EXTRAORDINARY ACT OF HEROISM. The Halifax (Nova Scotia) " Chronicle" has the following :— "The town of Picton has just been the scene of one of the most heroic deeds ever done by :i young girl ;

and another name h;is been added to the list of Canada's heroines. On the evening of May 15, Mrs Captain Ivy, a widow, on going out of her house, locked in the room her two children, Henry and Alice, aged respectively five and seven years. About 8.30 p.m. they rose from the bed and lit the lamp. There was some wearing apparel j hanging on the wall, and directly under j was a trunk. On this they placed the lamp, t which immediately set the clothes on iire, ; and filled the room with flame and smoke, i The children were naturally excited in their j dreadful position, hardly knowing what to j do. The little girl knew that the key was j in the lock on the outside of the door. Her only thought appeared to be for the brother under her care. She formed the terrible pro ject of jumping to tin; ground from the third story v indow. The noble girl, instead of giv ing the alarm from the window, wasunableto wait. Her brother must be let out im mediately ; and, accordingly, crawling out on a shelf fastened to the window, and lowering herself the length of her short arms, she dropped down to the ground—a distance of exactly thirty live feet by tape measurement. The air caught her clothes in her descent, and broke the fall, other wise she must have been terribly injured. She then rushed upstairs, but upon opening the door was horrified at the absence of all signs of her brother. Her perplexity found vent in cries as she ran for help. In the meantime, the little feWow, scared out of his senses, did not heed the command to stop until she opened the door, but crawled out to see where his sister had gone, and fell over the shelf to the ground. Happily, the internal injuries which lie received, so far as can be yet ascertained, fire not very serious. The arm and leg of his daring sister were slightly injured."'

ENGLISH PUBLIC OPINION ON THE WAR. 