... A Connecticut man who went West, intending to settle there, has returned disgusted. He went as far as Kansas City and finding 100 lawyers there, and the thermometer 115 degree, in the shade, he thought the combination was too much for hims and came right back home. TarmiyuNG A JuDoB.-Curran was often annoyed when pleading before Lord Avonmore, owing to his lordohip's habit of being influenced ...

... V OLimiEm ?? .: Several smbers of ?? YVoluniter Artillery k (Teigurmouth),-have been ?? by Captain Gibbs for R irregular conduct md refusing to obey orders whilst on the line of marcoi','0A the 26th October. c , I5Tx D.A.V.-Orders for thbs ?? h Drill,.at 7.30. Satqrday-Kaebh ,out, undres uniorm, 6.16. OfficerondlutyriLutreant.Tmu-rne. r. - l e - leST ?? Orders for this ?? and non. 0 ...

... MISOELLAXEA. t If we are good, example is the beet lustre of virtue ; if we a sre bad, shame is the best step to amendment. Y If you have been tempted into evil, fly from it; it is not I falling into the water, but lying in it, that drowns f The worst inconvenience ofa ?? fortune i7, that it will Y not admit of inadvertency. Inadverteney, however, ought a to be placed st the bead of most men's ...

... BRISTOL AND EXETER. DOWN. lure. a~m. a.m. &.M. a~m. a.m. p.m. P.M. p.m. p.m. Wxaa 1. a.m. a.m. a~m. a.m. a~m. amon p.m. P.M. p.m Exeter ?? 6 0 8 00945 108301148 1225 380 4 45S 60London ?? .. 6 45 9 011 45 1030 ?? 1560 50 Stoke ?? 611 889 .. .. 1155 .. .. .. 6 11 Bristol ?? 615 5810 10 8012 30 2 28 815 ?? 6 0 815 Silverton86S2 989 .. .. .. ?? 622 WestonjS. 643 9 14 115617 ..4 1 ?? 6 50 8 41 ...

... The Queen, accompanied by Princess Beatrice, left Windsor on Monday morning for London. Her Majeety travelled by special train on the Great Western Railway to Paddington and drove from thence to Buckingbam Palace, escorted by a detachment of the 2nd Life Guards. Her Majesty arrived at the Palace at half-past ten a.m. The Queen was received by the Duke of Edinburgh, and proceeded at once to the ...

... Elections 1 ab, I have ?? partat matny a one, when electiona were elections. And what merry times we had! It was only then that the country vwoke up; the drowsy old towns threw off their lethargy, aud the rounties flared and sputtered with life, like the log on the hearth there, and seemed a dead thing half an hour aco. The sm 0t towv l were especially lively-they were strongholds, and felt ...

... LONDON AND PARIS GO8SIP. LoNDON, November 23, 1874. To-day the christening of the Baby is to take place, Her Majesty coming up to Buckingham Palace from Windsor to kiss her grandson, to shake hands with the Russian grandmamma, and to stand as godmother to Albert Alexander. The combination is unique, I should say, the Prince taking the name of his two grand- fathers, and he will have the Queen ...

... The November elections to the Town Council have this no year been exceedingly dull and uninteresting in most of the wards. In three out of the six the retiring members have been re-elected without a contest, whilst in the contested wards the Radicals have gained nothing, and in the only O ward where the Radical seat was contested the Conservative re candidate headed the poll. A new feature has ...

... EXETER SCROOL BOARD. A L- * -_ A A s Mr. W. BarneE preeided at the monthly meeting of the Board at their offices on Thursday. The report of the Finance Committee ehewed a balance of £397 99. 6d. on the treaeurer's books. The School.Management Committee reported that seven parents on behalf of ten children, had made application for the payment of school fees, and that these applicatione had ...

... e STra.TECY ic DoGs.-A rather amusing instance of reason in a dog has been narrated to me. The animal was a s Newfoundland, and of a quiet disposition. There was, however, e a much larger and quarrelsome dog of the same kind, who was frequently meeting Lion, and taking every opportunity of emolesting hi. One day the big dog met hn, and evidently bent e upon a fight. Whereupon L;Os, knowing ...

... LONDeN, November 16, 1874. t We shall have a quiet Winter this year, if Mr. Glad- t stone's friends can only persuade him to give up playing with pens and ink for the rest of the year and let the c Pope alone, for the Ministerial speeches at the Guild- hall leave us exactly where we were a week ago, and I Sir Stafford Northoote was compelled at the last moment1 to relinquish his intention to ...

... Wretwn's (txctt hflpia Aist (ESTAI3LISHED 1768) IS THE OLDEST AND MOST EXTENSITZEI CIRCULATED CONSBR7ATIVR NBW`SP~j~ IN THE JUE!ST OF ENGLAND. WEDNESDAY, NovzmnBER 11, 1874. THn Conference of the Liberation Society, or as it is now called, the Anti-Church League, at Man- chester, must have recalled strange memories to the minds of the chief actors. Mr. MIALL even, must begin to see that the ...