... w1 Young tolhs Columno _nt It is a pretty custom, this new one, of giving East&e eggFs said a friend to me the other day. I could not, of course, contradict her, but I expect many of you North Country children are ready to smile, as Idid, at the thought of the custom being a new one. Still, there are many people who believe with her that the exchange of eggs at Easter is a recent importation ...

... et'-3 E ORT H ERN CjC~f H . WEZXDfYESD3l, JULY ,, I.32. - - = =- I - ?? ?? B~t1>.1S D- I Tl;tii: ?? ?? l ch enbting ;f !1e aii ,I; CIt, oxeiilg pertly to thO warmil tclnj ;,czatlurc 1111d 1artly to the exhaustion ?? a | ½ i~tmU1;1 iaiien' WhiCh apparently leit W no retur. IL is a pr'tfitless taSC to 'itlLEa ft'A her the ScnICs of thi'l IASL Lw 1 'i [hre i P a ?? geunral agreenietit tI 3 ...

... T1'SM HON. ?? W. CAHBrNS. SPE Ef M. Alr Lucy, in his contribution this week to thl3 Observcr, thus depicts the circumstances of the Hou. F. W. Lambton's speech on Friday night:- It was just before Mr Bright spoke that the House was made conscious of the fact that thera was a young gentleman risen from a seat to thQ rear of the Treasury Bench wbo desired to address it. Very few knew hin, and, ...

... 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 ...

... PARTIES AD~D POLITICS. AIMR T. P.. O'CONNOR, AiP., AT JARRO^W.° On Saturday night a lecture upon Irish Education was delivered before a large audience in the Mechanics' Hall, Jarrow,} by her T. P. O'Connor, ALP. The chair was occu- p ied by Mir Joseph Cowren, jun. Mr O'Connor spoke of the importance of national education in Ireland being in theE hands of the Irish people. He contended that ...

... NO'TE.S AND COMMIENTS Ithis onte thing to be a poet and anrotzher to bee? n ?? roe reception of Mfr Tennuyson's n~ew drarn, 5 ;i- m~ise of M~ay, wvas very stormcy and unsymn,>e;- Globe Theatre, London. on Saturday nighi,'-*cat,5 lineations of cbaracter W-ere received with roars a; * its illustrations of rustic life were loudely lirne tc;.. r and, what was wiorst of all, its paithos wthoiiy ne ...

... A LCCAL SEA-SIDE FAMILY. 'William Shannon, chief carpenter of the Inflexible, one of the six men of the British fleet killed in the bomb trd- mont of Alexandria, belongs to a family well known atTyne- mouth. He was a grandson of old Will Fry, the bathing n achiue and boat proprietor of the Pr~or's Haven. Old I Will, as he was familiarly caled, was rather a remarkable n an, a constable of ...

... Zhe GATITOO ?? Tas KITCHEN GARDaY.-The weather is favourable for planting out cauliflower plants for autumn and early winter supply, and also for brocoli of all kinds. Make further 1dnagtatioa3 of celery, and sow .lettuce seed thinly in rows Where they caribe thinned ontand left to come to maturity witbout being replanted. Any trees At ptlims or pears that hovc been suffered to retain heavier ...

... LORD LYVEDEN ON~ LIBERA^LISMI. At a Conservative meeting at Onaidle on Thursday night, a letter was read from the Wing nobleman, Lord Lyveden, who says :-KI assulre you the cause has may warmest syua- pathy, as I consider that all the conditions of political life are changed, and that there are nowE in reality only two parties in the State-Conservatives and Revolutionists, and I confess my ...

... HOUSE OF2 CO;MMONS.-FRPIDAY. taken he ?? FAIrrssre QUESTION Sirt~oda ChAReS ableR, t n ra~eply tstolo .frle Eaniton said therehu W5 noe foundantion wateve fsor the Cstatement rthat nataly hand mitaken theraittione in Egprooigacofrneo.te yta M~r GLADSTOE, roend redy to Croloned Staney said heashouldh OHos tondayhe able tdo rmaen an stateento which wol bue in the natue of ?? the cost o thet recn ...

... LO?DO1? OSIP ?? 2Truth.t The Queen comes to London on MWondsFt it Ilo'clock, in ?? to open the .New~ Law Courts. Heni Majesty will lunch ?? Palace after the crernmsy,-and wilt then visit the Duchess of Cam bridge, returning to Windso3r at six o'clock. This wrill be the Queen's last visit to- the metropolis during the present year. Thre Prince of Wasles is to be invited to attend the ehi- ...

... SECOND EDITIONS 5utcSt ~4tgrams. j FOUNDERING OF A STEAMER. TWENTY LIVES LOST. (Rurna's TELEGRAMS. NsW YOR.E, ThtESDAY. Eleven of the crew -and two Dassengers from the dearner Bahama have arrived here, having aban- doned their vessel on the 10th inst. They report that the captain's boat, colltaininag 17 persons, was swavmped. LATEi The s4teaer Bahama, which was abandoned on the 10th inst., was ...