Metternich told lies all the time, and never deceived any one; Talleyrand never told a lie and deceived the whole world. - Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay

We understand the expediency of keeping the functions of cook and coachman distinct. The dinner will he better dressed, and the horses better managed.

Prizes given for subjects.

In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the Great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall, the dust of the illustrious accused should have mingled with the dust of the illustrious accusers.