return of Lord Edo and Mr. Dalrymple for Lamle!), the relative strength of parties in the House of Commons, as 'entertained immediately after the general et,ction, has been modiliel. instead of the Liberal, being numerically equal to the Conservatives and Parnelli.ee combined, t

It is perhaps a grim comment on the present state of the labour market to quote the old adage "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy," and to advocate the claims of recreation upon the mental and physical faculties of the working public. As, however, the Easter season comes

and Heaven , itaelf.—Jeremy Taylor. a man, when he comes to die, will wish he had done when in health and strength, he had better do when in health and strength; and what he will in his last hours regret he had better not do. The wisdom of the deathbed is a very good wisdom to l

Author of "An Innocent Sinner." "The Story of Heleua Modjeslce," " la the liuwer of her Youth," AC., Ae. At supper thus the most brilliant figure observed to be absent--that of Prince Demetri. We was not to be found. Miralda looked all round the supper-room and observed that the

Captain Mallgrave and crew of 20 men with two passengers from toe German steamer Valuta, of Fleusborgh, bound from Hamburg to the Antoor, with general cargo, landed in their own boats at Dover on Monday morning, the steamer having been run into and sunk during the night by the G

and its vicinity, that he late retired from business ,strried on by him fur the past 25 years, mid tenders his most sincer , thank• for the liberal support he has ns.eived front his many patrons. F. King much plemiare in informing the residents of Blandford, allii the district g

annual report of the Commissioners of Educe- ! A few deys ago a man named H u g h William Joan tion in Ireland for the year 1884-5, issued on Tuesday, 47, an inmate of the Salford Workhouse Aeylum, at A new volume of poems by Lord Tennyson may it is mentioned that the number on

On Sunday and Monday last, the Primitive Methodist Sunday School Anniversary was very successfully celebrated. The Rev. T. Phelps was the preacher, and the room was crowded at each service. The teachers aml children acquitted themselves well, both in their reciting and singing.

- - -- American papers report that great excitement exists in the Gipsy camp near Yalesville, north of Wallingford, Connecticut, in consequence of the elopement of the sixteen-year-old daughter of "Pi ince" Williams with a New Haven young man of 25, who bad fallen violently in l