... Vainly of snperior wisdom Your proud sex make such a boast; Though you'd fain despise our talent, Still we prove we have the most. King or peasant, own our power, Own our worth in sorrow's hoar Say or do whate'er you will, Woman, woman rules you still. In all things 'tis we who guide you, You must follow where we lead: If you frown, we but deride you, Still we're your bist friends at need. ...

... THE COURT. THE Court still remains at Windsor. The Queen, since her arrival at the Castle, has remained in com- parative seclusion, and has only passed through the streets in the town on going to, or returning from, the railway-station. HER Majesty is so much interested, says the Court Journal, in the progress of the Royal mauso- leum that she visits the works once or twice a day. It is not ...

... A man named Andrew Bogie, a brassfounder, residing in Dobbie's-loan, Glasgow, had a narrow escape from being murdered by his own wife the other day. It appears that Mrs. Bogie has been for some months past exhibiting symptoms of mental derangement. On the night in question she and her husband seem to have gone to bed as usual, without any quarrel or anything transpiring between, them to ...

... The Mayor of Rochdale has received the follow- ing letter on the conduct of the British authorities in Japan from Mr. Cobden, M.P.:— My dear Sir,-Circumstances will prevent me from paying my accustomed visit to Rochdale previous to the 9th inst., and I fear I shall therefore not have the satisfaction of attending a public meeting under your presidency as mayor. I regret this both on personal ...

... In the hidipendento of Naples, M. Alexandre Dumas has just published, under the title of u Memoires de Monsieur de Paris, the following curious and characteristic narrative:— I had read. says the writer, ill many narrati-rcs of 'he death of Louis XVI. that ho refused to ascend the scaffold, that it was found necessary to use force, and that a struggle took place between him and the ...

... On Monday the Rev Hugh Stowell Brown, of Liver- pool, delivered a very interesting lecture at the Town Hall, on behalf of the above association, the subject being Common Sense. David Lawrence, Esq., in- troduced the lecturer, who began by saying that be had been induced to notice this subject from the vastness of its importance. There are few things on which such high value ought to be set as ...

... SATURDAY.—Before Lieut.-Colonel Bird and John Lawrence, Esq. TRYING IT ON.-J amcs Wallace was charged with having stolen a hat, the property of John Evans. Prose- cutor said—I live at the Gam, and went into a public house called the British Constitution between the hours of nine and ten o'clock on the night of Saturday last. I was not drunk, but whilst there I fell asleep, and when I awoke I ...

... See the smoking bowl before us, Mark our jovial, ragged ring: Round and round take up the chorus, And in raptures let us sing Life is all a variorum, We regard not how it goes Let them cant about decorum Who have characters to lose. SIR,-The above air seems most appropriate to open puddkrs' meetings with in Blaenafon, according to the statement of your correspondent Thomas Thomas. The ...

... Fraster's Magazine for November has a good article on fish, from which we select the following capital suggestions on their increase:— OBSERVING SEA PISH. Sea fish grow up unheeded-quite, so to speak, out of the bounds of observation. Naturalists can only guess at what rate a cod-fish grows. Even the life of a herring is still a mystery, and at what age the mackerel or any other fish becomes ...

... AUTBJO'BMED COMMENTARY ON THE BIBLE. We are Happy, says Guardian, to see that the objections brought against certain portions of the Bible are- about to be met by leading theologians of the Church osrifngland in a very practical way. If a false and unfair system of interpretation has been applied to the testr of scripture the best way of confuting it is to apply a true and legitimate one. The ...

... CUPID AND HYMEN IN A LAW COURT! In the Court of Common Pleas in London all action has been brought by Mr. Warrington against Sir John Pringle, under the following circumstances The plaintiff is a general decorator, and was employed by Sir John Pringle to furnish certain ornamental fittings for his house on the occasion of his daughter's marriage in July last. The most prominent of these ...

... I have just obtained the journal of a young man who spent many days in the hands of the brigands—and the hands of the greatest of them all, Caruso. 1 believe the particulars of what he saw will interest your readers, and will better teach them what those brigands are ',says the Turin cor- respondent of the Mornino Slca):- ^Enrico Lombardi has notyet completed his twentieth year. He is of ...