... THE VISIT OF THE SHAH OF PERSLA. We bv no means grudge paying all honours due to a stranger guest. We go even further, and say that our reception of him should be costly in accordance rather with ouir means than with his rank. ?? are we not getting justi a trifle too ecstatic about this approaching visit of the Shah of Persia? We send the King of Denmark too a hotel. The King of the Belgians ...

... MlaIRSIAGE SETTLEMENTS. Does a woman use her furniture when she pawns it ? This was the question raised in the case of Worsnop v. Benussi, reported in another column, and which has been decided by Mr. Justice Keatiug and Mr. Justice Brett in the negative. The facts of the case are very simple. Mra. Lowthian, a iesident in this town, was entitled under her marriage settlemeittothe s use and ...

... I OUR COMIG ROYAL VISITOR. I Just as war spreads a knowledge of the geography of the seat of hostilities, so does a visit from a foreign ruler prompt us to rake up partly-forgotten and complete the partly-acquired history of his rsce and country. It is no exaggeration to say that the present visit of the Shah to this country will spread amongst Englishmen a better knowledge of the ancient ...

... TO CORRESPONDENT. I W ) ?? uidertake to return commtimuleatlons of which we do net avail ourelvtes. Oomiunications should .-iways be legibly written In ink, and on d onte sie of hde ,p)2c !u) ?? tile difikolty of Oinding te for thew. Whatever is intended for insertlon &sUs be authenticated by the name and addreos of Se writer-not nevessarily for pubileation, but us a onrnetee or hit good falth ...

... IIMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS. in THUR1SDAY, JUNE 5. This house, after tho intorregaium of the Whit- IT suntide holidays, re-assembled to-day, the Spoaker rg tahing the ohair at a few minutes before four o'lock. NEW MEMBERB. w Mir. Dundas took the oath and his seat for Rich- mond, Yorkshire, in the room of MIr. Dundas, now . lia-i of Zotland. _ PRIVATE BILLS. The Lords' amendments to ...

... RMIX AND WEALTH. | The case of Cope v. Earl of Delawarr, decided on Friday by Viec-Chancellor Bacon, illustrates very curiously the sentiments which in 'this country gather about the order of nobility. There are few things apparently so much opposed as aristocracy andcommerce, and it is the peculiar fate of Eugland to exhibit th'em in an intimate union which has no parallel in any other ...

... j,.&'!,,YqST ? ?? -tlruTERS TS1 rEGRAMIS.) TUF ALUALDN OF'11 MUtA ?? Br ?? ?? (AbSl I ELS:: BARCEroNXk, JuNs 22 -SabalIs hais ot in tle Alcalde of .1111 a foor not ?? infuiieed Le I1ii of the arritrL of thre Republican volau- Qr teers from Siab~adell and Tarrasa, who sur. IS- prised 50 Catrlist. ItE:1ORTE01)D CARTLT4T SUCES3S. , ST. JE:AN DE LUZ, JUNE ?? Ist rej advices Btateathat Santa Oruz ...

... THE PUBLIO HEALTH ACT. - s Many of the rall sanitary authorities o created by the Public Health.Act have been ii greatly perplexed in the endeavour to bring La it s prescribed machinery into operation. I Anxious to carry out the intentions of the legislature and to make the administration g of the Act a perceptible. benefit, they have encountered' considerable difficulty in the LS e ...

... r - LATEST LNTELLIGENCE. RJSFUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) FRANCE. - VERSAILLES, MAY 30.-ln the Assembly t to-day, a Bill for the reconstruction of the C Vendome Column was adopted by 488 vi against G6. The Assembly adjourned until eM rThursday, the 5th of June. - I i- rE PARIS, MAY 30, RVENING.-bM. Thiers st has written a long lotter to Count Trever. fi deuc, an old friend, and Deputy for the da Cotes ...

... , DEGREE DAY AT LAMPETER, ! 7 .; . . i' ?? ' ' I ' a (FRuoX OUR aaCIAL coUnS PoNDuOT). to LAMPETBU, TauusoAr. It it bo conceded that, in order to serve the best isterc sts of the Churob, it is desirable for her minis. ?? to come in contact, during the years when im. preasiene arc the moet easily received, with Nature in her lovhiest aspect, the Chwurh in Wales ought to be congratulsated upon ...

... 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. ...

... BvY Af AMrATEuR. TRAmsr. Now that the timne is fast approaching when the question is being discussed, Where, and how to spend the holidays ? the following account of a day's tramp in Yorkshire, which is taken from our rough diary, may prowe interesting to your readers. We can furnish others equally, if not more, interesting, but our advice] is, ' Try it. August 1oth, 1872, 6 a.m. Wash, ...