... AXlB AND FOOD. If England is as rich as ever, she has a very curious way of showing it. The other day the Lord Mayor had no defendants or pri. soners before him. No middle class secretary or director was that day had up for misde- meanour or felony. The Lord Mayor congratu- lated himself upon getting a pair of white kid gloves, but he went on to explain that the poor. box was in a very low ...

... A SOLZ@XwOlb CRA|fOrD WITM -mm . Ir o , lD-EZZ2iCzw]RDT. _ At Bow-street on Thursday, Charles Hatings Collette, aged sixty-three, solicitor to the Society for the Suppres- sion of Vice, residing at 48, Portsdown-road, M aida-vale, and of Lincoln's-inn, again appeared before Sir James Ingham, for examination on the charge of converting and appropriating to his own use a sum of £2,800, being a ...

... 'ACCZDENW TO THE EUPHRATES. intense excitement prevailed in Portsmonth onWed- nesday evening, in consequence of a rumour that the Euphrates had been capsized as she was being got out of dock. Happily the report was an exaggeration; for, although an accident occurred to the huge trooper, the officials acted with becoming promptitude, and all risk to the ship was averted. It will be, however, ...

... SWORDS ;FX XTEE WOURGSOP. TO THEl ElDITOR, OP REYNOLDS'S NEWSPAPER. SIR,-'this week me and my mates have been laughing 1t the solemn farce which was played the other day when % deputation of railway lords, and other large employers f labour, were introduced to Earl Beaconsfield to object to the Attorney-General's mock Employers' Liabihty Bill. The Bill, for a wonder, is an uncommonly short one ...

... WAVLL AND MILITARY INTELLIGEiNCE. 1lne stuiaar(t Ior gunners of the Artillery has been raised to the extraordinary height of 5ft. Wlin., which has had the intenlded effect of nearly stopping the supply of recruits for that branch of the service. Some of the brigades are still ?? drivers at 5ft. 4irin., but there ale many rmore candidates than vacancies. The rifle battalions, which have been ...

... TO THE EDITOR OP REYNOLDS'S NEWSPAPER. * Srs,-British philanthropy, like the chame-d leon, assumes divers shades. It is sometimes wrong-sided, and occasionally crooked or per- verse. It does the oddest things at the oddest times, runs counter to public opinion, carries out crotchets of its own, and never wearies of finding some new field of operation. It imitates the flightiness of the flirt, ...

... THE ENGINXEZZ2' STX=.-OYDE PAGs ZYI;:~EMTIXG. I . - .. . . _. . - . .. .- The delegates of London Trades Societies and the Cen. tral Executive Committee met last evening at the com.' mittee rooms, Blackfriars-road, to consider the arrange., ments for holding a mass meeting of the industrial com- munity of the metropolis in Hyde-park on Saturday after-: noon next for the purpose of explaining ...

... PRANCE. (l. do Marcere, Minister of the Interior, resigned on Monday, owing to the circumstance that he had not Bufficient determination to entirely purge the police de- partment of all the Bonapartist spies and others inimical to the republic. There have been for a long time in democratic papers attacks on the prefecture of police. After a time M. Rochiefort's Laferne began a series of ...

... SCRAPS FROX THE COXIC JOURNALS, [From Funny Folks.1 PARILIAMIENT OUT OF SESSION. Mr. Mundella felt bound to say that a good deal of the depression in trade, and the consequent distress, lay at the door of Lord Beaconsfield and his colleagues. We are very glad to hear this. Now that the fact has been brought to its very door and is lying there, the Goverf- ment suely cannot pretend any further ...

... ADVANOC OiP WE PLAGU. We (Post) trust that nothing will be left undone by our Government to ensure early and regular intelligence as to the progress of the plague in Russia. There is nothing else thought of or talked of in Russia but the plague, the terrible and unsparing Black Death. Politics have no interest. Plans of conquest and dreams of ambition have for the moment passed from the public ...

... GARDENI1NG FOIL TI5 WEEK TERINRATIwe AoOrSTr 9Tsa,1879. BY MR. GLENIN. (Editor of GlennY'B Iflustrated Garden Almanaok.) OUR WEEKLY CALENDAR. rItE FLOWER OAGRDEN. As cuttings of geraniums will now root freely under a hand- flass in the open borders when properly shaded, it will be well 30 go round the beds and borders and take okf such pieces as an be spared w~ithout injuring their general ...

... -- - - - -a M. Humbert, the returned Communist exile, has been returned to the Municipal Council of Paris forthe district of Javel. The .rarseilla-se says:- The consequences of the vote of the electors of Javel-energetic advocatesof the great cause of the amnesty and the mouthpiece of Paris and France-are simple and logical. First result, the amnesty will be passed. Unless lunatics or ...