Scotch Endurance.
" 'Bechar is an ass crouching between two burdens." TREY are a patient people the Scotch. It is not easy at this distance to determine whether it is the apathy of contempt or......
Fighting A Man With His Own Weapons.
IT is not safe for every one to fight a man at his own weapons. A Guardsman, exchanging his long straight sword for the scimitar, would have a better chance of wounding himself......
The Postage Question.
A raise. by Mr. ROWLAND RILL, in the last number of the London Statistical Journal, shows that the increase on the number of letters conveyed by post since the reduction of......
Haymarket Stars.
THE Haymarket, though no longer a mart for the fodder of cows, is yet in the " milky way," in an astronomical sense : it embraces a ma- jority of the constellations of the......