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M Bel-dens with You. Ladies. It is the proud privilege of the bachelor curate toocou y an altogether exce tional position in B tish society. His re ations with the (air sex are more intimate and confidential than those of the laymen. All manner of opportunities {or safe and com- iortable flirtation ofier themselves to him in the ordinary course of his roteesional avocations. and it is but rare y that he is held mneible. by yrents and guardians, for g. with e afiections of his temale parishioners. An entanglement with a curate is an almost inevitable episode of unsophisticated and susceptible lhood. In nine oases out of ten it is at and unimportant. The clerical ‘detrimental' is, as a rule.easil tobedealt with by a romantic young 1 y’s natural roteotor. From apecuniary point of view. is seldom eligible as a cumin-law. His tenure of a sacred oflice renders it incum- bent npon him to set an example of self- saoriilce to his fellow competitors in the matrimonial market. by subordinating passion to duty. and by proving himself capable of sublime resignation beneath the pleasure of heavy disappointment. Under the cover 0! his spiritual counsellpmhip he my practice as a general lover without in- curring the reprehension that is certain to talluponamilitary. legalormedicalflirt who preeumcstopsycourttohslfadosendamsels at a time. ithout being exactly a char. ‘ tered libertine. he may be said to enjoy a 1 Erescriptive right of trespass upon familyj ome preserves. Doroassocieties cleave to 1 him, and he is the prime: mobile of district visiting. Picnics. garden ties and after- noon tees claim him for eir own. He is equally available for croquet and charity. for lawn tennis and the exposition of dogma. Paterfamilies, more especially in the country, is apt to regard him as a harmless, neceuary companion to the ladies of histamily. and oflers no objection to the frequency of his visits, upon the urder- standing. tacitly recognized by all parties concerned in its observance. that “ there is to be no nonsense between the person and the girls." Down to the point of serious love-making With a view toward ultimate matrimony, the curate is 'tted to share unrestrictedly the com- end pleasures of many an opulent British household. He may even be potted to a certain extent, without compromise to matron or maiden. \For him alone, of all celibate male acquaintances, may- with impunity the flufiy comforter be knitted or the ornate slipper be embroidered. If he , I,___Jl_ becomely and sentimental he can hardly {nil todevelop the industrinl instincts of his femnle admirers in the direction of worked bookmakers and illuminated M. whgewitl} to _deoor9§e hie moflest râ€"vâ€"‘a v- choice. he should nt lent adhere to it; for, men solemnly eflinnoed, e fickle curate can hope for no mercy from the society that we: compleoenfly tolerant of his volatility ooloug u he remained unpledged to wed. â€"London Telegraph. lodgmg' . The acknowledged favorite of the fair. his lot should indeed be a happy one. Allhe haste do if he would preserve his popularity is carefully to abstain from being ' in his attentions to any one of ' gentle Votariee. It may be, of course, flat in the exclusive occupancy of a single loving heart he Will find compensation for the sudden extinction of the mild hero whip previously nudged. to him by a W A fine: L:- m Owl-e by He. and Ant-all. Referring to the wonderful tests of swimming performed by Webb. the opinion in in Nature thot men end NMII with themselves for long distance in weter much ottener were they not incepecitetednlx terror or completely aunt of their powers. Some years the aoond mete of e ehip fell over- board while listing 3 soil. It was blowing heeh.the time wen night. and the place some miles out in the stormy German Ooeen. The herdy fellow nevertheless Qeenn. The hsrdy fellow nevertheless msgedto gsin the English coast. Brock, with sdoxen other pilom, wen plying for mesh Yumonth, and ssthe msinsheet hes eyed. ssndden pnfi ofwind u t the host, when presently all peris ed except Brook himself. who from 4 in the Moon of an October evening to 1 the next morning swsm thirteen miles before hens sble to boil s vessel at snohor in the oiling. Animsls themselves are on e of swimming immense distances. ‘sl ongh nnsble to rest by the way. A dog recently ewsm thirty miles in Ameries ‘ in order to rejoin his master. 