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London, January 13, 1871.

The receipts of cotton at the United States ports on
February 13 amounted to 43,000 bales.

The Toronto Legislature has voted thirty thousand
dollars to assist immigration, and twenty thousand to
clear free lots for settlers and to erect houses.

A girl named Eley, aged 13, died at Leeds on
Tuesday from hydrophobia, having been bitten in the
hand by a dog a few weeks ago.
SUICIDE OF A BUTLER.—An inquest was held on
Saturday at the Marylebone Workhouse on the body of
William Garrett, a butler. Latterly deceased had been in
low spirits, and complained of pains in his head and want
of sleep. On Thursday afternoon he was found in the
coal-cellar of the house where he was employed, with his
throat cut and a razor lying by his side. Life was quite
extinct. The jury returned a verdict of suicide while in a
state of unsound mind.

THE CLAN CAMPBELL MARRIAGE PREBRNT TO
THE PRINCESS LOIIISE.—The general committee appointed
by the Clan Campbell met on Friday at the Caledonian
Hotel, Edinburgh, for the purpose of choosing the present
to be given to her Royal Highness Princess Louise. After
inspecting a number of designs and ornaments by some
of the best jewellers in the kingdom, they fixed upon four
designs by Messrs. Mackay and Cunningham, of Edin-
burgh; Messrs. Garrard, Crown jewellers; and Messrs.
Hunt and Roskell, to be sent to her royal highness, from
which she will be invited to make her own selection.

OXFORD UNIVERSITY.—The publication of the
New Oxford Calendar enables us to supply the following
interesting particulars as regards the number of members
of the University, &c.:—Members of Convocation 1871,
4,323 ; members on the books, 8,236 ; matriculations,
569; M.A.'s, 222; B.A.'s, 402. Of the members on the
books, 36 are down as of ICeble College, 26 at Charlsley
Private Hall, and 98 unattached students. The total
of members of Convocation in the previous year Was
4,327, and on the books 8,045, of whom only 66 were
unattached, shewing a considerable increase in the latter
class of students. There were 583 matriculations in
1869, 231 M.A.'s, and 350 B.A.'s.

TOUCHING WEATHER. —The Clerk of the Weather is of
the same family as Jack Frost, Hoyle, Cocker, Mrs.
Grundy, Mrs. Harris. Mrs. Malaprop, and the Oldest In-
habitant. His biography yet remains to be written. De-
rangement of the digestive organs, irritability of temper,
family differences, sulkiness, sleepiness, sleeplessness,
suicide, " shooting " corns, shirts of indifferent colour,
pains in the joints, hair out of curl, tough mutton,
inability to fulfil an engagement to join a slow party, are all
the weather. The next census returns will shew how many
Sersons were talking about the weather on the night of
unday this 2nd of April. If there was no uncertainty
about our weather, if it was always monotonously fine,
with no fogs, no protracted absences of the sun, no heavy
showers to be' caught in, no equinoctial gales, no hailstones
the size of pullets' eggs, and no east wind—what would
become of small talk ! We should have to invent new
openings for conversation, as they do for chess. The
weather exhausts us, but we shall never exhaust th
weather. Blessings on the weather !

(From Judy.)
Workmen generally on strike—Blacksmiths.
The Ground of Insanity—The Battle-field.
What is a collision ?—Two trains trying to pass on the
same lines.