At the ceremony of the opening of the new Aquarium at Brighton, Mr Frank Buckland produced from his pocket his promised present to the Aquarium, a diminutive alligator, con fined in a cigar-box, which the vice chairman had sent a waggon and six horses to the railway for, under the im pression that it wns a veritable monster of the deep. President Thiers, the other day, in the French Assembly, that, in his opinion, King William of Prussia was an abler man than Frederick the Great; that Bismarck was grea er than Car dinal Richelieu ; and Field-Marshal • Mollke the most eminent strategist that ever lived. James Gordon Bennett bequeathed £40,000 towards the completion of the great Catholic cathedral now building in New York.
