... The Potato Harvest. — ln the Lincolnshire ! Fens the potato harvest is now about completed, and, ! generally speaking, it has heen one of the best experienced for many years. The early sorts especially made some extraordinary prices, in several instances ...

... It is difficult to speak in terms of moderation of the pastoral letter which Dr. NuLrv,the Roman Catholic Bishop of Meath has addressed to the clergy and laity of his diocese, an extract from which, with the ominous title Land the common property of ...

... The Earl of Camperdown on the Sittjation. — Speaking at a crowded meeting of Unionists, held in the Town-hall, Poplar yesterday evening, Lord Camperdown said even Mr. Gladstone's present supporters were not all agreed on the point of giving to Ireland ...

... The State of Trade. — Mr. Henry Lee, Presi- ' dent of the Manchester Chamber uf Commerce, speaking ' at the annual meeting of the C amber yesterday, said j that altiiough in some - ections traile had not been all they could wish in the pust year, still ...

... The Earl of Minto, the new Governor-General of Canada, speaking on Saturday afternoon at the dinner of the West Teviotdale Agricultural Society at Hawick, said, replying to the toast of his health, that none appre- ciated more than he did the honour which ...

... Speaking Hull yesterday General ’* Booth referred his colonisation asked for co-operation between the Home and Colonial in order to clear away the diAcultiea of the situation. It was, be mid, untrue that he was sending vicious people the colonies. He ...

... Had the Bishop of Ripon, speaking on Saturday at Oxford, adhered to the announced subject of his discourse, instead of devoting himself to the hackneyed subject of fiction generally, he might possibly have proved less amusing, but he would probably have ...

... If that fear of change which Milton speaks of as perplexing monarchs existed, we should despair of making the still small voice of law reform heard. But the compliment which Montesquieu paid to our constitution is just, and its justice is never ...

... An Opposition, politically speaking, is so im- portant an influence in the administration of a representative system that it must always be a matter of regret, even to those who dilfer from its leaders and their followers, to see it in a position j that ...

... It is much to be feared tliat, comparatively speaking, very few of the dwellers within the sound of Bow Bells have an adequate idea of what a glorious specimen of architecture they possess in St. Paul's. They seem to be content with know- ing that it ...

... Although it is impossible to speak yet of tbe cause of the accident, or even to say positively what may be its results, there is no room for doubt that the British battleship Howe had not been got off the rocks up to the time of the despatch of the latest ...

... WJLEii'iiJBNTERTJINMENT. [FURTHER PARTICULAUS.] The taste displayed in the arrangement of the ban. quet, it is impossible to speak in adequate terms of praise. The Knights Companions sat at a table completely oval in its formation, which added to the nouvelle ...