... THE SHOOTING OF A, HIGH SHERIFF IN IRELAND. The Dublin papers supply some details of tbis occurrence. Atr. Warburton, who is high sheriff of Queen's county, left his residence, which in situate three miles outside Portarlington, to go to Maryborough, for the purpose of swearing in the grand jury for the discharge of the fiwsal busingss of the assizee about to open. He left home a little after ...

... 'c One of the chief embarrassments attend- roming the practice of a ceremonious lo s- 3on, pitality is the difficulty of treating the guests of different rank so as to conciliate lam their rival pretensions. It is little more than ito two years ago since this countrywasavisited- t at the same moment, though not in company Mr. with each other-by two Eastern potentates Oct. -the Sultan of Turkey ...

... At the Marylebone police court, London, on Thursday, Walter Parkhouse, waiter, was charged with being drunk and wilfully breaking two squares of glasa and doing other damage to the extent of Mr. George Hudson, proprietor of the Bath and Cheltenham Hotel, Paddington, stated that the prisoner had been in his service for 14 days as a waiter, but he had so misconducted himself and got drunk that ...

... -e IOn Saturday the Groat Easter, laden with the Anglo.Indian cable, left Sheerness harbour for Three hundred and fifty English Mormons arrived at Omaha on the llth of October, on their way to Utah. Mr Matthew Biddens, of Wyke Farm, Isle- worth, was on Saturday fined £5 for causing I& cows and a bull affected with the foot and mouth disease to be driven along a public highway. The paragraph in ...

... THE I .firsfyOP *tT LXg* W1!CE POPul MU SUPBLSA. 8 JMMARY. DOMESTIC. A Loe, don evening contemporary under- stands th 6 the Duke of Marlborough, on &wcountof his religious soundne3s, isthe fgsvourite v ith a majority of Conservative pee rB, thouL Yh not the most influential, for the vacant h ladership. TO Oe cerem' 7ny of confirming the election of D. r. Templ e to the see of Exeter took ...

... OUR NATIONAL CURSE AND THE DUTY OF THE OHUROH IN RELATION TO IT. On Sunday evening the R1ev. Dr. Taylor preached the sixth and last special sermon on the temperace question, in St. Peter' Church. There was a crowded congregation. The reverend gentleman selected as his text Luke xxi.5 34, And take heed to yourselves2 lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness, ...

... IMPORTANT TO CONTRIBI;- TORIES. Vice. Chancellor Malins had before him on Mondayamotiononbehalf of the liquidaturd of the Imperial Land Company of Marseillrt to commit for contempt of court two of the contribu. tories, viz., Mr. Alexander M'Gaw and MAr. Brinpley De Courcy Nixon, for having issued to the shareholders a circular dated the 3rd instant, stating that, although a number of Rentlemen ...

... i DB. LIVINGSTONE'S LAST LETTER. The following intereeting letter from Dr. Living. stone, dated 30th May last, and received at Zan- zibar by Dr. Kirk, her Majesty's consul, on the 2nd of October lnet, was communicated to the Bombay papers by the Government: Dr. Ktirr, in forwarding it, wrote as follows: - From John Kirk, Eeq., the political agent and her Majesty's coneol at Zanzibar, to 0. ...

... e~ The following extract is from the money article of the New York Journal of Comnmorce of the 3rd November ?? We would not train the boy to any mercantile buiness,as that department is alreadyovercrowded by the boys who are brought up to look down on .manual labeu and to aim at a clerkship as the only fit employment for dainty persons who dislike dirty work. The sense of this is applicable ...

... TO CORBESPONDENTS. ,Ir vot undert~k b tOeVlltUM OOMMil3O DUiO2 twhlo wo do not ?? ourecives. e mctsunliasiof should a be legibly written in ink, and on Oms.ilte of thE foor only, length increases the ?? finding o for them. Whsatever to Intended for Insertion muot be autbentlicted by the name and addreT ?? as write?, not thevessa5l 'for publiOstIOD. bat as a 5h0 Ml e of his good faith. letters ...

... THE SCHEME FOR REDUUINte TIlE NATIONAL DEBT. The advantages and the disadvantL,,,. Inc, the Chancellor of the Exchequer's era redncing the national debt arise lrbeii the perasame cause. The arran n he i poses is an engagement to pay off a eerry portion of the national debt every year fors the present time to the year 883b ether there be in the Exchequer a surplus or a 'deficiency. It is, in ...

... Yesterday morning, a meeting of the authorities of the various burial grounds of the boron-h and its vicinity, convened by his Worship the 'Iayor at the request of the Liverpool Burial Board, lwas s held in the council chamber of tie Town Hall, o with a view to united action in an effort to restrict 1 Sunday funerals. His Worship the Mayor pre- sided, and amongst other gentlemen interested in ...