... There exists in certain gaols in the country districts of New England a primitive practice of allowing pri- soners to have their liberty temporarily at the gaoler's pleasure. Charming in the abstract as is this idea of convicts treated upon honour, it seems that it does not always work satisfactorily. One John Dorsev, an Irishman, lay lately in the prison of Northampton, a town of ...

... Young ladies will do well to read attentively the pas- toral letter of the Fathers of the Faith Provincial Council of Baltimore in the United States, which they will find in the Tablet of last week (says the Pall Mail 'Gazttte). The Fathers deem it particularly their solemn duty to renew their warning against the modern fashionable dances commonly called German or round dances, which are ...

... The Registrar-General states that of every 1,000 unmarried men of the ages 20 and under 25 living in England and Wales in 1867 there were 118'6 who married during the year; of 1,000 unmarried women of the same ages living 134'8 became wives at the ages 25-30 years 147'6 per 1,000 unmarried men and 1,000'9 unmarried women contracted marriages in the year. After that age the proportions decrease ...

... Mr. Thomas Powell, of Coldra-hall, Monmouthshire, a magistrate and wealthy colliery proprietor, who went on a shooting excursion to Abyssinia some months ago, has been murdered by the natives, together with his wife and child, His servant and two missionaries are also said to have been murdered. Mr. Powell left Newport in the latter part of January or the beginning of February to go to ...

... (From Tuesday's Standard]. Yesterday a little scene was witnessed in the House of Commons which was evidently meant to carry some significance with it in reference to the action of a large and influential section of the peers who met a day or two proclaimed tlu-ir tL.qualílt Ú bootiUty to the policy of ministers on the Irish (Jhurch. When the Speaker took the chair there were barely enough ...

... In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Monday, Mr. James moved for a rule on behalf of Sir John Henniker, calling upon justices of Hampshire to show cause why a mandamus should not issue compelling them to re- ceive a certain information, and issue a certain sum- mons. It appeared that a complaint had been lodged at the instance of Sir J. Henniker against two persons for trespassing upon his land ...

... FATAL POISONING. An inquest has been held at Pemberton, near Wigan, on the body of a man named Edward Norton, who came to Lin death under the following oxtraordinai y ciream,itances Oil Wednesday last the deceased, who was suffering from injury to the eye, went, accompanied by his tister, to the Liverpool Eye and Ear Infirmary, tie received from one of the surgeons of this institution curtain ...

... Colonel Henderson reports that, in the year 1868, 45,848 male persons were charged with crime before magistrates of the metropolis, fifty-six of whom were on ticket-of-leave. The number of males whom the police were prepared to charge with crimes committed in the metropolis, but whom they were unable to arrest, was 1,438 and the number of crimes committed in the metropolis of which information ...

... A year and a half ago a blacksmith, named Richard Jackson, became landlord of the Black Horse public. house at Atherstone, in Warwickshire. He had not been in the house many days when one morning he told his wife that he would go out and see if he could get work at a colliery in the neighbourhood. He never returned, and great anxiety was, of course, felt as to his fate. The ponds in the ...

... In the Court of Queen's Bench last week, the rather Im- portant case of Simpson v. Yeend was decided. This was a County Court appeal, and raised a ques- tion as to what is bribery. It was an action for a penalty for the alleged offer of a bribe at a municipal election, and the evidence of the defendant was that he solicited a vote and told the voter he would be remune- rated for his trouble ...

... (From the Manche8ter Examiner.) A Lady, 29, highly respectable, no fortune, wishes tomeet with an Elderly Gentleman.—G. A., Post-office, Swansea. A Widower, in a good position, wishes to marry a respect- able and well domesticated Lady with means; no objections to a widow.—Address C. B., Post-office, Huddersfleld. Wanted, a Wife, of business habits, by a Young Man, aged 32; life ...

... (Strikingly good and strick-ly correct.) A blessing on every brick (Including, of course, Mr Strich !) We were down on our luck, Thought the last stroke was struck. But we've stride at just the right nick. PONT-AP-HOWKL IlEDivivrs. ...