Hs was invited as usual to all the houses he was m the habit of frequenting, and some times astonished his fares by appearing at the same balls to which he drove them. On one of these occasions, when he had driven a judge to an "assembly," the latter was heard saying at 2 a.m. : "Look here, major, I can't stand this you know. I ordered my cab at half-post 1 ; it is now 2 ; and there's my cabby dancing away as if he maant to keep it up until daylight !" A Dishonest Examiner.— A most singular and unprecedented eventjhas oc curred m the usual winter examination at Oxford. In one of the pass final schools tha viva voce was suspended for two days, and one of the examiners requested to resign. Evidence had come into the hands of the vice-chancellors and proctors which appeared to be sufficiently trust worthy to warrant the suspicions of the fairness of the examiner toward some of his own pupils. Atlhue subjiulicc li* est ; but the story goes that papers had been set and lectures given on the identical questions which subsequently were printed for the ''schools." When a "coach" charges extra for his terminal instruction, "because he is an examiner, you know," and delivers special lectures at the last at a special fee, with the re quest that tho note-books of hia pupils may be considered private property, it must be confessed that suspicion is par donable, and some immediate action on the part of the authorities urgently re quired " World." Choking off Criticism.— The Victor ian Ministry has stopped the delivery of Sunday evening Freethought lectures m Melbourne. "At the same time," says the "Leader," "the immediate cause of this action is not an anxiety on behalf of the faith of the community. So long as the lectures wero directed against ortho doxy m general, they were allowed to proceed, under the apparently rational conviction no doubt, that the churches could easily hold their own against the assaults of their critics. When the sub ject of the next lecture was announced to be ' Ministerial bigotry and religious in tolerance ' the law was set m motion at once. 