... CGgAJ'ZC ,JMIRICA,-TZE SLI [CAS ,-ra ict, i;v.o 11-4 one niore glimps ot fBos-on, and thon hvurries us far away to ?? of tilt 'Shars. D)esnite the ruideness cf the ibosion winter, uno 'adi. arc net in the lei -t inchin-td to I; 4 witllin doors. T'he inkish . V.l1 ani.- : ?? dfre peniv hcties-, anl im'kilt be'ings is somewhit exag- Jr Fl )ev 1I'la not. celt .a-ily, tie generall and ?? 'll ...

... WEDNESDAY, March 30 PUBLIC attention for the last week has becn divided between the Emperor's letter to thc Premier, the Senatus Consultuin by which this letter is to be followed, and the trial of Princc Pierre Bonaparte. On these subjects I will say bat little, as they do not enter the usual sphere of your considcration. Still I will notice, as it seems to me, a significant and characteristic ...

... - IRELAND.-The House of Commons and the public are alike getting tired of the Irish Land Bill ; and no wonder. This is shown in the one case by the extraordinary rapidity with which the latter part of the bill has been hurried over-the House having passed no less than fifty- one clauses in two nights; and in the other by the fact that people have ceased to talk about the subject, finding in ...

... LADIES AS LA WYERS WHEN young ladies go to lunch with their newly-called brothers and cousins in the Temple, they never fail-as far as our own observation has extended-to try on the wigs and gowns of those young gentlemen; and the effect is usually pronounced to be very pretty indeed. The forensic horsehair, which is not un- becoming to many owners of that variety of nose and whisker for ...

... OF all the social pests that human nature is heir to, the most afflicting, destructive, and devouring is the Bill of Sale ; for it battens upon the miseries of the unfortunate when they are at the last stage of their helplessness. Hundreds of families are at this moment drifting through a stormy sea of petty troubles to the in- evitable whirlpool of its destruction. As naturally as the gnat ...

... THERE is much talk in the diplomatic world concerning an autograph letter reported to have been written by the Emperor of Austria to the King of Prussia. Francis Joseph is even said to have been so anxious to secure the secrecy of this missive, that he has confided the task of giving it into the hands of King William to Colonel d'Eggefeld, a companion of his youth. BY a recent Khddivean order ...

... TIHE ZOUA VES' LAST WIL-L AND TE6 7TAllEA7' THERE have been many instances of eccentric will- making, but the Zouave's method must be considered the shortest and most effective of any. fie disposes of hisgoods w, ,hout the aid of lawyer or writing materials, by simply throwing them out of Window for those to catch who can. Lichen the older comes to march there are many little od. articles ...

... XXAN ENGLISHMAN AT ST. DEZVS I PROPOSED on leaving London to stop at St. Denis for a day or two before going into Paris, and to ascertain what probability there might be as to getting away again, especially as the gentle- men of the Commune are getting very severe with regard to English passports, as they imagine that a great many Frenchmen have escaped by this means. I found St. Denis ...

... IRISH SKETCHES-GOING TO MASS IRISH SZEICIhS-GOING rO MASS WE last week presented our readers with a sketch ot Irish tenants dressed for that important occasion, the rent-day, and we now see the same worthy folks in their Sunday attire on their way to attend mass. The man salutes the priest, who is engaged in returning the greet- ings of the gossoon and girshas, and there is a marked ...

... BOSTON, 7uns 3, 1873 IT has long been a question whether to treat the drunkard as a criminal or an invalid; whether to clap him into prison or con- sign him to an hospital. Time was when the idea that inebriety was a disease was scoffed at, and the same seventies which were visited upon the insane-for even the insane used to be treated as criminals-were also dealt out to the habitual drunkard. ...

... THE NEW LORD MA YO MR. ALDERMAN DAtRN was born in the year. i 868 anfd was educated at Knutsford Grammar School, Cheshire, and afterwards at the London University. At an early age he displayed a strong taste for the acquisition of knowledge, and an enlarged capacity for the assimilation of the knowledge thus 'acquired. When Dr. Birkbeck's' London Mechanics' Institution was in the zenith 'of ...

... '4 CHINES EXECUTION iN several respectsthe Chiniese are an anomalous people. Individually'- they; are harmless 'and inoffensive, as is provedbyJ :Califorrianand Australian experience, but in :'thir ationalcapacity they are prone to treat foreigners ;00with'the utmbst.hauteur , and contempt. In their social 'relatios 'they: appear: to be. kindhearted and good- atared, 'inrd' the toroughly ...