... 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 ...

... CONVIOT PRISONS. ?? appears from a report just issued that throughout the %pi past year 1697 male and 295 female prisoners were received sntate ito the Government Prisons of England, of which 1335 of e o the former and 255 of the latter were free from previous ,Pe to onvictions, while on the last day of that year 8340 men oh of and 1156 women were still remaining in those prisons, as Wvne ...

... The strike in South-sest Lancashire still continues. Sul Indeed, if anything, both masters and men seem more and I determined than over to fight the battle to the bitter end, needs The men are exerting themselves most strenuously to eveni obtain support from other districts in Eingland and Wales. affair Deputatious have been visiting the collieries in various from parts of South Wales, in ...

... ITO C . . I. A quarterly meeting of the Counoil wag held on Monday for the election of the,:layor and Higit 8heriff, ansd other business. The Mayor (Ur. Alderman Barnes) presided, and there were also. preen.Aldermen ,S. V. Hare, Robinson, Edwards, Morgan1 Baker, Adans, Jones, Hathway, Green, and 'Ford; Messrs. H. . Mills, R. James, R. Carpenteri W. A.-F. Powell, W. Pethick, C. nsher, W. Smith, ...

... STABfl G AFIFRIY O BO A IDA DWIP i- TUG-BOAT. H ' I On Sunday afternoon;a a-wounded nman wee landed atthe Pier-head, Cardiff, from the steam-tug Milo, belonging toA the port,, and taken to the surgery of Dr.' Jppep, in ZLoudoun-square, who dressed' two rather ugly knife 'wounds in his neck and thigh. It appears that the Milo W3Salongwwitithe 'Advauce, alse a Cardiff-boat,'at Sharp. niei. Point ...

... STRIKE IN THE FOREST Oh DEAN. On SAturday, tbe several notices of the miasters through. out the Forest mining district expired, and colliers, miners, enginemen, and mechanics withdrew their tools, deter. mined to resist the proposed reduction of ten per cent, In the evening a monster mnss meetiog of the Cinderford Valley ?? was held at Cioderford, and addressed by Mr. William Pickard (Wigan), ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... ?? Twain says the Saudivich Islanders are generally as' )S unlettered as tire back Side of a tombstone. Ld The Wabash is so low that the fish stand on their heads to or: wet their gills.-.Anec'icea poper'. In Wiry is a farmer like a chicken P-Because he delights in lur A full crop. L, Au old lady thinks that aL good' many modern songs a L thoroughly deserve to be called strains,' ng A ...

... THE FoREST OF DEAN STRIKE. A statement bas been published by the colliery proprie. tors of the Forest of Dean, in reference to the strike of their employes. They state ?? the spring of the present year there was a general reduction of colliery wages tbroughout the country, and, amongst others, the Somersetshire proprietors (some of our keouest competitors) paie notice of a reduction of 25 per ...