... In a description of Pekin, given in the Moniteur, we find the following:— The west side of the Imperial city is nearly all occu- pied by an immense park (like that of the Bois de Boulogne at Paris), which was planted and embellished some six centuries ago. It contains two lakes of con- siderable length, separated by a very wide marble bridge. Temples and palaces, in the midst of fine ...

... The.- sessions opened a. Usk ou Monday and con- uueu V-li'Thursday. S. R. llosanquet, Esq., was chair- man, and there was a full attendance of magistrates. Major Tacdonald took the oaths and qualified as a magistiate. The usual reports were read and adopted, and the following motions by Captain Greenhow Relph were carried That the salary of the Chief Constable be increased 1100 per annum. ...

... The extreme penalty of the law was carried into execution on Tuesday morning at the county prison, Winchester, on the body of James Johnson, a private in the 41st Regiment, stationed at Aldershott Barracks, who was found guilty, and sentenced to death at the last assizes at Winchester, for the double murder of Lance Sergeant Chipts and Corporal Coles, of the same regiment. Although the ...

... Much has recently been written and said about the number of eminent 'professional men who have risen from the ranks; but a correspondent of the Alloa Advertiser dis- putes the right of the following to be enumerated among them, though they aie generally classed under that head- ing :— Lords Eldon and Stowell were the sons of William Scott, a very eminent merchant at Newcastle, and great ...

... There is a noted case on record of a Presbyterian parson having prayed for the puir Deilperhap* we may even come at last to hear prayers from zealous Protestants for the poor Pope, (remarks the Times). The Allocution of Pope Pius IX. delivered re- cently in Secret Consistory, and now published to the world, would almost melt the heart of Martin Luther, and throw into grim derision the wrath ...

... There is one vice that pervades the whole fraternity, —they have a mania for contradiction. The habit of listening in court to the speeches of the counsel on the other side with the sole object of answering them, gives them a knack, which they can't resist making use of on all occasions, of exposing the weakness of any proposition that is put forward. You may generally know a barrister in ...

... ANGLO-GERMAN NOBILITY. L'Almanach Impetial for 1861, published at Vienna, has in its AnnuaireHistorique amongst the noble houses of Germany, the following names of British subjects who hold titles (relevent) of the ancient Germanic or Holy Roman Empire:- William Basil Fielding, Earl of Denbigh.—Claims to descend from the Imperial House of Hapsburg a Count of the Holy Roman Empire. Neither ...

... [We deem it right to state that we do not at all times dentify ourselves with our correspondent's opinions.] The political world is still at a dead level of non- excitement, and not even the more prominent members of the Ministry or of the Opposition are 'giving'up to party what was meant for mankind. The principal members of the Ministry are out of town enjoying their otium cum dig., or ...

... WHAT IS A CLOWN ?- You are a clown, said I, meditatively. What is a clown 1 He did not answer me in words, but placing his hands on his knees stared at me steadfastly, and then, having fixed my at- tention, his face performed a series of the most horrible contortions I ever beheld. With one horrible spasm he made his mouth appear to stretch from ear to ear,; with another, his nose wagged ...

... PARIS, Tuesday Evening, The Emperor received the Diplomatic Corps at the Tulleries to-day. To Lord Cowley, who, in the name of the Diplomatic Corps, offered the customary congratulations to the Emperor, his Majesty is said to have replied :— I thank you for the wishes whicliyou have expressed to me. I re- gard the future with confidence, being convinced that the friendly understanding between ...

... The following account of a lodging-house for the poor, in the suburbs of Pekin, is also given in a letter in the A house of refuge exists, called Heus Feather- house, where a night's lodging can be obtained for half a centime. The lodgers lie down, pell-mell, without distinction of age or sex, in a thick layer of feathers spread on the floor, and a covering of thick felt, some. thing like the ...

... The Court Journal relates the following romantic incident of the courtship of the late Emperor Nicholas of Russia: — The late Empress of Russia, when a girl, received a small and very antique ring from her governess as a present. About a year after the occurrence, the Court received a visit from the Grand Duke Nicholas, the brother of the Emperor Alexander, and who, at that time, was not the ...