... NTES t ?? THrE VArUE OF LAND.-The person who could really tell us whether the value of land is now falling or rising might possibly also tell us what will be next year's harvest in England. In several ...

... THEF WORM THAT TURNS THEo general impression about a worm seems to be that it is an unpleasant-looking object that crawls in and upon the eai th, makes casts upon the lawn, is a nuisance in flower ...

... WAITING FOR THE LAST FERRY BOAT, EVENING OF MARCH 28 THE ARRIVAL OF THE 6oru RIFLES AT FORT EKOWLE, APRIL 3 --THE RELIEF OF EKOWE 0 I 0 .4 THIE ZULU WAR TarE news from the Cape dates up to ...

... - =;-7 ?? ? ??m.)777 ?? -- .- I -. 'P, ?? - - ?? ? I IRCII; I ?11 1. I I I TImE BISiOP OF SALISBURY, in concluding his Triennial Charge at Dorchester last week, said that the religious condition of E ...

... K ~icsrwW - 1: ?? THE CRISIS IN FRANCE.-The announcement that Marshal MacMahon was morally certain to retire excited no alarm in France, for it was known that a suitable successor would instantly take ...

... VESUVIUS'iS once more in eruption. THOMAS MOORE'S CENTENARY on May 28th is to be cele- brated in Dublin by performances of the poet's Irish melodies. THE ANTIQUITIES FOUND IN rIHE BEt) OF THE TIBECR a ...

... ?- ?? in?EI?EE I ?? AFFAI RS IN THE EAST.-There is a lull this week in EASTERN ROUMELIA, where a compromise is said to have been effected between Aleko Pasha and the Porte, the latter agreeing to susp ...

... i;` H o POLITICAL AFFAIRS.-The Workmen's Peace Association have adopted a very strongly-worded petition to Parliament on the subject of the Zulu War. They urge that we began it without provocation, th ...

... -z- \~ ~ ~ ~ ~ -7, i ?? MISSIONARY EFFORT.-The Archbishop of Canterbury, presid- ing last week at the annual meeting of the Church Missionary Society at Dover, said that it was a remarkable fact that, ...

... -?IEE.EII POLITICAL AFFAIRS. -At the annual meeting of the Middlesex Conservative Registration Association, held on Friday last, Lord George Hamilton, in moving the adoption of the report, said that s ...

... I TESTERDAY'S PROCEEDINGS. The hearing of the charges of conspiracy and fraud, made against the seven directors and general manager of the late West of Eneland bank, was restaned at Bristol yesterday morning. Miss Ann Gandy. of Clifton-road, Exeter, stated that she first bodgit shares in the bank in 1864, and from that time she had annually received the reports, and believing in them she had ...

... I[- The annual pulblic meeting of the Liberation society was hell on Wednesday evening at the Metropoolitan tabernacle, Mr. Hugh Mason, J.P., of Ashton-under-Ln presiig, ad a rge nu ber of persons beiing present. A letter from' the ltev. C. H. Spurgeon was readr amidst considerable cheering, in which lie said: I am ieore and more heartily with the Liberation society in the great work of ...