... 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. ...

... PICKINGS FROM PUNCH'S POCKET BOOK. Our friend Punch is as facetious as ever in his illustrations to his favourite Pocket-book this year, while the fun which fills its pages is of course broad and graphic. In order that our readers may judge of its quality we make the following extracts :— A SCENE FROM THE LOVER'S SECRET. Nebucco Ianthe Call you love me ? Ianthe: Love ? Nebucco No other word my ...

... A PATTERN WATERING PLACE. We have 1 ad a dream, a most Utopian dream. We dreamed that some kind fairy took us to a watering- place. And, albeit it was situated upon British ground, there were at this watering-place not German bands, nor Jews, nor Cockneys dropping H's underneath our nose, nor puppies puffing penny Pickwicks in our face'as we walked forth. Neither was our landlady a vampire ...

... 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 ...

... late Jtlrs. Dabirs, OF TKEVETIIIN PARSONAGE. We announced in our last issue the decease of this estimable lady, and alluded to the general manifestation of grief which it occasioned in the parish. That grief, I deep as it was and unfeigned, was but a just tribute to her worth. Her sterling qualities and numberless acts of kindness are too well known and appreciated in this neighbourhood to be ...

... 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 ...

... Tbc late vtince ( £ onsort. On Friday evening se'nnight a public meeting was held at the Town Hail to consider the best means of showing sympathy for the loss Her Majesty had sus-| tained. The Rev. W. D. Horwood presided. It was! decided that the tradesmen should be requested to close their establishments from eleven in the morning till two on Monday afternoon, and that public notice should be ...

... 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 ...

... THE MARKETS. The Royal Exchange, the Corn Exchange, the Coal Ex- change, and the Commercial Sales-room, Mincing-lane, II ore closed on Monday, upon the occasion of the funeral of llie Prince Consort. PROVISIONS. There is a fair demand for the best foreign butter, at froin llGs. to 120s. per cwt., but inferior parcels are a dull inquiry. Irish'butter rules about stationary, and the demand for ...