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MORNING EDITION.

ditch-water." and as "flat as a flounder." "Penny-a-
lining run mad is perhaps the best description we can
give of it. It is just what the late lamented Mr.
JENKINS would have written in Bedlam." There is
much more to the same purpose, but the reviewer
finds a method in Mr. DISRAELI'S madness. He has
outlived life and found it a sham. The Dukes and
Marquises whom he has so long led despise and
distrust him. Very well ! He will be revenged on
them.. He will write them down, and behold he has
done it in " Lothair." "If these be the Dukes of
England; if this is all the wit and wisdom that your
aristocratic circles can shew, of what worth are titles
and dukedoms ?" So the reviewer finds the book in-
tensely democratic, and being himself quite the reverse
of course he does not like " Lothair." On the
whole we are inclined to think that the
reviewer is right. When a statesman who
has made dukes and led them, declares that
English aristocracy never read and know no language
but their own, when he describes their enormous
wealth and their aimless lives, when he sneers alike
at their occupations and their amusements (is not " a
tournament of doves" already a classical quotation► ?)
he inflicts upon Them a far severer blow than all the
Beales's and the Bradlaughs have ever been able to
deal. Unfortunately, too many of them deserve it.
But not all, Mr. DISRAELI.

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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and means as shall appear to him best adapted for
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penalties varying from £1 to £5.

THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL'S RETURNS.

The excessive heat of the weather does not appear
to exercise a favourable influence on the public
health. The deaths in the metropolis were 1,498,
or 91 above the estimated number. Of these 259
were cases of diarrhoea, of which 220 were those of
infants in their first year of life. Fever waslikewise
prevalent, and the total number of zymotic diseases
was 553. Three deaths from sunstroke were, of
course, directly attributable to the heat of the
weather, but the rate of mortality varied considerably
in different places. In Hull it was only 12 in the 1,000;
in Nottingham it was 31. Taken altogether, the aver-
age of the 20 large towns in the Kingdom was 23
per 1,000. The return of the Irish Registrar-
General for the first quarter of 1870 shows 89,803
births, and 28,200 deaths, but, although the Regis-
tration Act is being better obeyed than it was, the
number is still believed to be very inaccurate. The
registry of marriages, especially of Roman Catholic
marriages, is most imperfect. The estimated popu-
lation of Ireland at the present time is 5,525,210•
The births exceeded the deaths in the first quarter of
1870 by 11,603, but emigration took away
the large number of 12,723 persons in that
time. The mortality was high, owing to the
low temperature, and its effects on the aged
were very marked. Three deaths are recorded at
the ages of 103, 109, and 112. The registrar of
Dromore was personally acquainted with the second
case, and the woman in question walked five miles
last September to the dispensary, for advice about
deafness. It is worth notice that the dreaded name
of smallpox does not once occur in the list of deaths.
One registrar goes so far as to state that in his
district it has been altogether unknown for years past.

popular as the Cumberland lakes; why should they
not afford a place for a summer ramble now ? In
Scotland Ban Nevis presents many charms for either
class of excursionists, pleasure seekers alone or plea-
sure seekers and sportsmen combined,and the air of the
Scotch Highlands is as bracing and invigorating as
any in the world. In Ireland, justice may at last be
extended to a very lovely country even by the tourist.
On the other side of St. George's Channel there is a
Giant's Causeway, a Devil's Glen, there are the
Lakes of Killarney, the Reeks of Kenmare, and the
Wilds of Connemara, with hospitable welcome to
all who go there, open to the English traveller, and
in place of the Rhine and the Moselle there is the
Shannon and the Blackwater, that may fairly vie in
landscape interest with any river in Germany.