I have gleaned a few ex perunoea in my judicial career, and I am sure that no woman having a feather of repu tation left would consort in " a home," or anj other place, with those of her sex of notoriously bad character, or be seen living aa a lodger in a place were la lies of easy virtue are taken in and made comfortab'e. lam afraid, my dear hearers (gentlemen of the Pi ess excluded), that you have mixed things, and that the beat thing you can now do is to your hands of do mestic S3rvants, governesses, &c, out of situa tion—there are very few of them, and what there are do not require your help half so much as you require theirs—(l may remark paren thetically that we ourselves have been without a housemaid for ssveral weeks, and can't get one for love or money)—and convert this ex c 'edingly commodious habitation into a bona fide benevolent institution, where the really destitute and unfortunate may find temporary shelter and assistance. There, ladies and gentlemen, I will not say any more just now, for I have no doubt that my utterances this evening will provide food for comment on the part of the local preES. I have very much pleasure indeed in declaring this new Home open.'' Suppressed cheers. Mrs Know-all to Mrs loterfere-in-things : Isn't he a darling ? And I don't know but what he's right, my dear ; and we'll just consider his suggestions at our next regular meeting. Rising : I have much pleasure in proposing votes of thanks to the chair and to the Press—eapecially to that fellow ' Asmodeus.'"

What a satire upon the despotic authority of the Czar ! He didn't dare face his subjects to be crowned, but had to undergo " a surrep titious coronation," aa the newspapers put it ! But, if a satiie upon his authority, what a concession to the popular will—what a sacrifice at the shrine of liberty ! Only the other day the Czar of all the Russias was despotic, and within a decade his Throne has been shaken to the foundation, not to say shattered, merely because the people have so willed. 