7 A mule and weeheti overboard during 3 gels in :he MK 0! Biecey hove been known to air wey go chore. A dog ewun echore with o lyetter in his mouth at the Cope of Good Hope. The crew of the chi which the dog belonged ell perish which they neeq not hove d_onc hug they only venmred to midweter nethodog did. A: seethinehi was lsboring heavily in the trough o the see it was found needful. in order to lighten the venue], to throw some troop homes over- boardwhioh hedbeen “ken in u Corunne. The poor things, a M surgeon said, when they found themselves ebendoned. faced round end mm for miles one; the yogenl. A mm on the out so.“ of Linoolnshire saved quits 3 number of lives by swimming one on horseback to vessels in distress. He commonly rode en old my mm. but when the mere m not to bend he took the first horse 0M offered. The True Color ol Sunlight. Prof. Lnngley. the director 0! the Alle- 3h Obeerutory l‘yleleimtcediecovery wh . if true, will orm en entirely new stating point for reeenrchee in color physics. Pref. Langley tellsus thst the sun is not white. nor yellow. nor red. as we see it at erent timee of dsy. hut thet ht is blue. It is our atmosphere thet 'vee telelse color. Ineword,Prof.‘ Lunacy would hove us believe that the sun ought to appear se blue es the electric sperk. end if we looked et the letter through A yellow ntm here. it would not be unlike the lunch no we see. The Photographic New: suggests thet,” Professor Lsngley is right. not only will he upset Ehyeicel theories in genersl. but photogrsUc theories in par- ticuler. Profeeeor ngley progoeee to undertake some ex riments nt iflerent nltitudee. so us to as free I: be con iron the lower strata of atmosphere.“ nay Into; end with this view intends to estebllsh two special Act‘se oriesIâ€"the YOUNG UUBA’I‘BI. lend to him by a. Hams fixfl .hifl Murder” Illa Wile. Shim Illa Step- Chudm l- 3 Burning Home and then Con-Inns. Salado. Late on Tuesday night John Kempel, who lives on the outskirts of Jamaica. L. I., killed his wife and then committed suicide. About midn' ht the saloon and dwelling occupied by e Kern ls was discovered to be on dry. William arpenter. a neighbor, hearing cries of distress within. tried to eflect an entrance in front, but did not succeed. Running to the rear he discovered the dead body of Mrs. Kem l lyin in a rocking-chair on the stoo . er aka 1 had been split apparently wit an axe. In the dead woman's arms her 6-months old child was sleeping. Finding the rear of the house as tightly closed as the front, Carpenter went to the waggon~shed for a ladder, and there he discovered the body of Kempel hanging from a beam. Thebodies of bus-‘ band and wife were still warm. At last an entrance was effected into the house by breaking in the doors, and up-stairs were found Katie Flasohouse. 11 years old. and Joseph. aged 7, children of Mrs. Kempel by a former husband. Having rescued the children the neighbors and firemen tried to put out the fire. but the flames had gained such headway that the house was nearly destroyed. the loss being about $5,000. . Coroner Wood was summoned and at once em nelled a jury. Samuel Townsend. a color man who slept in the house on Tuesday night. says that after he went to bed he heard Kemfel and his wife quarrel. ling. As the coup e frequently quarrelled he paid little attention to the matter and went to sleep. He was awakened by a suffocating sensation about midnight, and finfing the place filled with smoke he got out on a shed leading from his_bed-_room out'on a shed leading from his bed-room window and reached the ground b sliding down a poet. He said that he h known Kempel on one occasion to beat his wife till she was unconscious. Their trouble seemed to be about money metteijs. Samuel Brown (colored). says that about 3 midnight he heard a noxse in the Kempel house as if some one was driving nails. There was a light in the bar-room at the time. A short time afterwards Brown hearda woman shouting “ murder." On going round to the rear of the house he saw Kempel coming down the stoop with an axe in his hand. Mrs. Kempel was sitting in a chair on the stoop. holding the baby in her arms, and was bleeding. Brown said to Kempel " You have killed her.” Kempel walked away with the axe in his hand with- out saying