... CGgAJ'ZC ,JMIRICA,-TZE SLI [CAS ,-ra ict, i;v.o 11-4 one niore glimps ot fBos-on, and thon hvurries us far away to ?? of tilt 'Shars. D)esnite the ruideness cf the ibosion winter, uno 'adi. arc net in the lei -t inchin-td to I; 4 witllin doors. T'he inkish . V.l1 ani.- : ?? dfre peniv hcties-, anl im'kilt be'ings is somewhit exag- Jr Fl )ev 1I'la not. celt .a-ily, tie generall and ?? 'll ...

... WEDNESDAY, March 30 PUBLIC attention for the last week has becn divided between the Emperor's letter to thc Premier, the Senatus Consultuin by which this letter is to be followed, and the trial of Princc Pierre Bonaparte. On these subjects I will say bat little, as they do not enter the usual sphere of your considcration. Still I will notice, as it seems to me, a significant and characteristic ...

... - IRELAND.-The House of Commons and the public are alike getting tired of the Irish Land Bill ; and no wonder. This is shown in the one case by the extraordinary rapidity with which the latter part of the bill has been hurried over-the House having passed no less than fifty- one clauses in two nights; and in the other by the fact that people have ceased to talk about the subject, finding in ...

... THERE is much talk in the diplomatic world concerning an autograph letter reported to have been written by the Emperor of Austria to the King of Prussia. Francis Joseph is even said to have been so anxious to secure the secrecy of this missive, that he has confided the task of giving it into the hands of King William to Colonel d'Eggefeld, a companion of his youth. BY a recent Khddivean order ...

... TIHE ZOUA VES' LAST WIL-L AND TE6 7TAllEA7' THERE have been many instances of eccentric will- making, but the Zouave's method must be considered the shortest and most effective of any. fie disposes of hisgoods w, ,hout the aid of lawyer or writing materials, by simply throwing them out of Window for those to catch who can. Lichen the older comes to march there are many little od. articles ...

... IRISH SKETCHES-GOING TO MASS IRISH SZEICIhS-GOING rO MASS WE last week presented our readers with a sketch ot Irish tenants dressed for that important occasion, the rent-day, and we now see the same worthy folks in their Sunday attire on their way to attend mass. The man salutes the priest, who is engaged in returning the greet- ings of the gossoon and girshas, and there is a marked ...

... THE NEW LORD MA YO MR. ALDERMAN DAtRN was born in the year. i 868 anfd was educated at Knutsford Grammar School, Cheshire, and afterwards at the London University. At an early age he displayed a strong taste for the acquisition of knowledge, and an enlarged capacity for the assimilation of the knowledge thus 'acquired. When Dr. Birkbeck's' London Mechanics' Institution was in the zenith 'of ...

... '4 CHINES EXECUTION iN several respectsthe Chiniese are an anomalous people. Individually'- they; are harmless 'and inoffensive, as is provedbyJ :Califorrianand Australian experience, but in :'thir ationalcapacity they are prone to treat foreigners ;00with'the utmbst.hauteur , and contempt. In their social 'relatios 'they: appear: to be. kindhearted and good- atared, 'inrd' the toroughly ...

... IN the midst of the din and turmoil of the great war in Europe, the Red River difficulty, as it was called, which at one time threatened to give us a good deal of trouble, has well-nigh been forgotten. Some of the leading points of the, business may therefore be profitably brought to the reader's recollection. Between the great Lakes of Superior and Winnipeg there lies on the banks of the ...

... 3M2NEl BEFORE T'HUg PA.LACTE, ?? A..TET TlIJE )EJLARA'TION OF MWA'. KING TWILLIAM THE FIRST Ok PRUSSIA AATi) HIS -1IMY WE islanders, who are, in a great measure, guarded from sudden invasion by the girdle of salt water which sur- rounds Great Britain, can scarcely appreciate the impor- tance wx hich the patriotic native of the Continent attaches to the military a*rm. in proportion to our ...

... THE , TWO GREEN LEA VES How many readers of The Mystery of Edwin Drood will be able to remember the first appearance of those monthly green leaves which are indissolubly asso- ciated with Mr. Dickens's monthly appearances as a serial story-teller? The author of Pickwick is, we are glad to think, not yet an old man; and yet so early were his successes that, looking backward to the ...

... MODERN A THENS THE old Athens has gone as the old Greeks have gone, and a newer and degenerate city has risen in its place. Among the ruined memorials of its ancient grandeur which time, and war, and the spoiler have left, are streets of modem houses and shops ; where philosophers, poets, and orators trode, in- triguing politicians and greedy place-men now meet, and the scenes which have been ...