MISCELLANEOUS
... In about three weeks tbe Great Eastern will be ready for sea. _ . , , William and Mary Howitt are now said to be the authors of Adam Bede. The potato disease has made its appearance in the county of Kent, where it is making extensive ravages. The heat has been most intense in Paris. On Tuesday the thermometer marked 96 degrees in the shade. Madame Jenny Lind Goldschmidt will visit Ireland ...