... There are few narratives which better illustrate the dangers experienced by those who go down the sea in ships than that recently received of the loss of H.M.S. Orpheus, on tha coast of New Zealand. The Orpheus was a fine new vessel, built at Chatham Dockyard. She was commanded by Commodore Burnett, a brave and experienced officer, and she had crew of officers and men who, the melancholy event ...

... We often see that what are supposed to be uncertainties as to the law, are uncertainties to the facts to which the law has to be applied. In such cases, meu, instead of clamouring for reform, should ask for more knowledge. have an instance of that in the Yelverton Case, which, it appears, is to give the pretext for attack the Scotch Marriage Law. The ground will, of course, be the assumed ...

... Tin interest of the intelligence from Vicksburg may said almost concentrated a ■ingle sentence. Vicksborg has not been taken. There had been a aeries of sanguinary combats, twit Confederates had succeeded in keeping of the place, and every day they did •o increased the chances their favour. The Federal* say that Qeneral Grant was confident • uccew ; bat the Confederates assert that the placa ...

... On Monday night, the House of Lords had before it a subject which illustrates one of the diffi- culties of au Established Church with set forms) observance of which is enjoined by law. A great many clergymen of the English Church, appeals, have some qualms conscience about reading the Burial Service, contained in the Book of Common Prayer, by the side of all the graves at which they are called ...

... Or all the puzzling phenomena people are read, in}.', and writing, and arguing, and pondering about, there are none so curious as those which are involved in the action of the human mind. Tl.e connection between thought and action, even when «e know that they are connected, is often not only unexplained, but inexplicable. Giveu any particular act, and the motives from which it may have sprung ...

... THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1863. the Hou-e Commons yesterday, Mr Dillwyn moved that the order of the day for the Second reading of the Endowed Schools' Bill be discharged, with a view to the bill being withdrawn. After some discussion, the motion was •greed to. Sir J. Hay moved the second reading the Naval Prize Money, &c., Bill. Lord j C. Paget hoped, as the Government intended introduce ...

... A strange phenomenon has just ma'le its appearance, and one which those interested in American affairs would do well to take note of- It is the first overt sign that the North-West> which has suffered much, and, we fear, to suffer so much more from, the insane contest which is being waged on the other side of the Atlantic, feels that its interest is different from that of either North or South ...

... In old stories of days when people were superstitious, we sometimes read of persons beiug unconsciously linked together for good or evil. What one does affects the other, without any intention on the part of the doer, or even without his knowledge. The two cannot come contact without beneßcial or injurious consequences being produced, according the link between them is for good or evil. Some ...

... If there not much of present interest In the American telegrams, they contain indications a lively, or perhaps, we should say, deadly future. Prom Charleston General Gilkorb reports the capture Fort Wagner and Battery Gregg ; but Sumter, which has been demolished we can t remember how many times, still holds out, and the Federals, in an attempt to storm it, have been severely repulsed. The ...

... The news we have lately received from the other side of the Atlantic consist of items which have generally to be merely recorded, rather than commented on. They relate chiefly to operations which are in progress, and the end of which cannot be foreseen, or of anticipations which may be well founded or delusive ; but with our means of information, and at thi* distance, mast wait for the result ...

... SATRRDAT, APRIL, 25, 1863. LAST NIGHTS MEtTINo! The meeting that held last night the Corn Exchange wa» a great success in ...

... One of the most usual of the errors of persons who enter into a discussion is, that those who take one side not perceive the case which can be put forward on the other. Sometimes that arises from the mind being fully occupied by one view, that there no room in it for another— sometimes from an inability to penetrate into the minds of others, and perceive what is working there. A discussion is ...