... ;.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 ...

... |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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... (SELECTED CONTRIBUTIONS.j ; Some years ago, in a little street leading out of 1 Holborn, Mr. Joseph Cheasit carried on the a business of a retail provision merchant on a small 3scale, or rather, a small pair of scales. Some ill- natured. persons persist in saying that he kept a I chtudler's shop, but Mrs. and the Misses Cheasit s insist on the retail provision merchant. Be e this as it may, ...