... EXTiAVAGANCE IN TEE CITY. EXTRAVAiiANUE 1N Ion wa s I AT the Court of Con moh Council Deputy Fry, ta) chairman of the General 1Purposes Commitnelt , brought up a report from that commitfee Oni reference to them on the 29th of Jane, 1876, ,>f e consider the nature of the contraets made with D different City tradesmen, and price paid for w done for the Corporation. Mr. Walter addressed thr l ...

... PA-LIAkNTARY IREPORTING. The Seleot Cominittee appointed bsy the House of Commons to consider the question of Parliamentary re- vp prting sat yesterday for the purpose of taking evidence. E Tle chair was occupied by Mr. W. H1. Smith. The other members of the committee were Mr. Barclay, Viscount ,Crichton, Mrfe. Dunbar, Mr. W. E. Forster, Sir Alexander Gordon, Mr. Hall, Mr. Al. Henry, Lord ...

... ELECTRICITY AND SOUND-THIE AMICROPhOE TiE wonders recorded of Aladdin's lamp must sink into insig- nificance when they are compared with the doings of that modern necromancer which we call Electricity. It instantaneously con- veys our thoughts to distant places, it enables us to travel in safety by express speed by the warning vwhich it flashes to the next stage that we are on the road. It ...

... TiE claims of Irishmen to be permitted to enrol themselves as Vsolunteers, under regulations similar to those governing thle \'oli!cer Forces in England, Scotland, and the Colonies, have recently been laid before the Chief Secretary of State for Ireland by an influential deputation headed by Lord Monck. It cannot be said that the pleas set forth in the memorial which the deputation presented ...

... DESTRUCTION OF OLD BUILDINGS, LINCOLN'S ,N ?? Ve ANIONGST other ancient buildings which are diestinecn to ut; 1improved off the face of the earth we are sorry to have to include the anciet gateway of Lincoln's Inn, and the adjoining buildings, welt known to the members of the legal profession under the title of Old Buildings. odupnaarerk Lincoln's Inn gateway cannot be looked bupon at ...

... THE GARDEN.-By MR. W. EABLEY.,, I_ SEASONABLE GARDENING FOR THE WEIEK ENDING JULY 6. Our few reniearl, whichN we made last week, regart'iig tbe tax wlich a chaigeof weather wlilld piece Upon pltuts, hale been fuly JUstia fied. Ti oigl te glorious sunishie caused iany to fag, howvever, and ' inlmi. every eot witminl gl- structur es, it Uas w IOUght iii;iinite good in regard to all. it wvas ...

... rUNZ&AZ 104WE. ota.;X24T Or IAN~OVAv On Monday forenoon the remains of iheinks ?? George V of Hanover were iiterad in the royal vauit beueaft the Ab.ert Memorial Chapel, Windsor Castls. The ceremony waB almost of a private msakune,. -ew peneos being aduitted to St. George's Dhapel withoat ticket, and iltose so privileged belongingpr iglpallyto the palace or holding positions in the royal ...

... LETTER OF THE EMPEROR s TO PRINCE -AUERSPERG. to th (THiLOUQG nEUit.rB' AGENOY.) tic VOENNA, Simm 28. th The following autograph latter from the Em- at peror of Austria to Prince Aueraperg, President kh of the Austrian Cabinet, is officially published 6 to-daty: My dear Prince Auersperg-,-I have deter- mined to order the prorosuation of the Austrian vi Reishsrath from the 27tbhJune until ...

... EVERYBODY'S COLUN. ainmiA SERTOos accident happened to a, Ishonrer lalrolk ar- Wilson, resiing in Beedhiam's-conirt, Skeldergate, red The imanwas sistihg on the end of a barge moored of to the Queen's Wharf, Skeldetkate, smhoking hie pipe.; 77. while some guano bags *tre being unloaded by the means of h. crane, when the Sib gave 'way and fell It on himineititag severe injuries on the head and ...

... THE GREAT STORWL On Stinday, slhortly before one o'clock, tire Metro- pobs was visutud by a violent storrlr which lasted over two hours, causing considlerable damage. Thle traffic was not only conrsideriably mleplled, bnt in some places easuluteir stopped. Thii; wae espicilulyl the case ol tbie ulnde grourrd railwsay. One of tire great sewers burst at King's-crosa, and in a few nuiniutus tile ...

... Mr. O'Conor, the Irish Peasant Poet, who has shown in his Songs of Life the most unmistakeable gift of song, fresh and spon- taneous as the notes of a bird and almost as untaught, makes an appeal to the charitable. M~r. O'Conor, who finds that he cannot live by poetry alone, and whose health prevents him from earning wages by manual labour, thinks that he has at last discovered a means of ...

... TO THE EDITOR OF THE ELIA. Sir,-The writers of the letters that appear in last week's El-a respecting the word Jingo have evidently misaunderstood me, and would infer that I am under the impression that I had coined the word. In reply, first to Mr Cheatham's letter-teeming with humour and signs of erudition-I am well aware of the word Jingo appearing in ' Ingoldsby. I also remember ...