One of the most amusing contretemps on record happened in a fashionable up town boarding-house in the city about a fortnight ago. It was the result of a wild freak, but the consequences are not parti cularly unpleasaut to the parties imme diately concerned, though to their friends it is a source of wonder as well as amuse ment. The heroine is a young lady just emerging from her teens ; the gentleman a salesman in a popular wholesalo mercan tile house on Broadway. Tiiey had been acquainted for many months, and carrying on what is known as a genteel flirtation. The girl was one of those butterflies who loved dress and display, which her parents were unwilling aa well as unable always to gratify. A fortnight ago she was invited

Bulgarian Horrors, and the Question of the East: By the Right Hon. W. E..Glad stone, M.P., 1876. Deeply moved by the atrocities committed by the Turks in Bulgaria, and the' apathy of the Government on the- subject, Mr Glad stone has addressed a stirring- appeal to the nation, which he has followed up with a speech to his constituents at Greenwich, de livered to 15,000 or 20,000 people. The pamphlet is dedicated to Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe, so many yea'ra the able ambas sador at Constantinople, who now regards it as hopeless to expect any change in the Turkish misrule, and is an urgent advocate for the freedom of the Christian Provinces. Mr Gladstone condemns the Government for staving off the discussion of the question in Parliament until the vacation, and for treat ing lightly so grave a subject.