anything. Brown then went for assistance. and when he returned the house was burning. It is supposed that when Brown heard the hammering noise Kempel was securing the doors and windows so that the two children could not escape. _ Katie Flasohouse says that she and her brother wentto bed about 9 o'clock. She was awakened by the smoke, her room being directly over the saloon in which the fire was starmd. The smoke in the halls wassodense that she could not see her way to the stairs. The saloon which the Kempels kept had long home an unsavory reputation. It formerly belonged to John Flaschouse, who disappeared about a year agouuHis body was subsequently found. in a brook, with wounds about the head, and the mystery of his death was never cleared up. It was, however. strongly suspected that Kempel was instrumental in causing his death. Kemgl had 'd much attention to F ouse's ' e before the latter's death and not long after that event they were , married. It is believed that Mrs. Kempel afterwards suspected that Kempel was ; responsible for the death of her first hus- ‘band, because when they quarrelled and he threatened her with violence, she has been known to say: “I tell what I know about John's death, and then you look out "â€"a threat which is said to have always subdued him. Mrs. Kempel subsequently told diflersntperscns that her husband wanted to get possession of the roperty which had been left her by her rst husband, and that she knew he would kill her if she gave it to him. The couple continued the saloon business, and Kempel gradually came to be known as the ire- prietor. It is sup'gosed that they ad another quarrel on uesday night over the possession of the pro rt .and that Kempel became so enraged t at e resolved to kill his wife. imprison his step-children in the house and burn them to death, and then kill himself.â€"N¢w York World. In his inaugural speech n n the ceca- sion of the recent xoipening of t e Darjeeling Tramway. or “ imalayan Railway." as Anglo-Indians refer to call it. Sir Ashley Eden claimed or the enterprise the merit of having “ solved problems never before solved in the history of railway under- “ V7; know." he added, “of no other lino which ascends 7.4001eet in flity miles, mounts gradients of one in twenty-one. and {comes round curves of seventy tee: radius." The line is described as present- ing to the eye the appearance of “ a snake winding up into the clouds." The tramway. which is flit miles long. enables the journey from aloutta (361 miles) to be rformed in about twenty. four hours. ts terminus at Darjeelin is 7.690 feet above the level of the see. he capital of the Dsrjeeling Tramway Comâ€" pany is stated to have been raised entirely in Indiseâ€"London Daily News. Mm: Gun nr Puma! Axn Hun Du.â€" Miss Sehsfler, the young lady residing in Elmin who took the 0200 prize st Brook- port recently for being the hsndsomest women in the Btste, hes gone orszy. Her insanity is the result of too much notoriety on s week mind. She is to be taken to an ssylum on Mondsy next for the trouble of the brsiu, which the physioisns assert is ‘duein no smell 6 ee to the use of certain welds to stain or no or her minâ€"Syracme Herald. The Arohdueheee Velerie. younger deugh- ter of the Emperor of Austrie, is. it. is ro~ rted. betrothed to the eccentric King uis o! Reverie. The young lady who hes just tekeu this serious step in lile is only thirteen yeers old; the King is thirty- six. Velerie is eolever end pretty child. end elreedy en euthor. Her first work wee e dreme. She hes hrlllient eyes.e slender figure. end heir no“ end ehundent, like her heeutlful mother'e. King Louis is e bend-one men, whose strongest teste Is for music. JOHN KEEPIL'D OBIMBB. A Railway In the Himalayan. An Irish Bunnet'l‘flcd for Forgeryâ€"Ill- Wlfo a.“ to be the Real Criminal. In Dublin the other day. before Mr. Justice Barry and a jury. Sir Walter Nugent. Bert... was tried for the crime of forgery. Asthe jur d' eed. nine bein for acquittal and time or a verdict o guilty. they were discb ed. and Sir Walter was liberated on ‘ to appear at the next sitting of the Commission Court. Hie defence was painful and romantic, namely. that Lady N out. his wife, who abeoonded as soon as t e transaction first became public. had committed the crime without his knowledge. The accused baronet served _throug_h the ‘Orimean vâ€"v' w.