... CORRE SPOND ENCE. All letters to the editor on subjects of local or general interest will hud ready access into our columns. We ar6.desirous that our readers should not hesitate to avail themselves of the Courant for circulating the news of their respective districts, r d essing grievances, or making known theirviews. Correspondents arerespect- iully requested to write only on one side of the ...

... I lilt Mg twoodt to4ranf. 1 I FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1869. f ORTUMBERLAND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. A certail, philosopher has declared it as his 5icere conviction that the present century is 15pidly resolving itself into talk. There is ,t Ieast the groundwork of truth in this cyni- a statement. Every day brings additional of the talking propensities of this enlight- ened ar. fow often does the ...

... : HOUSE OF' LORDS.-FRIDAY. The proceedings last night were of a formal cha- rseter, and after a short sitting, their lordship ad- MONDAY. The Duke of ARGYLL gave notice that he should, on Monday, lay on the table a bill for the improve- ment and extension of education in Scotland. Earl RUSSELL afterwards moved for certain returns relating to grants for education from 1858 to 1868, after which ...

... A heavy snow fell over Birmingham and neighbour- hood on Friday afternoon. The Stockport Town Council have resolved to peti- tion for the abolition of the hustings. Mr Sothern has accepted a re-engagement at the Haymarket for three years. An average wedding in Chicago costs 10,000 dol- lars. The death is announced of Mr. Jos. Anscombe, the cricketer, in his fifty-second year. The funeral of Mr ...

... | I ?? TInS. .TJe Vl'ATERLOO CUP, value 1,600 (in specie). 64 sub- scriptions of 25 each; winner 5i)0, second 200, two dogs 50 each, four 30 each, eight 20 each, sixteen 10 each * the Waterloo Purse and Waterloo Plate, 360; total, 1,600. 61 subs. (E) Dr. Richardson's w bd b Requiem beat (E) frt C. E. Mar'feet's bd w b Ulorning Dew. (E) Mr Cunningham's I w d p Crown Imperial beat (I) Mr J. ...

... In selecting the Spirit of the Press,' we are guided solely by a wish to place before our readers the opinions of al parties, without any regard to the relation such opinions may sustain to this journal. THE BIRFH IN THE BOUDOIR. (From the Saturday Beview.) That in the year 1869 there should wbe living in Englan a, and in London, a considerable num- berof.WOrnsD, moving apparently in good ...

... - C l ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLI GENCE. The stained window in the south transept of Dur- ham Cathedral, in memory of the late Archdeacon Thorp, was unveiled yesterday (Thursday). The Rev. A. 0. Medd, curate of Steeple-Aston, Cx- fordshire. has been presented by the Crown to the living of Amble, a newly-formed ecclesiastical district taken out of the parish of Warkworth. The ceremony of confirming ...

... HABIT.-The diminutive chains of habit are scarcely ever heavy enough to be felt till they are too strong to be broken.-Dr. Johnson. Books are spectacles with which to read nature they teach us to understand and feel what we see, to decipher and syllable the hieroglyphics of the senses. -Drp~den. PLI1ASURH.-No enjoyment, however inconsider- able, is confined to the present nioment. A man is the ...

... DEPUTATION TO MR GLADSTONE ON LOOAL TAXATION. On Friday afternoon a deputation, consisting of re- presentatives of Chambers of Agriculture, waited on the Right HonW. E. Gladstone, at his official resi- dence, Downing Street, for the purpose of urging on him the desirability of recommending her Majesty to 'appoint a Royal Commission to inquire into the pre- sent system of local rating with a ...

... DEATH FROM THE STING OF A BEL.-Mr Samuel -erlkin, of Beardon, in the parish of Boyton, near Launceston, has met with his death under the follow- ing circumstances :-Deceased, in moving a hive of bees, broke the comb. He subsequently went to look at the bees, when one of them stung hims in the neck, on or near the jugular vein. He immediately felt faint, and died in l5 minutes. SCENE IN A ...

... DEATH OF FUAD PACHA. PARIS, February 13-Fuad Pacha died this morn- in. The Official Journal, alluding to the event, says *- The death of the late Vizier wwill leave a great void in Turkey, and wil cause a great feelingof regret everywhere. siXTY-THRE-E LIVES LOST BY THE BURNING OF A STEAMER. PHSILADEXLPHIA, Feb. 13.-The steamer Nellie Ste- vens was burnt on Thursday night on the Red LRiver, ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS.-TUESDAY. Their lordshipsmet at two o'clock, and parliament, which assembled on the 19th of November for the swearing in of members, was formally opened by Royal Commission. The Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor, Earl de Grey and Eipon, the Earl of Kimberley, the Earl of Beshborough, and Viscount Sydney. The tttendance of Pee!swas not numerous, but the back benches on both ...