... IT is always well to avoid everything that is improper. But it is especially so before children. And here parents, as welf as others, are often in fault. Children have as many ears as grown persons, and they are ge- nerally more attentive to what is said before them. What they hear they are very apt to repeat; and as they have no discretion, and not sufficient kniowledge of the world to ...

... SCRAPS FROM PUNCII FOR JANUARY S. MOTTO FOR A VINTNERI.- Keep up your spirits. Till. FInST SIGN OF A YLIUNO MAN LETYINO OLIn.- Shaving, his whiskers off. 1ItEr-T'isDRE IN PARTIES. - The present Ministers seem, ona the t1r0 Free-trade priniciple, to I ave made a good bargain with one another, for they have mutually comne to terms, and split the difference. LAW PnOVERBs.-lie who is too ...

... a',7jje 1elp, Cnptain Anuesley, of the (3rd, is about to exchaiige into the Rifles. It is generally reported that the office of Cominander- S'i-Chief will cease, onl which the army and ordnance Avill be amialgamated, and placed ?? IL Minister of' WiLl', who is to have a scat iii the ClLbinet. A drunken squabble, whii clh ended fatally, occeu red on Monday, at Cabir, betveenl privates Vensom ...

... THE D]e.9SlLTEi {IS IVIO\.I ?? 13RIGi'DE I CAM1P. Tui . Brigadiers, Tenant TLeaguers, Young Trelanders itepealers, 't 710C pyocus omliv: lajbonlrilig as teyv do, or pretend to do, under the great mistake that Me~ssrs. Kogqh, Sadleir, and O'Fl aherty have not made COIo- ditiolls with fjord Aberdeen for granting tbe de- nanids of di tle Irish party before accepting ou'ce- w ichj they have ?? ...

... CHURCH OF IREUANi) YOUNG IEN'S SUC[ETIY. TuE annual meeting of this Association took place in Christs' Church Mission Rooms or, Monday evening- The chair was taken by Richard Davison, Esq., MI.P. As it was advertised that the Rev. Dr. Drew would deliver a lecture on Protestantiisin in IS53, thc room was criowded, a conside:rable portion of ladies being in the audience. The chairman called upon ...

... TII E FRENCH1I EMAlPRESS. Wno is she-who is Alizs Fitzpatrick? Tiler- have been 150 folio columns wtritteri it, rej oiade; and the Mliss-tery is pretty nearl y as inscruta;ble as it was a fortnight ago, whell nobody thou-ght ilbout it. It ap- pears that Mliss Fitzpatrick isn't a Fitzpatrick ait Ill at all; but a Kirkpatrick; and the diiffrence betiveeti an F and K is all i the wvoulr ill : ...

... BELFAST TOWN COUNCIL, TntE first monthly fle-etin;g of the Counieil took place onl Saturday last, il the Town TIall, the Mayor for this yesr, Dr. M'O\1 it, il the chair. There was a large at- tendance of tiembers. The TowN Ci. itsic read the miniites of the last montilly meeting, and also of the special meeting held on the 1Ith ulo., the suubject matter of which w as ad- journed till tile ...

... THE BOROUGH BOUNDARY-EXTENSION QU ESTION. WE have carefully exaniined thle plan for thle extension of thie Bolghl II Boundary, which Captain F. Y. Gilbert, the Government Commissioner, has submitted to the inspection of tile inhabitants of the towln and neigh- bourhood, in compliance with his instructions to that effect. It is lot easy, without tile aid ot maps, and by a meme written ...

... T I V E R T 0 N. The electioni consequent on the acceptanice by Lord Palliniestol of the office of Home Secretar'y il the new A dmilli st atioll took place he e on Mondaly. Iotil Palronirtol t was declared duily eleted, no op. p ?? ?? to kikn plalce. Loril m~i'.roitsioy iilr'tessed the electors Ds followes ?? cr vety V yshor lyri avertiig t to tile I eccit li nisteriai defent:-1ler MIajest) ...

... SOCIETY FOR THE PROPACATION OF THE GOSPEL IN FOItEIGY PARTS. '1'nt anua meting of the members and friends of thle DIocesan ranc Association of this society wvas hldt( ont Thursday last, at thle clerical s'oorns, for the, purpose of receiving the report of the Diocesan Committee, and I transacting other business. 'rhe meeting eras well a attenided. There wvere present-Revs. Archdeacon of r Down ...

... ISCRAPS FROM PUNCIP' FORI JANUARY 22. ;Nf AN I NEl 1-0 it ?? Alme II E.A LV.-o LI1 Inayli t 1k at sh1 [ to tile water, but VOLL ca i~t hoake it Sw iml. Piti cc ons Poeullr ?? rea r ducklings ; b ut the pici~e of Cochillzi-Clijii fowls is so) elierlnous. that licirji Qhilleklls canl only be r'ear'ed by geese. Ealoiro Pi ii'.r..Ltis said that Lord John Rus- sell WIill sliort ly giV liiil) his ...

... .} T O IV N M E E T ING. A r'unr.rc meeting of the rateplyers andinihabitants of the town, convened by his worship the M,,ayor, was held on Wednesday, in the the Assembly-room of the Commercial Buildings, for the purpose oftaking into consideration the propriety of applying to Parliament in the present session, for an Act to incorporate the patrons, vice-patrons, and committee of the General ...