... A Boy Hamlet, a lad aged 14. has recently been amusing the natives at the New York Lyceum. He does not appear to have been very favourably received, and the mildest thing said about him by the critics is, that he may be half a woman in disguise. -Figaro, ...

... The result of the Saturday and Sunday hospital collections was made known last week. There is an increase of £300 in the amount available for distribu- tion among the medical charities, the total being S9600, against E9300 last year. The largest participators in the division of the fund are the Liverpool Royal In- firmary, which receives £2H76, and the Northern and Southern Hospitals, to each ...

... TIJE ROYAL TITLE. A NOBLEMAN SNUBBED BY THE QUEEN. The well-informed London correspondent of the New- castle Chronicle writes:—As illustrating the interest her Majestv takes in the new title, and her desire to obtain *t, I may mention a story—which I have every reason to believe is correct—that is just now going the rounds in politicai circles. A well-known nobleman of popular 8yitipathies, ...

... (From the Daily News.) In his speech Mr. Bright endeavoured to induce Lord Sandon to take the House at once into his confidence with regard to the proposals of the measure which the Government intend to introduce. Lord Sandon, how- ever, declined to be drawn, if we may use that some- what rude expression. But he founded his opposition to Mr. Dixon s measure principally on the fact that its ...

... WILLS AND BEQUESTS. The will, dated Feb. 26, 1874, of Mr. John Forster, late of Palace gate House, Kensington, who died on Feb. 1 last, was proved on the 22nd ult. by the Right Hon. Lord Lytton, Joseph William Chitty, Q.C., and the Rev. Whitwell Elwin, the executors, the personal estate being sworn under £ 30,000. The testator be- queaths to Thomas Carlyle the gold repeater watch bequeathed to ...

... You in the post office! said a father to his son. Nice party you'd be in the post office. What could you do in the post office except to stand in the doorway with your mouth open for folks to wet postage stamps on your tongue ? BALZAC AS A WORKER.—Literary expression was not a natural gift with Balzac, and the process was painful. His head was full of creation, but there wa.s always the ...

... THE EnITJf STRIKE.—Nine men, who were before the strike in the employ of liastons and Anderson, were on Saturday charged before the Dartford bench with conspiring to prevent a man named M'lvor from continuing his employment at Erith. The witness proved the facts, and the defendants were committed for trial at the summer assizes at Deptford. Two YOUTHS DROWNED iN THE THAMES.—On Saturday ...

... At Bristol Assizes last week, eight hundred pounds were awarded to Mr. Cooke, late traveller for a London floorcloth firm, against the Great Western Railway Company, as compensation for injuries sustained by him in the Bathampton and Hingley accidents in June and November last year. The company paid JE420 into court. At the same court the friends of a little girl named Langhland, who had her ...

... A shocking outrage has occurred at Bolton. It ap- pears that a turn-out has existed for some time at Messrs. Slater's bleach works. On Saturday night, as three of the workmen, named Thompson, M'Ourley, and Wright, were proceeding homewards from a beerhouse in Slater's lane, stones were thrown at them. M'Ourley was knocked down and kicked by several men until he became insensible. Wright ...

... Rl,lyingto adeputation of licenr-ed grocers, the other afternoon, Sir Selwyn Ibbetson (the Under-Secretary for the HOlJle Department) said Government would give the subject mo3'. c,irefut consideration before they altered the law respecting grocers' wine and spirit licences. He could not promise off-hand that a Select Committee should b& appointed, but the Government would not propose any ...

... NEWS FROM AMERICA. PHILADELPHIA, April ;). — Washington telesrama state that a canvass of the House Foreign Affairs Committee indicates that the Committe will probably report a mild censure of General Schenck, that he did a reprehensible act in becoming a director of the Emma Mine and speculating in its stock, but that he was not guilty of any intentional dishonesty in originally con- necting ...

... SUPPOSE!) LOSS OF A SHIP AND ALL HANDS BY COLLISION. A pilot, who arrived at Shields a few days ago reports having, otl Aartnoulh Sands, seen a screw eteainf run down a brig with all hands. The brig is supposed to have been from Shields. A Boy Hamlet, a lad aged 14. has recently been amusing the natives at the New York Lyceum. He does not appear to have been very favourably received, and the ...