... ;.ft (From Punch.) he A PnOpOs OF THE WELSH' GOLD FIND.- ur Advice Gratis :-Beware of Welshers. * SONG POR MP. PRITCHARD.MORGAN, OF he MAWDDACH VALLEY, NEAR DOLGIELLY.- li Darlingy Sfne. as BACON AGAIN.-An erudite student informs 0, us that the crest of Shakspeare's mother's ae familywas a boar, so that there issomething ae Baconian about the Immortal Bard. ry A SOUND OPINION.-Our Own ...

... Whlo Would be a Finn 9 l At San Francisco some time ago the master of , a ship was fined for ill-treating a Scandinavian f sailor who had formed one of his crew. The I Scandinavian, though he represented himself as a Norwegian, was confidently believed by the ship's company to be a Finlander-in other words, a Russian Finn. It is well known that among the I many sea prejudices was the belief ...

... DOMESTIC SERVICE AT LPHOOK. I Va i SERIOUS ACCUSATIONS, ce On Thursday, at the Midburst Petty Sessions, 511, before the Hon. J. J.'Carnegie(Obairinan), Colonels ad, Houist and Watson, and J. W. Woods and E. A. rlE Nevill, ,Es a., five hours were occupied in the inves- his tigation o an action, Jane Morris v. William Vo hornabrook, in which the applicant sought an order nupon the defendant for ...

... |THE vACANCY AT WINCHESTER. I I . , I , - to A crowded and enthusiastic meeting' of Liberal electors was held in St. .Jolh's Rooms, s, Winhester, on Wednesday night, for the' purpose of selecting i. a' Liberat candidft1 ?? Morshead presided, 'supporled by P. al VaPd.rlyl, Esq., Mr.. Wallace, M. P. for Edin. tyburgh, Rev, H. E. Mobe ermen Cliftou S.anti Warren, C~ouncillor Warreji, &c. A ...

... MYNHEER VAN DOUBLE SLOW, L- Of'all the families of Rotterdam that of the *e Slows vias one of. the most ancient, and had from * time immemorial possessed a reputable store ana wharf aiear the cathedral of St. Lawrence. e Its latest descendant was Mynheer Van Double Slow, in whose person the name was like to be. a come extinct. Mynheer had married, it is tn,., :sbut the only. result 'was a ...

... THE CHILDREN'S IIOUR, [CONDIUTED BY GRANDPA GRIMM.] di Grandpa Grimmn has had a letter from The tl ONl Woman who Lives in a Shoe; not a fairy tl letter, but a real letter, written with ink, and it brought here by the postman. Here it is:- ni DEAlt GRANDPA Giu2nmr,-Some kind friends have givenus new red cloaks for those of our little girls who are well enough to walk out, and we are promised ...

... NAVAL NOTES AND NE WS' I - -- ?? A - - rIrrOM OUlr OWN CORRESPONDENTS.] toil LOrD- iRsASSEY returned to Portsmnouth inis b a yacht the Sunbeam on Wednesday, after a cruis-. one of 36,709 knots among the British possessions hi Thc nmost parts of the world. This cruise has been sad. tin cdened by the death of Lady Brassey, -wios.- Th interesting books have introduced the Sunbeasiu hn to a large ...

... LOCAL ANDDISTRICT NEWS. PAINLisS DsurTisTIL.-Dr. Knight, Surgeon Den- W tist, Inventor of improved principle of adjusting istl Artificial Teeth, Queen's-terrace, Kent-read. South- mfl sea. Consultations daily (gratis) from ten till six, aI TimE Committee of tho Royal Portsmouth hi Hospital beg to acknowled~ge the suim of £2, being a quarterly subscription from the emnployds of the Gi ...

... The extraordinary interest aroused in literary circles by the Mermaid Series, published by Messrs. Vizetelly and Co., 42, Catherine-street, W.C., will be miore than maintained by the selec- C tions from the works of Thomas Dekker, C edited by Ernest Rhys. Charles Lamb was not f( alone in his day in his tremendous appreciation 84 of this outspoken old dramatist-, and in the fi present day ...

... , OLD PORTSMOUTHt r, . I , A ,,V , Pietures of the Past. d *e (DRAWN PRO~i TftS FILES OF TIE HA'MPSHIR ,0 TELEGrBAPIE.1 In the article on Old County Cricket which appeared in the Hamps8ire Tegramph on July o 2nd, I mentioned that cricketers were not satis- a fied to play in those days for anything so un- r substantial as honour. They preferred purses t of golden guineas, and. no match 'of any ...

... __ ?? If you want your Portinanteaus% Bags, &c., repaired, Webb's Old Established Manufactory it is 5.3, Queen-street, Portsea. On, of the Largest Stock X of Traveling Requisites to select from. v681 1 PORSMorpUTHj AND SOOTH HARTS EYE AND EAR 1NFIR31ARY.-lhse Hon. Secretary begs to acknowledge that he has received of Mr. H. P. R Ford, Hon. treasutrer Portsmouth Royal Dock- r yard, Navy, and ...

... HOW A MEMBER OF fHM MA.SWTY'S SaavzS ESCAPED DESXRWtio. AN all-wise Providence provides a climate in emb quarter of the globe. particularly suited to the in habitants of that section, and a6 change from one X another usually causes disorders of the internal organism that must be carefully watchud,else the result will be the contract' of a fatal disease No worse change is made by an E.nglshmnan ...