... THE BIRTHPLACE or BURNS. Burns's cottage, the birthplace of the (amou. Scotch hard, has parsed into the hands of the trustees o Bu ...

... THE mati is ruined—hopelessly ruined. The words startled me. So bad as that? said the individual to whom the remark was made. Even so bad. Of whom are you speaking? I ventured to ask. Of Jacob Atwood. I started to my feet. He was one of my old, inti- mate, and long-tried friends. did you eay? That man ruined? Im- possible J There is no doubt of it. I received my informa- tion from those ...

... I fi BY PLANETES. No. 5.-SMACKS AND SMACK-HANDS. From Billingsgate to Smackland is as natutal a tran- t ,ition as from broad acres to the six feet of narrow ti earth which form the reversionary freehold of every ti ma upon this earth. I do not desire to imply that the on subject of smacks is a painful or disagreeable one-far c from it. The simile c;iuld not be said to admit of this ol ...

... :8y Is -i} - U au A:>i t-tulal law ?? .ua. e] 'er- ins OUR LOWNTDON CORRESPONDENCE eE -a TLoxnnr- q'TPT;nA' V he Ws a-LON-DoN, THunsDAY Ev-NaxGte corn The great Sign of the times is the activity of Pas, the Conservatives. They are as restless in their lob~ aes enlergy as though they expecteda general was DP letlxxiathe autumn. Or rather they are Mr. OPrestless in their energies because they do ...

... O-G- L- .''-pcrLments are being made vith a view to : :lig trains through the St. Gothard tunnel by I tv'tricltr. g A. statue of the German poet Wieland was ;o unveiled cn Monday at GBerach, his birthplace, ix le s Prince Gorfehakoff tree so unwell on Taesday :g that he was confined to his bed, and has not been al ablese hsarrivalin St. Pesburg to proceed At to Gatchira to have an udience of ...

... Dt 1o QuazEsTcowy-,, 3JYE 8.-Tle Inman roval mzni steam- [i- ship City of Montrsal, from Liverpool, arrived here at, i0 2 a.l. to-day, and, having emnbarked mails, passen- 3egers, and latest despatclles, proceeded for New York g at 440 p.m.; all ?? Nationual Stcamsh-ip Com- ts pany's steamer England, from -New York, arrived here la at ?? &Ms. to-day, landed passengers, despatches, la &c. aan ...

... ?? £V:* ; tt U e E CSf 9!~ 1 - rs rsits as Ely? I:, b.ul,- ad s - - i: Ill the Ho-s~e of lords, yesterday, the I Tarl of Iartmo ith called attention to theI - - I L- ?? -- , I. 1 I ?? -. ?? ?? ?? .-GX] .V LJV cac et ?? Gateev, the Irishman who was shot dead at Solihuil, near firming- Pa 1am, in liceember Isst. His lordship said W tha though he did not wish to attribute M motives, he considered ...

... 2 THEr ATLEGED MASLACGETEnm AT ST. HEEIx;S.- a ?? adjourned inupest on the body of NVilliam 5lilne, 40 years of ego, labourer, Sutton, was held A yesterday. Bryan Conroy, the man Charged with A caulsing Milne's death, was present in custody. The Jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against s Conroy, who was committed for trial at the assizes. P' The annual conference of the Lancashixe and ...

... Ir TwE NEW uMA2 N STEAMER THE I CITY OF ROME. I C'he The spleendid fleet of Atlantic steamers already h ide owned by the Inman Steamship Company was eli ay greatly increased `in val ue and importance yesterday s1 3rd by the launching of the Oity of Rome, the largest th her steamer in the world except the Great Eastern; and t ;tly althoug the proceedings of the day were wo 6rd. clode byv a ...

... ?? ?? Auur Do Ha J0SU -± - Wy. The Dublin Gazette of last night contains several proclamations, declaring that assemblages likely to R I mttinidate the process of law shal be regarded as illegal, and be dispersed by force, in F. Meath, Kerry, Waterford, Galway, and Kildare. Thomas Brennan, secretary of the Land League, T. was removed from Naas to Kilmaintamn yesterday. w At a meeting of the ...

... TIHE TEN COBMANDMENTS. I -- - I SERMON PRE&-CHE AT THE 1r -TLACE keep i ig SYNAGOGUE, ON PENZTEC( ST, r.~:3 every t, 1881, DY REV. DR. STERN. M.N?, TEE-. le The event Which we commemorate this day- - d revelation on Mount Sinai-is unique in its kioe. , Y7 in vain we look in history for a similar incident, he. a when a whole nation felt the nearness of God, when mater i-s an entire peoplehad ...

... ILATEST INEWS.1 j1i THE COURT, &c. ARRIVAL OF THE QUEEN AT . W IDSO ' R. t The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Beatrice d L and Princesses Victoria and Elizabeth of Hesse,a attended by Lientenant-General Sir H. Ponsonby, Colonel the Hon. H. Byng, and the Marchioness of a Ely, arrived at the Bulshbury Junction of the Great . Western Railway at five o'clock yesterday morning I from Scotland. ...