... Turs week the weather has been exceedingly cold, and biting winds during the day, and frost at I night have somewhat dispelled the prevalent idea that somehow we had stumbled into an early spring. A great deal of snow has fallen in Wales, and the Hambledon Hills in the Thirsk district are covered with snow. In this neighbourhood we F have so far escaped snow, though we have had l several ...

... SIR WAI. IGEO. ARMSTRONG O- NATIONAL DEFEKOES. SUGGESTED EXTENSION OF THE VOLUNTEER MOVEMLENT. At the ordinary. meeifti of ?? of civil Ew- gineers, London, on utuedin4Ayrzt, Sir W. 'G Armstrong, C.B., F.R S., delivered an inaugural address as President before an unusually large body of members Sir W. G. ARSSTRON observed that it had been the practice of his predecessors in the chair to select ...

... The wretched woman lately found in a cellar at Liver- pool literally dying of want beside a heap of gold reminds us of the stiffened hand of the dead miser in Thomas Aird's Religious characteristics- the old ~hand almost con- quering, by its unabated eagerness, the palsy of years- trembling in both, still closing over gain, mocking in the stiffness of its muscles, the being's protracted ...

... DISASTE RS AT SEA. *SUPPOSED FOUNDERIN'G OFA STEAM)ER. The eore Paboy, arivd a Batimore, saw, on -Jan. 9, in nc. 145, log. 37 , a thee-mated steamer showing signls f dstrss.Shewasver dep in the water, and Cc had no steamon. Shortlyafter the Gorge Peabody missed Co her, and thinksshe foundered Ital hands. Mirr FI-FTEEN LIVES LOST.lfe A Llyd' telgra recive frm Valparaiso states that .theyleique ...

... A SUDDEN and marked change has taken place in the~ weather. It was balmy and spring-like until Sunday evening, when a change in the direction of the wind brought a much colder temperature. This was followed early on Monday by a fall of rain, which continued with little intermission until yesterday, Wednesday being the wettciQ day whfch we have experienced for months. More rain fell yesterday, ...

... THE MI-rCH FAIR, NENYGkTE STREET. The glory of Newgate street is on the wane, if not quite gone, so far as the March Horse Fair ef Tuesday was con- cerned. Rosa Bonteur would hardly have found models for her Horse Fair there; yet there is still on Fair days an astonibizing display of equine activity, gossip, and soci- ality in the region bounded by St. Andrew's Church, Green Court andl ...

... gullmial ?? HOUSE OF LORDS.-Farry. THE SITINGS OF THE HOUSE. The Earl of CAJMPERDOWN moved a resolution de-lar- ing that, in the opinion of the House, the sittings for public business should commence at four instead of five. Lord M1IDDLETON seconded the motion. Earl GRANVILLE thought there would be some advaut. age in meeting at a somewhat earlier hour, both to official and non-official ...

... NOESTR. AND COMMtEN'TS I It is romonred that some of the leading ralwa~y co, panies, in consequence of the high premiumns, 10s per tea.v being in many cases the minimrum, charged by fire is=u companies on goods wvarehouse i at r-ailwiay atarion5 5, template becomning themselves insurers, not only of then. ow property, hut also of the good5 of thleir ?? toes warehoused. Nor is thlis all. Thze ...

... Ywou may be left at first, but try to be right at last. W~hen a river breaks its banks is the result financial| ruinMI Why is a lamaplightec a cowardly ?? he runs away from his posts. A law student once defined libel as something & man says, and afterwards wishes to goodness he hadn't.' A physician says alcohol has killed mnore people than yellow fever. Woell, doctor, more people have taken ...

... C. j aT -Do- Good name for a bull dog-Agrippa. The paper-hanger's business is very stuck up. Eterna. vigilance ie ofitn the price of an umbrella. ?? ever c milain without cawys. That's where they ale sensible. The jolly-boat ought to be manned by a good-natured Btrw. 'lWy cannot Gladstone insure his ?? lhe can .get no one to make on: /sp ptivu. The good that men do may be interred with their ...

... WV ?? Ad piottict 41two. LL c 2NEWCASTLE. The Executive Committee of the Newcastle Liberal Association, at a meeting of that body on Tuesday evening, rejected Dr Rutherford and Dr W, aH Newton as members. TheiRegistrar-General reports the annual rate of mortality lastweek in28of the ?? towns averageed 2-4 per 1,0 of the aggregate population. The rate in r.ewcastle and Sunderland w as 23. Ta ...

... LOllD DERBY ON THE EGYPTIAN WAR. , Lord Derby has sent the following reply to a Manchester I gentleman who wrote him with reference to the Egyptian question:- Knowsley, September 12,1882. Sir,--In answer to your letter of yesterday I sball probably take an opportunity some time in the autumn or winter of ex- plesing an opinion on the Egyptian question. In the mean- while it is enough to say ...