... Mr.. GoscFtt\ has proved his capacity to iwallow most things that will help to keep Lord Salisbury in office. He swallowed the principles of finance with which he had been nurtured under Mr. Gladstone for thle purpose of producing a popular Budget. He consonted to the revision of judicial rents within a week after having de- nounced such a proposal as immoral for fear of losing Mr. ...

... :O FIELD CLUB., h - l~he Tongues of Birds.', e h Cqmmenting on the' statement that no birds I, have tre teeth, a writer in the Echo shows how I .e nearly all birds have on their tongues and inside E . their. bills what constitutes an excellent substitute a for them. Thus e SWAN 'S TONOGu.-In the swan the Itongue is a l thick and fleshy organ, beset with parallel rows e of horny, tooth-like ...

... PORTSMOUTH, SATURDAY, DEC. 17, EVENTS OF THE WEEK ABROAD. A P.RTNmOHT ago M. Carnot was chosen as the successor of M. Grdvy at the Elysee by an enormous majority in the Congress of Versailles, and amid the universal acelamations of the' people. Thereupon the Press of Europe lavished compliments on the French nation for the ?? in which they had extricated themselves from a position ot great ...

... - THE GUILELESS ARAB, Buying a Stradivarius, es A little street boy, with a fiddle under his arm, a crept into a city cookshop not long ago, and begged that the owner of the place would give 'him a bit o' meat or a bit o' pudden, he was so Pungry. - Ican'tafford to feed pauperse,' be was told; ayou geb out owever, he was so persistent and-begged so hard for sum'at, and offered his ...

... A. At CHRISTMAS DINNER. m . . ,. - - . - I ?? HEintss to :Housewvi es. Dinner on Chtistmas Day ought to be like 'dress, not too smart,.. but j ltst smart enough, or rather not too rich, but nut rich enough, and it ought to be such, as ?? can partake of; from the doyeane of the party to the little grand. nd child just b genoughl'co sit up in a chair and be trusted with a,'spoon. Most ...

... BY WALLACE P. REED. The noontide sun of a hot summer day beat fiercely down upon the convicts at work in the apparently boundless cotton-field that belonged to Colonel Jefferson Clay. It was a large plantation, and was almost entirely worked by a force of ohaingang convicts leased to Colonel Clay by the State authorities. As the sun reached the meridian its rays came down so pitilessly and ...

... . .. . . _. - . - - . The monthly meeting of this Board took place on Wednesday afternoon at: the Lodue at the Cemnetery at Kingston, when the members present were Messrs. C. Light (chairman), Alderman D;. West (vice-chairman); J. Reading, B. A. Knight, J. W. Gardner, Ji E. Howell, C-. Gillhatm, and T. W. Billows. --The report frorm the $EGISTBAU (Mr. Rand)showedlthat with a balanca of f10 9s. ...

... THE NEQALI1ES te A meotisi of t =e members f6 t'he .Poirih-outh e, Liberal Club Was held on Thursday evening, he whe Mr., ?? -presided, and-an interest.- as ing paper,.dealing with The inequalities of Ir taxation, ?? readaby.Mr1T. A. Bramsdon. ,An 0. opeping the p oceedinga,'tbhe CsAi^aMA retnaiked .er thot :he, subject bhosen! by ?? Bramnsdqsi'Jofo he dis'cussio'n affected the`pockets'of ...

... . LIBERAL MEETING AT. PORTSEA. I * - : I e A meeting of. the Liberal electors of the Ward ie of St. Johu, Portsea, was held in Oranze-street it School Room on Tuesday evening, when the ). 'chiair was taken by Mr. M. Jepps, and amongst those present were Alderman J. Baker, Messrs. id Forsyth, . Sweeney, Bigg , Turner, Raynor, , Trodd, Pavalit Norster, Lamb, Tilley,- Killsen, 9. Robinson,- ...

... WESLEY, CHAPEL, ARUNDEL STREET, LAN DPORT. This chapel, which has been closed for foul months in order to receive an entirelynew interior and windowswas on.Ttiesday re-opened for Divjin worship. The contract for the coloured glass and memorial windows was given to Mr. J. J. Spear. for the pews, rostrum, vestibule, and lobbies to Messrs. Scammell and Dowdeli; for the richly ornamhental ihon ...

... THE MYSTERY UNSOLVED. On Monday the Coroner (T. A. Bramsdon) Esq.) opened an inquest at the Golden Fleece, Commercial.road, on the bodies of Mary Ann Moore, an unfortunate, and the man unknown, by -whom she was murdered. The following were the gentlemen sworn on the Jury -Messrs. John Dunning, 21, High-street ; Henry Hyde, 33, lCommercial-road; Jamies Rogers. 1, Oyster-street; James Grant ...

... A lecture under the auspices of this Association was delivered at the Victoria Hall, Southsea, on Tuesday evening, by the Rev. C. Williams, the ex.President of the Baptisu Union, on The Non- conformists of Olden Times and tile Dissenters of To.Dav. The chair was occupied by the Rev. J. P. illialms, thl& resjdent of the Association, and among those whl. supported him upon the platform were ...