â€" .v- -__-v war and received the medal and claps for bravery as a ptain. His wife who seems to have u really the on] tit, was a daughter of the Right Hon. Ri ard More O'Farrell. M. {3.1 log Gov; ernor of Malta, and a grand-daughter of the third Lord Southwell. It seems that Sir Walter kept an account in the Royal Bank of Liverpool, where he lodged money from time to time, and from this account it appeared that he was apt to be pressed for money. On the 3nd of March,_ 1880, a letter written in his name was rweived by the secretar of the bank, in which it was stated‘that ir Walter was anxious to have abill for £1,600 discounted and the pro- ceeds lodged to his account, which he would be able to balance in six months by money that was coming to his wife. He said he could get the signature of Mr. Gaddell of Balbriggan. a gentleman of large pro- perty, and that, if it was necessary, the signature of Mr. P. O'Beilly, Bir Walter’s agent, would be also given. On the 6th of March another letter was received to the same purport, the first not having been replied to. In it the writer added that he was obliged to employ a secretary as he was suffering from rheuma. tism in his wrist. The secretary then for- warded the bill for £1,600 for Sir Walter's signature and for Mr. Caddell’s signature. On the 8th of March the blil was returned with the signatures. and on the following day it was discounted in favor of SirWalter Nu ent. On all prewous occasions Sir W fer had written to ascertain the state of his account with the bank, but he did not do so in this instance. It soon having been ascertained that the bill was aforgery, the secretary of the bsnk,Mr.Niven,proceed- ; ed to Donors, in Westmeath,where he first saw Lady Nugent and afterwards Sir Walter, who stated that he knew nothing about the transaction. The secretary testified that he now knew the names on the bill werein the handwriting of Lady Nugent. He had frequently received letters from Lady Nugent, and all letters in reference to this transaction were in her handwriting. Lady Nugent’ stated to him that Sir Walter knew nothing of the transaction, and she appeared most anxious that he should not see Sir Walter. Mr. Robert Caddell deposed to his endorse- ment being a forgery, and that Lady Nugent. who wrote to him not long before this transaction, was in possession of his signature. In answerto asneering allusion to the nature of the defence made by one of the counsel for the Crown, the Queen's v- "‘1 vvâ€"-â€"‘â€" -_- -w- counsel who appeared for the baronst? said, during the address to the jury : “ My‘ client would count all else as nothing in this world if he could shield his wife‘s name. But. if he was found 'lty. that would not clear her, and there ore it was not in the mouth of any one to reproach him if he had no other way to show that he was rfectly innocent in this matter. To dis- sociate himself from this criminal transac~ tion was his duty." Witnesses were sworn to rove that at the date of the forged note an accompanying letter and of its post- mark. Sir Walter was absent at sporting meetings in England. The counsel for the Crown dwelt severely on the alibi and on the sacrifice by_8_ir Walter of his wife's honor to soroen himself. Fwen‘e electric accumulator. whereby stored electricity is rendered available as a force to propel machinery. is on exhibition on the strand. London. where e Croeeley silent gee engine is employed to drive the Gramme dynamo-electric machines charg- ing the cells. The form of cell new menu- factured in rectangular, and it weighs. with the solution, about fifty pounds. Four of these cells fully charged are reckoned to work a sewing machine six hours aday for a week byathe aid of a good electric motor. El ht cel are estimated to drive a vehicle wi _ _tivo_paeeengers. during six hours. end double that number to convey four pae- sengers for the like time. It is further calculated that forty cells will drive an omnibus containing twenty-four passen- gers during a spaoe of three hours. and that sixty will propel a tramcar with forty pueengers tor the same period. The cost of recharging a battery is now about em. but it is expected that this will shortly be reduced to 16. The power of the batteries is beautifully displayed by a number of incandescent lamps fed from them on the premises. and the absolute steadiness of the ight demonstrates the regulating action of the accumulators on the currents. A Mnxxomn Scumâ€"The Mennonites intend kee ing to themselves. and have no intention o marrying or giving in mnrringe with the children of the loud. At first some of the girls went out to service, but one heving got mmied the order went forth thot All the other: were to return home et once. which was done. As I. race they are thrifty and industrious. but their neighbors soy thot the women do most of the work. An open‘ ditch about . 