Commissioner Tweed proposes a new outside Bureau of the Department of Public Works, for late-Commissioner MCLEAN.

As he sat there, in his grey tweed suit, his hat pushed carelessly back from his forehead, he might have been mistaken for a young man of wealth with no serious business in life, for his clothes were of fashionable cut, and he wore them with an air of distinction.

One after another they walked up the gangway, filing into the passport-office and on into the Custom House, people of all sorts and all gradesSwedes, Germans, Finns, and Russiansuntil suddenly I caught sight of two figuresone a man in a big tweed traveling-coat and a golf-cap, and the other the slight figure of a woman in a long dark cloak and a woolen tam-o'-shanter.

Natheless we sang in sweet accord, Each bending o'er her brede "O there be flowers in Oxenford, And flowers be north of Tweed,

Not, however, to the inhabitants of the whole island; for, it is stated in a work which treats of culinary operations, north of the Tweed, that the "broth" of Scotland claims, for excellence and wholesomeness, a very close second place to the bouillon, or common soup of France.

There was blood on my brown boots, too, and the grey tweed clothes which I had not had time to change since arriving in Paris.

A young man stood at the entrance a stocky, bull-necked young miner, in tweed Sunday clothes and an aggressive neck-tie.

For the satisfaction of those on the north of the Tweed, who may think Dr. Johnson's account of Caledonian credulity and inaccuracy too strong,[1061] it is but fair to add, that he admitted the same kind of ready belief might be found in his own country.

[210] 'From the bank of the Tweed to St. Andrews I had never seen a single tree which I did not believe to have grown up far within the present century....

Let me pay Scotland one just praise; there was no officer gaping for a fee; this could have been said of no city on the English side of the Tweed.'

The dissenters, on this side the Tweed, appeared to him in a different light.

Tweed River.

According to his expressed intention, Captain Graves, on arriving at St. John's, despatched Captain Charles Douglas in the Tweed to superintend the removal of the British settlers from the two islands, and Cook accompanied him with orders to press on the survey as rapidly as possible in order that it might be completed before the arrival of the French.

Unfortunately, M. d'Anjac, who was charged with the duty of receiving the islands on behalf of the French king, arrived on the same day as the Tweed, off the islands.

After the official surrender of these islands, Cook was engaged in surveying different places which the Admiralty had specially marked out, and was borne on the books of either the Antelope or Tweed as might be convenient.

As the dates in the two ships often run over each other it is somewhat difficult to place him, but he was certainly in the neighbourhood of St. John's for some two months, and on 5th November he was discharged from the Antelope into the Tweed, together with Mr. Smart, for the passage to England, where he remained till the spring of the following year.

He was fresh, just at present, from a good scenting season in Leicestershire, followed by a sojourn on the Tweed, in which classical river he had improved many shining hours, wading waist-deep under a twenty-foot rod, any number of yards of line, and a fly of various hues, as gaudy, and but little smaller than a cock pheasant.

The failure of state control as shown in the rule of the Tweed ring.

Shall thy dread presence clothed in tweed Be seen, O Buns, without the meed Of some regretful sigh, Fresh from the triumphs of the trench Upon the Opposition Bench Begging the SPEAKER'S eye?

For menknickerbockers and flannel shirtsand for ladies, short tweed skirts and some flannel blouses.

A tweed suit of medium warmth for travelling, and a couple of flannel suits, will bring the wearer to Srinagar, where he can increase his stock at a ridiculously low priceabout 22 rupees or £1, 9s.

The Tweed was like a mirror flashing back the sunlight that day, and out beyond its mouth the open sea was bright and blue as the sky above.

I'd like to see this Mr. Lindseyyou're sure he'll come to you here?" "Aye!unless there's been an earthquake between here and Tweed!"

"Our Berwick-on-Tweed correspondent, telegraphing late last night, says:Considerable anxiety is being felt in the town respecting the fate of Sir Gilbert Carstairs, Bart., of Hathercleugh House, and Mr. Hugh Moneylaws, who are feared to have suffered a disaster at sea.

Whether it was on the English side or the Scottish side of the Tweed I don't know.