considerable diversity of opinion, the general tone showed that the Charch has advanced marvellously in Tecent years in ite breadth of view.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.