9 x_nile in length. botutifully dug. and with the turf neat! banked up on such side. will aid to be a women‘s work. Large numbers of women were also to be seen in the fields.â€"Rw. Prof. Grant in Manitoba. Holloway. the English pill manufacturer. bu given upmrd 0 $3,760,000 for chain. ble pu during the last five or nix can. t was money worthily bestowed it tnYent to the persons who had taken his p s. A new scheme for detecting trnsnts from the bllo schools has been sdop ted in Longnn. Postrosrds will be sent to nts. notllyi ngthem when their chil- 51:“ absent themselves without eumcient excuse. Msny fields in Elsi n hsve been cloned of by the be as tho bly so it 00 d be done wit the scythe. swsrd osn be lifted en bloc. revealing the pest at work below. They feed on the mound the grsss soon wilte sml dies. CRIME IN Illa]! LIFE. The tramwa line between Ball's bridge and B k. Dublin. in now run by steam. A. woman named Eliza Boland has been sent to jail for three months. with hard labor. for ha i broken and robbed the goor box in t 9 man Catholic Church of ammonsfleld. near Clonmel. Two children aged three and a hall and three years, cousins. were drowned recentl at Coolnabina, Mayo, in a sand-pit. whio became filled with water. The coroner gave directions to have the pit filled up. i A mob attacked a party of Emergency men at Bally ’station on Saturday eveni Aug. 1 . and broke some of their nte ‘ and scattered their provisions about. Aaub-conatable was also severely beaten and his gun broken. Mr. Frank Wise has decided upon placing at the diigosal o! the Charities of Cork the mnn' cent sum of £27,000. 0! this amount £20,000 is to be laced in equal parts to the credit of the rotestant and icatholic Bishops. to be ap lied tor the {benefit of the Catholic an Protestant For aooneiaereble time pest extensive shipments of potatoeeAhavq been taking â€"â€".tâ€"-_._ V- alum from Dublin to Liverpool and laegow. The potato blight has again made its appearance in Ireland. Early gztatoee have eufiered most. the leaves ing quite withered. though the tubers are etillfree from disease. while those of the later growth. are greatly gotta! on the leaves. Within a few days e disease had spread rapidly. -A manâ€" wee killed near the village of Glifioney, County Sligo, last week, while prqoeeding to give his horse a drink of flour ,3 A_L_'_‘ L:_ I..-“ r-‘vvvâ€"wâ€" and water. Instead of taking him trom under the car, he merely took of the winkere and held a vessel to his head. The horse pooh {fight heoauee o‘f‘eom‘e noise near hand. and made a sudden lounge. sending the point of the shaft into the man's body near the region of the heart. While thusimpaled the unfortunate man was dragged along a. good distance, and when he fell both horse and car went over his prostrate body. He was taken up mangled and lifeless. A Horrible Tale from Ilse Quebec Woods A Mrs. Brown visited Chief Paradis at Montreal the other day and told him thata man had come to her and said that he, with her husband and three other men, left that city a short time since to seek em loy- ment at Coteau Landing on a r ' way branch there. They failed in this, and as they were returning to the village through the woods several men set u n her hus- band and stoned him to dea . The man said there was unhappily not the slightest doubt about the matter, as he had seen tin victim's death. and the body was now lying in a small hut in the woods. The young wife was horrified at such a. story. She could not believe it, but her husband’s absence filled her with anxiety. An effort iebeing medetofind the man who made the statement. ' Death of the Fuller of the Free Church. Sootlmdthm Rev. Andrew Stu-Irma ulerly called the Father of the Free Ch . He was born at Kilsyth on Feb. 2nd, 1786. and died at Tighnubruaioh, Kyles of Bate. the