_Sunday._--Escorted by two regiments of mounted Volunteers to Church. Volunteers have great difficulty in securing a passage. Have to use butts of their muskets on more impulsive spectators. Curious that just at this point I should Remember Mitchelstown. Must try and get over the habit. Lessons as usual. Find a crushed primrose between the pages, evidently put there on purpose. Those villa-residents again! Surely DREW might inspect the lectern before service commences! Home, and think seriously of Hebrides. * * * * * ON THE SPOT. (_By a Practical Sportsman._) The spot for me all spots above In this wide world of casual lodgers, Is not the nook sacred to love; The "cot beside a rill" of ROGER'S. 'Tis not the spot which TOMMY MOORE Praised in "_The Meeting of the Waters_." Avoca's Vale my soul would bore; I should prefer more lively quarters. Thy "little spot," ELIZA COOK, Means merely patriotic flummery; And COLERIDGE'S "hidden brook" Won't fetch me, e'en when weather's summery. I hold the Picturesque is rot, "Love in a Cot" means scraps for dinner; I only know _one_ pleasant spot,-- I mean the "spot" that "finds a winner!" * * * * * PRIVATE AND SPECIAL LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.--Mr. GEORGE MEREDITH'S new novel is to be entitled, _Won of the Conquerors_. It would be unfair to the author to mention how what the Conquerors had conquered was won from them in turn. "I am at liberty to inform the public, however," says the BARON DE B.-W., "that WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR is not in it with the others. I am able also to assure his numerous admirers that _Beauchamp's Career_ is not a medicinal romance, and has no sort of connection with a certain widely-advertised remedy." * * * * * [Illustration: "WILL HE GET THROUGH?"] * * * * * WILLIAM HENRY _loquitur_:--