... It is a good thing that Parliament is not sitting, if only that Mr. Matthews and Mr. Balfour might be spared the temptation before which they would no doubt have fallen of indulging in such prevarication as is necessary to deceive the House of Commons concerning the authenticity of Delaney's letter which appeared in the Freeman's '2ournaZ of Saturday. According to the Freeman, Delaney has ...

... THE SN! VERERS OUTSIDE THE DOC6K GA TES. A GLEAM OF. HoPE. OUTSIDE the. dock gates this morning gathered, as they had gathered every, morning all this cold weather, crowds of half-starved, pale-faced men, with toes out of their boots and elbows out of their coats, waiting, hundreds of them, for work. Some gathered from ?? onwards, and in the cold, grey.fog they stood shiverfig, waiting thtir ...

... B l-bMETALLtSM, FREE TRAME, AND DEMOCRACVa BY M. EMILE DrE LAVELEYE, AT the recent Monetary Congress in Paris Mr. Grenfell, one of the directors of the Bank of England, read a letter from Mr. Gladstone, in which the latter declared that, to his mind, bimetallism was only Protection in disguise. This opinion of the illustrious statesman is due probably to the fact that he has frequently seen ...

... I DR. PARKER AND MR. STOPFORD BROOKE. TO fie EDITOR Of tine PALL MALL GAZETTE. DEAR SIR,-That a man should put a pulpit to such uses as Dr. Parker did his at Sunderland, if the report in the Parl ddae Gazette of last night is correct, is simply astounding, and makes one ask howb a Gospel made pathetic and mighty by the cross of Christ can fare in such company, that Gospel being known by its ...

... PUNS: GOOD AND BAD; OLD AND NEU. There is a pleasant article in the January number of TemnpleBar on u nts. Many of those mentioned by the author are good, many bad most are old, but some are new to us. The bracket-needing and 'word-mangling classes of puns are dismissed as unworthy of notice, but here is an example of each The great beat of the Cape must make Kaffir (make a fur) coat ...

... A CHAT WITH MR. B. WAUGH. ?? is going to run down the baby fare in Battersea? This question was asked of the Rev. Benjamin Waugn at the Society for the Prevention ot Cruelty to Children yestetday, 'There will never be any stopping of baby farming so long as the present Acts of Parliamrient exist. The rolice have no power to stop it, and do not knoW what powers they themselves possess. During ...

... Reports of wintry cold, of snow and ice and clear, crisp air, come from all parts of the world. In Russia they have had Christmas in a biting frost; in the North Sea, off the German coast, fishing boats have been stuck in the ice, which was not strong enough to allow help to be sent from the nearest village; in Westphalia, a man was frozen to death a few nights ago - in the Midi, the east ...

... The debate about Suakin was long and unsatisfactory. It is a bad thing to have a sore toe, but it is not very edifying to growl about it for six hours at a stretch, especially when you cannot make up your mind whether it is bad enough to justify amputation. What ought to be done at Suakin is to send back Sir Charles Warren and give Mr. Fox and the trading party a free band in opening up ...

... FOURTH EDITION, MR. BRTGHT.-ANOTHER RELAPSE. Dr. Hayle, in the course of a conversation yesterday, said Mr. Bright's health had very much improved, but was still in a critical state. At nine o'clock in the evening Dr. Hayle, having seen Mr. Bright, wrote the following bulletin Mr. Bright has had a rather restless day, and is a little feverish to-night. The state of the lungs is slightly worse ...

... WASTE AND JOBBERY IN THE LA W COURTS.-II. THE DRONES AND THE REDUNDANTS. HAVING briefly analyzed the duties and emoluments of the officials attached to the Supreme Court we will now describe a few of the sinecures and scandals so vaguely referred to in Parliament. Of positions with emolument and without even nominal employment we can only find six instances in the Royal Courts of Justice. ...

... LAST NIGHT IN THE HOUSE. BY A SPECTATOR. LORD RANDOLPH kept his, secret well yesterday. Until the first note of warning was struck by his menacing rejoinder to Mr. Stanhope's answer no one seemed to have any idea of what was coming. Then, indeed, Mr. Stanhope sent out to scour London with a five-line whip. And yet, somehow, there seemed a strange preparedness and presence in force of the ...

... I am glad to learn on the best authority that there is no truth in the stories that have been circulated concerning the injury to the health of the Enmpress of Russia which was said to have resulted from the railway accident at Borki. Her Imperial Majesty is in excellent health. The story that Dr. Charcot and other eminent specialists have been summoned to St. Petersburg is false. A ...