... ,ed it di 'liere ISD NOTEPS OF FA OUS TRIAL. tc :ed a A gentleman, formerly connected with thle tl, dlone Portsmouth Press, and now holding a, responsible v( her junlsi position in Paris, has favoured usi h right with thle following notes taken during the trial case, of the famous criminal Prado. As evidenc(e of :s he the world-wide interest taken in the c!ase, we Ilie mlay mention that our ...

... STPAN2GE STORY FROM COWES. sh At pth Leof 'Night County Petty Sessions on to S~tierdav, before 11rancis White-Pophanel, Esq., andu' Albertvh of Magistrates, the adjourned case of pr ler M'-ark P.oil, a sealmian, living at Cowes, and Jo ae a hnen at thle last sicting of the Court for sh fq lr e 3 assault on/ his vife, again camne on pr frlta~be , M r. A. S. Esteourt again represented to the an, ...

... OUR BlRITISH BA TS. A Nalura lisi ?? No/es. | In Great Britain there are no? less th1 pilnine- ,,en OLTrilwet spepips pf bats, ?? of them aro tc descrke4 by a natutralist in thie Bo&s OltItT is Paper. 1 IYla Long--Eeiredl.B, a The ears of the long-eared bat are almost large ?M enougli for a bat of tea times his size, and when he pricks thein. up, as he a1ws does When 119 listening to any ...

... ed THI5 ConroRATIoN.-To mark the close of the lie municipal year the Mayor and Corporation at. d tended Divine service at the(athedral on Sunday mr morning, attired in their robes of office and at- tended by the Mace Bearer and other officials. lie TIE Duica or RicHMiOND AND TilE CITY t- ALLOT51EN7S. - The Mayor has received the , following letter from His Grace the Duke of d(i Richmond and ...

... 'A - - - c o l Mrs. Scrubbins 0, clear ! I'll be so glad beo I when the hunting and fishing season is over. My c t husband is awfully fond of such manly sports, sali r but he always over exerts himself. is e Caller: I should think he would learn by ex. -V) e perience. in I XVell, he don't, He got back last night so lh e tired he could hardly walk, and this morning cha -he's upstairs with. ...

... f ?? . .. ,. b ?? -. , . ,.I (Conducted by Grandpa Grimmi.) Purr-r-r-r, sings Tabby, as Grandpa Grimm takes up his pen to write to his young friends this week. She lies on the met in front of the ire, looking so lazy and harmless that one can aardly believe her able to catch and kill a mouse. lint she canl catch mice, and hits doile so often. *V hera the donmestic cat, that is to say, the ...

... .r~wo~nusvnnA 72; I,, COA oal THE CATHEDDRAL.-Dean Pigou, who was for. dr. mally installed on Wednesday, was again present red at the Cathedral yesterday, when he performeda eld the ceremony of installing the Rev. J. S. Barrow, c im. Vicar of Rogate, to the Prebendal Stall of Gates. i es, CH&AGE AGAINST A PAvNBROKEER. - At the I let, City Bench, on Saturday, before the Mayor, J. Tho Caffin, C. ...

... ay A FORTSMO TH S(ANDAL. e The following appoars in this week's 21'uth:-A of curious story reaches me from Portsmouth to N ; the effect that the whole of the ox tongues of the C h animals slaughtered ab the Royal Naval Victual- h iG ling Yard for the use of our soldiers and sailors tc at that port are distributed as a free gift or per- quisite to those Naval officers whose incomes A a amount ...

... | A Ruined Guyv in Texas. The surveys at present being made for the Kansas City, El Paso and Mexican Railroad, at a e: point north latitude 33 degrees and wvest longi. ti tude 106 degrees, have passed along the lava flW fe whc by the local population is osu'ed thle Mol- C pats It onsits o a ea o molen backglass, a :~agitated at the moment of cooling in ragged ii waves of fentastic shapes. ...

... PORTSMOUMH TOWN COUNCIL. | ~* THE PARTING AND THE, COMING MAYOR. Ii'. The quarterly ineeting of the Portsmouth he Town Coucil washeld at noon yest-erday at the h'd uuildhall, when the annual business was trans- ?? acted. Thle Mayor (Albert Addisun, Esq.) occoi- I'S pied thle chair, and there were also Present: lie Aldermen Sir W. D). King, J. Daker, E. M. Wells, I. Ridout, NV. Kent, J. (1. ...

... ___I PRESENTATION OF PRIZES. T 'rhe prizes won by the 3rd Volunteer Battalion rs; Hampshire Regiment at Eastney on the 29th of ast September and the 13th and 20th of October were he presented at the Albert Hall, Landport, on Tues. s. day evening, by the Mayor (Albert Addison, lal Esq.), who was accompanied on the platform by Ie, the Mayoress, the Mayor-Elect, and a number of Us the officers ...

... 51Y ADDRESS BY PROFESSOR STUART, M.P. Under the auspices of the, Portsmouth Work. ats ing INen's Liberal Union a most enthusiastic and of successful mass meeting was hold on Wednesday in evening at the Circus in Bow-street, Landport. ad, Mr. TMD. Sullivani, M.P., and Professor Stuart, hii M.P., had been announced as the great guns of in the evening, but the former hung firei, having iet. ...