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Fourteen l-uHI-n flTNUEr- nave UtcA ~iLlG aAAa
: uary let, lSG9.
e The withdrawal Of tie English squadron from
the African coast indicates that the Save trade j.
extinct.
Gargarof. the wcalthiest merchant in Moscow
Is the grandson of a ~crf, and h> father was 4,
poor shoemaker.
Victor Hugo's new work viii be published ii
nine different languages, and from'each edition
he j. % receive twenty-five cents per volume.
ECoNolT ~ THE ADXIEALTY.-Thc Lords Of the
Admiralty have ordered cOpyins-presscs 70 bc
introduced. for the first time. for Use NJ that
establishment. The number Of clerks will be
reduced.
No wonder the British Government Is tired OF
the colonies, when II Gusts SO GOO, 600 q year 20
support the military force in them, Of which tie
Colonial Governments lay back but "a little more
than O~nc-tenth.
REWARDS EOR HUMASITY.-Thc journal OGad.
Of Paris, P%ubiishe, Il list 81 me,lal> AWARDED for
acts of courage and dey0teducss in saving life
during December, IoGS. and january. 1869.
They consist If three gold ir>t-class ami twelve
second sixteen silver trst-class and thirty-twO
second besides sixty honorable mentions.
The London Lancet mentions n case in which
new blankets, having been infected with scarlet
fever. were put away uncleansed in Il wardrobe.
Fourteen months afterwards the mistress Of the
house had these blankets taken out and put upon
her own he'd in a few days she took the fever
and died.
Sixty-fve per cent. Of the male population Of
Spain and eight-six per cent. of its female popu-
lauon are unable 10 read or write. Only about
one in every thirteen Of the population goes to
school. This does not speak well for the prospect
Of establishing Il republic in that country. Ii
needs fewer priests and more s~choOlmastcrs.
There is an old English statute which prohibits
people from getting married after n certain hour
IN tic day, because such Il solemn obligation
..rfnfF 20 -. syus.-.I fEs. .rlt- tvI.Y FL. rrran
are duly solar. The world, including the English
people, have certainly grown temperate in the
last two hundred ycars,
Queen Victoria will visit Switzerland again
this year, and make also 4 trip To Sicily and
Greece. She will avoid Florence and Rome,
and 20 by steamer from Genoa 10 Palermo.
TIE BiELE IN SPAIx.-The commits, Of the
British and Foreign Bible Society has determined
70 PRINT GEO 600 separate gospels (Valcra's YER
siOn) for Immediate circulation in Spain. The
plan will be carried out by large succesSiye editions
Taillefcr, the cashier Of u large insurance COM
Iany in Paris. has embezzlcd a sum of ,4GO, 600
francs, and i now in prison. lie had been thirty
ninc years III the company employ. The Chair
man proposed to hush the matter up, and offered
10 put down 10000 toward making up the
dcialcatiOn, but the other Directors refused.
The miners strike in South Yorkshire, Eng
land, has assumed very formidable proportions;
100 men arc now out vi employment. and between
5000 and COCO persons are depending on them
for support. They are ut present maintained by
the Miners Union, which has Il fund of 10000,
AMI by contributions from other trades.
\ new fashion in stationery has been intro
duced from Paris, where il has been used several
ycaTs-a letter sheet of fine paper which folds so rs
To form its own envelope. The convenience OF
this combined wrapper and page recalls the days
OF our grandInothers, when envelopes were un-
known. The new fashion Is decidedly more sen
sible than the majority Of those which come from
the gay city.
One Of the latest novelties in French journalism
is to make considerable use of the New Testament.
Alexander Dumas 50 thoroughly appreciated the
love Ot novelty which charactcriZcs his country
men, that in one of his novels he Incorporated n
large part Of one Of the gospels with great effect.
To many Of his readers it was the newest part of
the book.
The OrPoslTIoN LEADERSHIP N TIE LORDS.-It
Las been definitely arranged that Lord Cairns
will succeed Lord MalmcshUry as n leader of the
Conservative party in the House of Lords. Lord
Malmesbnry will give the usual dinner the day
before the opening of Parliament, Mt which the
Queens Speech will be read, and he will then
formally resign the leadership.
The London Times. in advocating the adoption
of the system of distributing newspapers by mail
in the United States, ~critcIses severely the rcgula-
tons OF the British p~OstOiice- In England. by
Ear the greater part of newspaper transmission Is
performed by private enterprise, with the aid of
the railways. The pO%stOiicc transmits newspl-
Iers, but 1T such rates and under such conditions,
that 1t would seem the object to perform the least
aniOunt Ot service ut the greatest possible
expense. To Il cOuntrv subscriber who receives
the Times by post, its cost is increased by one
third, and the price offs penny paper i exactly
doubled. Besides this, there are - many clabo-
regulations 10 be observed in directing. and
even in folding n newspaper that slight inadver-
tencies are constantly exposing the newspaper
proprietors to fines and delays.
SPAIN.-ln the Spanish Cortes. one of the Re
members made Il speech in which he
atheistical principles, and alluded 70
the Christian religion in terms Of disrespcct. He
was interrupted by Senior Rivcro, the President
Of the COrtcs, who declared that thc Deputy
could not be permitted to continue bis remarks.
The Republicans, indignant ut the decision of the
President, Withdrew from the Chamber. They
subsequently returned % their seats, and proposed
l vote of ccnsurc against the President. \
stormy debate followed. and resulted in the with
travail Of the resolution. Canon MOnierOla's ,
10 the Constitution, IN favor of main -,
aiming the present unity IF the Catholic religion
md worship III Spain, was rejected. 7
The Dutch authorities have decided not only l
hat the Zuydcr lee can be dried up, but that
hc work can probably be accomplished in nine {
n ten years, certainly in fourteen. Herr Beijer- !
mex, the inspector, has indeed rcckOned that :
steam power he could drain the Zuvder lee :
Try in twenty-onc months. 1t Is estimated that
If the soil under the Zuyder Zee DC on thc
.ycragc no better than that Of the recovered land A.,
# HARLEM, the profit of the work will exceed |
he cost by fully ten millions Of pounds sterling.
The Part of the lee To be drained contains i'm
Ound numbers 800. 600 acres. L
Strange ~ it may seem. it is n fact that the
ate Lord Brougham died without any assets.
The explanation i that, long bcfoIc his death, he
ad by deed of gift made over everything-ex-
'haHccllor's pension. house and lands, books.
late, furniture-to his brother William. the A
peer. who in return provided for all
expenses. Aversion 10 trouble about money mat -
srs i said To have suggested this arrangement.
he Inland Revenue authorities, at first incrcdu-
rus, satisfied themselves 10y private inquiry as to y
he iona fdcS and validity of the deed Of gift. =
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