other day in his 96th year. His was a ehmgeable andeventful career. He entered the Glasgow University in_l§01;_wae licensed. to preach in 1807. was ordained minister of a con tion at Falkirk in nnection with eAssociate Synod in 1 , as ad. mitted to the Established Church in 1824. was thereafter ap inted assistant minister at Lerwick. She and, was ap inted min- ister of the parish of Sandwi . Shetland, in 1830, came out at the Disruption and joined the Free Church in 1843. was ap- Bointed to the Free Church. Cloeehurn. umfries. in 1844. and went to Tighna- bruaich in 1856, where he continued to reside till his death. He was a great lin- guist and had mastered ten languages. in- cluding the Gaelic. He was never married, and in physique greatly resembled the late Dr. Chalmers. A Popular Clem-Ian. A despatch from Montreal says : “ Rev. Dr. Sullivan. of St. George's Church here, and one of the most el uent and popular Episcopal clergyman in t e Dominion. has recei‘ed and is considering a call from St. Mary 5 Church, Filth avenue. New York. Dr. Sullivan was formerly rector of Trinity Church. Chicago. and only returned here eighteen months ago. He was lately nominated in conference as a candidate for the Bishopric of Toronto, but was beaten. He has the largest and most fashionable congregation in this city. He declines to say at present what he will do.” Dr. Sul- livan is a great favorite in Hamilton. His departure for the States would prove a loss to the Episcopal Church in Canada. Says the Pall Mall Gazette .- It is a den. serous thin to temper with o Bootoh insti- tution. On y n dsy or two ego the Dunoon Castle steamer eerried e deekloed of exenrsionists down the Clyde on the Sabbath. That very night she stuck on s ssndhsnk. and no one at home. Next dny her eeptsin. in a. fit. to l overboard and wee drowned. On the third dsy the profane vessel was in flames. and few people in Seotlsnd have much doubt as to what all thst means. The Duke of Argyll passed his honey. moon nt his fether-m-lew‘e, the Bishop of Rooheeter'e elm. Only one of his eons A peer: to eve attended the merri e. '1' e new Duchess will find a large y- mnde family. by all accounts not too de~ lighted toeee her. The Princess Louise was not at the mmiuge. Advicee from Henover etete thet the efforts of epeculetore to keep up the report- ehout rich petroleum do to hove felled. The leteet move of the re-pnllere we: in the direction of the Pelheim wells. Their reporte ehowed en emple yield. but on inquirly proved that the springs bed inten~ tlonel y been kept heel; for the whole of the “previous do . and did not show on equel ow otter e ew honre' pumping. _A metal: nee is telked of between the yeohh Deuntleee end Noreemeh tot "MID gfide of“ the long trimmer coon. at No one was better kpown_ in jibe wegt 9! Latest Irish News. STONE!) To DEATH. between Ball’s The Earl 01 Beefleld hen oonoeded to his Beefield tenente the benefit of the Ground amount. The fishing on Loch Lomond has been the most successful this sensonot any for mmy one back. In e h!“ district all the iron loundries whi hsve been on short time for seven yssrs hsck commenced to work full time on the lstjnst. "idr. Maiâ€"hal: Vfiélier, Dumfrios, lauded the other day a salmon measuring 410. sin. in length. and 2 It. 2 in. at its greatest 8711119094 "Wye ‘9 “PM ‘__.__ __L A- rvâ€" vâ€"â€"â€" Eiéht heifreiivuieh heve come out on strike at the Carton Iron Works because the mumgere insist on their keep regain- wagging yours. and not going an coming as they please. The Wemyes Buokhaven Railway, four milea' m len .oonneotdng Buokheven with Thoronton notion, was opened for We on the 8th inst. It has been con- slzruoted by Mr. B. Wemysa at a. coat of £25,000. Cean charges having been made by members of the Board as to the quality and quantit of the food provided tor the Knkoudbrig t Poor House. Mr. McNeil has reported to the Board of Supervision that he found nothing wrong with the soup. except that one ounce of beef instead of two had been ut in for each inmate. Just the one-h , and nothing wrongto complain of. The police of this city are on the lookout for the arrival of a swindle: who has acquired some reputation in Canada and the provinces for the number of names he is capable of travelling under. In Halifax. in 1875. he was known as “Hon. 0. Courtney,” also the same year. in Kingston. 