... WINTER IN WEARDALE Reats's description of winter as a season of pale mls- feature is one which commonly is supposed to be most applicable to the North; but there are nooks which do not deserve the phrase. One of these is Weardale, a tract of wild country in which early Bishops of Durham had their great deer hunts; where their successors had their deer parks, and exercised privileges over ...

... EIGHTEEN LIVES LOST. There was a violent storm on Saturday at the mouth of the Tagus. Three vessels were lost in the river, and eighteen persons drowned. FOUNDERING OF A STEAMER. The steamer Rosamond of London, supposed to have been bound from Cardiff to Malta, sprang a leak at sea, and foundered off Vigo. Crew and passengers taken off by the homeward bound steamer Nellie Wise, belonging to ...

... Z11-At tpum. AGRICULTURAL, pRzospETs. 'We c-annot complain that the agricultural prr'olsm is not discussed with sufficient keenness, andl if we do n it learn what crops pay British farmers best and how to meet AmericaPn competition, it 'will not be the fault of news- -parer correspondents. Among the contributors to the dis- cuission are MNr dlare S. Read, who favouars the idea that farmiera ...

... ONE HUNDRED AID TWENTY YEARS AGO. CIIALK STONES IN THE JOINS. TLe Ccurant of November 23, 1751, contains the following paragraph relative to the formation of chalk stones near the joints:- A very learned Physician in Germany has published lately a very curious Dissertation on the Natare and Origia of Chalk Stones, which are freqeently found near the Joints in Persons long troubled with the ...

... COAL-i IONING IN DURHAM. Yesterday, by invitation of Mfessrs T. Lowthian Bell and * Co., the members of the North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers met at Broowney Colliery (Brandon Station, North-Eastern Railwray), for the purpose of inspecting an apparatus at work at the colliery for sa6ving labour and expense in the I manufacture of coke, and also of inspecting a ...

... 1:xairtio. Barbers alwrkys predict short crops. The horse is usually an oated animal. The way to get out of h ?? your beard grow. A good way to curb a wild young man fs to bridal him. Can a lady who is making pies be said to be piously engaged? An uninteresting period in boyhood-waiting to be whipped. To promote a woman to a hire position-engage her as a lady help. The powerful electric ...

... PUBLIC MEN ON PUBLIC Q UESTIOQS. PROFESSOR HUXLEY. AT MANCHESTER Professor Huxley, speaking at Manchester on Saturday night, said he did not believe in the natural decay of nations, and was inclined to think that the theory was invented by cowards to excuse knaves. His belief, so far as the old English stock was concerned, was that it had as much vitality and power as two centuries ago, and ...

... IHE 0 RThERN WHO LEDKESDA, ?? 20, 187. LasT fight the men of Daxlington, ?? in a town's meeting convened by te lWiyoR at a day's notice, passed j~1 practical unanimity an uncompromis- 6g lodemnation of the Ministerial policy S b lt'aitam There were over twelvo ji 4iored persons present, and the total t3 Of1raer doissentients was variously 'Vitated from fifteen to thirty. A ] dlio'bt attem ...

... I BY MORTIMIER COLLINS. CHAPTER XXXI, IN ?? ADRIAN CALLS ON ISs Psx;OCx, Perhaps I shall find her hare.' 0. that delicious 1wr/hapso R-Ader, if you have not known the bittor'swe t delight of such uncertainty, you have rot lived. Adrian, having made two inetfectsal attempts to find loabray, and being excusably eager to atterd to his own affairs, had left Ethel Evelyn for the Mlarchionese to ...

... A LOWDON PARSO) AT WORK. THE REV H. F. HAWEIS. The World gives some account of this clergyman, of whom itis said thatingsley remaiked, that setting him to preach in Bethuns Green, was like taking a ?? to chop wood. He was offered the incumbency of St. James's, Westmores land Street, hiarylebone, then one of the dingiest and most unpromisilng of places of worship. The place was mouldy, ont ...

... THE CRURCHIIMISSIONARY SOCIETY. CANON TRISTRAM IN NORTH NORTHUMBERLAND During last week a series of sermons and lectures was delivered in the north-western district of Northumberland by the Rev. Canon Tristram, prebendary of Durham Cathedral, on the subject of foreign missions in connection with the Church Missionary Society; and not only ham great interest been aroused in the parishes where ...

... tortiou and (golonialo THE FRENCH SENATE AND CHAMBERS. The Senate on Monday fixed the elections of 35 members for the 15th inst. In the Chamber of Deputies, during the debate upon the electirn of M. Leroux (Bonapartist), M. Paul de Ceassagnec interrupted a speaker, saying, There can be nothing in common between the Bonapartists and Marshal Machlahon since he perjured himself. M. de ...