... TALK. BY OUB LONDON CORRESPONDENT. Our readers will understand that we do not hold ourselves re sponsible for our able Corvespondent s (yptnions,) ALTHOUGH a little late, some remarks on the state of the revenue may not be without interest. There exists now (there has always existed since I can remember) a sect —exceedingly small now, very numerous and influential thirty years ago- who ...

... RETURN OF LORD CLYDE.—Some of our contemporaries announce that Lord Clyde may be expected in England about the middle of this month We are more inclined to think, however, that the gallant general will arrive about the end of February, when, doubtless, the country will give him such a reception as his great services deserve.-Anny and Navy Gazette. ...

... THE CZAR AND THE JEWS.—A house be- longing to the crown was sold at Sebastopol by public auction. The Israelitish congregation bought it, destining it for religious purposes. The Emperor having heard this sent them back the deposit, amounting- to 20,000 roubles, with the intimation that they-should accept this sum as a mark of the imperial good will, and that they should employ it in the ...

... A LAWYER'S ORATION.—We remember once, when a young man, living in Hampshire, they dedicated a new bridge, and invited a young lawyer to deliver an oration. The lawyer had never yet, after a fortnight's practice, had the honour of being retained, and the op- portunity of establishing a reputation was admirable. The day came, and with it to the bridge came the multi- tude and the orator. He had ...

... ANOTHER CURE OF CONSUMPTIVE COUGH BY DB LOCOCK'S PULMONIC WAI'ERS.-Extract of a letter fiom J Mr Thomas Dean, 150, Scotland Road, Liverpool. Gentlemen,—! have great pleasure in communicating sSiT; herself it settled upon her lungs. She was trouoiea t 1. a d eadful cough, and every tion She applied to her medical man, but did not obtain any relief; when, upon the recommendation of a friend s e ...

... ABERDARE. ACCIDENT AT MOUNTAIN ASH.—On Wednesday a poor fellow got one of his legs broken in a pit at Aher- cwmboy through the falling of a mass of coal. The stif- fen r's parents lived at Hirwain whither, he was conveyed on a board (a distance of 8 miles) the fractured bone was set when he arrived at hiE parents' house. SPECIAL DEVOTIONAL MEETINGS were held each even- ing last week in the ...

... We read in the Manchester Examiner of Friday:- We have reason to believe that a treaty of com- merce between France and England, carrying out that portion of the Emperor's letter which is of most importance to us, was signed yesterday, or will be signed to-day. As we have already stated, the preliminaries were fully agreed upon before the publication of the imperial manifesto addressed to M. ...

... I-celanTi. MR. MASSEY O'GRADY.—The Corle Examiner states that a letter has been received in that city from a lady in the cotrMy of Limerick, the wife of a stipendiary magistrate, stating that the body of Mr. Massey O'Grady, whose mysterious disappearance a short time ago was announced in the public journals, had been found buried, and that no doubt exists of the unfortu- nate gentleman having ...

... HORTICULTURE. (From Bells Weekly Messenger.) During the early part of the week the weather has continued dull and cold, with slight frosts at night, suffi- cient to require the constant vigilance of the garelener, and the moderate use of artificial heat. Out of doors the frost has been just sufficient to keep the surface of the earth in a bad condition for working, and to stop all ground-work ...

... PRUSSIA AND RUSSIA.-The Cologne Gazette contains the following:The attitude of Prussia and Russia merits examination. Some persons have lately said that they were both drawing towards Austria, and that those Powers would unite in opposing French ten- dencies in Italy. The falsity of these conjectures is simply shown by the fact that the views of those three Powers on the solution of the ...

... A BRITISH FRIGATE SALUTING THE ITALIAN FLAG. A Leghorn letter states that on the 17th an English frigate entered the harbour and saluted the town, the batteries of which at once responded. This event caused great rejoicing, for it was remembered that several English ships of war had touched at Leghorn since the departure of the Grand Duke, but that none of them had saluted. The salute was ...

... LONDON CHURCH VAULTS AND BURY- ING GROUNDS. We extract the following paragraphs from the Quarterly Report of Dr. Letheby, the medical officer of health of the City of London: Several years have elapsed since the practice of sepulture within the city was abolished; but as com- plaints have been made of bad smells in some of the churches, it has been considered prudent to make inquiries into ...