Speaking of the amenities of the Vic torian Parliament, tho "Leader" ob serves : " The old brawls have begun again, without the excuse of vehement party feeling that could be urged for them in the Reform debates. Mr Gaunson, Mr Jo3eph Jones, Mr Purvis, and other minor sons of thunder, have been rele gated into private life ; but the House is rapidly resuming the use of disorderly lan guage. Sometimes it is Mr Bent who calls an opponent an " unmitigated liar ;" sometimes Mr Longmore who suggests that a Liberal whom he dislikes should be s >nt to " hell," and sometimes Mr M'Kean imputes a charge of "gross fraud " or Mr Munro tells Mr Wilson that he is "a fool" and Mr Wilson retorts that Mr Munro is "a rogue." The fact is that members cannot be better than their surroundings, and when the air is thronged with whis pers of bargains i<r with siories of public wrongs for which uo redress can be ob tained, the transition from a cynical tem per t > shameful words is easy. We are getting the manners with the morals of the Stock Exchange imported into the High Cou rt of Parliament. Neither is there the least hope at present that this evil can be mitigated by any change."

A very serious riot between the men of the 87th Regiment and the militia up for training took place at Aldershot on August 19th and 20th. A bad feeling cropped up between the two parties owing to a slight affray between a drummer pf the 87th and a militiaman. The dis turbauce* occurred first on Saturday night, and the result was that 40 or 50 men were confined in the guard-rooma. Matters assumed a very serious aspect. About two o'clock some militia and regulara met, and a fivht took place. Parties of rioters patrolled the streets, and engaged in combats with belts and sticks ; several were badly hurt, and the greatest excitement reigned. During the afternoon matters subsided a little, bat in the evening the disorder broke out afresh. The men of the 87th, not content with using belts and sticks, rushed to their barracks, hid bayonets up their sleeves* and renewed the attack with these. The fighting became general, notwithstanding the efforts of the mounted police and the pickets to suppress it. 