... Senex writes to the Field as follows: A story was once told me of a distinguished foreigner who, staying in a great man's house, when all other means of amusinghim had failed, was taken out hunting by his noble host. At dinner that night, turning round to the lady who sat next him, he asked if people in England ever hunted twice! TlMy inform- ant did not name the county in which this ...

... MISOELLANEA. MEN's FAVOURIT1ceS.-Thereare two kinds of gentlemen's favourites-the bright women who amuse them, and the sym- pathetic ones who love them, Bat these last are of a doubtful- what country people al call chancy kind; women who show their feelings too openly, who fall in love too seriously, or perhaps unasked altogether, being more likely to irritate and diegunt than to charm, But ...

... TIlE FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR. THE FENCHI DECLARATION OF WAR. The Cos lot Gazette publishes the following aS the text of the noeticotj,o of war delivered to the Prussian Govern- rment :- la tulticent of the orders which he has received fron his Guvornment, the undersigned Chtirqe d'.ffsaires oi Yrace-, ha, the honour to make known to his Excellency the ?? 1i Foreign Afisirs of His Majesty the King ...

... DRIPTINGS ABOUT THE PACIFIC.-No. 3. [WRITTS1H FOR TfuB JDXNTBR 'PLYING POST.] At tho back of ths city of Honolulu and leading to the inkrior of the island is the Nuana Valloy-road, on either did@ of whiah, for a considerable distance, are the residences of the elite of Hawaiisa society. The valley through which Lhis road runs lies between two ranges of hills, increasing in altitude until ...

... AQUATIC SPORTS.-The race of milkmen for the nearest When is soup likely to run out of the saucepan ?-When there is a tleek iu it. In olden times, when they hanged witches, it was con- sidered, iu a double sense, ueckromaticy. 11Don't think of we,1 as the man said who wae on the point af being flun eover the gallery into the pit, hut pray recollect those beneath me. A Bufislo serenader sang ...

... . guivoll,5 (guter ?? vost (ESTABLIJBED 1763) IS THE OLDEST' AND MOST. XTENSIVEL Y CIRCUIATIED COMSERVATIV-8 NEWSPAPER IN THE WEST OF ENGLAN D. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 1871. WVTrE pleasure we gave insertion last week to Mr. NoRnINoToN's letter on the Exeter sewage question. We should have examined and commented upon his explanations and statements in the same paper but for the fact that the ...

... UTILIZATION OF SEWAGE. ?? C. E. Ware, the City Surveyor, asks ue to publish a letter upon his report to the Town Council on this subject from Mr. W. Hope, V.C., one of the Commissioners recently appointed by the British Association to look into this ques- tion of the best way of disposing of the sewage of our towns. It is strongly in favour of Mr. Ware's recommendation to the Town Council. ...

... At the monthly meeting of the Exeter Local Board en Thureday, the Right Worshipfiel the Mayor in the chair, the m Town Clerk read a correspondence that had taken piece A between himself and Messre. flaw and Son on the subject to 6f th sewge o thecity Mr. Surridge, end eeverel other r millers, ae well ats inhbtants of the lower quarter of the p city, complain that they ore suetaining serious ...

... BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. LONDON, TUESDAY NTOGT. A land bailiff, named Kirwan, was murdered near Thurles, Ireland, on Monday night. The Hon. George Grevile has been selected by a county meeting as a candidate for Ceunty Longford. A man named Patrick Kirman, in the employ of Mr. Clark, Holy Cross, Cashel, was murdered last night There was a great storm at Buenos Ayres on the 9th of March, doing ...

... (Trttmad? Wu iug Vost (ESTABmSIMSfD 1763) IS THE OLDEST AND HOST EXTENgSIVELY CIRCULATTED CONSE.R7ATIUV NES1AER'A'. IN THE WFEST OF £E4GZAN.D. WEDNESDAY, JUL)I 20, 1870. THE Ruler of France has the desire of his heart. He has forced a war upon .Pruseia; and to-day it is announced he takes the field, with his son by his side, at the head of the Imperial Guard. Mr. GLADSTONE and Lord GSANVILLE ...

... THE FRANOO-PRUSSIAN WAR. (LATEST PARTICULARS.] THE ROYAL PROCLAMATION OF NEUTRALITY was agreed to yesterday morning by the Queen in Connoil. It is stated that Viscount de Borelli has sailed from Hull to join the Frenoh fleet at Stockholm and assume command. ATHENS, MONDAY.-The King has returned here Ministerial crisis continues. CALCUTTA, TUESDAY.-Great excitement has prevailed here to-day in ...

... I Helen Lascelles stood apposite to her looking-glass, surveying with a joyous child-like smile, her own sweet face and graeeful figure, which she had just arrayed in a piquant gray bat and long blue feather, according well with her soft cashmere walking- dress, made in the most a proved modern fashion, and singularly becoming to the light slender form it adorned. She was very lovely, in a ...