... (From the Worli.) As your political prospects are looking up, Lord Harting- ton, you may perhaps bear to be told that you have been guilty of a little social nisdemeanour. Intending to give some evening parties-a resolution which must have cost you a prodigious effort, and which I welcome as a proof hat; you are thawing-you ought to have copied your distinguished father's formula, and ...

... PROTECTION FOR FATEN2S. In these times of commercial depression and industrial inactivity manufacturers will have ample time in which to examine the Patent Law Bill in- troduced into Parliament last week. This is not the first nor the second Bill of the kind which the Government has brought forward, for the need of revision in the existing system has long been felt by all who are interested in ...

... TRE ABORHDBA CON OF NOR THUMBER- LAND'S VISITATION. The V enerable, Archdeacon Bland held a -Lhliation of the in clergy in this district on Tuesday in St. Nicholas' Church, ye it Newcastle. There was a large attenclance otclergy. Alter La morning prayers, Archdeacon Bland delivered his charge. ne He said if it was a pleasure, as it certainly was, to meet , s' them again, they would. easily ...

... JAMES CATNACH, BALLAD- MOINGER, &a. -- - - ?? 0 - a No. II. 'The class of literatare which James Catnach made Bi~st-crical comnprised children's fartting and ha' penny 'ursery 'Thymes. Their titles could be enumerated by scores, introduced to the public ini an endless variety of styles. Thus: 'ere you have just print-ed and publish-eda, and *dorn-ed with ten beau-ti-fui and ele-gant-ly engrav ...

... atm FAMIN-Gj-G PROSPECTS. BY -Mr FISLtAY DUNr. The Vet, cohl. ?? ble iweather still continues, the fe r e r months is generally double the rnous1 atorshe: dtriw Juime neatly 5eOen inches fell t r ?? I iter outi, arnd other ?? otations; a - re - t (50l .tlht rain does not occur once a week- rt Pko- ?? *eu-rat ;ct rarely exceeds 7kieSg., whilst the mmmi ru ?? ta . 5henightfrequentlymarks 35deg., ...

... - O vlmtand oumfion. nl)SOrEmR OF ROCK SALT. 'Th Maryland Academy of Sciences has received a large block of very pure salt from the island of Petit A use. The islnad comprises a tract of 2,000 acres, near the Gulf of Mexico, rising out of a salt marsh to the height of 170ft. 'The quantity of under-lying salt is estimated by guess as at least 15,000,O0 tons. The salt is shown to be 98P6t6 per ...

... WINTER IN CLEVEL.ALND. Railways which, aiccos ding to Carlylc, have set all the towns of Britain a-dancing,;' have changed not only the face of the Cleveland district, but have very materially altered the effect of the seasons on its wide and varied domain. Prior to the introduction cf the railway system into that portion of the North Riding, it was a secluded district, in which agriculture ...

... AEl ly 1batut &Ilrallt. ESTA.BLISiIED 1711. FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 1879. I Although it may seem like whipping a dead horse, we are to have the discussion in Parliament on agricultural depression all over again. Mr Chaplin wants a Royal Commission to inquire into the causes of agricultural depression, as if we did not know sufficiently well already what these causes are; and without waiting until the ...

... TEE BISHOP OF DURUAM AND T1E - UAIVERSITY. a On Friday afternoon, about an hour after the education meeting was held in Bishop Cosin's Library, Palace Green, Durham, the undergraduates met in the same room for the purpose of presenting to the Right Rev the Lord Bishop of Durham an address of welcome. The meeting not having been announced, there were only a few persons present, principally ...

... EXTRAORIDINARY DEATH BY POISOYING AT SHOTLEY BRIDGE An inquest w-as held at the Cormmercial Inn, Slhotley Bridge, on 'Wednesday evening, touching the death of Hannah Bullerwell, wvie of a csrier of that name, which I cok place under circumstances of a peculiarly painful naturc. On Srnday morninm , the 2nd November, Mrs luilz~rwell, who was subicet to criedoicel attacks of head- ache, went to a ...

... MA YOBAL QUALIFICATIONS. Next week the various Town Councils will be electing their respective Mayors. Already it has been decided in most boroughs who the occupant of - the civic chair is to be during the ensuing twelve months, it being very properly considered that the public election to the office should, as far as possible, be of a formal character. The custom has become pretty general ...

... ?? ?? ? gztrot SOUTH AFRIC i CAPTURE OF SECOC03 NL- { SIR GARNET WO-LV0SEUY Y AND THE BOER:. (PUrTER'S TELEGRAM.) ( CArE Tonw-, vi:t M nDPEIRE, D3: Secoceri surren Jered ul tohe 2iid inst. C.APE Towvs, DPa. After stormiiing Sccocoeni's -Mountaini, Sir Garts 'Wo(jisier: carttured the chief, wiho is nelw Oil his ay to Cape Towln as a prisoner. His Excellelicy has convened a mecting of th Beers, ...