0nt., as“Hon.Dulice Grafton, R. N.;" in 1877 as " Hou. B. Weston;” in 1878 as “Hon. 0. A. Dennison," in Chicago, in 1874, as “ Lientenant~Colonel Talbot, of the British army." Infottawa, a fe_w years ago. under a high sounding title and under pretence of expecting remittances from his all ed uncle. Lord Belmont of Belmont Par , Derbyshire,.Englsnd, he managed to negotiate the loan of various sums from his prey. one of whom, a well known Canadian gentleman, he victimized to the extent of 81.“. After this he fled to this city. His photogra h was sent to New York and put in the es' Gallery. He was captured for a (nu ulent transaction, and was sent to the Penitentiary for six lriiontllils. He dresses vtery fishionnlllily end set e appearance 0 n oroug gem gentlemen of leisure. Itis also running that his intention is to visit Newport, Long Branch and Samtogs to there replete his low purse.â€"New You Telegram. LL. D., ofAberdeen,ie toteketheiormo! eportreit of the Professor, together with the foundation of en ennnel gold model en a prize inphiloeo y. The [Ecru-zit, which is to be pein byhlr Geo 11.8. A. will hepreeentedtoen pleeed in the university. The subscription: promised already amount to npwud of this nutnmn. Her indui has been mainly oonoentnted upon er ennnd. " The Mieletoe Bough." to which she eon- tribntee largely, writing nowhere else this winter. hire. Frances Hodgson Burnett lately fished out n drowning bother st Long Beach. How hgppythe enthoreee thetonn be her own hemmel Sm Donut Muonnmzxs. whom Mr. Gladstone sends up to the Lords, is one more addition to the now long list of com- mercial nobles.:',An E lish king. some four centuries ago. oree one De la Pole, whom he styled his beloved merchant, a duke in recognition of "value reoeived,’ but thenceforward until the reign of George III. a. successful trader had small chance of ennoblement, nor would he have had Iny then but that Pitt insisted on the pre- ferment of his friend Robert Smith. By [slow degrees others of his vocation xwere The third end concluding volume of the letters of Charles Dickens is now in the press and will be published by Messrs. Chepmen Hell next month. raised to the upper House. prominent among them bein a men of Hebrew stock. Sir Sempmn Gi eon, who became Lord Eardley. Then came Baring. Lord Ash- burton, and, later. Lord Overstone, bend of the bmkin house of Jones. Loyd a 00.. end probeb y to-dey the moetmoneyed men in England. It is remarkable that. although the brewers have long ranked among Eng- lnnd'e wealthiest gone. it was reserved for 1â€"..- e- n wâ€"-.â€".V_- _. en Irish brewer first to reseh the upper House, in the person of Sir Arthur Guin- ness, whom Dublin stout has converted into Lord Ardil' swn. This lest new Ipeer elso illustretes the war of beer. e is partner in e t ndon brews . end tether di senior partner in utt’l beck end very rich. 0x the occasion of theMinisteriel White- beit .dinner st Greenwich Mr. Gledstone wee presented by the Libsrels of that borough with e hendsome erm-cheir end en illumineted eddrees in ecknowiedgment of his distinguished giblio services. The t hon. gentlemen scknowledging the ' t referred to the events of the session. pointing out the difficulties emid which the duties of t 6 Government bed been dis- cherged. ese bed brought into view e fleet necessityâ€"tint of restoring to the once of Commons the security for its liberties for the edvenoemont oi legisleticn to its full emeiefizy. Thetdnty weshended ‘over to the future. but it wee one to which the Government would address themselves when the opportunity errived. It is not yet settled who shell heve Lord Besoonsfleld‘s getter. The Dukes of Gret- ton and 8t. Albens, the Me uis of North- smpton. who is e brother- n-lew oi the Marquis of Ripon. end the Eerie of Kim. borloy. Derby. Rosebe . Northbrook end Portsmouth ere ell cen ldstes for the blue ribbon. The prevslsnt impression seems to be thet Mr. Gledstone will give it to Imrd'l‘ortsmouth. who hes sireedy once declined the honor. but who they tekele now. es his son end heir, Lord Lymingtcn, M. l‘.. is melting ~his we, decidedly in the Liborsl reeks. «The pomlelion oi Indie is 983.000.”. The testimonial to Prof. Alpxngdeg Bginz Miss Braddon gill {mg pxodngo u gavel The “’0“. Are Bull 0! 'lhem. Latest Scottish Notes. Lute-t Liter-r! Goo-1p.