The death rate among the residents of the Peabody buildings lust yeir was 18 60 per 1000, or 1.77 per 1000 less than London, so that no complaint can bo raised against the Trustees that they are neglecting tho laws of sanitation. Two or three more Buch funds, if as efficiently managed, would do much to 1 wipe awuy the reproach that London does not care for its poor. The Rev. Charles Strong writes to a ministerial friend at Geeloug:—"l am wearying to be settled down, but I see no immediate prospect. Caird (Principal of Glasgow University) was pressing mo to take a Home parish, but]l somehow don't care for it. Melbourne, I fear, has spoiled mo in more ways than one, and ray love to Presbyterixnism has not increased. I hava been preaching for Servica (Dr John Service, author of 'Salvation here and Hereafter") and my brother (Dr David Strong, of Glasgow), but as far as possible keep out of tho pulpit. Still, I don' u int«ud to give up preaching. There seems to he a kind of widening process in the auld Kirk, but not much warmth. Lectures and music are allowed on Sunday nights. In Glasgow there is a Sunday Society now, with concerts Mid lectures, which are exercising the minds of the fiiihful iu the Presbyteries. They are beginning to talk about liturg ; e3, too; but liturgies and hoods and musical perfor mances will heal but slightly the wound of the daughter of Israel.' 1 An admirer of red hair, who bas it himself, glorifies that style thus : " Throughout crea tion nature appears to delight iu red. It predominates in tho pleasure of the imagina tion, for whatever is beautiful, agroaable, or sublime, partakes of red. The rainbow, tho rose, ami tho charming lip and cheek of beauty's self, the sun, the source of heat and light, are all red ; as is also the h'ro, the mighty autocrat of the universe The most brilliant flowers, tho most delicious fruits, the orange, the apple, and the peach, arj rod. Through the animd kingdom red predominates, as in the kiug of beasts, the lion. £ut go farther: Adam, the first of mankind, was red. The greatest of Grecians, Jupiter, Apollo, and Vulcan, were orimsui. 