... ; ~ I 'Arxg n 1'nl WWXA~.LnWUED1765) IS THEX OLD.NST ANZ MOST EXRJTENSIVEL Y M01UlB D CONORSEJ2TIYV NVEWSPAPER IN THE WEST OP ENGLAND. WEDNESDAY, AuoUST 23, 1871. IT is not every reader who will fully understand the Rev. Canon KINesLEYs position with regard to. the origin of man, on which he discoursed no eloquently at the opening of the congress of the Devonshire Association. He did not ...

... : ' MISCET.LLANEA. Never mention what you wish should never be mentioned If the show of anything be good for anything, we are t sure sincerity is better; for why does any man dissemble, or Iseem to be tbat which he is not, but because he thinks it good to have sueb a quality as he pretends tbo 'Nations are not ruined by war; for convents and churches, alaces and eities, are not nations., The ...

... When may two persons be said to be half-witted ? When they have an understanding between him At St. Cloud a French humourist has been at work. A neat thing was pencilled on the pedestal of a mutilated statue of Mercury- The Prussians respect nothing-not even the god of thieves, Sam, what do you suppose is the reason that the sun goes toward'the south in winter ? Well, I don't kno v, ...

... The Launceston and South Devon Railway Company oh held their half-yearly meeting at Plymouth on Thursday. Colonel Archer presided. A dividend of LI per share was to declared, being an advance of 5s. per share upon the previous T1 dividend, an The Directors of the Great Western Railway Company report that the traffic receipts for the past half-year present h° a substantial increase over the ...

... LoNDON, Angust 28, 1871. It was as I thoughit. The Royal Speech might havo been written by a man deaf and dumb from his mother's womb. The prorogation might have been described by a Reporter in blinkers. It wvas a melancholy finish to a melancholy Session; and the Ministers clustering together round the Bar looked like mutes at a funeral. The House of Lords itself vyo might have taken for the ...

... LONIJON AND PASR18 GOSSIP. LeONDON, ftedy 31, 1871. hI I gie lp th ti~vt~~iC'- t is ?? ak delusion and a 1 snare. A facetious friend Of mline insists that, like Rip 1i Van Winkle, we have slp hog thssumr-i assuming, of course, that there lias boon one, -aild that we are now, out of slicer stupidity, offering ourselves on the altar of Zadhkiel by woreaing light. snuimer clothing t when we ought ...

... LONDcON, Auqust 7, 1871. The season is over. The :[;oval Academicians have I closed their doors, the C altoll is in the hands of the | painters and glaziesS, the OxfQrd and Cambridgo in the hands of the builders; and no one is to be seen in Hyde Park now but Peers, ?? and cads. Mr. Lowe was in the Rowv yesterday on his cub, i very skittish sort of nag with an uigly temper; but Mr. Lowo is the ...

... r,,; Ad rI; C s reports mysterious doings at a 5h2,..qe in Montgomrlery County, Ohio. The owvner, a ,;med enjamln Stier, las, suffered so r~uuoh, ;eOq D 'frorl the destructive pranks of ghostly visitors, a 3Ulhe LI been unepolled to make an affidavit before a h i/tt'. in which he furnishes a detailed statement that a i 5 Seteral columns of the Zilles. The manifesta- fibhslf in the cellar. ...

... The beautiful choir Of Gloucester Cathedral was reopened i on Sunday, after having been closed for three years, and after having in the interim been beautified at a cost which, ar in the end, will involve an outlay of at least £13,OO of 18 the £645,000 which is Mr. Scott's original estimate for the Hi complete restoration of the cathedral. The choir is opened Ri thus early that the nave may be ...

... TOTNES.-The Totnes Board of Guardians met on th Saturday, when the Clerk referred to the fact that cholera tri was raging on the Continent and to the fear entertained of th its visiting England, and advised the Board's calling the ati attention of the sanitary committees and sanitary inspectors elE to their districts, that a thorough examination might be pe made and any nuisances that might be ...

... Urtwulant's z uttr skiing vost (ESTASLISHED 17S - IS THE OLDEST AND MOST EXTENSIVBLY CIRCUA TBED CONSERVATIVE N.EWSPA PER IN THE WEST OF ENGLAND. WEDNESDAY, AuGUST 2, 1871. Now that acknowledgment has been made, in all parts of this county and in many a remote quarter of England, of the not easily matched goodness, and honour; and high qualities of head and heart of the late Sir THOMAs DYKE ...

... MISCELL&NEA. A FLORAL FLY-TRAP.-The Dogbane grows to the height of two feet, and bears very numerous pink, bell-shaped dlower?, in which is the remarkable arrangement which has caused the advocacy of the plant for fly destroying purposes. Tbe five anthers converge into a kind Of cone, meeting though not adhering at the top, and being below a slight distanse apart Inside these is the stigma, ...