... that the Government have entered into a contract of a somewhat peculiar character. They have engaged a considerable number of ships on the understanding that they shal be placed at their dilspoal at any time. within a mon th. These ships are now lying idle ...

... that* a minority had no right to levy church-rates, tand a blow was struck at the tax from which it never recovered. Mr. Peter Taylor is a relative of the Cortauld family, and accepted the championship of the church-rate party as a family legacy. ...

... classes of society there, may be christened a real romance. The widow of a former Councillor of State in Touloue, the Baroness Deperrier, had married her daughter, a girl of 46, to an amiable young man, the son of a millionaire. During the wedding tour the ...

... sent a few days ago;hteir Odessa was a consignment of one thousand pounds ?? of quinine. kireat Theans to the Nihilists, the prison expenses of Ripem this year are to be increased by nearly a million roizurY 4 At the French assizes the other day, a case ...

... Derby rarely does, and it is only by a process of exhaustive comparison of notes that the representatives of the morning papers are enabled to 'rouduce anythbing like a faitlful report of momentous utterances. It is a pity that sadie arrangement could not ...

... i`i a huiesif wtir is decciatcd, Ruisciaic ?? Opinetth lt thie I tuti. i~i. liaxe a cetiming effect ullii Cthe wos p shlip 1Disraeli.' Tio E Iiglidl .erli-i they balieve, etoltark upote a Ii aii i-ri. factoring distiiete. of this coutntry al-c a. ?? ...

... in order to furniseh a re~prt to th0,Queesn,,A a' 'kghiauthority on Parliamentary mattera informs atle S * a curious and little.known fact. It appears thateLo.4 a Bartingtonl'sr ?? was by no fneasd s e o -tldnl'one, being in ?? of ...

... former's Tree in his gray tunic and breeches woaldd be one of a peculiarly exquisite flavonu-, He wast iacorrigible. He jumped anything and every- thing. At a cross road lie once wvent over a peasants wagon. He crossed the Danube on the floes when the ice ...

... slip of a private firm on the Nva. The coroner's verdict in the case of the Irincess Alice, and eqlccially the recommendation which the ju ry aplenuded to it, remirds nic of a regulation whichi was is.sued a few years rgo by the director, of a ritilway ...

... approaching a ?? in the sacred precincts of th legislative halls. eai sii says a widow uimued, Girard of Sceauv5 Sarthe,' has just died at the age of 100, leaving a some nged 79 and a daughter-inlaw of 84. aA NAROW EofAPE.-Dr. Ginne, of Siieffeld; had ...

... been a good deal of talk a~bout a vievlvl oltbe ancient See of Bristolj enough 4undiy have, not tit beesrwrseed. to iestore the Cathedral,'ai'd ?? Palace disappeared in the Reform 1tiotsoef; 18w-, ?? A'l ,ce Mr. Forster, M.Pk vili address ?? on ...

... 79. apiece for 1013. Evidently by taking a quantity there is a reduction of cost per vote. The Turkish lira, ordinarily worth 100 piastres, now fetches 336 piastres paper, and 432 piastres currency, Meat is 29. a pound ati onstantimhople. I understand that ...