... - The Ltighamn Magarines, without in any degreesbabm lidoning its original aim, jibecosning more populainr isp tone.e Professor Huxley among the Propbets -isthO titis ofacuti article on the educatioueoti'oes M.wh is of a c .anseco vrjcV. S peceal hinterest now that. Lorb ado' is before Pe m~ent, When Professor Huxley was as member of the a London School Boardl, he propherslied that the ...

... TR g ARCTI C FX PEDIT ON. PRQPO3ED ENTERTAINMENTS TO THlE OFFICERS AND MIEN.. Incompliflfclee ith a requisition, the Mayor of Ports.. month (WV Pink, Esq-), convened a. meeting of the inhabi- tant at the Gujid~hall on Monday evening, to consider a tatznthat the ?? and Dfscovev-y should Pe Or:trtaiinei at a dianer, in celebration of their return.I lis Werorhiv presided, and there was a3 very ...

... THE MIN1'.E SINGERS. QJvflil JIU24aN3 OLINImlinD. .t COMtPLMENlTRY CONCEBT TO MIR. J. WVITE3BO''roM 1LOlN] d It needed no p rophet to foretell that the concert vwhich tttua e was to take place at the lecture Hall, Portsmouth, on rcnt tr sl Tuesday evening, would be a brilliaut success. The room nowv sha D Was filled to .verfiowiug; indee-l, crowde were lingering- ahoat the doors for a long ...

... -war -L a1 , 1 .s - - 5 -- . .. ,t ThpeS2pect ator, noticing the Domesday Book, just De issued, observes that politically its importance lies in a nut- of shell. It shows that landed property of some sort is pos- Hg sessed in this country by about a fourth of the population ~el Nihrho h ouain g Neither 3Mr. Bright nor Lord Derby is wholly in the wrong. e. Nearly a million of peraons'(972,836 ...

... FLOWEP. SEHOW AT EUSWORTE. I Ir'A;. f - - . . l;- -n It is now'something like four years since a number of ge ntlemen of Emsworth and the neighbourhood interested C in horticulture conceived the idea of starting a society an with a view to the encouragement of the poorer classes of U the district in the cultivation of flowers and vegetables. in Assistance was readily afforded, end the ...

... MAGAZTNES OF THE MONTH. Macmilla'n this month bears evidence of~ fte ascendancy 0 of Eastern topic's 'in the public mind.- The opening A ~.a~tc~a ?? ?? it should 0l l~erea byeveyoe iterste incirent poittica. The wrierhi.Laig-Me-o, mkesouta strong, WV~ may say a unanwerble cae acaint te Iperial Govermiacut, ~ wosetretmet f ?? cnnt be made to sclunre a el with any conceivable notioni of justice. ...

... t public spa tlker is reported to have Ka it V 41.dv i XU.OZ nJM1rnls, D A recent public spa iker is reported to have said that the Atway in which the Navy is now managed is positively ichildish. If this be true, our sailors may in some sort be d looked upon as children, and scarce out of the nursery and ,f this being sp they may perhaps find some amusement in t such nursery rhymes as these ...

... FO=SXinE LTTEIA'y -AND SaINTIFIC Tbefe tir ?? n bus,- Y, ?? Te third a -- has lur mieeting. of the Fritsmouith Liteirary theI a scientific Society *as held, at the School of Science and be O - Tuesday evening. The President (Dr. J. Ward (Aj COusibiss) occupied the chair buit, in cousequeuce of the unfavonrable state of the weathe'r, the attendanc a 5 salrtausa.The company included ?? news ml ...

... DOUBLER ACROSTIO.-No. 35. If you travel by'train, by night or day, i Yoa mustb to this a s isit pay. and - wes L agi A Latin phrase, which signifies bud Tha~byou can laugh if you are wieo. the: This we know cornoa once a year, ,trnI When ahristmas timo iES drawing near. whin This is a partiolc, a point, a jot, Bopp In fact, 1bno nothirlg but a dot. - roes . IV. one This you may try,- ~th ...

... LITURARY NOTICES1 H5 Macmnillan's Mafa,.aino continues to give prominence to whe.l ad purely literary topics. In the present number, Mr. Bosetti hut, end -elaborately criticises what he terms the bi~bly remarkable theis bf. vplume of poems by William Bell Scott,.which ~vas. re-tbt 1aY. cently published by Longmans, The task is greatly Wnargea givew b]O y taking in the general course of British ...

... LITERARY EX!z RACTS. LABLACHE'S Anexieca OT MIND.-Once, when iu Naples, he was sent for to the Palace. He entered the Tas' - waiting-room, and, till called in to ha Majesty, conversed has lie with the courtiers in attendance. Having a cold iii lois import head, he requested permission to keep on his hat, Getting (startl into full discour. e, he was suddenly startled by tho gentle. haven' man ...

... A TBAGEDY IN ET. J1A3rE8S PALAOII -About the year in1810 the Palace was the scene of a horrid tragedy, which, It a for a tirnel at least, drew down great popular indignation '1 F. on one member of the royal family. The Duke of Cumiber- Th Ls land bad an Italian servant named Soulls, who made his A '.way into his master's bedroom and tried to assassinate him in tab ~,the n ight Tke duke awoke, ...