... MEN OF THE WEERK In the first week of May, Addison was born; so was Le Sage. Dryden, Meyerbeer, Thomas Rood, and Lord Exougham died in the same period. Joseph Addison was born at Milaton, in Wiltshire, in 1672. While at the University of Oxford he gzaied repute by Latin poems, and at the age of 22 composed a Latin poem on the peace of Ryawick, which obtained for him from King William, to whom ...

... IDM)CRkCY AND DECENCY. iD RANOLPH (:CHURCHILL'S imperti-a etrer to Lord GRLANVILLE has evoked s rvad contempt. It has been defended t :w two quarters, however, as the kind ,Noversy that the new conditions of ] osdenand. If you want, says the -e, to appeal to an electorate such to which we have now entrusted I epliLhiclZ power you have got to use 15and riolentlanguage. It is not by . tful ...

... gi ATIRLA FP~l. THE TIED-H' MOST TO BLAmE? l) -PRINTING HOUSE-SQUARE AT FAULT.-LORD axl 0 1 N- SIPENCER, DUIINE, AND In S AIRTINGTON IN COUNCIL AT JBI.ONt,. - TION AND JMUTUJAI, CONCESSION RE COERIOMN. C BIG IUN AND P1LO5ESSORS' LT.PtNLLT EVICTIONS5TH13 CONGO aSaO AT THE CANNON- I STRERT HOTEL. F I186, FLEFT.STREET, Thursday Midnight. ?? is something a little comical in the s position of the ...

... IFROM A LONDON COMIZSPOXDE= I Whitsuntide has proved a very dismal season indeed. Notwithstanding the cold and rain, the holiday people were not to be denied. The lower classes of London are an unreflectingr set of. beings. A dozen or more having clubbed together and char- tered a machine for a certain day's outing, they will go however unpropitious the weather, rather than forfeit the ...

... OUR LONDO'LN LEITER. ran - HEOU9SE Ob' Co'kiroSs, Tuoqsday Night. G The ?? of C iinninous drearily sat till three T o'cloekr tils ln'irin, glortly before Nvhich hour L aseint W.Ls given t. bringing- in tile Croftenr tl giffl. The ation of the Irish inemnbors in ressp-ct . of this wn JorCanit bill Is hiijoly oliara.ceriuc. '.hIey ari the self-appointed ihamp~,ie of the ! si tadfxriner D innj ...

... AUTOMATIC VOTEBYB kLLOT' About twelve years ago, a gentleman, then cha resident at Gainford, propounded in the cohalias Pol of the Northern Echo a simple, self-acting unu method of ascertaining, with unerring exactness, shil the result of a Parliamentary, municipal, parochial, or other election by ballot as soon as hor the poll is closed. A similar plan is now pro- whb posed, and has been ...

... Lord rtandolph Churchill presided at the house dinner of the St. Stephen's Club, Westminster, on Wednesday, and was supported by a large company. He said that when tha distinguished honour was paid him of asking him to preside at the house dinner of the club that night he could have wished that the duties would be of a more purely honorary character, or, at any rate, that they might have ...

... ?Cacll aud ? V - I 0 t twe, *+ A ?!lrr of !rtareeotnuninc-atirnr for Antiquaries, Blbllogrrs. phe7Ai. ]rter'sr NeW-, Art'i.t-c maid Gtre-aj Ral ordars on matters relatil:'.c to the North of Eastanid. NVaiWn ra ltsp~londutrtat. in auar-aee-ing inquiries, mates extracts front sta1y cook 'ay ocellar p~01)2w taco, they will oblige by qu tot'a'_rtre 1su'hocity. nati.oly in justice to the, author, ...

... MR BURT ON THE HOUSE -A OF LORDS. Speaking last night at a large public meeting at the St. James's Rall, London,' in favour of the abolition 'f the House of Lords, Mr Thomas Burt, M.P., said it wae thesduty of Liberals to organise for the struggle which would come sooner or later. As to the existence of the Here- ditary Chamber, as had often been pointed out, the House of Lords had done ...

... ;HE XORTHF:- 1;n THUBSA Y, mI ' - QUESTIONS FOP Am wr*.- . TAR Hon. E Gu Dt.L - membersa for the old Nu:. stituency, has mysrecio i.. candidate foi Cleveland, ' ;: electicn campaign to-nv5. word 'myt~steriously .~ ' ?? mystierious that a cand. rlkanm- upon a constituency witho-; of which the public are rl should announce his cal:! Guy' DAWNAY did at before the constituen ' ' 'his choice ...

... LT T G AT Abov ?? ae h h omanded by Captain wily. C BoOb, took' 6i the annual to a$ Ouccsf ultermiiatiahon o. T4e`sday evening. I ?? shootfing was, superiitendea by, Sergeant, I ree th wat favourable. t S nedthsrrfe principa~l sqprerm and r F[l: C*,Aee;p-Private C.. Robs;, 77; Private .1 i I. 3 oates,. 76:; Private .Eb. Metcalfe,' 72; - a Prvate W i ...

... SPHEEH BY 5R H. F. PEASE. W In connection with the Great Ayton Congre- - w gational Church,:the annual Whit-Monday sale 1 of work and teea ware yesterday held in the na lecture hall of the church, on behalf of the funds re' of the church and school. Thesaleof work, which tfl * as highly successful, was presided over by Mrs w Reynolds, Mias M. 3. Nelson, and Misa Dobson. M, About two hundred ...