... LADIES AS LA WYERS WHEN young ladies go to lunch with their newly-called brothers and cousins in the Temple, they never fail-as far as our own observation has extended-to try on the wigs and gowns of those young gentlemen; and the effect is usually pronounced to be very pretty indeed. The forensic horsehair, which is not un- becoming to many owners of that variety of nose and whisker for ...

... BOSTON, 7uns 3, 1873 IT has long been a question whether to treat the drunkard as a criminal or an invalid; whether to clap him into prison or con- sign him to an hospital. Time was when the idea that inebriety was a disease was scoffed at, and the same seventies which were visited upon the insane-for even the insane used to be treated as criminals-were also dealt out to the habitual drunkard. ...

... AAl-z_ ~ _; I ?4 I FROM GLASGOW TO OBAN 'SEE Naples and die,' says our artist, is a Neapolitan pro- verb that must have been made before the Zoea was built-anyway before you die try a trip from Glasgow to Oban, and you'll con- clude to take a fresh lease of life. Suppose you start from the Broomielaw-at Glasgow there is very little to be seen beyond ships and shipbuilding yards, outside ...

... T-l THE new writ for Dover is to be issued on the 15th instant. Mr. Barnett, the Conservative candidate, has sailed for Venezuela, under the impression that the election would not come off for some time, but his friends have held a meeting, and determined to support him whether he is in the town or not. The Liberals, however, are confident of returning Mr. Forbes, who is very actively engaged ...

... I E I Q FRANCE.-The Assembly has resumed work quietly, and at present the political atmosphere of France appears clear and peaceful; though there are plenty of dark clouds looming in the distance. Foremost of these is the Constitutional Question, for the solution of which every Frenchman seems to have a distinctly different plan. Thus the two sub-committees of the Thirty ' have been ...

... ?? A NEW society, The Academy of Catholic Religion, was in- augurated at Manchester last week. The Bishop of Salford (Dr. Vaughan) gave an address on the irreligious tendencies of the age, and the political position of Roman Catholics. He said that the teachings of such men as Huxley, Darwin, Tyndall, and Mill have poisoned the minds of hundreds of thousands, and dissolved their belief in the ...

... ?7 R; OUJA THE CONCLUDING STATE FESTIVITIES To THE SHAH OF PERSIA IN ENGLAND Like his entry into London, the Shah's introduction to Liver. pool was marked by bad weather. Leaving Euston Square at Io o'clock on the morning of Thursday week, he rattled down to Liverpool in four hours and a half. Of the details of his journey, and his reception at Liverpool Station, our readers have probably had ...

... W&~ of &ZWl I~t |ei|4sR__|||5|S~ff|.egee*|nAtj t THE Session of the French Assembly opens once more with Conservative opposition to M. Thiers, but the battle this time is for life or death. If the incidents of the Autumn recess alarmed the majority, the Spring elections have given them the courage of despair. Then, their wish was to convert M. Thiers ; now, if only a successor can be found, to ...

... * * -rOFi TvrT ?? LILi THE Tichborne trial, which will commence on Wed- nesday next in the Court of Queen's Bench at Westminster, will probably more than revive the public interest in this ex- traordinary cause cfl4&re; for the romance of the case--the theory that the Claimant, who for some years past has in- duced so many persons to accept him as the heir to the Tichborne baronetcy, is no ...

... PHINEA S RED UX By ANTHONY TROLLOPE, AUTI:OR OF THlE SMALL HOUSE AT ALLINGTON, ORLEY FARM, THE EUSTACE DIAMONDS, PIIINEAS FINN, THlE IRISH IMEINfER, ErC., LTC. [./4I Rigl/Is Resevced.] CHAPTER VII. COMING HOMEL FRONM 1JUNTING. .LADY CIIILTERN was probably right when she declared that her husband must have been made to be a Master of Hlounds,-presuming it to be granted that somebody must ...

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... :I NATIONAL MTUSIC MEETINGS. The second series of these public conpetitions was inaugurated yesterday; trhe private preliminary hearing, and exmination of certifieates- of merit, having taken place on Wednesday. The scheme of these csmps- titivo performances, it willbe remembered; originated with Mr.WillertBssleand wascarried out, last yar,-with his co-operation-by the directors, thoe secretry ...