... all places. Showery or rainy weather prevailed over the greater part of the country, and while the air was decidedly mild, speaking generally, slight frost was experienced at several of the Scotch Stations. By Saturday I29th ult.) a material recoverr in ...

... life as we all on us lives to-day- Is lust a tuning the violin For the strain that is to play,. There is no lack of plain-speaking sometimes, e.g., the Street Sermon, to a startling degree, but there is no irreverence ; it is only that Mr. Langbridge ...

... two months. She is a Russian countess-a widow', like myself, and wishes, I fancy, to improve her English, which she already speaks very wnell. Of course, f am dreadfully disalppointed, but cannot help it. Nowv it happenled that Boatlss had a very deep ...

... men- tioned Germany and Austria by land and England, with whom she had had forty years' unalloyed friendship, by sea. Speaking of his visit to Bcrlin lie remarked that it had disturbed French opinion, but if there had been conspi ing at Friedrichsrtli ...

... reduced the sum demanded by 8,ooo4. By this sacrifice, the Premier barely secured a majority of eight. M. Flourens has been speaking ?? he is canvassing forthecomingelection, and has declared that his recent diplomatic successes in settling vexed frontier ...

... accustomed to mlake a great oratorical effort, never speaking for less than two hours, and sometimes running far into the third. On MNoIday be spoke just fifty minutes. In truth, it was not speaking, in the ordinary parliamentary sense of the term. It ...

... IN A PENNY GAFF AFFABLE manners and a mug of beer were the jemmies, so to speak, with which I forced my first stage door. Strictly speaking, it was but a rent in the canvas, and the door-keeper of a different sex and temperament from the Cerberus who ...

... absence, he could himself gratify legitimate curiosity as to the amount of the vote. Mr. Childers for a long time declined to speak. At last, under repeated pressure, he mentioned one million three hundred pounds as the sum that would be required. The smallness ...

... nRURAL .NOTES TuE WEATHtER--Of the great snowstorm and frost ofjanuary, aS8r, future years will speak as we (lo to-day of the gale that wrecked the Royal Charter, and of the winter of the Retr a from Moscow. The Arctic invasion was intensest in its ...

... was the principal speaker. LORD SYDNEY GODOLPHIx has been reappearing in the columns of the Times as the writer of a plain-speaking letter on Disestablish- ment and Clsurch Reform. The prospect of Disestablishment becoming a subject of legislative discussion ...

... crumblil,, away, but as a compensation there is a new hospital. I must 11,t pass over the English element, though I wish to speak chiefly of the old town and the Italian folk. The colony is not large, and is hardly likely to be larger. They have a lovely ...

... thousands who six years ago rushed to hear the earnest American Evangelists, Moody and Sankey, at Manchester ? H-e preferred to speak to men and women lswhile reason held the reins firmly over imagination and passing emotion. They must not suppose, because ...