... The course of Museum lectures upon fish, birds, rep- tiles ant mammals was resumed on Friday, after the Winter vacation, by Dr. J. E. Taylor, curator of the Museum, at the Temperance Hall, to a crowded audience. Dr. Taylor said, in resuming these lectures, he purposed to show, by means of the oxyhydrogen lantern, a few types of the different orders of birds which had already been referred to. ...

... The remarkably dry and caln weather continues, favouring all agricultural operations. In the North of Europe navigation is almost entirely free from interrup 1 tion by ice, so that shipments of grain have taken place i at a period much earlier than usual. The abundance of c vegetables and great cheapness of potatoes-from 50s. a ton-greatly assist the working classes and restrict the t demand ...

... -W t have heard of a despotism tempered by assassi nation. In these days we suffer more from the des- potism of those whose traditional mission it is to put down despots. We have now the danger of being brought under popular dictators, that is of men who have so well learned the trick of manipulating expres- sions of the popular will, that they are enabled to become practically despots. We ...

... Wednesday morning opened with a sharp frost and overhanging mist, which made hunting matters appear doubtful albeit, the hounds kept the appointed time at Hintleshain Park gates, where a select field, some of whom have not regrotted coming out in the frost, were present on the off chance. Amongst others we observed Sir George Broke-Middleton, Shrnbland Park; Major and Mrs. Holroyd, Donyland ...

... MUTFORD AND LOTHINGLANDI AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION. It is proposed to hold a series of meetings in connec- tion with the above Association for the discussion of ?? bearing more or less directly on agriculture. The first of these meetings gas held on Thuisday last, under the presidency of Mr. J. Peto, in the Masonic Hall, Lowestoft. There was a large attendance, amongst whom were:.-Mr. T. R. ...

... - ? C 1-- .L, ?? I For the first time siuce the recent ch nuge in the com- mand, the Ipswich detachment of the 1st Suffolk Ride Volunteers on Saturday afternoon assembled at the Drill Hall for a march out. There was a very full muster, the officers present ?? Josselyn, Major Turner, Capt. Packard, Lieut. Cobbold, Lieut. Turner, Lieut. Booth, Li ut. Bunn, Lieut. Wrinch, and Lieut. Miller. Prior ...

... The bodies of the bailiff Huddy and his nephew, who have been missing for some weeks, were found on Friday in Lough Mask by the men of H.M. gunboat Banterer. The men, it will be remembered, had started on a process- serving expedition in the Joyce country, Conemara, for Lord Ardilaun, but never returned. For some time past a most careful search has been made in Lough Mask. There has been ...

... Sir,-There is, or were, some men of some sense in it; but speaking of the Board as a board, it is in its dotage, and on the point of laying down its life--it is becoming drivelling and idiotic. For Years it neglected its business. The Justices in mercy Zecreed its death next March, in order to get rid of a laughing-stock and a by-word to the county. The moment it received its death warrant the ...

... Si TEACHING AND PREACHING,. t Sr,-In November last the Rev. Wickham Tozer de- jl livered a discourse at his chapel, in Ipswicis, in which, o after deploring the scanty attendance at the services at h his own and many other places of worship in the town, b and venturing an opinion that may be there were too o many men-made, and not so many God-made, preachers a as could be desired, he ...

... A numerously attended meeting of the members of the Curates' Alliance was heli on Friday afternoon in the -vestry room at Clarkenwell Parish Chuirch, under the pre- sidency of the Rev.lR. H. Hadden. The Rev. G. Howard, secretary of the Clergy Friendly Society, the object of which is payment to the sick clergy in return for contribu- tions, on the plan of the Oddfellows and Foresters ...

... -- -- I . .. .. ENTERTAINMENT.-An invitation elretoarn,, aid of the Congregational Chapel olrpan fll place in the new school-room on Thlcday n'i The chair was taken by the Rev. J. ay subjoined programnie was most ably Ustail,1, out, afd thoroughly appreciated by an audicr. completely filled the room - Pianoforte ?? Dames de Seville (Carnille Schubert) jIjj_.! C' and Miss L. Homes; churus, ...

... (By our Special Correspoudrx t.J Gambetta's resignation has upset a good many calcula- tions in Downing Street. Happening within less than a fortnight of the opening of our Session, it has thrown the materials which were being prepared for the Queen's Speech into a state of chaos. The somewhat ambitious designs and policy which Sir Charles Dilke had induced Earl Granville to adopt were almost ...