... After a few moments' pause the voice of Mir. John Albright, a brsher axed eighty-sic, was heard tremulously, butt clearly, speaking words of Coristian hope and confort tc the bereaved and thanktfulness for the long and useful life of the departed. Looking ...

... contusion caused by hins a pparent blunder had subsided, Sir Charles Russell (as he then was), said, Gentlemen, I do not speak Scotch, but I vote Scotch. Tremendous applause followed, whereupon Sir Charles proceeded, '-and I sometimes drink Scotch. ...

... for his paper has been mo: stly republished in book-formn, anld presents an ;admzirable example of literary-journalismu. Speaking of| ;his descriptionl of the battle of Omfnudan, iMr. W. HI H 3enley ehiaractertses it as ?? th~e finiest piece of w~riting ...

... bench ; hbu at the end c of his address his lordship paid the audacious junior a the compliment of saying that his ?? in t speaking under the ?? had been justified I by the event. The plaintiff did not win his case; r but his junior counsel started that ...

... was a most liberal ?? towards meeting the needs of the parish. He intrniated also that, as Mr. Ruskin's pastor, he could speak in correction of certain common statements with respect to the great man's religious feelings and beliefs. ekept his intellect ...

... the V :re-Comno- dore. owes much to the Admiral'; char'niuig per- sonality and tact. Like most German naral .-fficeis he speaks English fluently. Me. RICFAsD Evf's Bzqu3surs.-The late Mr. Richard Eve, the former Liberal candidate for Kidderminster has ...

... a series 'of tableaux vivants in t e imitation of celebrated paintings. Those who have seen 1 r the tableaux in rehearsal speak of them as superior to I at anything that haa previously been attempted in I )t Birmioglham. t, Hs.assaoiS's Exocessoxs AT ...

... he has exercised over the mninds of his | generation we should be inclined to select from his Queen of the Air,' where, speaking of an early drawing of The Lake of Geneva, by Turner, he says: As I mvself look atit, there is no fault nor folly of ...

... French t Academy.-M. Cambon, responding to a hearty t pledging of his health, said he was glad to have the t opportunity of speaking to a number of gentlemen C who belonged to the noblest of all professions. They I were priests of a universal religion of ...

... the sonatas, all reveal the thorough artist. Of his private life and engaging social qualities it is not here the place to speak. The blow is too sudden, too severe, for us to entertain any other thought than that of the poss Birmingham has sustained by ...

... w~e-s -. s~nctoo s t-s to her younger charges, the ?? Rme a-nsevernmore so. and wereI - itf crwyard to by the aged inmatces. Speak- - 'i Home of Rest to s.lady- s-icitnr at Hoawarden, t;aaae'nsto-~I a fe-i- wet-d; summued up the aim if ir Crsena , los, ...

... an upholsterer and cabinet maker at Hungerford. Hard work and poor, coarse fare were his lot at this i time, and he used to speak of small beer for break--- fast and thin broth for dinner. In 1800 he went to Lcndon for improvement, then to Wokingham ...