establish insurance fiffices under the auspice? of the Victorian Government; in fact' to make them national institutions. Edward Kenny, a negro, and Mary Hvll, a white woman, were sentenced recently to five years in the State prison at Hanover Courthouse, Va,, for marrying. , , - ' One thousand pounds, bequeathed in 185$ to Accumulate 25 years, and then to be de voted to erecting a memorial to Wallace and Bruce in Elinburgb, is to be put to the in tended use presently by the Town Council. : ' ' A London House will shortly introduce to the British public a new Scotch working man ! poet in Mr Alexander Anderson, whesa *' Songs and Ballads" are in the press. He i» a "surfaceman" in Dumfriesshire. A girl who recently shot her seducer be cause he refnstd so keep his promise of mar riage has just been acquitted at Bordeaux j and yet French law takes into no account breach of promise. J. Milton Turner, ex-Minisfcerto Liberia, is making speeches in Missouri in opposition to the proposed emigration of coloured, people, of that State to Liberia. AH the streets leading to the Melbourne Exhibition building are, before the opening, to be laid down with new metal, which ik to be bound with asphalte, iv order to make the traffic way noiseless. The rabbits are now so firmly 'estab'ishei in the Oape Otway Forest, Victoria, that there is no hope of their being dislodged: Having eatt-n all thegrats and thistles, thty. have now attacked the roots of the trees Two Kentucky lovere have cantered thels affections upon a damsel who would be happy with either. A walking match, has. been proposed, and the succeisful competitor will get the girl. * : * It is proposed by the Preston Town Coun cil to establish a new free library- and museum on »n unusually extensive scale. The building is expected to coat' about £50,000. .'.',"/ An international exhibition, to be held afe New York in 1883, is projected The gentle* men who have taken it mjaand are, in the front rank of manufacturers, capitalists, and business interests. Nothing can exceed the popularity oosf s the • German Emperor. He can scarcely enter any theatre without the audience rising ta their feet to hurrah and chant the national hymn. 